This title was first published in 2001. The essays in this highly cosmopolitan collection were selected from over 250 contributions presented at the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) held in New York in 1999. They represent a cross-section of contemporary work on human rights derived from eleven different countries.

This title was first published in 2001. The essays in this highly cosmopolitan collection were selected from over 250 contributions presented at the 19th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) held in New York in 1999. They represent a cross-section of contemporary work on human rights derived from eleven different countries.

Justice is one of the most enduring and central concepts within applied philosophy, and generates a vast and varied literature. Since our highly successful first series 'The Library of Essays on Justice', which was published in 2012, several approaches to justice have grown in importance and this second series offers a much needed update. The four volumes in the series bring together the most important historical and contemporary articles on key topics, and are edited by leading experts in the field. The series is an indispensable reference resource for libraries, a useful 'one-stop' teaching aid for lecturers and essential material for students.

In this book, a distinguished international group of legal theorists re-examine legal positivism as a prescriptive political theory and consider its implications for the constitutionally defined roles of legislatures and courts. The issues are illustrated with recent developments in Australian constitutional law.