Jurisprudence & philosophy of law books

This book advances a theoretical account of contract law, grounded in value pluralism. Arguing against attempts...  Read More >>

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal...  Read More >>

According to the dominant account of rights, there are two ways to permissibly kill people: they have done something...  Read More >>

Die Organisation des Verfassungsstaats, seine Institutionen, Akteure und Organe, seine Grundlagen, Verfahren und...  Read More >>

No one has written more insightfully on the promises and perils of human agency than Gary Watson, who has spent...  Read More >>

International specialists from law, media, film and virtual studies address the jurist in the era of digital transmission....  Read More >>

This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and formal constitution...  Read More >>

Thick and Thin frames Michael Walzer’s ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of...  Read More >>

DIGITAL UPDATE available for fall 2021 classes For all courses in courts and criminal justice. A balanced, modern...  Read More >>

REVEL is the newest way of delivering our respected content from Pearson. Fully digital and highly engaging, REVEL...  Read More >>

For introductory courses in criminal justice. Best-selling introduction to criminal justice Revel(TM) Criminal...  Read More >>

Brief. Affordable. Visual. Revel(TM) for Criminal Law provides an affordable, thought-provoking look at criminal...  Read More >>

This book presents a critique of conventional ways to do comparative law. The author argues that, for comparative...  Read More >>

In this special issue, socio-legal scientists with interdisciplinary backgrounds scrutinize the applicability of...  Read More >>

This book collects together new essays by moral and legal philosophers that are aimed at knocking down a disciplinary...  Read More >>

No one has written more insightfully on the promises and perils of human agency than Gary Watson, who has spent...  Read More >>

Second, from a legal positivist perspective, it scrutinizes all of the legalist arguments that support Kosovo’s...  Read More >>

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Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition provides the first sustained examination of Hans Kelsen’s critical engagement,...  Read More >>

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Much of what we could do, we shouldn’t—and we don’t. Mark Osiel shows that common morality—expressed as shame, outrage,...  Read More >>

"Das evangelische Kirchenrecht ist eine vielschichtige Materie. Im Horizont der theologischen Grundlagen der Kirche...  Read More >>

This book argues that human rights cannot go global without going local. Making a case for balancing conceptual...  Read More >>

This book shows that Islamic sources offer a comprehensive theory of social justice with a strong focus on the distribution...  Read More >>