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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 »

Stories About Science in Law

By David S. Caudill Description Stories About Science in Law Presenting examples of how literary accounts can provide a supplement to our understanding of science in law, this book challenges… Read more »

Beyond Constitutionalism The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law

[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

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 »

Speech Matters On Lying Morality and the Law

Speech Matters On Lying Morality and the Law

By Seana Valentine Shiffrin To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected… Read more »

Law Virtue and Justice

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

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 »