This reference work features essays by important legal theorists world-wide, presenting the state of the art of jurisprudence.
This reference work features essays by important legal theorists world-wide, presenting the state of the art of jurisprudence.
"The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law" brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-seven of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state of the art overview of jurisprudential scholarship. Each author presents an account of…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "What makes something a human right? What is the relationship between the moral foundations of human rights and human rights law? What are the difficulties of appealing to human rights? This book offers the first comprehensive survey of current thinki…
Part of the "American Translators Association" series, this text covers such topics as: translation and the language of the law; responding to change and to difference; professional issues; and persons, laws and the presence of the translator.
Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-unfortunately, these adjectives rarely describe legal writing, whether in the form of briefs, opinions, contracts, or statutes. In Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law stud…
Offers those in the law profession, including lawyers, judges, paralegals, and law students, advice and tools to help them improve their writing skills.
"The hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology…
"The hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology…
Pardo and Patterson assess the philosophical questions that arise when neuroscientific research and technology are applied in the legal system. It examines the arguments favouring the increased use of neuroscience in law, the means for assessing its reliability in legal proceedi…
Assess the philosophical questions that arise when neuroscientific research and technology are applied in the legal system. Examines the concept of the mind and the implications of this model for determinism, free will, law, and other issues. Examines the arguments favoring the …