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  • Philosophical Foundations of Precedent

    Edited by Timothy Endicott, Sebastian Lewis, Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    Philosophical Foundations of Precedent offers a broad, deep, and diverse range of philosophical investigations of the role of precedent in law, adjudication, and morality. The forty chapters present the work of a large and inclusive group of authors which comprises of well-established leaders in the discipline and new voices in legal philosophy. The magnitude of the resulting project is ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

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    by John Rawls ...
    Series series Columbia Classics in Philosophy
    This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Courts and Deliberative Democracy

    by Conrado Hübner Mendes ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of a 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' is usually expressed ... Read more

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  • Thinking Like a Lawyer

    An Introduction to Legal Reasoning

    by Kenneth J. Vandevelde ...
    Law students, law professors, and lawyers frequently refer to the process of "thinking like a lawyer," but attempts to analyze in any systematic way what is meant by that phrase are rare. In his classic book, Kenneth J. Vandevelde defines this elusive phrase and identifies the techniques involved in thinking like a lawyer. Unlike most legal writings, which are plagued by difficult, virtually ... Read more

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  • Exploring Law's Empire

    The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin

    Edited by Scott Hershovitz ...
    Exploring Law's Empire is a collection of essays examining the work of Ronald Dworkin in the philosophy of law and constitutionalism. A group of leading legal theorists develop, defend and critique the major areas of Dworkin's work, including his criticism of legal positivism, his theory of law as integrity, and his work on constitutional theory. The volume concludes with a lengthy response to the ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Between Authority and Interpretation

    On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason

    by Joseph Raz ...
    In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the philosophy of practical reason. The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the nature of jurisprudence ... Read more

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  • A Modern Legal Ethics

    Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age

    by Daniel Markovits ...
    A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally.Daniel Markovits reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify fidelity as its organizing ideal. Unlike ordinary loyalty, fidelity requires lawyers to repress their personal judgments concerning the truth and justice of their clients' claims. Next, the book asks ... Read more

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  • Why Law Matters

    by Alon Harel ...
    Series series Oxford Legal Philosophy
    Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity. In the popular imagination, however, many people seem to value public institutions for their own sake. The idea that political and legal institutions might be intrinsically ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

    Edited by Andrei Marmor, Scott Soames ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from ... Read more

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  • Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System

    by Tara Smith ...
    How should courts interpret the law? While all agree that courts must be objective, people differ sharply over what this demands in practice: fidelity to the text? To the will of the people? To certain moral ideals? In Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System, Tara Smith breaks through the false dichotomies inherent in dominant theories - various forms of originalism, living constitutionalism, ... Read more

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  • Law as a Leap of Faith

    Essays on Law in General

    by John Gardner ...
    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 these systems to have 'constitutions'? Should everyone want to live under a system of law? Is there ... Read more

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  • Interpreting Precedents

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by D. Neil MacCormick, Robert S. Summers, Arthur L. Goodhart ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    This book contains a series of essays discussing the uses of precedent as a source of law and a basis for legal arguments in nine different legal systems, representing a variety of legal traditions. Precedent is fundamental to law, yet theoretical and ideological as well as legal considerations lead to its being differently handled and rationalised in different places. Out of the comparative study ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD