Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law

This collection represents the body of captivating literature that is engaged not only with current developments in law and politics but also with the rediscovery of traditional theories. It offers a way into an engaging and important debate that bears of the most fundamental issues within both leg..

The essays in this volume reflect several important and widely-discussed issues in legal theory. One set of issues may be characterized as legal hermeneutics, a consideration of the practices governing the retrieval and determination of meaning from legal texts and in legal contexts...

This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic presents. Drawing on work in politics, philosophy, theology, sociology and law, this book wil..

This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic presents. Drawing on work in politics, philosophy, theology, sociology and law, this book wil..

Law as Art proposes a radical new direction in the conceptualisation of legal theory, examining law not as a series of rules but as a distinctive empowered text with a basis in art...

MacCormick's `Institutions of Law' is the culmination of a lifetime's work in legal theory by one of the world's most respected legal theorists. This book collects responses from well-known legal theorists from around the world, all of whom are familiar with MacCormick's work, providing a cutting ed..

MacCormick's `Institutions of Law' is the culmination of a lifetime's work in legal theory by one of the world's most respected legal theorists. This book collects responses from well-known legal theorists from around the world, all of whom are familiar with MacCormick's work, providing a cutting ed..

This volume examines the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and western political thought. It provides a fascinating new challenge to those who reduce international law to either ethics or politics and provides a critical new appraisa..

This volume examines the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and western political thought. It provides a fascinating new challenge to those who reduce international law to either ethics or politics and provides a critical new appraisa..

Law in the Time of Oxymora is dedicated to the apparent rise in recent years in rhetorical devices called "essentially oxymoronic concepts". These concepts include oxymora, contradictions in terms (enantiosis), and paradoxes, which all share the feature of apparent contradictions in their content al..

This compelling book traces the cultural tradition of the Chinese, basing it as the chief contributing factor to their litigation-averse nature, and the significant role played by traditional mediation...

Law's Practical Wisdom..