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The Right to Democracy in International Law: Between Procedure, Substance and the Philosophy of John Rawls
By Khalifa A Alfadhel Overview This book explores the right to democracy in international law and contemporary democratic theory, asking whether international law encompasses a substantive or procedural understanding of… Read more

Jurisprudence
By Karl N. Llewellyn Overview Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice compiles many of Llewellyn’s most important writings. For his time, the thirties through the fifties, Llewellyn offered fresh approaches… Read more

[EPUB] Beyond Constitutionalism The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law
By Nico Krisch Under pressure from globalization, the classical distinction between domestic and international law has become increasingly blurred, spurring demand for new paradigms to construe the emerging postnational legal order…. Read more

The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law
By Jules Coleman, Scott Shapiro, Kenneth Einar Himma One of the first volumes in the new series of prestigious Oxford Handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings… Read more

Law Virtue and Justice
By Amalia Amaya and Ho Hock Lai The concept of virtue is central in both contemporary ethics and epistemology. In contrast, in law, there has not been a comparable trend toward… Read more

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… Read more

Legal Rights
By Pavlos Eleftheriadis How are we to understand the concept of a right? Is there a relation between rights in law and their moral counterparts? If so, how are we to… Read more

Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis
By John Keown, Robert P. George John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical… Read more