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Religious Liberty and the Law
Theistic and Non-Theistic Perspectives
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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Questions of religious liberty have become flashpoints of controversy in virtually every area of life around the world. Despite the protection of religious liberty at both national and supranational levels, there is an increasing number of conflicts concerning the proper way to recognize it – both …
Legitimizing Human Rights
Secular and Religious Perspectives
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right? The contributors to Menuge’s edited collection offer a range of secular and religious responses to this fundamental question of the legitimacy of human rights claims. The first section evaluates the plausibility of natural and …
Liquid Society and Its Law
Av Jiří Přibáň
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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This collection of essays brings together Zygmunt Bauman and a number of internationally distinguished legal scholars who examine the influence of Bauman's recent works on social theory of law and socio-legal studies. Contributors focus on the concept of 'liquid society' and its adoption by legal …
Judicial Power, Democracy and Legal Positivism
Av Tom D. Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy
Inbunden, 2000
2312 kr
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In this book, a distinguished international group of legal theorists re-examine legal positivism as a prescriptive political theory and consider its implications for the constitutionally defined roles of legislatures and courts. The issues are illustrated with recent developments in Australian …
Critical Legal Positivism
Av Kaarlo Tuori
Inbunden, 2002
2312 kr
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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 with the Anglo-American contributions of Dworkin and …
Indigenous Sovereignty and the Democratic Project
Av Steven Curry
Inbunden, 2004
2746 kr
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Liberal democracies are predicated on popular sovereignty - the ideal of government for and by the People. Throughout the developed world indigenous peoples continue to deny legitimacy to otherwise popular governments because their consent has never been sought. Using examples from Australia, New …
Individual Duty within a Human Rights Discourse
Inbunden, 2003
2312 kr
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Over the past two decades or so, legal literature has devoted much attention to various human rights issues at both the national and international levels. Yet there has been comparatively little written on the concept and importance of individual duty within the human rights discourse. This book …
Contested Words
Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democracies
Av Ian Cram
Inbunden, 2016
2312 kr
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In modern liberal democracies, rights-based judicial intervention in the policy choices of elected bodies has always been controversial. For some, such judicial intervention has trivialized and impoverished democratic politics. For others judges have contributed to a dynamic and healthy dialogue …
Idea of Authorship in Copyright
Av Lior Zemer
Inbunden, 2007
2312 kr
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As information flows become increasingly ubiquitous in our post digital environment, the challenges to traditional concepts of intellectual property and the practices deriving from them are immense. The romantic understanding of the lone author as an endless source of new creations has to face …
Expertise in Regulation and Law
Av Gary Edmond
Inbunden, 2004
2312 kr
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This collection of essays examines the multi-faceted roles of experts and expertise in and around contemporary legal and regulatory cultures. The essays illustrate the complexity intrinsic to the production and use of expert knowledge, particularly during transition from specialist communities to …
Introduction to Classical Legal Rhetoric
A Lost Heritage
Inbunden, 2005
2312 kr
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Lawyers, law students and their teachers all too frequently overlook the most comprehensive, adaptable and practical analysis of legal discourse ever devised: the classical art of rhetoric. Classical analysis of legal reasoning, methods and strategy is the foundation and source for most modern …
Constitutional Corporation
Rethinking Corporate Governance
Inbunden, 2007
2312 kr
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Corporate laws are based on the idea that the interests of shareholders should be the primary concern of company directors. However, some argue that the proper role for shareholders is to sit back and let the corporation's managers do their job, or that the pursuit of shareholders' interests …
Theory and Practice of Legislation
Essays in Legisprudence
Inbunden, 2005
2312 kr
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This work provides a rational framework for legislation. The unifying premise behind the essays is that, although legislation and regulation are the result of a political process, legislation and regulation can be the object of theoretical study. The volume focuses on problems that are common to …
Logic of Constitutional Rights
Av Eric Heinze
Inbunden, 2005
2312 kr
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Individual rights raise endless conflicts and spawn intricate standards and policies. Increasing involvement by courts has added still greater complexity. It would seem that few meaningful principles can unite an area of law plagued by such uncertainty. In this book the author argues that a fixed …
Humanity, Freedom and Feminism
Inbunden, 2005
2312 kr
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While some feminists seek to use ideas of the 'universal human subject' to include women, others argue that such ideas are intrinsically masculine and exclude the feminine. This book analyzes and critiques 'second wave' feminists who discuss how philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, Descartes, …
Accommodating Cultural Diversity
Inbunden, 2007
2312 kr
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This volume explores recent developments in the theory and practice of accommodating cultural diversity within democratic constitutional orders. The aim of the book is to provide a broad vision of the constitutional management of cultural diversity as seen through the prisms of different …
First Do No Harm
Law, Ethics and Healthcare
Inbunden, 2006
2312 kr
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This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field. It has also been compiled as a lasting testimony to the work of one of the most eminent scholars in the area, Professor Ken …
Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents
Av Jose Luis Marti, Samantha Besson
Inbunden, 2006
2312 kr
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Drawing on political, legal, national, post-national, as well as American and European perspectives, this collection of essays offers a diverse and balanced discussion of the current arguments concerning deliberative democracy. Its contributions' focus on discontent, provide a critical assessment …
Health Law's Kaleidoscope
Health Law Rights in a Global Age
Inbunden, 2008
1400 kr
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Within contemporary society the themes of globalization, health and regulation interlock in complex patterns, changing in response to the mix of cultural differences, regulatory preferences and available resources. To turn the kaleidoscope and to change the mix is to change the pattern. This book …
Legislation in Context: Essays in Legisprudence
Inbunden, 2007
2526 kr
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The essays in this volume set out to provide a rational framework for legislation. Whilst legislation and regulation is the result of a political process, this volume considers whether they can also be the object of theoretical study. It examines the problems that are common to most European legal …
Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property
Current Problems in Politics, Science and Technology
Inbunden, 2007
2312 kr
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Divided into three parts, this edited volume gives an overview of current topics in law and ethics in relation to intellectual property. It addresses practical issues encountered in everyday situations in politics, research and innovation, as well as some of the underlying theoretical concepts. In …
Liquid Society and Its Law
Av Jiří Přibáň
Inbunden, 2007
2312 kr
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This collection of essays brings together Zygmunt Bauman and a number of internationally distinguished legal scholars who examine the influence of Bauman's recent works on social theory of law and socio-legal studies. Contributors focus on the concept of 'liquid society' and its adoption by legal …
Legal Symbolism
On Law, Time and European Identity
Av Jiří Přibáň
Inbunden, 2007
2312 kr
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Jirà Pribán's book contributes to the field of systems theory of law in the context of European legal and political integration and constitution-making. It puts recent European legislative efforts and policies, especially the EU enlargement process, in the context of legal theory and philosophy. …
Law's Task
The Tragic Circle of Law, Justice and Human Suffering
Inbunden, 2008
2312 kr
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What is the ultimate task of law? This deceptively simple question guides this volume towards a radically original philosophical interpretation of law and justice. Weaving together the philosophical, jurisprudential and ethical problems suggested by five general terms - thinking, human suffering, …
Architectures of Justice
Legal Theory and the Idea of Institutional Design
Av Henrik Palmer Olsen, Stuart Toddington
Inbunden, 2007
2312 kr
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Law can be seen to consist not only of rules and decisions, but also of a framework of institutions providing a structure that forms the conditions of its workable existence and acceptance. In this book Olsen and Toddington conduct a philosophical exploration and critique of these conditions: what …
Law at the Vanishing Point
A Philosophical Analysis of International Law
Inbunden, 2008
1682 kr
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Two central questions are at the core of international legal theory: 'What is international law?', and 'Is international law really law?' This volume examines these critical questions and the philosophical foundations of modern international law using the tools of Anglo-American legal theory and …
Concept of Law from a Transnational Perspective
Inbunden, 2010
2312 kr
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This book brings together the fruits of different traditions in legal philosophy and draws on them to develop a systematic thesis on the concept of law. The work uses a legal model to explore the underlying question of how the current phenomena of transnational law are best understood, in …
Epistemic Uncertainty and Legal Theory
Inbunden, 2008
2312 kr
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Crossing the usual boundaries of abstract legal theory, this book considers actual charter systems - legal systems with explicitly posited moral-political rights, such as those of Canada and the United States - as well as cases in constitutional adjudication. It shows the worth of careful …
Legal Evidence and Proof
Statistics, Stories, Logic
Av Henry Prakken, Hendrik Kaptein
Inbunden, 2009
2312 kr
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As a result of recent scandals concerning evidence and proof in the administration of criminal justice - ranging from innocent people on death row in the United States to misuse of statistics leading to wrongful convictions in The Netherlands and elsewhere - inquiries into the logic of evidence and …
Holy Writ
Interpretation in Law and Religion
Inbunden, 2009
764 kr
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It has often been remarked that law and religion have much in common. One of the most conspicuous elements is that both law and religion frequently refer to a text that has authority over the members of a community. In the case of religion this text is deemed to be 'holy', in the case of law, some, …
