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“prof john gardner”

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  • 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

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  • The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine

    by James Gordley ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    This book traces the influence of philosophical ideas on the development of contract law from the post-Roman period through to the nineteenth century, focusing upon the synthesis of Roman law and the moral philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Although primarily a study of the late scholastics this is a book about the history of ideas, and as such will be of great interest to legal ... Read more

    $76.79 CAD

  • The Fragility of Law

    Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

    by David Fraser ...
    The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • The Legacy of John Austin's Jurisprudence

    Edited by Michael Freeman, Patricia Mindus ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This is the first ever collected volume on John Austin, whose role in the founding of analytical jurisprudence is unquestionable. After 150 years, time has come to assess his legacy. The book fills a void in existing literature, by letting top scholars with diverse outlooks flesh out and discuss Austin’s legacy today. A nuanced, vibrant, and richly diverse picture of both his legal and ethical ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Althusser and Law

    Edited by Laurent de Sutter ...
    Series series Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers
    Althusser and Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser’s philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser’s philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained consideration of his conception of law more necessary than ever. As a form of what Althusser called ‘Ideological State ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Overcriminalization

    The Limits of the Criminal Law

    by Douglas Husak ...
    The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment. Husak describes the phenomena in some detail and explores their relation, and why these trends produce massive injustice. His primary goal is to defend a set of constraints that limit the authority of states to enact and enforce penal offenses. The book urges the weight and relevance of this topic in the real world ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Legal Knowledge and Analogy

    Fragments of Legal Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Linguistics

    Edited by P.J. Nerhot ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    3 of law as an object that has always already been there, systematic and com plete. Quite the contrary. Some, indeed practically all of us, reject this sort of epistemology of law, and where the hypothesis of the coherence of the legal universe is put forward, this is in order to define it in very noticeably different terms from those traditionally used in legal scholarly accounts. If this ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • International Drug Control into the 21st Century

    Edited by Hamid Ghodse ...
    Providing a comprehensive analysis of drug misuse, dependence and the ways in which different parts of the world have responded to these problems, this volume examines aspects of the contemporary drug problem, the related debate and the way in which society is responding to it. Various controversial issues are covered, taking into account the way in which pressure groups would like to see changes ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory

    On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics

    Edited by Jesús Conill, Christoph Luetge, Tatjana Schonwalder-Kuntze ...
    Series series Law, Ethics and Economics
    This study provides a representation of the broad spectrum of theoretical work on topics related to business ethics, with a particular focus on corporate citizenship. It considers relations of business and society alongside social responsibility and moves on to examine the historical and systemic foundations of business ethics, focusing on the concepts of social and ethical responsibilities. The ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Legal Certainty in Multilingual EU Law

    Language, Discourse and Reasoning at the European Court of Justice

    by Elina Paunio ...
    Series series Law, Language and Communication
    How can multilingualism and legal certainty be reconciled in EU law? Despite the importance of multilingualism for the European project, it has attracted only limited attention from legal scholars. This book provides a valuable contribution to this otherwise neglected area. Whilst firmly situated within the field of EU law, the book also employs theories developed in linguistics and translation ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Reappraisals in the Law of Property

    by John V. Orth ...
    Series series Law, Property and Society
    Some of the most basic doctrines of property law are very old, many dating to the medieval era. How can legal rules that were born so long ago remain viable today? In Reappraisals in the Law of Property, author John V. Orth considers various topics in order to discover the forces that have been made and are continuing to remake these areas of the law. Orth proposes three forces in particular that ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Overcoming Violence Against Women

    Edited by Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar ...
    Law is a multi-dimensional aspect of modern society that constantly shifts and changes over time. In recent years, the practice of therapeutic jurisprudence has increased significantly as a valuable discipline. Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Overcoming Violence Against Women is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly research on the strategic role of jurisprudential practices to ... Read more

    $244.79 CAD