Law : Jurisprudence

Dans ce livre, composé de deux volets, mon intention est de confronter l'humanisme ancien à l'humanisme moderne. En opposition avec les modernes, les Ancien......

We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive historie......

In Law in a Market Context Robin Paul Malloy examines the way in which people, as social beings, experience the intersection of law, markets, and culture. Hi......

What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requ......

Professor Cheffins' lecture offers a path-breaking examination of potential trajectories for legal scholarship. Considerable attention is devoted to academic......

What can 'globalisation' teach us about law in the Western tradition? This important new work seeks to explore that question by analysing key ideas and event......

Americans cannot live with judicial review, but they cannot live without it. There is something characteristically American about turning the most divisive p......

This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and instit......

The rule of law is the most important political ideal today, yet there is much confusion about what it means and how it works. This book explores the history......

Legal scholars, philosophers, historians, and political scientists from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States analyze the......

This book is the first comprehensive study of the meaning and measure of enforceability. While we have long debated what restraints should govern the conduc......

Legal Reason describes and explains the process of analogical reasoning, which is the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing vie......

In the absence of a sound conception of the judicial role, judges at present can be said to be 'muddling along'. They disown the declaratory theory of law bu......

Analysing the law of the talion - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - William Ian Miller presents an original meditation on the concept of 'pay...

This book addresses three major questions about law and legal systems: (1) What are the defining and organizing forms of legal institutions, legal rules, int......

Natural law is a perennial though poorly represented and understood issue in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. In this 2006 book, Mark C. Murph......

Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidenc......

The relationship between science, law and justice has become a pressing issue with recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions beginning with Daubert v. Merrell-Dow ......

David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. In this collection of his most significant papers from the past twenty-five years, he ran......

The migration of constitutional ideas across jurisdictions is rapidly emerging as one of the central features of contemporary constitutional practice. The in......