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  • Obligations

    New Trajectories in Law

    by Scott Veitch ...
    Series series New Trajectories in Law
    Obligations: New Trajectories in Law provides a critical analysis of the role of obligations in contemporary legal and social practices.As rights have become the preeminent feature of modern political and legal discourse, the work of obligations has been overshadowed. Questioning and correcting this dominant image of our time, this book brings obligations back into view in a way that fits better ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Law and Irresponsibility

    On the Legitimation of Human Suffering

    by Scott Veitch ...
    Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility. Across a broad range of areas of social life – from the activities of states and citizens, to work, business and private relationships – it is understood that legal regulation plays a crucial role in defining and limiting responsibilities. But Law and Irresponsibility pursues the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Jurisprudence

    Themes and Concepts

    by Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Marco Goldoni ...
    Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses.The book is organised in three parts: Part I sets out the key elements of modern law and their relation to political, economic, and social conditions. Part II presents competing accounts of the nature of legal validity, legality, legal reasoning, and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Law, Obligation, Community

    Edited by Daniel Matthews, Scott Veitch ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Jurisprudence
    Against an ever-expanding and diversifying ‘rights talk’, this book re-opens the question of obligation from not only legal but also ethical, sociological and political perspectives. Its premise is that obligation has a primacy ahead of rights, because rights attach to practices and modes of being that are already saturated with obligations. Obligations thus lie at the core not just of law but of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Law and the Politics of Reconciliation

    Edited by Scott Veitch ...
    This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts and, in some cases, traumatic presents. In putting to question what is often taken for granted in uncritical calls for reconciliation, it critically analyses and frequently challenges the political and legal assumptions ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • International Relations Theory and International Law

    A Critical Approach

    by Adriana Sinclair ...
    International law is playing an increasingly important role in international politics. However, international relations theorists have thus far failed to conceptualise adequately the role that law plays in politics. Instead, IR theorists have tended to operate with a limited conception of law. An understanding of jurisprudence and legal methodology is a crucial step towards achieving a better ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? A set of naturally occurring moral principles, or simply rules agreed by a particular society? What is a 'right' and what rights should people actually have? Is law really colour ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Empire's New Clothes

    Reading Hardt and Negri

    Edited by Paul Passavant, Jodi Dean ...
    The publication of Empire last year created a sensation that spread from academia to the media to cocktail-party buzz. A book that causes such a scholarly commotion comes along only once every decade or so wrote the New York Times , as the book's radical vision of imperial power in the new millennium sparked both histrionic condemnation and serious academic engagement. After September 11 this ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Property

    Meanings, Histories, Theories

    by Margaret Davies ...
    Series series Critical Approaches to Law
    This critique of property examines its classical conception: addressing its ontology and history, as well as considering its symbolic aspects and connection to social relations of power.It is organized around three themes:the ways in which concepts of property are symbolically and practically connected to relations of powerthe 'objects' of property in changing contexts of materialismchallenges to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Representation

    Contemporary Advances in the Theory of Political Representation

    Edited by Monica Brito Vieira ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    Representation is integral to the functioning and legitimacy of modern government. Yet political theorists have often been reluctant to engage directly with questions of representation, and empirical political scientists have closed down such questions by making representation synonymous with congruence. Conceptually unproblematic and normatively inert for some, representation has been deemed ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Making of a European Constitution

    Judges and Law Beyond Constitutive Power

    by Michelle Everson, Julia Eisner ...
    An original and innovative recasting of constitutionalism, written by acknowledged experts in the field, this empirically grounded and theoretically informed volume addresses the strategies and philosophies that judges and lawyers bring to bear when creating European constitutional jurisprudence; investigating and promoting promotes the sustainability of a theory or praxis of ‘procedural’ ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Decolonisation of Legal Knowledge

    Edited by Amita Dhanda, Archana Parashar ...
    The premise of this book is that legal theory in general, and critical legal theory in particular, do not facilitate the identification of choices being made in the different facets of law -- whether in the enacting, interpreting, administering or theorising of law. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD