Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
Exemplarity and Singularity
Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book pursues a strand in the history of thought – ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations – that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is...
Film and the Law
The Cinema of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'founding text', this text is a second, heavily revised and improved edition of the original Film and the Law (Cavendish Publishing, 2001). The book is distinctive in a number of ways: it is unique as a sustained book-length...
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a...
by Günter Frankenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book presents a critique of conventional ways to do comparative law. The author argues that, for comparative law to qualify as a discipline, comparatists must reflect on how and why they compare. The author discusses not only methods and theories, but also the ethical implications and the politics of comparative law.
New Critical Legal Thinking
Law and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism? Including contributions from leading figures...
Law as a Leap of Faith
Essays on Law in General
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for...
Punishment and Responsibility
Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal...
by John Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Mounting a lawsuit against someone who has wronged you is a prospect no less fearful than being on the receiving end of such a lawsuit. Litigation in the courts has a reputation for being a byzantine process far removed from ordinary life, often failing to address people's real grievances while adding...
by Ben Golder, Peter Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Foucault’s Law is the first book in almost fifteen years to address the question of Foucault’s position on law. Many readings of Foucault’s conception of law start from the proposition that he failed to consider the role of law in modernity, or indeed that he deliberately marginalized it. In...
On Record
Files and Dossiers in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
On Record provides descriptive accounts of record-keeping in a variety of important organizations: schools and universities; consumer credit agencies, general business organizations, and life insurance companies; military and security agencies; the Census Bureau and the Social Security Administration;...
by Chester Porter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
How the law can let us down
'The presumption of innocence is the keystone of liberty. Yet it is constantly under attack and is liable to be whittled away, particularly in times of crisis. It is for all thinking citizens to ensure that the presumption of innocence is a reality.'
It is...
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power
A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare’s involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare’s theatre opened up a new perspective...
Law's Task
The Tragic Circle of Law, Justice and Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
What is the ultimate task of law? This deceptively simple question guides this volume towards a radically original philosophical interpretation of law and justice. Weaving together the philosophical, jurisprudential and ethical problems suggested by five general terms - thinking, human suffering,...