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Common Law and Natural Law in America - From the Puritans to the Legal Realists (Hardcover): Andrew Forsyth Common Law and Natural Law in America - From the Puritans to the Legal Realists (Hardcover)
Andrew Forsyth
R3,098 Discovery Miles 30 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Speaking to today's flourishing conversations on both law, morality, and religion, and the religious foundations of law, politics, and society, Common Law and Natural Law in America is an ambitious four-hundred-year narrative and fresh re-assessment of the varied American interactions of 'common law', the stuff of courtrooms, and 'natural law', a law built on human reason, nature, and the mind or will of God. It offers a counter-narrative to the dominant story of common law and natural law by drawing widely from theological and philosophical accounts of natural law, as well as primary and secondary work in legal and intellectual history. With consequences for today's natural-law proponents and critics alike, it explores the thought of the Puritans, Revolutionary Americans, and seminal legal figures including William Blackstone, Joseph Story, Christopher Columbus Langdell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the legal realists.

Multi-criteria Analysis in Legal Reasoning (Hardcover): Bengt Lindell Multi-criteria Analysis in Legal Reasoning (Hardcover)
Bengt Lindell
R3,153 Discovery Miles 31 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Providing an accessible introduction to the application of multi-criteria analysis in law, this book illustrates how simple additive weighing, a well known method in decision theory, can be used in problem structuring, analysis and decision support for overall assessments and balancing of interests in the context of law. Through clear illustrations and a variety of concrete examples, this book shows how simple additive weighing can be applied in any situation in which there are one or more objectives, multiple options and multiple decision criteria. Further demonstrating the use of fuzzy logic in conjunction with this method, Bengt Lindell adeptly shows the reader how extra-disciplinary methods have much to contribute in a legal decision-making context. The methods covered in this book help to balance the issues of intuition versus structural analysis, risk and uncertainty, and the merging of probability and utility in the context of law. Practical and engaging, this book will prove an indispensible guide for academics and scholars across many legal disciplines. Public and private decision makers will also benefit from its clear and concise approach, affording them new insights into the application of multi-criteria analysis in law.

Law Express: Jurisprudence (Paperback, 3rd edition): Julia Shaw Law Express: Jurisprudence (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Julia Shaw
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

JOIN OVER HALF A MILLION STUDENTS WHO CHOSE TO REVISE WITH LAW EXPRESS Revise with the help of the UK's bestselling law revision series. Features: * Review essential cases, statutes, and legal terms before exams. * Assess and approach the subject by using expert advice. * Gain higher marks with tips for advanced thinking and further discussions. * Avoid common pitfalls with Don't be tempted to. * Practice answering sample questions and discover additional resources on the Companion website. www.pearsoned.co.uk/lawexpress

Rejecting Retributivism - Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (Hardcover): Gregg D. Caruso Rejecting Retributivism - Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (Hardcover)
Gregg D. Caruso
R3,125 Discovery Miles 31 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Within the criminal justice system, one of the most prominent justifications for legal punishment is retributivism. The retributive justification of legal punishment maintains that wrongdoers are morally responsible for their actions and deserve to be punished in proportion to their wrongdoing. This book argues against retributivism and develops a viable alternative that is both ethically defensible and practical. Introducing six distinct reasons for rejecting retributivism, Gregg D. Caruso contends that it is unclear that agents possess the kind of free will and moral responsibility needed to justify this view of punishment. While a number of alternatives to retributivism exist - including consequentialist deterrence, educational, and communicative theories - they have ethical problems of their own. Moving beyond existing theories, Caruso presents a new non-retributive approach called the public health-quarantine model. In stark contrast to retributivism, the public health-quarantine model provides a more human, holistic, and effective approach to dealing with criminal behavior.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism (Hardcover): Paul Schiff Berman The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism (Hardcover)
Paul Schiff Berman
R5,248 Discovery Miles 52 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over the past two decades Global Legal Pluralism has become one of the leading analytical frameworks for understanding and conceptualizing law in the 21st century. Wherever one looks, there is conflict among multiple legal regimes. Some of these regimes are state-based, some are built and maintained by non-state actors, some fall within the purview of local authorities and jurisdictional entities, and some involve international courts, tribunals, and arbitral bodies, and regulatory organizations. Global Legal Pluralism has provided, first and foremost, a set of useful analytical tools for describing this conflict among legal and quasi-legal systems. At the same time, some pluralists have also ventured in a more normative direction, suggesting that legal systems might sometimes purposely create legal procedures, institutions, and practices that encourage interaction among multiple communities. These scholars argue that pluralist approaches can help foster more shared participation in the practices of law, more dialogue across difference, and more respect for diversity without requiring assimilation and uniformity. Despite the veritable explosion of scholarly work on legal pluralism, conflicts of law, soft law, global constitutionalism, the relationships among relative authorities, transnational migration, and the fragmentation and reinforcement of territorial boundaries, no single work has sought to bring together these various scholarly strands, place them into dialogue with each other, or connect them with the foundational legal pluralism research produced by historians, anthropologists, and political theorists. Paul Schiff Berman, one of the world's leading theorists of Global Legal Pluralism, has gathered over 40 diverse authors from multiple countries and multiple scholarly disciplines to touch on nearly every area of legal pluralism research, offering defenses, critiques, and applications of legal pluralism to 21st-century legal analysis. Berman also provides introductions to every part of the book, helping to frame the various approaches and perspectives. The result is the first comprehensive review of Global Legal Pluralism scholarship ever produced. This book will be a must-have for scholars and students seeking to understand the insights of legal pluralism to contemporary debates about law. At the same time, this volume will help energize and engage the field of Global Legal Pluralism and push this scholarly trajectory forward into another two decades of innovation.

Spirit of Laws (Paperback, Revised): Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws (Paperback, Revised)
Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu
R658 R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Save R46 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Spirit of Laws is one of the most influential books of all time. This masterpiece of political philosophy was widely read throughout Europe, attracted an especially enthusiastic readership in England, and had a profound effect on the framers of the American Constitution. Montesquieu (1689-1755), already famous and controversial through his Persian Letters, a work of his youth in which he humorously satirized the foibles of French society, turned in his later years to this serious treatise on the nature of law. But though the subject itself was profound, this gravitas did not inhibit the famous Montesquieu wit. Master of the pithy bon mot, he managed to survey a great deal of political and philosophical territory while keeping his readers charmed with memorable and artfully turned phrases. "Liberty," he says, "consists in the ability to do what one ought to desire and in not being forced to do what one ought not to desire." Concerning the unpopularity of the English in France, he says it is due to their arrogance, which is such that even in peace "they seem to negotiate with none but enemies."
The scope of this masterful work is truly prodigious. Montesquieu explores the essentials of good government; compares and contrasts despotism, monarchy, and democracy; and discusses the factors that lead to corruption of governments. Among the many other topics considered are education of the citizenry, crime and punishment, abuse of power and of liberty, individual rights, taxation, slavery, the role of women, the influence of climate on the temper of a people and their form of government, commerce, religion, and a host of additional subjects.

The Spirit of Laws is essential and genuinely enjoyable reading for anyone interested in the development of democracy.

A Short Introduction to Judging and to Legal Reasoning (Paperback): Geoffrey Samuel A Short Introduction to Judging and to Legal Reasoning (Paperback)
Geoffrey Samuel
R1,067 Discovery Miles 10 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Short Introduction looks at judging and reasoning from three perspectives: what legal reasoning has been; what legal reasoning is from the view of judges and jurists; and what legal reasoning is from the view of a social scientist epistemologist or humanities specialist. Geoffrey Samuel begins by identifying the main institutional focal points of legal reasoning (ius, regulae iuris, Interpretatio, utilitas and actiones). While examining legal reasoning from both an internal and external viewpoint, the book simultaneously incorporates theory and scholarship from a range of other disciplines including social science and film studies. The author also includes a discussion of fiction theory, schemes of intelligibility, and other epistemological issues as well as standard reasoning devices such as induction, deduction and analogy. Combining cases and materials with original text, this unique, concise format is designed to be accessible for students who are starting out on their law programs, as well as providing insights for students and researchers who would like to examine judging and legal reasoning in more depth.

Research Handbook on the Theory and Practice of International Lawmaking (Hardcover): Catherine Broelmann, Yannick Radi Research Handbook on the Theory and Practice of International Lawmaking (Hardcover)
Catherine Broelmann, Yannick Radi
R6,899 Discovery Miles 68 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'A fascinating collection of essays that reveal the multiple facets of lawmaking in an increasingly interconnected world. In addition to the role played by States, numerous institutional and judicial actors now contribute to lawmaking. In charting these developments, this book provides a rich analytical appraisal of the manifold normative processes in the contemporary international legal order.' - Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandThe global landscape has changed profoundly over the past decades. As a result, the making of international law and the way we think about it has become more and more diversified. This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of international lawmaking today. It takes stock at both the conceptual and the empirical levels of the instruments, processes, and actors involved in the making of international law. The Editors have taken an approach which carefully combines theory and practice in order to provide both an overview and a critical reflection of international lawmaking. Comprehensive and well-structured, the book contains essays by leading scholars on key aspects of international lawmaking and on lawmaking in the main issue areas. Attention is paid to classic processes as well as new developments and shades of normativity. This timely and authoritative handbook will be a valuable resource for academics, students, legal practitioners, diplomats, government and international organization officials as well as civil society representatives. Contributors: M.S. Barr, B.I. Bonafe, C. Broelmann, D. Costelloe, J. d'Aspremont, M. Fitzmaurice, M.E. Footer, G.I. Hernandez, J. Kammerhofer, O. McIntyre, P. Palchetti, D. Patterson, Y. Radi, F. Romanin Jacur, K. Schmalenbach, O.M. Sender, M. Tignino, A. Tzanakopoulos, V.P. Tzevelekos, S. Vasiliev, I. Venzke, W.G. Werner, R.A. Wessel, M. Wood, B.K. Woodward

Labour Law and Sustainable Development (Hardcover): Valentina Cagnin Labour Law and Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
Valentina Cagnin
R3,531 Discovery Miles 35 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
At the Margins of Globalization - Indigenous Peoples and International Economic Law (Hardcover): Sergio Puig At the Margins of Globalization - Indigenous Peoples and International Economic Law (Hardcover)
Sergio Puig
R3,099 Discovery Miles 30 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite the tremendous progress in the development of scientific knowledge, the understanding of the causes of poverty and inequality, and the role of politics and governance in addressing modern challenges, issues such as social inclusion, poverty, marginalization and despair continue to be a reality across the world - and most often impact Indigenous Peoples. At the Margins of Globalization explores how Indigenous Peoples are affected by globalization, and the culture of individual choice without responsibility that it promotes, while addressing what can be done about it. Though international trade and investment agreements are unlikely to go away, the inclusion of Indigenous rights provisions has made a positive difference. This book explains how these provisions operate and how to build from their limited success.

More Posthuman Glossary (Hardcover): Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, Goda Klumbyte More Posthuman Glossary (Hardcover)
Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, Goda Klumbyte
R2,349 Discovery Miles 23 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse, not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures associated with this term. More Posthuman Glossary provides a way in to the dizzying array of posthuman concepts, providing vivid accounts of emerging terms. It is much more than a series of definitions, however, in that it seeks to imagine and predict what new terms might come into being as this exciting field continues to expand. A follow-up volume to the brilliant interventions of Posthuman Glossary (2018), this book extends and elaborates on that work, particularly focusing on concepts of race, indigeneity and new ideas in radical ecology. It also includes new and emerging voices within the new humanities and multiple modes of communicating ideas. This is an indispensible glossary for those who are exploring what the non-human, inhuman and posthuman might mean in the 21st century.

The Common Law (Hardcover): Oliver Wendell Holmes The Common Law (Hardcover)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
R1,006 Discovery Miles 10 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Common Law is Oliver Wendell Holmes' most sustained work of jurisprudence. In it the careful reader will discern traces of his later thought as found in both his legal opinions and other writings. At the outset of The Common Law Holmes posits that he is concerned with establishing that the common law can meet the changing needs of society while preserving continuity with the past. A common law judge must be creative, both in determining the society's current needs, and in discerning how best to address these needs in a way that is continuous with past judicial decisions. In this way, the law evolves by moving out of its past, adapting to the needs of the present, and establishing a direction for the future. To Holmes' way of thinking, this approach is superior to imposing order in accordance with a philosophical position or theory because the law would thereby lose the flexibility it requires in responding to the needs and demands of disputing parties as well as society as a whole. According to Holmes, the social environment--the economic, moral, and political milieu--alters over time. Therefore in order to remain responsive to this social environment, the law must change as well. But the law is also part of this environment and impacts it. There is, then, a continual reciprocity between the law and the social arrangements in which it is contextualized. And, as with the evolution of species, there is no starting over. Rather, in most cases, a judge takes existing legal concepts and principles, as these have been memorialized in legal precedent, and adapts them, often unconsciously, to fit the requirements of a particular case and present social conditions.

The Transformative Constitution - A Radical Biography in Nine Acts (Hardcover): Gautam Bhatia The Transformative Constitution - A Radical Biography in Nine Acts (Hardcover)
Gautam Bhatia
R776 R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Save R241 (31%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Justice Holmes - The Measure of His Thought (Hardcover): Anthony Murray, Edwin G Quattlebaum Justice Holmes - The Measure of His Thought (Hardcover)
Anthony Murray, Edwin G Quattlebaum
R1,862 Discovery Miles 18 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Law in Theory and History - New Essays on a Neglected Dialogue (Hardcover): Maksymilian Del Mar, Michael Lobban Law in Theory and History - New Essays on a Neglected Dialogue (Hardcover)
Maksymilian Del Mar, Michael Lobban
R4,251 Discovery Miles 42 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of original essays brings together leading legal historians and theorists to explore the oft-neglected but important relationship between these two disciplines. Legal historians have often been sceptical of theory. The methodology which informs their own work is often said to be an empirical one, of gathering information from the archives and presenting it in a narrative form. The narrative produced by history is often said to be provisional, insofar as further research in the archives might falsify present understandings and demand revisions. On the other side, legal theorists are often dismissive of historical works. History itself seems to many theorists not to offer any jurisprudential insights of use for their projects: at best, history is a repository of data and examples, which may be drawn on by the theorist for her own purposes. The aim of this collection is to invite participants from both sides to ask what lessons legal history can bring to legal theory, and what legal theory can bring to history. What is the theorist to do with the empirical data generated by archival research? What theories should drive the historical enterprise, and what wider lessons can be learned from it? This collection brings together a number of major theorists and legal historians to debate these ideas.

On Civil Liberty and Self-Government (1859) - Enlarged edition in one volume (Hardcover, Enl in One Volume ed.): Francis Lieber On Civil Liberty and Self-Government (1859) - Enlarged edition in one volume (Hardcover, Enl in One Volume ed.)
Francis Lieber
R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Creativity without Law - Challenging the Assumptions of Intellectual Property (Hardcover): Kate Darling, Aaron Perzanowski Creativity without Law - Challenging the Assumptions of Intellectual Property (Hardcover)
Kate Darling, Aaron Perzanowski
R2,921 Discovery Miles 29 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Behind the scenes of the many artists and innovators flourishing beyond the bounds of intellectual property laws Intellectual property law, or IP law, is based on certain assumptions about creative behavior. The case for regulation assumes that creators have a fundamental legal right to prevent copying, and without this right they will under-invest in new work. But this premise fails to fully capture the reality of creative production. It ignores the range of powerful non-economic motivations that compel creativity, and it overlooks the capacity of creative industries for self-governance and innovative social and market responses to appropriation. This book reveals the on-the-ground practices of a range of creators and innovators. In doing so, it challenges intellectual property orthodoxy by showing that incentives for creative production often exist in the absence of, or in disregard for, formal legal protections. Instead, these communities rely on evolving social norms and market responses-sensitive to their particular cultural, competitive, and technological circumstances-to ensure creative incentives. From tattoo artists to medical researchers, Nigerian filmmakers to roller derby players, the communities illustrated in this book demonstrate that creativity can thrive without legal incentives, and perhaps more strikingly, that some creative communities prefer, and thrive, in environments defined by self-regulation rather than legal rules. Beyond their value as descriptions of specific industries and communities, the accounts collected here help to ground debates over IP policy in the empirical realities of the creative process. Their parallels and divergences also highlight the value of rules that are sensitive to the unique mix of conditions and motivations of particular industries and communities, rather than the monoculture of uniform regulation of the current IP system.

Directory of EU Case Law on State Aids (Hardcover, 4th ed.): Rene Barents Directory of EU Case Law on State Aids (Hardcover, 4th ed.)
Rene Barents
R8,784 Discovery Miles 87 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Common Law Tradition - Deciding Appeals (Hardcover): Karl N. Llewellyn The Common Law Tradition - Deciding Appeals (Hardcover)
Karl N. Llewellyn; Foreword by Steven Alan Childress
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Self-Reliance, Nature, and Other Essays (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover): Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance, Nature, and Other Essays (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Legal Fictions in Private Law (Hardcover): Liron Shmilovits Legal Fictions in Private Law (Hardcover)
Liron Shmilovits
R3,109 Discovery Miles 31 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Legal fictions are falsehoods that the law knowingly relies on. It is the most bizarre feature of our legal system; we know something is false, and we still assume it. But why do we rely on blatant falsehood? What are the implications of doing so? Should we continue to use fictions, and, if not, what is the alternative? Legal Fictions in Private Law answers these questions in an accessible and engaging manner, looking at the history of fictions, the theory of fictions, and current fictions from a practical perspective. It proposes a solution to what to do about fictions going forward, and how to decide whether they should be accepted or rejected. It addresses the latest literature and deals with the law in detail. This book is a comprehensive analysis of legal fictions in private law and a blueprint for reform.

Intellectual Property Law in China (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Christopher Heath Intellectual Property Law in China (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Christopher Heath
R5,244 Discovery Miles 52 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Law and Autonomous Machines - The Co-evolution of Legal Responsibility and Technology (Hardcover): Mark Chinen Law and Autonomous Machines - The Co-evolution of Legal Responsibility and Technology (Hardcover)
Mark Chinen
R3,185 Discovery Miles 31 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book sets out a possible trajectory for the co-development of legal responsibility on the one hand and artificial intelligence and the machines and systems driven by it on the other. As autonomous technologies become more sophisticated it will be harder to attribute harms caused by them to the humans who design or work with them. This will put pressure on legal responsibility and autonomous technologies to co-evolve. Mark Chinen illustrates how these factors strengthen incentives to develop even more advanced systems, which in turn inspire nascent calls to grant legal and moral status to autonomous machines. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of legal doctrine, ethics and autonomous technologies, as well as legislators and policy makers, and engineers and designers who are interested in the broader implications of their work.

Eugen Ehrlich: Bibliographic Index (Hardcover): Sergiy Nezhurbida Eugen Ehrlich: Bibliographic Index (Hardcover)
Sergiy Nezhurbida
R1,970 Discovery Miles 19 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Judging Positivism (Hardcover): Margaret Martin Judging Positivism (Hardcover)
Margaret Martin
R2,862 Discovery Miles 28 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Judging Positivism is a critical exploration of the method and substance of legal positivism. Author Margaret Martin is primarily concerned with the manner in which theorists who adopt the dominant positivist paradigm ask a limited set of questions and offer an equally limited set of answers, artificially circumscribing the field of legal philosophy in the process. The book focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on the writings of prominent legal positivist Joseph Raz. Martin argues that Raz's theory has changed over time and that these changes have led to deep inconsistencies and incoherencies in his account. One reoccurring theme in the book is that Razian positivism collapses from within. In the process of defending his own position, Raz is led to support the views of many of his main rivals, namely Ronald Dworkin, the legal realists, and the normative positivists. The internal collapse of Razian positivism proves to be instructive. Promising paths of inquiry come into view and questions that have been suppressed or marginalized by positivists re-emerge, ready for curious minds to reflect on anew. The broader vision of jurisprudential inquiry defended in this book re-connects philosophy with the work of practitioners and the worries of law's subjects, bringing into focus the relevance of legal philosophy for lawyers and laymen alike.

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