Jurisprudence & philosophy of law books

Jeremy Bentham on Police explores the story of Bentham's writings on police and their relevance to the past, present...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and...  Read More >>

The Critical Legal Pocketbook provides the tools for law students to uncover the hidden intricacies of law. Law...  Read More >>

What makes some goods and services fundamentally public and why? Sometimes public entities are superior because...  Read More >>

"Was bedeutet der kurzatmige Umgang der Politik mit täglich neu auftauchenden Problemen für das Recht und den Staat?...  Read More >>

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the...  Read More >>

Laurent de Sutter gathers all the elements that compose Deleuze's philosophy of law and articulates them for the...  Read More >>

"Die Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit hat sich weltweit verbreitet. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht gehört inzwischen zu...  Read More >>

America’s legal system harbors serious, widespread injustices. Many defendants are sent to prison for nonviolent...  Read More >>

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Karl Popper introduced his concept of the “open society”. Poppers focussed...  Read More >>

This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the topic of migration, as well as an opportunity for immigration...  Read More >>

This volume collects and translates 10 essays by renowned Roman and legal history specialist Yan Thomas (19432008),...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first...  Read More >>

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This book analyses the features and functionality of the relationship between the law, individual or collective...  Read More >>

According to some commentators, forum shopping is an “evil” that must be eradicated. It has been suggested that...  Read More >>

"Dispositives Recht, d.h. nicht-zwingendes, abdingbares Recht, gehört zum Grundhandwerkszeug der Normgebung. Zu...  Read More >>

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature...  Read More >>

Band ist das aus insgesamt mehr als 500 Dokumenten bestehende Verfassungsrecht des lediglich in dem Zeitraum zwischen...  Read More >>

In Part II it focuses on the notion of a legal system and its coercive nature, while Part III explores the relationships...  Read More >>

This first book-length study into the influence of Emmanuel Levinas on the thought and philosophy of Giorgio Agamben,...  Read More >>

This book deals with the development of constitutional law in China and Visegrad states by employing a comparative...  Read More >>

"Friedrich Muller is one of the most important theoretical and constitutional lawyers of the 20th century, whose...  Read More >>

Strafrechtliche Schuld ist ein Begriff der Rechtsanwendung und von der Strafrechtsdogmatik und dem positiven Recht...  Read More >>