Télécharger le livre :  Hans Kelsen in America - Selective Affinities and the Mysteries of Academic Influence

This volume explores the reasons for Hans Kelsen’s lack of influence in the United States and proposes ways in which Kelsen’s approach to law, philosophy, and political, democratic, and international relations theory could be relevant to current debates within the U.S....
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Télécharger le livre :  The Force of Law Reaffirmed

This book examines the success of Frederick Schauer’s efforts to reclaim force as a core element of a general concept of law by approaching the issue from different legal traditions and distinct perspectives. In discussing Schauer’s main arguments, it contributes to...
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Parution : 2016-08-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Certainty in Law

Instead of the usual apologetic treatment found in legal doctrine, linked to the determinacy, immutability or predictability of norms, this book treats legal certainty innovatively, holistically and in depth. Using a method at once analytical and functional, Professor...
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Parution : 2016-07-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Constitutional Rights -What They Are and What They Ought to Be

This work explains the nature of constitutional rights. It does so by means of an analysis of the nature of law in general, the nature of constitutions, and the nature of rights. It looks in detail at several aspects of constitutional law, rights and institutions, as...
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Parution : 2016-05-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Democratizing Constitutional Law

This volume critically discusses the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism. It does so with a view to respond to objections raised by legal and political philosophers who are sceptical of judicial review based on the assumption that judicial review is...
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Parution : 2016-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice

This multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional collection offers the first ever full-scale analysis of legal fictions. Its focus is on fictions in legal practice, examining and evaluating their roles in a variety of different areas of practice (e.g. in Tort Law, Criminal...
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Parution : 2015-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following

This book focuses on the problems of rules, rule-following and normativity as discussed within the areas of analytic philosophy, linguistics, logic and legal theory. Divided into four parts, the volume covers topics in general analytic philosophy, analytic legal theory,...
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Parution : 2014-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  From Rechtsstaat to Universal Law-State

In this book the author investigates what is common to the German idea of the Rechtsstaat and the Anglo-American idea of the Rule of Law. He argues that, although dressed up in rather different garb, these two concepts are in fact based on the same fundamental idea and...
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Parution : 2014-07-03
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Télécharger le livre :  A Critical Appraisal of Karl Olivecrona's Legal Philosophy

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 organized force, the book...
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Parution : 2014-06-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Leibniz: Logico-Philosophical Puzzles in the Law

This volume presents two Leibnizian writings, the Specimen of Philosophical Questions Collected from the Law and the Dissertation on Perplexing Cases. These works, originally published in 1664 and 1666, constitute, respectively, Leibniz’s thesis for the title of Master...
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Parution : 2013-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Coherence: Insights from Philosophy, Jurisprudence and Artificial Intelligence

This book is a thorough treatise concerned with coherence and its significance in legal reasoning. The individual chapters present the topic from the general philosophical perspective, the perspective of legal-theory as well as the viewpoint of cognitive sciences and...
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Parution : 2013-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Neutrality and Theory of Law

This book brings together twelve of the most important legal philosophers in the Anglo-American and Civil Law traditions. The book is a collection of the papers these philosophers presented at the Conference on Neutrality and Theory of Law, held at the University of...
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Parution : 2013-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Legacy of John Austin's Jurisprudence

This is the first ever collected volume on John Austin, whose role in the founding of analytical jurisprudence is unquestionable. After 150 years, time has come to assess his legacy. The book fills a void in existing literature, by letting top scholars with diverse...
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Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Planning Theory of Law

This collection of essays is the outcome of a workshop with Scott Shapiro on The Planning Theory of Law that took place in December 2009 at Bocconi University. It brings together a group of scholars who wrote their contributions to the workshop on a preliminary draft of...
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Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law

If, as John Rawls famously suggests, justice is the first virtue of social institutions, how are we to understand the institution of contract law? This book proposes a Rawlsian theory of contract law. It argues that justice requires that we understand contract rules in...
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Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation theory, philosophy of law, logic and artificial intelligence. It presents an overview of...
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Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment

This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment.   It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years...
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Parution : 2012-08-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Self-sufficiency of Law

The book investigates the role of law and legal experts in the organisational dynamics of a population, demonstrating that law is a stable practice among those who (in virtue of the special knowledge they master) are called upon to select the ‘normative facts’ of a...
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Parution : 2012-06-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations

Fifty years after the famous essay “The Problem of Social Cost” (1960) by the Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, Law and Economics seems to have become the lingua franca of American jurisprudence, and although its influence on European jurisprudence is only moderate by...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Law, Truth, and Reason

This book is an innovative contribution to analytical jurisprudence.  It is mainly based on the distinct premises of linguistic philosophy and Carnapian semantics, but also addresses the issues of institutional philosophy, social pragmatism, and legal principles as...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-07-29
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