This is a guide to the techniques and reasoning used by lawyers and judges to resolve interpretation problems. The book deciphers the complex rules of interpretation, explains the way these rules relate to each other, and focuses on their strategic use in constructing arguments …
By providing a systematic analysis of how international law is incorporated and implemented in over two dozen states, this text analyzes how the international order and national legal systems interact with each other.
As a result of the growing prominence of international organizations and non-binding instruments there is increasing controversy as to how to delineate the boundaries of international law. This book advocates a return to a more formal way of determining what is and isn't interna…
This volume contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and philosophy. It examines the themes of the nature of law; and the State, the citizen, and the law.
"Originalism is a force to be reckoned with in constitutional interpretation. At one time a monolithic theory of constitutional interpretation, contemporary originalism has developed into a sophisticated family of theories about how to interpret and reason with a constitution. C…
"Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account, and understanding, of Derrida's approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida's texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's broader deconstruction of the…