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Paradigms in Modern European Comparative Law
This book uses the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn to provide a new vision of the development of European comparative law that will challenge and inspire scholars in the field. With the …
The Nature and Impacts of Noncompliance
Over 2 billion people (61% of the world’s employed population) work in the informal economy. Due to its pervasiveness, informality plays a major role in understanding a wide swath …
Legal Validity
Critical human interests are affected on a daily basis by appeal to past decisions deemed to be ‘legally valid’. They include statutes, deportation orders, judgments, mortgage …
Global Constitutionalism and Its Challenges to Westphalian Constitutional Law
Westphalian constitutionalism has shaped our understanding of politics, socio-political institutions and personal and political freedom for centuries. It is historically based in …
The Tapestry of Reason
In recent years coherence theories of law and adjudication have been extremely influential in legal scholarship. These theories significantly advance the case for coherentism in …
An Introduction to Comparative Law Theory and Method
This short book on comparative law theory and method is designed primarily for postgraduate research students whose work involves comparison between legal systems. It is, …
Agency, Morality and Law
How does law possess the normative force it requires to direct our actions? This book argues that this seemingly innocuous question is of central importance to the philosophy of …
Methodologies of Legal Research
Until quite recently questions about methodology in legal research have been largely confined to understanding the role of doctrinal research as a scholarly discipline. In turn …
Democracy and Ontology
This book investigates the relationship between liberal democracies and ontology, that is, philosophical claims about the constitution of agents and the social world. Many …