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  • The Nature of Authority

    by Kenneth Einar Himma ...
    Series series Elements in Philosophy of Law
    The Nature of Authority provides a comprehensive theory of the nature of authoritative guidance. It argues that the following claims exhaust the constitutive properties of authoritative tellings: authoritative tellings (1) tell subjects what to do; (2) give rise to reasons to comply; (3) are issued by personal beings and govern the behavior of personal beings; (4) are issued by rationally ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Jurisprudence in the Mirror

    The Common Law World Meets the Civil Law World

    by Kenneth Einar Himma, Giorgio Pino ...
    There is something quite puzzling about the global conversation on jurisprudence. On the one hand, jurisprudence is supposed to deal with abstract questions concerning the nature, structure, and distinctive features of the law. These questions are not tightly associated with, or dependent on, the particular legal practices in one jurisdiction or another. But, on the other hand, it seems that ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution

    by Matthew Adler, Kenneth Einar Himma ...
    The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution is a volume of original essays that discuss the applicability of Hart's rule of recognition model of a legal system to U.S. constitutional law. The contributors are leading scholars in analytical jurisprudence and constitutional theory, including Matthew Adler, Larry Alexander, Mitchell Berman, Michael Dorf, Kent Greenawalt, Richard Fallon, Michael ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

  • Unpacking Normativity

    Conceptual, Normative, and Descriptive Issues

    Edited by Kenneth Einar Himma, Prof Miodrag Jovanovic, Dr Bojan Spaic ...
    This book provides a new and wide-ranging study of law's normativity, examining conceptual, descriptive and empirical dimensions of this perennial philosophical issue. It also contains essays concerned with, among other issues, the relationship between semantic and legal normativity; methodological concerns pertaining to understanding normativity; normativity and legal interpretation; and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Coercion and the Nature of Law

    by Kenneth Einar Himma ...
    Series series Oxford Legal Philosophy
    The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law. Coercion and the Nature of Law is concerned with reviving the Coercion Thesis, presenting a strong case for the inherently coercive nature of legal regulation, and arguing that anything properly characterized as a legal ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Morality and the Nature of Law

    by Kenneth Einar Himma ...
    Morality and the Nature of Law explores the conceptual relationship between morality and the criteria that determine what counts as law in a given societythe criteria of legal validity. Is it necessary condition for a legal system to include moral criteria of legal validity? Is it even possible for a legal system to have moral criteria of legal validity? The book considers the views of natural law ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Law as an Artifact

    Edited by Luka Burazin, Kenneth Einar Himma, Corrado Roversi ...
    This volume assembles leading scholars to examine how their respective theoretical positions relate to the artifactual nature of law. It offers a complete analysis of what is ontologically entailed by the claim that law - including legal systems, legal norms, and legal institutions - is an artifact, and what consequences, if any, this claim has for philosophical accounts of law. Examining the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Philosophy of Law

    by Andrei Marmor ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Christian Dahlman, Eveline Feteris ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation theory, philosophy of law, logic and artificial intelligence. It presents an overview of contributions representative of different academic and legal cultures, and different continents and countries. The book contains ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Making Sense, Making Worlds

    Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations

    by Nicholas Onuf ...
    Series series New International Relations
    Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (1996); and featured in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • The Planning Theory of Law

    A Critical Reading

    Edited by Damiano Canale, Giovanni Tuzet ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This collection of essays is the outcome of a workshop with Scott Shapiro on The Planning Theory of Law that took place in December 2009 at Bocconi University. It brings together a group of scholars who wrote their contributions to the workshop on a preliminary draft of Shapiro’s Legality. Then, after the workshop, they wrote their final essays on the published version of the book. The ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Philosophical Foundations of the Nature of Law

    Edited by Stefan Sciaraffa, Wil Waluchow ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    In recent years we have witnessed major developments in philosophical inquiry concerning the nature of law and, with the continuing development of international and transnational legal institutions, in the phenomenon of law itself. This volume gathers leading writers in the field to take stock of current debates on the nature of law and the aims and methods of legal philosophy. The volume covers ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD