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Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, over 165 countries have incorporated human rights standards into their legal systems: the resulting jurisprudence from diverse cultural traditions creates new dimensions to conce...

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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. &q...

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Comparative constitutional change has recently emerged as a distinct field in the study of constitutional law. It is the study of the way constitutions change through formal and informal mechanisms, including amendment, replacement, total and part...

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The sovereignty of states to enact and enforce laws within their jurisdictions has been recognized since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. There are now, however, accepted global legal norms that transcend national sovereignty and hold states acco...

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In the long awaited follow-up to Justice and the Politics of Difference, Iris Marion Young- one of the world's leading political philosophers- makes major and controversial contribution to the debates about democracy in a multicultural society. Th...

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Many are familiar with the concept of a moral dilemma - a situation where a person faces a choice between two mutually exclusive actions. This book considers whether situations of this kind could and should exist within the sphere of international...

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How does a lawyer think? Does legal intuition exist? Do lawyers need imagination? Why is legal language so abstract? It is no longer possible to answer these questions by applying philosophical analysis alone. Recent advances in the cognitive scie...

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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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This book examines the problem of wage security and clarity of employment in labour law. It studies the neoclassical and institutional models of labour law, and the wage. It concludes that the way the wage is treated in labour law theory is depend...

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This book brings together a set of essays on the philosophical foundations of human rights, along with critical replies. It is the first comprehensive survey of the topic, comprising of research essays from academics in the fields of law, philosop...

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There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory. The second edition of this popular text introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocat...

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This Handbook sets a new agenda for theoretical and practical explorations of citizenship, analysing the main challenges and prospects informing today's world of increased migration and globalization. It will also explore new forms of membership a...

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Understanding Jurisprudence provides an illuminating and engaging introduction to the central questions of legal theory. It is the perfect starting point for those new to the subject.

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Legal Reason describes and explains analogical reasoning, the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view that analogical reasoning is a logically flawed, defective form of deductive reasoning. Drawing on work in epist...

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Exceptions to international obligations can be expressed in several ways and be of fundamental practical importance. Bringing together legal philosophers and scholars of international law, this volume provides theoretical frameworks for the unders...

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International law has recently emerged as the subject-matter of an exciting new field of philosophical investigation. This volume is the ideal guide to the current debates, offering 29 specially commissioned essays by leading philosophers and inte...

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This monograph examines international legal regulation, analyses how it interacts with non-legal factors, and seeks to understand and confront the alleged inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy.

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VAD ÄR "RÄTT"? Frågan kan tolkas på ett handfast sätt, i betydelsen vad som är gällande rätt när man försöker lösa ett visst juridiskt problem: T.ex. om man få slå sina barn (barnaga) eller om det är förbjudet. Frågan kan också ges en rä...

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This book delves into the legal theory of the European Union, offering an internationalist theory of European Union law as part of the law of nations, where its central principles are not the principles of a single constitution, but the cosmopolit...

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Boken innehåller uppsatser i straffrätt och straffrättsfilosofi. Ett flertal områden berörs, bland annat straffrätt och psykisk störning; straffrättens relation till psykiatri och psykologi; nödvärnsexcess; putativprövning; medverkan till brott; s...

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In this first English language commentary on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Rachael Murray sets out the negotiating history of each provision along with the relevant case law, decisions, and resolutions of the African Commission...

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This title was first published in 2001. Legal systems are posited on the assumption that people are rational intentional agents who can choose to follow or break the law. This book connects the common interests of lawyers and philosophers in the m...

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The Oxford Handbook of Freedom crafts the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers, as well s...

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Paradigms of International Human Rights Law explores the legal, ethical, and other policy consequences of three core structural features of international human rights law: the focus on individual rights instead of duties; the division of rights in...

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This collection is the first of its kind to examine the ethical foundations of family law. Topics include the value of marriage, the scope of parental control rights, the protection of children's interests, and the role of religious freedom in the...

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The law of Equity is unique in exhibiting a lack of consensus about its most fundamental questions, including its legitimacy and efficiency. This volume explores in depth some of the essential questions that surround the law of Equity, and offers ...

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Logically organized to support the topics commonly taught on jurisprudence and legal theory courses, this text provides an easy-to-follow and digestible account of this wide-ranging subject, making it the ideal companion text for further reading a...

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It is uncontroversial that corporations are legal agents that can be held legally responsible, but can corporations also be moral agents that are morally responsible? Part one of this book explicates the most prominent theories of corporate moral ...

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This collection of original essays brings together leading legal historians and theorists to explore the oft-neglected but important relationship between these two disciplines. Legal historians have often been sceptical of theory. The methodology ...

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This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all...

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