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“matthew kramer”

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  • The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart

    Legal, Political and Moral Philosophy

    Edited by Matthew Kramer, Claire Grant, Ben Colburn, Antony Hatzistavrou ...
    This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The book brings together contributions from seventeen of the world's foremost legal and political philosophers who explore the many subjects in which Hart ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of H.L.A. Hart

    Legal, Political and Moral Philosophy

    Edited by Matthew Kramer, Claire Grant, Ben Colburn, Antony Hatzistavrou ...
    This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The book brings together contributions from seventeen of the world's foremost legal and political philosophers who explore the many subjects in which Hart ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

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  • Punishment and Responsibility

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    by H.L.A. Hart ...
    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 punishment that nevertheless preserves the central distinction between guilt and innocence. He also ... Read more

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  • The Cause

    The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama

    by Eric Alterman ...
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  • The Myth of Ownership

    Taxes and Justice

    by Liam Murphy, Thomas Nagel ...
    In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice. Taxes arouse strong passions, fueled not only by conflicts of economic self-interest, but by conflicting ideas of fairness. Taking as a guiding principle the conventional nature of private property, Murphy and Nagel show how taxes can ... Read more

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  • Burden of Proof, Presumption and Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    The notion of burden of proof and its companion notion of presumption are central to argumentation studies. This book argues that we can learn a lot from how the courts have developed procedures over the years for allocating and reasoning with presumptions and burdens of proof, and from how artificial intelligence has built precise formal and computational systems to represent this kind of ... Read more

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  • The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy

    by Michael J. Perry ...
    In this important new work in political and constitutional theory, Michael J. Perry elaborates and defends an account of the political morality of liberal democracy: the moral convictions and commitments that in a liberal democracy should govern decisions about what laws to enact and what policies to pursue. The fundamental questions addressed in this book concern (1) the grounding, (2) the ... Read more

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  • It's All in the Game

    A Nonfoundationalist Account of Law and Adjudication

    by Allan C. Hutchinson ...
    Three questions concerning modern legal thought provide the framework for It’s All in the Game: What should judges do? What do judges do? What can judges do? Contrasting his own answers to traditional responses and moving playfully between debates of high theory, daily practices of appellate judges, and his own enlightening analyses of significant court rulings, Allan C. Hutchinson examines what ... Read more

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  • Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence

    A Comparative Perspective

    by Kate Fitz-Gibbon ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book critically examines the operation of the partial defence of provocation in a range of comparative international jurisdictions. Centrally concerned with conceptual questions of gender, justice and the role of denial in the criminal justice system, Fitz-Gibbon explores the divergent approaches taken to reforming the law of provocation. ... Read more

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  • Democracy and Ontology

    Agonism between Political Liberalism, Foucault and Psychoanalysis

    by Dr Irena Rosenthal ...
    Series series European Academy of Legal Theory Series
    This book investigates the relationship between liberal democracies and ontology, that is, philosophical claims about the constitution of agents and the social world. Many philosophers argue that ontology needs to be avoided in political and legal philosophy. In fact, political liberalism, a highly influential paradigm founded by the philosopher John Rawls, makes the avoidance of ontology a core ... Read more

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    by S. Trevaskes ...
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    China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party's emphasis was on "kill many," in the 2000s the direction of policy began to move toward "kill fewer." This book details the policies, institutions, and story behind the reform of the death penalty. ... Read more

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