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  • Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights

    Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny. Concluding Reflections by John Finnis

    Edited by Pilar Zambrano, William L. Saunders ...
    Series series Ad Fontes
    This bookpresents a collection of studies by top scholars on leading cases from twelve different jurisdictions defining the legal status of unborn human life. The cases under study pertain to three distinctive cultural and constitutional systems: Latin American Constitutional Courts and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, European Constitutional Courts and the European Court on Human Rights, ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Catholicism and Religious Freedom

    Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty

    by Francis P. Canavan, David S. Crawford, John F. Crosby, Cardinal Avery Dulles, Robert P. George, Thomas Heilke, David T. Koyzis, William L. Saunders ...
    The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching. In this timely new edited collection, Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty, Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt have assembled an impressive group of scholars to discuss the current ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Life's Dominion

    An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of Nancy Cruzan, no issues have opened greater rifts in American society than those of abortion and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Constitutional Law and Precedent

    International Perspectives on Case-Based Reasoning

    Edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor ...
    This collection examines case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication; that is, how courts decide on constitutional cases by referring to their own prior case law and the case law of other national, foreign, and international courts. Argumentation based on judicial authority is now fundamental to the resolution of constitutional disputes. At the same time, it is the most common form of ... Read more

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  • Defending Life

    A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice

    by Francis J. Beckwith ...
    Defending Life is arguably the most comprehensive defense of the pro-life position on abortion - morally, legally, and politically - that has ever been published in an academic monograph. It offers a detailed and critical analysis of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey as well as arguments by those who defend a Rawlsian case for abortion-choice, such as J. J. Thomson. The author defends ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • General Theory of Law and State

    by Hans Kelsen ...
    Widely regarded as the most important legal theorist of the twentieth century, Hans Kelsen is best known for his formulation of the "pure theory of law", - within which the study of international law was his special field of work. The present volume, "General Theory of Law and State", first published in 1945, allowed Kelsen to adjust his pure theory of law to American circumstances after World War ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law

    by Charles Foster ...
    Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological: as feel-good philosophical window-dressing, or as the name given to whatever principles give you the answer that you think is right. This is wrong, says Charles Foster: dignity is not only an essential principle in bioethics and law; it is really the only principle. In this ambitious, paradigm-shattering but highly ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Proportionality

    Constitutional Rights and their Limitations

    by Aharon Barak ...
    Series Book 2 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Having identified proportionality as the main tool for limiting constitutional rights, Aharon Barak explores its four components (proper purpose, rational connection, necessity and proportionality stricto sensu) and discusses the relationships between proportionality and reasonableness and between courts and legislation. He goes on to analyse the concept of deference and to consider the main ... Read more

    $62.39 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America

    Edited by Roberto Gargarella, Conrado Hübner Mendes, Sebastián Guidi ...
    Constitutional law in Latin America embodies a mosaic of national histories, political experiments, and institutional transitions. No matter how distinctive these histories and transitions might be, there are still commonalities that transcend the mere geographical contiguity of these countries. This Handbook depicts the constitutional landscape of Latin America by shedding light on its most ... Read more

    $169.19 USD

  • Shaping Rights in the ECHR

    The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Determining the Scope of Human Rights

    Edited by Eva Brems, Janneke Gerards ...
    In fundamental rights adjudication, a court first has to determine whether the interest at stake falls within the scope of the fundamental right invoked. Whether or not an individual interest falls within the scope or ambit of one of the fundamental rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights determines whether or not the European Court of Human Rights can decide on the merits of a ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Hour of Eugenics"

    Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

    by Nancy Leys Stepan ...
    Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of significant value to Latin Americanists (especially Brazilianists), to historians of science and medicine and to those concerned with the history of ideas as well as those interested in the rise (and fall?) of eugenics.―American ... Read more

    $25.69 USD