Die Sache : the foundationless ground of legal meaning /Francis J. Mootz III --Faces face to face /Jan M. Broekman --Tarski, Peirce and Truth-Correspondences in law : can semiotic Truth-Analysis Adequately describe legal discourse /Paul Van Fleet --History and semiotics : prelim…
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Focuses on issues of concept-formation in legal science in general with a view to their application to the specific concerns of international law. Argues that public international law seeks to establish and institutionalise a system of authoritative judgment whereby the conditio…
Argues that the way humans treat animals results from the contradiction between the ideas that animals have some rights, but that they are also property, and offers ways to resolve the conflict.
The question whether and how boundaries might individuate and thereby be constitutive features of any imaginable legal order has yet to be addressed in a systematic and comprehensive manner by legal and political theory. This book seeks to address this important omission, provid…
The question whether and how boundaries might individuate and thereby be constitutive features of any imaginable legal order has yet to be addressed in a systematic and comprehensive manner by legal and political theory. This book seeks to address this important omission, provid…
Today international law is everywhere. Wars are fought and opposed in its name. It is invoked to claim rights and to challenge them, to indict or support political leaders, to distribute resources and to expand or limit the powers of domestic and international institutions. Inte…
This volume gathers leading theorists to present original work on a range of foundational questions in criminal law theory. It provides an overview of current philosophical work on the criminal law, setting an agenda for further research and debate.
'The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law' provides an account & assessment of comparative law at the beginning of the 21st century. The aim of each one of the 48 chapters is to provide an account of the state of comparative law in its respective area whether geographical or topic…
"Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceron…
Recently legal scholarship has been heavily influenced by coherence theories of law and adjudication. These theories significantly advance the case for coherentism in law, yet a number of problems remain. This ambitious new work is the first to develop a coherence-based theory o…
"As neuroscientific technologies continue to develop and inform our understanding of the mind, the opportunities for applying neuroscience in legal proceedings have also increased. Cognitive neuroscientists have deepened our understanding of the complex relationship between the …
Understanding the nature and role of rights is a central issue in the philosophy of practical reason. Asking how legal rights relate to their moral counterparts, this book criticises existing analytic models and presents a new theory based on the idea of public reason.
"This volume considers the political construction of intellectual property, and how it is linked to the economics of knowledge and information in the contemporary global political economy. A Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights examines contemporary disputes …
The contributions in this volume cover five main themes centring on constitutionalism and democracy: substantive views, procedural views, reconciling substance procedures, populist constitutionalism, and constitutional democracy beyond the nation state.
"In a style at once simple and elegant, Tom Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates as portrayed by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of "humane treatment" favored by animal exploiters in both familiar and less well-documented contexts, and expl…
Using contemporary illustrations, 'Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law' delves into the theoretical and practical studies of al-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyyah in Islamic legal theory. It elucidates the importance of this concept in the application of Islamic law and demonstrates how the c…