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Care and the Mandate of Medical Law
Inbunden, 2027
1504 kr
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The law of negligence is structured around the idea of care, yet legal scholarship on negligence has rarely engaged with the ethics of care. This absence is striking. If care lies at the heart of negligence doctrine, shouldn't the philosophical tradition that has explored it most deeply inform our …
The Right of Redress
Häftad, 2022
696 kr
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The law enables private parties to undo the wrongs committed against them, allowing victims to seek redress. A distinctive kind of justice governs our legal rights of redress, different from the leading corrective justice approaches. Through analysis of this key idea, The Right of Redress helps to …
From a Realist Point of View
Av Brian Leiter
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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From A Realist Point of View combines new essays with revised versions of the most important recent work of preeminent legal realist Brian Leiter. This collection offers a systematic and philosophically ambitious account of legal realism and links it, for the first time, to political realism. …
Faces of Inequality
A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination
Häftad, 2025
378 kr
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This book defends an original and pluralist theory of when and why discrimination wrongs people. Starting from actual legal cases in which claimants have alleged wrongful discrimination by other people or by the state, Sophia Moreau argues that we can best understand these people's complaints by …
Elucidating Law
Inbunden, 2022
1450 kr
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What are the aims of legal philosophy? Which questions should it seek to address? How should legal philosophers approach and engage with their subject-matter, and what constraints are incumbent on them as they do so? What are the criteria of success of theories of law, and how do we know if they …
The Nature of Legislative Intent
Häftad, 2016
683 kr
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Are legislatures able to form and act on intentions? The question matters because the interpretation of statutes is often thought to centre on the intention of the legislature and because the way in which the legislature acts is relevant to the authority it does or should enjoy. Many scholars argue …
Why Law Matters
Av Alon Harel
Häftad, 2015
748 kr
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Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity. In the popular imagination, however, many people seem to value public …
The Right of Redress
Inbunden, 2020
1384 kr
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The law enables private parties to undo the wrongs committed against them, allowing victims to seek redress. A distinctive kind of justice governs our legal rights of redress, different from the leading corrective justice approaches. Through analysis of this key idea, The Right of Redress helps to …
Property Rights: A Re-Examination
Av J. E Penner
Inbunden, 2020
1548 kr
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Ranging over a host of issues, Property Rights: A Re-Examination pinpoints and addresses a number of theoretical problems at the heart of property theory. Part 1 reconsiders and rejects, once again, the bundle of rights picture of property and the related nominalist theories of property, showing …
A Theory of Legal Personhood
Inbunden, 2019
2119 kr
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Who, or what, is a 'person' according to the law? How did this understanding of personhood come about? In the twenty-first century, environmentalism, animal rights, artificial intelligence, and corporate personhood have compelled us to consider these questions once again. Legal personhood is a …
Coercion and the Nature of Law
Inbunden, 2020
1319 kr
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The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law. Coercion and the Nature of Law is concerned with reviving the Coercion Thesis, presenting a strong case for the …
Law and Morality at War
Häftad, 2020
610 kr
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Law and Morality at War develops a normative framework within which the law of armed conflict should be evaluated, interpreted, and reformed. The book defends existing protections for civilians, proposes new protections for combatants, and interprets vague and ambiguous rules - including …
The Principle of Legality
A Moral Theory
Inbunden, 2025
1816 kr
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It is a well-known tenet of public law that judges must interpret a statute consistently with common law rights and principles, unless that statute uses 'clear and express' language to license their violation of such rights and principles. This is the 'principle of legality'. But what rights and …
Status in Law and Morality
Inbunden, 2026
1504 kr
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The idea of status has long puzzled philosophers. Some people have higher social status than others, and some have distinct legal statuses, such as being an employee, a tenant, or a refugee. But why should that be the case? Why should some enjoy more esteem than others? And why should law pick out …
Value and Circumstance
Justice, Consent, Equality, and Law
Inbunden, 2025
1472 kr
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Four values--justice, consent, equality, and collective decision in the form of law--have profoundly shaped the practice of law in the twentieth century and beyond. Value and Circumstance revisits these political and moral ideals, uncovering the relationship between value and the moment.Each of the …
The Ends of Harm
The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law
Inbunden, 2011
2581 kr
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Every modern democratic state imprisons thousands of offenders every year, depriving them of their liberty, causing them a great deal of psychological and sometimes physical harm. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, the risk of the offender being harmed by other offenders is increased and …
Conscience and Conviction
The Case for Civil Disobedience
Inbunden, 2012
1898 kr
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The book shows that civil disobedience is generally more defensible than private conscientious objection. Part I explores the morality of conviction and conscience. Each of these concepts informs a distinct argument for civil disobedience. The conviction argument begins with the communicative …
Imposing Risk
A Normative Framework
Inbunden, 2017
1619 kr
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We subject others and are ourselves subjected to risk all the time - risk permeates life. Despite the ubiquity of risk and its imposition, philosophers and legal scholars have devoted little of their attention to the difficult questions stimulated by the pervasiveness of risk. When we impose risk …
Why Law Matters
Av Alon Harel
Inbunden, 2014
1682 kr
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Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity. In the popular imagination, however, many people seem to value public …
The Nature of Legislative Intent
Inbunden, 2012
1985 kr
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Are legislatures able to form and act on intentions? The question matters because the interpretation of statutes is often thought to centre on the intention of the legislature and because the way in which the legislature acts is relevant to the authority it does or should enjoy. Many scholars argue …
Reason and Restitution
A Theory of Unjust Enrichment
Av Charlie Webb
Inbunden, 2016
2037 kr
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In law, gains, like losses, don't always lie where they fall. The circumstances in which the law requires defendants to give up their gains are well documented in the work of unjust enrichment lawyers. The same cannot be said, however, of the reasons for ordering restitution of such gains.It is …
Corrective Justice
Inbunden, 2012
1828 kr
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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 cannot justly retain. The major rules of private law are …
Corrective Justice
Häftad, 2016
468 kr
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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 cannot justly retain. The major rules of private law are …
Allowing for Exceptions
A Theory of Defences and Defeasibility in Law
Inbunden, 2015
2047 kr
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You find yourself in a court of law, accused of having hit someone. What can you do to avoid conviction? You could simply deny the accusation: 'No, I didn't do it'. But suppose you did do it. You may then give a different answer. 'Yes, I hit him', you grant, 'but it was self-defence'; or 'Yes, but …
Law and Morality at War
Inbunden, 2017
1540 kr
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The laws are not silent in war, but what should they say? What is the moral function of the law of armed conflict? Should the law protect civilians who do not fight but help those who do? Should the law protect soldiers who perform non-combat functions or who may be safely captured? How certain …
