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  • Metaethical Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy

    A Constitutivist Approach

    Edited by Stefano Bertea, Jorge Silva Sampaio ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Legal Philosophy
    This volume explores the importance of constitutivism for legal studies. Constitutivism is the view that the normative force, or authority, of practical reasons is grounded in principles, capacities, aims, or functions that are essential to, and thus constitutive of, agency. While the implications that the constitutivist approach has on the fundamental metaethical disputes and central ethical ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Contemporary Perspectives on Legal Obligation

    Edited by Stefano Bertea ...
    Bringing together world-class scholars who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation, this book addresses key dimensions of the current debate: providing novel insights and perspectives, as well as critically discussing the leading theories of legal obligation.The notion of legal obligation is widely regarded as fundamental by both legal practitioners and legal theorists. For the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Theory of Legal Obligation

    by Stefano Bertea ...
    The focus of this monograph lies in the construction of a theory of legal obligation, understanding it as a discrete notion with its own defining traits. In this work, Bertea specifically addresses the question: how should legal obligation be distinctively conceptualized? The conceptualization of legal obligation he defends in this work gradually emerges from a critical assessment of the theories ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • New Essays on the Normativity of Law

    Edited by Dr Stefano Bertea, Professor George Pavlakos ...
    Series series Law and Practical Reason
    An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty and right. These require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law. Normativity is, accordingly, to be regarded as a central feature of law lying at the heart of any comprehensive legal-theoretical project. The essays collected in this book are ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • The Normative Claim of Law

    by Dr Stefano Bertea ...
    Series series Law and Practical Reason
    This book focuses on a specific component of the normative dimension of law, namely, the normative claim of law. By 'normative claim' we mean the claim that inherent in the law is an ability to guide action by generating practical reasons having a special status. The thesis that law lays the normative claim has become a subject of controversy: it has its defenders, as well as many scholars of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Theories of Legal Obligation

    Edited by Deryck Beyleveld, Stefano Bertea ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume collects six original essays by internationally respected researchers who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation. It brings together works that innovatively address key dimensions of the current debates concerning legal obligation from different and, in some cases, even opposing theoretical perspectives. As a result, the collection offers a comprehensive discussion of ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

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    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    When people disagree about justice and about individual rights, how should political decisions be made among them? How should they decide about issues like tax policy, welfare provision, criminal procedure, discrimination law, hate speech, pornography, political dissent and the limits of religious toleration? The most familiar answer is that these decisions should be made democratically, by ... Read more

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  • Is Eating People Wrong?

    Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World

    by Allan C. Hutchinson ...
    Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the cases arose and the ordinary people whose stories influenced and shaped the law as well as the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Jus Cogens

    International Law and Social Contract

    by Thomas Weatherall ...
    One of the most complex doctrines in contemporary international law, jus cogens is the immediate product of the socialization of the international community following the Second World War. However, the doctrine resonates in a centuries-old legal tradition which constrains the dynamics of voluntarism that characterize conventional international law. To reconcile this modern iteration of individual ... Read more

    $40.99 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

    $51.29 USD

  • The Idea of Labour Law

    Edited by Guy Davidov, Brian Langille ...
    Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring already well placed employees over less fortunate ones; and discredited for failing to cover the most vulnerable workers and workers in the "informal ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Globalizing Transitional Justice

    by Ruti G. Teitel ...
    Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the demands for accountability in relation to conflicts and abuses of the past. Whether one thinks of ... Read more

    $46.79 USD