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  • The Concept of Law

    by Prof HLA Hart ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time. In this third edition, Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Causation in the Law

    by H. L. A. Hart, Tony Honoré ...
    An updated and extended second edition supporting the findings of its well-known predecessor which claimed that courts employ common-sense notions of causation in determining legal responsibility. ... Read more

    $84.79 CAD

  • Punishment and Responsibility

    Essays in the Philosophy of Law

    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

    $51.19 CAD

  • Essays on Bentham

    Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy

    by H. L. A. Hart ...
    In his introduction Professor Hart offers both an exposition and a critical assesment of some central issues in jurisprudence and political theory. Essay themes include Bentham's identification of the forms of mistification protecting the law from criticism, his relation to Beccaria and his conversion to democratic radicalism. ... Read more

    $67.19 CAD

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  • Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, now with a new and up-to-date foreword. Its clarity of explanation and argument make ... Read more

    $76.79 CAD

  • Institutions of Law

    An EsSay in Legal Theory

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Law, State, and Practical Reason
    Institutions of Law offers an original account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world. It provides the definitive statement of Sir Neil MacCormick's well-known 'institutional theory of law', defining law as 'institutional normative order' and explaining each of these three terms in depth. It attempts to fulfil the need for a twenty-first century introduction to legal ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Philosophy of Law

    An Introduction

    by Mark Tebbit ...
    Philosophy of Law: An Introduction provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law. Setting it clearly against the historical background, Mark Tebbit quickly leads readers into the heart of the philosophical questions that dominate philosophy of law today. He provides an exceptionally wide-ranging overview of the contending theories that have sought to resolve these problems. ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Law as a Leap of Faith

    Essays on Law in General

    by Prof 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

    $45.59 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Punishment

    by Anthony Ellis ...
    Series Book 20 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    The series, St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Life originates in the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews and is under the general editorship of John Haldane. The series includes monographs, collections of essays and occasional anthologies of source material representing study in those areas of philosophy most relevant to topics of public importance, ... Read more

    $21.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Constitutional State

    by Dr Nick Barber ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    The Constitutional State provides an original analytical account of the state and its associated constitutional phenomena. It presents the state as a form of social group, consisting of people, territory and institutions bound together by rules. The institutions of the state make a distinctive and characteristic claim over the people of the state, who, in turn, have a distinctive and ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Reason, Morality, and Law

    The Philosophy of John Finnis

    Edited by Robert P. George, John Keown DCL ...
    John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical reasoning and moral choosing that addresses the great questions of the rational foundations of ethical judgments, the identification of moral norms, human agency, and the freedom of the will, personal identity, the common good, the role and ... Read more

    $56.79 CAD

  • Precedents, Statutes, and Analysis of Legal Concepts

    Interpretation

    Edited by Scott Brewer ...
    Series series Philosophy of Legal Reasoning: A Collection of Essays by Philosophers and Legal Scholars
    At least since plato and Aristotle, thinkers have pondered the relationship between philosophical arguments and the "sophistical" arguments offered by the Sophists -- who were the first professional lawyers. Judges wield substantial political power, and the justifications they offer for their decisions are a vital means by which citizens can assess the legitimacy of how that power is exercised. ... Read more

    $322.92 CAD