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Asymmetric conflict is changing the way that we practise and think about war. Torture, rendition, assassination, blackmail, extortion, direct attacks on civilians, and chemical weapons are all finding their way to the battlefield despite longstandin…

I Rätten i samhället ger Thomas Mathiesen en lättillgänglig och spännande introduktion i grundläggande rättssociologiska frågeställningar. Vilka verkningar har rätten i samhället? Hur påverkas rätten av och samverkar med andra samhällsförhållanden?…

How can psychology inform law and policing to help determine the accuracy of witnesses, victims and suspects? This second edition of Psychology and Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and Credibility is a substantially revised and exhaustive review of fore…

How can psychology inform law and policing to help determine the accuracy of witnesses, victims and suspects? This second edition of Psychology and Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and Credibility is a substantially revised and exhaustive review of fore…

This reader brings together classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice. It presents a collection of classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice. It includes classic discussions of justice by Loc…

Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of Amer…

The need to balance power between the Member States and the Union and between public power and the market has created powerful constitutional dilemmas for the European Union. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach and drawing upon the jurisprudence…

Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights is the first collection in English fully to address the relevance of Michel Foucault's thought for law. Foucault is the best known and most cited of the late twentieth-century's 'theory' academics. His w…

Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore the view that central moral concepts are irreducibly second-personal, in that they entail mutual accountability and the authority to address demands. He illustrates the power of the second-per…

Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore and extend the Second-Person Standpoints argument that central moral concepts are irreducibly second personal, entailing mutual accountability and the authority to address demands to one anoth…

A novel and incisive investigation of the role of judicial precedents and customs in Russian law, this book examines the trends in the development of judge-made law in Russian civil law since the demise of the Soviet Union. Exploring the interrelate…

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 occurrin…

Essäerna i denna bok visar hur juridiken får sitt egentliga innehåll av människors värderingar. Vissa tankemönster präglar rättssystemet och gör att lagar uppfattas och används på olika sätt av olika personer. Författaren utgår från ett antal korta…

Fully updated and revised by James Penner and Emmanuel Melissaris, McCoubrey & White's Textbook on Jurisprudence clearly breaks down the complexities of this often daunting yet fascinating subject. Sophisticated ideas are explained concisely and wit…

Denna bok presenterar rättsfilosofins framväxt ur ett brett historiskt perspektiv, med fördjupningar inom både moralfilosofi och politisk filosofi. Författarna beskriver betydelsefulla och bestående teoribildningar från de senaste tusen åren, till e…

ett nödvändigt inlägg i dagens debatt om ekonomi och sam- hälle av politikernas skyddshelgon Thomas More. Rolig, gripande och språkligt suverän! Thomas Mores Utopia som utkom 1516 har gett oss ordet utopi. Boken är den första moderna framtidsvisione…

This is the third volume of Joel Feinberg's highly regarded The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, a four-volume series in which Feinberg skillfully addresses a complex question: What kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on…

Every modern democratic state imprisons thousands of offenders every year, depriving them of their liberty, causing them a great deal of psychological and sometimes physical harm. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, the risk of the offender…

Jacques Derridas inflytande på den samtida filosofiska diskussionen har varit enormt. Lagens kraft består av två texter som Derrida framförde som föredrag i USA under året 1989/90, "Från lag till rättvisa" och "Benjamins förnamn". Här blir dekonstru…

A broad overview of the main topics and central issues in legal theory, Jurisprudence provides students with an informative introduction. Academically challenging and often controversial ideas are presented in a lucid, straightforward manner with sp…

I centrum för denna bok står den urgamla frågan om förhållandet mellan rätt och moral. Idag som tidigare står två grundpositioner mot varandra: den positivistiska och den icke-positivistiska. Rättspositivismen hävdar att de båda ska skiljas åt, den…

Denna bok handlar om rättsstatens grundläggande principer, debatten om rättsstaten och om dess förverkligande. Tyngdpunkten ligger på svenska förhållanden men diskussionen anknyter till internationell debatt och jämförelser med andra länder. Den nya…

This new book is designed to introduce the lawyer who is trained in a civil law jurisdiction to the method of reasoning in the common law, and in particular to the English law of contract. It is written primarily for the lawyer-whether student or pr…

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 subjec…

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 subjec…

How can we characterise law and legal theory in the twenty-first century? Law After Modernity argues that we live in an age 'after Modernity' and that legal theory must take account of this fact. The book presents a dynamic analysis of law, which fo…

With a clear, engaging, and informal writing style, Understanding Jurisprudence is the perfect guide for students new to legal theory and looking for a convenient and interesting starting point for this sometimes daunting subject. Key theories and t…

People obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment - this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study. Tyler suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy…

Georgetown University Law Center. What do Catharine MacKinnon, the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, and Lani Guinier have in common? All have, in recent years, become flashpoints for different approaches to legal reform. In the last quarter ce…

How should a judge's moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is? In his new book, Ronald Dworkin argues that the question is much more complex than it has often been taken to be and charts a variety of dimensions - semantic, juris…

The promotion of democracy is today a familiar feature of foreign policy, and an accepted part of the activities of international organizations. Should international law join in this move to promote democratic political arrangements? If so, on what…

Equality is the endangered species of political ideas. Even left-of-centre politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In this new book the autho…

Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Understood as self-legislation, autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition, namely, that their addressees, being autonomous agents, recognise these norms t…

Debate has long been waged over the morality of capital punishment, with standard arguments in its favour being marshalled against familiar arguments that oppose the practice. In The Ethics of Capital Punishment, Matthew Kramer takes a fresh look at…

In Between Facts and Norms Jurgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), bringing to fruition the project announced with his publication of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sp…

I boken behandlas något som är både viktigt och tilltagande problematiskt för dagens straffrätt: dess möte med vad som i dag brukar refereras till som ?strukturella perspektiv?. Här sätts särskilt i fokus klass-, genus- och mångkulturella perspektiv…

This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both "merit" and historical redress as principles for guiding public policy. It shows how "pea…

Since Mill's seminal work On Liberty, philosophers and political theorists have accepted that we should respect the decisions of individual agents when those decisions affect no one other than themselves. Indeed, to respect autonomy is often underst…

What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart. Yet many others find it perplexing. How could we possibly know how to answer such an abstract question? And what would be the point of doing so? In…

This book brings together essays by leading legal scholars from a number of European countries on European legal method(s). In Europe there is, and has for some years been, a seemingly renewed debate on methodology in legal research. In the first ye…

The fundamental contrast between the ideas that punishment is morally justified because people have behaved wrongly (retributivist) and that punishment is morally justified only when it has good consequences (consequentialist/utilitarian) has long e…

Modern systems theory provides a new method for the analysis of society through an examination of the structures of its communications. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, the theory's leading exponent, explores its implications for our understanding of…

Modern systems theory provides a new paradigm for the analysis of society. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, its leading exponent, explores its implications for our understanding of law. Luhmann argues that current thinking about how law operates with…

A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story--the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widesprea…

This book examines the extent to which it is possible to identify a coherent legal method (doctrine of the sources of law and their interpretation) that may be applied when analysing EU law and the law of EU Member States within the scope of applica…

aeo This is Habermasa s long--awaited work on law and democracy. aeo It develops a distinctive account of the nature of law and an original concept of democracy. aeo As one of Habermasa s most important works, it will be recognized as a major contri…

This is a philosophical but non-technical analysis of the very idea of a rule. Although focused somewhat on the role of rules in the legal system, it is also relevant to the place of rules in morality, religion, etiquette, games, language, and famil…

In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in concern for the rule of law. Not only have there been a multitude of articles and books on the essence, nature, scope and limitation of the law, but citizens, elected officials, law enforceme…