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  • Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum

    A Curious Case

    by Daniel Mitidiero ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the concepts of ratio decidendi and obiter dictum from a historical-comparative perspective. It provides a comprehensive review of legal doctrine on precedent, delving into English and American Law so to illustrate its applicability to the Brazilian legal system. How we deal with precedents is its main topic.Definitions within legal fields have always been subject to significant ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • The Concept of Law

    by HLA Hart ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time. In this third edition, Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Evidence Matters

    Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law

    by Susan Haack ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law

    Edited by Kevin Jon Heller, Markus Dubber ...
    This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion. General principles of criminal liability receive prominent coverage in each essay—including discussions of rationales for punishment, the role and design of criminal codes, the general structure of criminal liability, accounts of mens rea, and the rights that criminal ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, now with a new and up-to-date foreword. Its clarity of explanation and argument make ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Foundations of Private Law

    Property, Tort, Contract, Unjust Enrichment

    by James Gordley ...
    Foundations of Private Law is a treatise on the Western law of property, contract, tort and unjust enrichment in both common law systems and civil law systems. The thesis of the book is that underlying these fields of law are common principles, and that these principles can be used to explain the history and development of these areas. These underlying common principles are matters of common sense ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Institutions of Law

    An EsSay in Legal Theory

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Law, State, and Practical Reason
    Institutions of Law offers an original account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world. It provides the definitive statement of Sir Neil MacCormick's well-known 'institutional theory of law', defining law as 'institutional normative order' and explaining each of these three terms in depth. It attempts to fulfil the need for a twenty-first century introduction to legal ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Punishment and Responsibility

    Essays in the Philosophy of Law

    by H.L.A. Hart ...
    This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal punishment that nevertheless preserves the central distinction between guilt and innocence. He also ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Interpreting Precedents

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by D. Neil MacCormick, Robert S. Summers, Arthur L. Goodhart ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    This book contains a series of essays discussing the uses of precedent as a source of law and a basis for legal arguments in nine different legal systems, representing a variety of legal traditions. Precedent is fundamental to law, yet theoretical and ideological as well as legal considerations lead to its being differently handled and rationalised in different places. Out of the comparative study ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Law as a Leap of Faith

    Essays on Law in General

    by John Gardner ...
    How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for these systems to have 'constitutions'? Should everyone want to live under a system of law? Is there ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • How to Do Things with Rules

    by William Twining, David Miers ...
    Series series Law in Context
    New to English law? Need to know how rules are made, interpreted and applied? This popular and well-established textbook will show you how. It simplifies legal method by combining examples with an account of rules in general: the who, what, why and how of interpretation. Starting with standpoint and context, it identifies factors that give rise to doubts about the interpretation of a rule and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Precedents, Statutes, and Analysis of Legal Concepts

    Interpretation

    Edited by Scott Brewer ...
    Series series Philosophy of Legal Reasoning: A Collection of Essays by Philosophers and Legal Scholars
    At least since plato and Aristotle, thinkers have pondered the relationship between philosophical arguments and the "sophistical" arguments offered by the Sophists -- who were the first professional lawyers. Judges wield substantial political power, and the justifications they offer for their decisions are a vital means by which citizens can assess the legitimacy of how that power is exercised. ... Read more

    $234.99 USD