Rättsfilosofi

"Den enda rätta läran" är en granskning av psykoanalysens historia i Sverige, som kartlägger den rörelse som låg bakom en av de mörkaste perioderna i vårt rättsväsende. En häpnadsväckande berättelse som blottlägger de strömningar i psykiatrin, kul...

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Praktisk juridisk metod är en grundläggande lärobok - och handbok - i juridisk problemlösning och presentation. Boken utgår från en sexstegsmetod och utvecklar de kunskaper som problemlösningsmetoden kräver om bland annat identifikation och system...

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Denna bok syftar till att hjälpa studenter som är nya på juristprogrammet att förhålla sig kritiskt och kreativt till material som jurister hänvisar till genom att förklara varje rättskällas styrkor och svagheter samt hur rättskällorna samverkar. ...

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Vad är det egentligen en jurist gör när hen ska lösa en juridisk fråga? Vilken metod används? Om du skulle fråga en jurist i dag om vad juridisk metod är, skulle du säkert få samma svar som det påstås att Sankt Augustinus gav när han fick frågan o...

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A TIMES LAW TOP LEGAL READ 2025 'A timely red alert that democratic values cannot be taken for granted' The Times 'Incisive and eloquent' The Telegraph Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the p...

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Liksom en gam cirklar runt ett kadaver, så kretsar denna bok runt ett antal rättsliga föreställningar och begrepp som genom åren kommit att uppta, och alltmer begränsa, rättsvetenskapens synfält. Här presenteras emellertid ingen metod, inte heller...

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Written with students in mind, Professor Raymond Wacks brings legal theory to life through his lucid and entertaining style. The author has crafted a manageable guide, balancing concise introductions to the key theorists and core issues such as pu...

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An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence has established itself as the essential textbook written by leading authorities in this expanding field. The second edition of this bestselling textbook begins with a new introduction a...

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Inom många professioner är man i dag rättstillämpare utan att vara jurist. Syftet med den här boken är att ge icke-jurister en introduktion till att göra rättsfallsanalyser och stimulera till att låta detta bli en del av det vardagliga arbetet. Rä...

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I denna rättsfilosofiska studie uppmärksammar Ola Svensson den amerikanske filosofen John Rawls teori om rättvisa som skälighet. Svensson har i många år undervisat om denna teori på juridiska institutionen i Lund och framställningen bygger på hans...

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Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social, political, and economic life, generating both praise and blame. Nonet and Selznick's Law and Society in Transition explains in accessible language the primary forms of law as a soc...

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I boken behandlas något som är både viktigt och tilltagande problematiskt för dagens straffrätt: dess möte med vad som i dag brukar refereras till som "strukturella perspektiv". Här sätts särskilt i fokus klass-, genus- och mångkulturella perspekt...

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Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in our world. But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights? Why would anyone wan...

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The number of transnational corporations - including parent companies and subsidiaries - has exploded over the last forty years, which has led to a correlating rise of corporate violations of international human rights and environmental laws, eith...

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent. Adopted in 1981, there is now a significant body of jurisprudence and interpretation by its African Commission on Hum...

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What makes something a human right? What is the relationship between the moral foundations of human rights and human rights law? What are the difficulties of appealing to human rights? This book offers the first comprehensive survey of current thi...

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Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, ...

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Boken är en kortfattad introduktion till juridisk metod och juridiska resonemang. Den innehåller kapitel som förklarar var och en av de fyra huvudsakliga rättskällorna i den svenska rättsordningen: lagtext, förarbeten, rättspraxis och doktrin. Den...

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This book contributes to the international debate on Indigenous Peoples Law, containing both in-depth research of Scandinavian historical and legal contexts with respect to the Sami and demonstrating current stances in Sami Law research. In additi...

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Writing in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the political theorist Hannah Arendt argued that the plight of stateless people in the inter-war period pointed to the existence of a 'right to have rights'. The right to have rights was ...

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First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a tho...

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How does law possess the normative force it requires to direct our actions? This book argues that this seemingly innocuous question is of central importance to the philosophy of law and, by extension, of the very concept of law itself. It advances...

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"A milestone in political and moral philosophy, as groundbreaking as the theories of Bentham and Kant and arguably the most important and influential piece of contemporary philosophy of the last century." -The Guardian The principles of justice th...

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Emile: Or On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education (French: Emile, ou De l'education) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "e;best ...

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The story of "natural law" - the idea that God has written a law on the human heart so that ethical norms derive from human nature - in twentieth-century Protestant ethics is one of rejection and resurgence. For half a century, luminaries like Kar...

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There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of...

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Private law governs our most pervasive relationships with other people: the wrongs we do to one another, the property we own and exclude from others' use, the contracts we make and break, and the benefits realized at another's expense that we cann...

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Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should go about explaining the behaviour...

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This profound and scholarly treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. Departing from the formalism of Hart and Kelsen and blending the European tradition of Weber, Habermas and Foucault wit...

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The New Haven School was a school of legal theory and practice that was developed and taught at Yale Law School and named for its place of origin. At its centre stood a 'policy-oriented jurisprudence' - so-called for its emphasis on using law to p...

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