Télécharger le livre :  Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment
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This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment.   It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years...

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Télécharger le livre :  Self-sufficiency of Law
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The book investigates the role of law and legal experts in the organisational dynamics of a population, demonstrating that law is a stable practice among those who (in virtue of the special knowledge they master) are called upon to select the ‘normative facts’ of a...

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Parution : 2012-06-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations
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Fifty years after the famous essay “The Problem of Social Cost” (1960) by the Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, Law and Economics seems to have become the lingua franca of American jurisprudence, and although its influence on European jurisprudence is only moderate by...

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Parution : 2011-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Law, Truth, and Reason
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This book is an innovative contribution to analytical jurisprudence.  It is mainly based on the distinct premises of linguistic philosophy and Carnapian semantics, but also addresses the issues of institutional philosophy, social pragmatism, and legal principles as...

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Parution : 2011-07-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law
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Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law is a summary of the author’s 40 years of research in the fields of civil law and the philosophy of law. The main focus is on the two main tasks in the doctrinal study of law: the interpretation and systematisation of legal norms. In...

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Télécharger le livre :  Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment
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A collaboration of leading historians of European law and philosophers of law and politics identifying and explaining the practice of interpretation of law in the 18th century. The goal: establishing the actual practice in the Age of Enlightenment, and explaining why...

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Parution : 2011-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory
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This volume offers a collection of articles by leading legal and political theorists. Originally intended as a celebration of MacCormick’s work on the occasion of the completion of the four-volume series on Law, State and Practical Reason, it has turned into a homage...

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Parution : 2011-03-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Arguments, Stories and Criminal Evidence
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In this book a theory of reasoning with evidence in the context of criminal cases is developed. The main subject of this study is not the law of evidence but rather the rational process of proof, which involves constructing, testing and justifying scenarios about what...

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Parution : 2011-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Semiotics of International Law
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Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context,...

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Parution : 2010-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Law as Institution
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This book – which is the result of several years of research, discussion, writing and re-writing – consists of three parts and eight chapters. The rst part is given by the two rst chapters introducing the issue of validity and facticity in law. The second part (Chapters...

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Parution : 2010-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Groups, Rules and Legal Practice
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Ever since Hart´s The Concept of Law, legal philosophers agree that the practice of law-applying officials is a fundamental aspect of law. Yet there is a huge disagreement on the nature of this practice. Is it a conventional practice? Is it like the practice that takes...

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Parution : 2010-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  A Real Mind
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This comprehensive presentation of Axel Hägerström (1868-1939) fills a void in nearly a century of literature, providing both the legal and political scholar and the non-expert reader with a proper introduction to the father of Scandinavian realism. Based on his...

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Parution : 2009-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Reasonableness and Law
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Reasonableness is at the centre of legal debate, both in academic circles and in practice. This unique reference work adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, merging jurisprudence, legal theory, political philosophy and the different branches of law. All aspects...

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Parution : 2009-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Theory of Legal Principles
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This book intends to help understand and apply principles and rules better. Its target is to keep the distinction between principles and rules whereas structuring it on different foundations than those jurisprudence ordinarily employs. The first object of investigation...

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Parution : 2007-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Territorial Rights
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Liberal defences of nationalism have become prevalent since the mid-1980’s. Curiously, they have largely neglected the fact that nationalism is primarily about land. Should liberals throw up their hands in despair when confronting conflicting claims stemming from...

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Parution : 2007-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  On The Interpretation of Treaties
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1 PURPOSE AND TOPIC We live in the age of treaties. Increasingly, bilateral and multilateral written agreements are used for the creation of new international legal standards. For political reasons, states are decreasingly less willing to rely upon customary...

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Parution : 2007-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Law As Symbolic Form
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Jurisprudence, according to Cassirer, is not merely the systematic, conceptual pursuance of ethics. They are separate domains for Cassirer, and both direct their claims differently on the individual. Whereas ethics concerns the motives of the individual, law ultimately...

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Parution : 2007-07-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rule of Law History, Theory and Criticism
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Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires referring to a global problematic horizon. It seems unavoidable to investigate into the relationship between Europe and the United States, on the one hand, and the ‘rest’...

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Parution : 2007-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Constitutionalism and Legal Reasoning
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This book, which consist of three chapters and two appendices, is intended to connect subjects that have usually been considered as detached or not strongly connected: constitutionalism, legal argumen- tion and legal ethics. Its main contention is that contemporary...

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Parution : 2007-04-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Arguing Fundamental Rights
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Arguing Fundamental Rights explores the path-breaking Theory of Constitutional Rights of Robert Alexy. The critical analysis of the structural elements of Alexy’s theory is combined with an assessment of its applied relevance, with special attention being paid to the UK...

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Parution : 2006-11-22
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