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This book offers a critical appraisal of Karl Olivecrona's legal philosophy. Based on Olivecrona's critique of the view that law has binding force, the analysis of the concept and function of a legal rule, and the idea that law is a matter of orga...

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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 is Habermasa s long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.

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An interdisciplinary work that comparatively studies rule of law practices and the relationship between the rule of law and regional integration, a topic largely explored in European integration. By looking at the function of the rule of law in AS...

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This volume brings together legal philosophers, political philosophers, and EU legal academics in the service of developing the philosophical analysis of EU law. In a series of original and complementary essays they bring their varied disciplinary...

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Psychology and Law shows how psychological research and theory can be used in a legal context. Written with advanced undergraduate students in mind, it focuses upon the pre-trial or investigative phase of the legal process. Obtaining and assessing...

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"Likhet inför lagen" är ett slagord som ofta används i diskussioner av hur det goda samhället bör se ut. Intuitivt ger det positiva associationer: till något bra och alltigenom eftersträvansvärt. Samtidigt är det både rättsligt och filos...

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A selection of important writings which together suggest that legal philosophy is the nerve of legal reasoning.

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A selection of important writings which together suggest that legal philosophy is the nerve of legal reasoning.

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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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Volume 8, the third of the historical volumes of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, offers a history of legal philosophy in common-law countries from the 17th to the 19th century. Its main focus (like that of Volume 9) is on...

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A Theory of Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a philosophically informed study of the methods of interpretation used by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. By drawing on Anglo-American legal, politica...

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Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, mor...

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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 collection of the papers of Tony Honore, is taken from his work in the field of legal philosophy over the last quarter century. The introductory essay is followed by three chapters describing the building blocks of legal systems - groups or s...

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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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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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This exceptional collection of twenty-two essays on the philosophical fundamentals of tort law assembles many of the world's leading commentators on this particualrly fascinating conjunction of law and philosophy. The contributions range broadly, ...

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Rätten antas vara tillgänglig för alla, men alla har inte samma möjligheter att rättshandla eller att föra sin egen talan. Aktörer i rätten förväntas ha vissa egenskaper och förmågor. Om dessa saknas hos en individ kan välfärdsrättigheter som ska ...

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The volume brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: Legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, h...

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Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropol...

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Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essentia...

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Presenting a critique of conventional methods in comparative law, this book argues that, for comparative law to qualify as a discipline, comparatists must reflect on how and why they make comparisons. Gunter Frankenberg discusses not only methods ...

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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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A fundamental challenge to the foundations of the discipline of international law Anthony Carty critiques the discipline of international law, showing the necessary place of philosophy within it. He shows you how traditional philosophy has always ...

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Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the ...

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When he died in 1984, Michel Foucault was regarded as one of the most profoundly influential philosophers of his day. Although the law itself never formed a central focus for Foucault, many of the principal themes in his writings are concerned wit...

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The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-six of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state-of-the-art overview of jurisprudential scholarship.

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The debate between Bentham and classical Common Law theory is philosophically fundamental and has shaped contemporary conceptions of the nature, tasks, and limits of law and adjudication. This book offers a philosophical interpretation of this his...

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This book will be of broad interest to those working in legal and moral philosophy. It examines central puzzles in understanding the law of torts, including the role of responsibility and strict liability, the place of corrective justice in tort's...

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