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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william twining”
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  • Jurist in Context

    A Memoir

    by William Twining ...
    Series series Law in Context
    This is the engaging and accessible intellectual memoir of a leading jurist. It tells the story of the development of his thoughts and writings over sixty years in the context of three continents and addresses the complexities of decolonisation, the troubles in Belfast, the contextual turn in legal studies, rethinking evidence and the implications of globalisation which have been central to his ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Legal Theory and the Legal Academy

    Volume III

    by Maksymilian Del Mar, William Twining ...
    Series series The Library of Essays in Contemporary Legal Theory
    The third in a series of three volumes on Contemporary Legal Theory, this volume deals with four topics: 1) the role of legal theory in the legal curriculum; 2) the teaching of legal theory; 3) the relationship of legal theory to legal scholarship; and 4) the relationship of legal theory to comparative law. The focus of the first two topics is on the common law world, where the debates over the ... Read more

    $375.00 USD

  • The Great Juristic Bazaar

    Jurists' Texts and Lawyers’ Stories

    by William Twining ...
    Series series Collected Essays in Law
    Some law students find jurisprudence daunting, impersonal, dry and seemingly detached from practical affairs. William Twining believes that many jurists have been fascinating people struggling with questions that are both historically significant and relevant to contemporary issues. This book brings together previously published essays that centre on three related themes: reading Juristic texts, ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Maksymilian Del Mar, William Twining ...
    Series Book 110 - Law and Philosophy Library
    This multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional collection offers the first ever full-scale analysis of legal fictions. Its focus is on fictions in legal practice, examining and evaluating their roles in a variety of different areas of practice (e.g. in Tort Law, Criminal Law and Intellectual Property Law) and in different times and places (e.g. in Roman Law, Rabbinic Law and the Common Law). The ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • How to Do Things with Rules

    by William Twining, David Miers ...
    Series series Law in Context
    New to English law? Need to know how rules are made, interpreted and applied? This popular and well-established textbook will show you how. It simplifies legal method by combining examples with an account of rules in general: the who, what, why and how of interpretation. Starting with standpoint and context, it identifies factors that give rise to doubts about the interpretation of a rule and ... Read more

    $56.59 USD

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  • The Phenomenological Approach to Social Reality

    History, Concepts, Problems

    Edited by Alessandro Salice, Bernhard Schmid ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume features fourteen essays that examine the works of key figures within the phenomenological movement in a clear and accessible way. It presents the fertile, groundbreaking, and unique aspects of phenomenological theorizing against the background of contemporary debate about social ontology and collective intentionality.The expert contributors explore the insights of such thinkers as ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law

    Theory and Policy

    Edited by Michèle Schmiegelow, Henrik Schmiegelow ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses two countervailing challenges to theory and policy in law and economics. The first is the rise of legal origins theory, which denies the comparative law view of convergence between common law and civil law by the assertion of an economic superiority of common law. The second is the series of economic crises in the very financial markets on which that assertion was based. Both ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Lovesick Japan

    Sex * Marriage * Romance * Law

    by Mark D. West ...
    In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence—2,700 court opinions—describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections. In compelling, poignant, and sometimes horrifying court cases, West finds that Japanese judges ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Against Autonomy

    Justifying Coercive Paternalism

    by Sarah Conly ...
    Since Mill's seminal work On Liberty, philosophers and political theorists have accepted that we should respect the decisions of individual agents when those decisions affect no one other than themselves. Indeed, to respect autonomy is often understood to be the chief way to bear witness to the intrinsic value of persons. In this book, Sarah Conly rejects the idea of autonomy as inviolable. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • On the Limits of Constitutional Adjudication

    Deconstructing Balancing and Judicial Activism

    by Juliano Zaiden Benvindo ...
    Juliano Z. Benvindo investigates the current movement of constitutional courts towards political activism, especially by focusing on the increasing use of the balancing method as a “rational” justification for this process. From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, the book takes as examples two constitutional realities, Germany and Brazil, in order to ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Forms Liberate

    Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller

    by Dr Kristen Rundle ...
    Lon L Fuller's account of what he termed 'the internal morality of law' is widely accepted as the classic twentieth century statement of the principles of the rule of law. Much less accepted is his claim that a necessary connection between law and morality manifests in these principles, with the result that his jurisprudence largely continues to occupy a marginal place in the field of legal ... Read more

    $38.09 USD