A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review

W J Waluchow

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• In this study, W. J. Waluchow argues that debates between defenders and critics of constitutional bills of rights presuppose that constitutions are mo... Lees meer

Permissible Killing

Suzanne Uniacke

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• Do individuals have a positive right of self-defense? And if so, what are the limits of this right? Under what conditions, if any, does this use of fo... Lees meer

The Jurisprudential Foundations of Corporate and Commercial Law

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• This collection brings together new essays by some of the most prominent scholars currently writing in commercial law theory. The essays address the f... Lees meer

Automatism, Insanity, and the Psychology of Criminal Responsibility

Robert F Schopp

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• This is a book about the role that psychological impairment should play in a theory of criminal liability. Criminal guilt in the Anglo-American legal ... Lees meer

Crimes Against Humanity

Larry May

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• This analysis of the philosophical foundations of international criminal law focuses on the moral, legal, and political questions that arise when indi... Lees meer

A Theory of Property

Stephen R Munzer

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• This book represents a major new statement on the issue of property rights. It argues for the justification of some rights of private property while s... Lees meer

Legal Ethics and Human Dignity

David Luban

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• David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. In this collection of his most significant papers he ranges over such topics as th... Lees meer

Complicity

Christopher Kutz

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• We live in a morally flawed world. Our lives are complicated by what other people do, and by the harms that flow from our social, economic, and politi... Lees meer

Liability and Responsibility

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• This collection of contemporary essays by a group of well-known philosophers and legal theorists covers various topics in the philosophy of law, focus... Lees meer

Norms in a Wired World

Steven A Hetcher

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• Steven Hetcher argues that the traditional conception of norms as rule-like linguistic entities is erroneous. Instead, norms must be understood as pat... Lees meer

Moral Combat

Heidi Hurd

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• This book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea that is implicit in the assumption that citizens may be... Lees meer

Equality, Responsibility, and the Law

Arthur Ripstein

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• This book examines responsibility and luck as these issues arise in tort law, criminal law, and distributive justice. In revealing how the problems th... Lees meer

In Harm's Way

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• For several decades the work of Joel Feinberg has been the most influential in legal, political, and social philosophy in the English-speaking world. ... Lees meer

Three Anarchical Fallacies

William A Edmundson

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• How is a legitimate state possible? Obedience, coercion, and intrusion are three ideas that seem inseparable from all government and seem to render st... Lees meer

Crimes Against Humanity

Larry May

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• This analysis of the philosophical foundations of international criminal law focuses on the moral, legal, and political questions that arise when indi... Lees meer

Justification Defenses and Just Convictions

Robert F Schopp

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defenses that views them as an integral component of the structure of the crimin... Lees meer

The Path of the Law and Its Influence

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• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) is, arguably the most important American jurist of the twentieth century, and his essay The Path of the Law, fi... Lees meer

The Ethics of Deference

Philip Soper

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• Do citizens have an obligation to obey the law? This book differs from standard approaches by shifting from the language of obedience (orders) to that... Lees meer

The Moral Conditions of Economic Efficiency

Walter J Schultz

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• Walter J. Schultz illustrates the deficiencies of theories that purport to show that markets alone can provide the basis for efficiency. He argues tha... Lees meer

A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review

W J Waluchow

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• In this study, W. J. Waluchow argues that debates between defenders and critics of constitutional bills of rights presuppose that constitutions are mo... Lees meer

New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• This collection of new essays, written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, examines the most central issues of property theory from a v... Lees meer

Objectivity in Law and Morals

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• The seven original essays included in this volume offer a sophisticated perspective on issues about the objectivity of legal interpretation and judici... Lees meer

Justice in Immigration

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• This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the fundamental normative issues underpinning immigration policy. A distinguished group of economist... Lees meer

Philosophy and the Criminal Law

R A Duff

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• Five preeminent legal theorists tackle a range of fundamental questions on the nature of the philosophy of criminal law. Their essays explore the exte... Lees meer