Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789903157

This insightful and highly readable Advanced Introduction provides a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of legal reasoning, covering both reasoning from canonical texts and legal decision-making in the absence of rules. Overall, it argues that there are only two methods by which judges decide legal disputes: deductive reasoning from rules and unconstrained moral, practical, and empirical reasoning.

Advanced Introduction to Legal Research Methods

Advanced Introduction to Legal Research Methods
Author: Ernst H. Ballin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788977173

Written by Ernst Hirsch Ballin, this original Advanced Introduction uncovers the foundations of legal research methods, an area of legal scholarship distinctly lacking in standardisation. The author shows how such methods differ along critical, empirical, and fundamental lines, and how our understanding of these is crucial to overcoming crises and restoring trust in the law. Key topics include a consideration of law as a normative language and an examination of the common objects of legal research.

Rethinking Legal Reasoning

Rethinking Legal Reasoning
Author: Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1784712612

‘Rethinking’ legal reasoning seems a bold aim given the large amount of literature devoted to this topic. In this thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Samuel proposes a different way of approaching legal reasoning by examining the topic through the context of legal knowledge (epistemology). What is it to have knowledge of legal reasoning?

Advanced Introduction to Law and Globalisation

Advanced Introduction to Law and Globalisation
Author: Jaakko Husa
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 178811647X

This Advanced Introduction offers a fresh critical analysis of various dimensions of law and globalisation, drawing on historical, normative, theoretical, and linguistic methodologies. Its comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach spans the fields of global legal pluralism, comparative legal studies, and international law.

Advanced Introduction to Law and Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Introduction to Law and Artificial Intelligence
Author: Woodrow Barfield
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789905133

Woodrow Barfield and Ugo Pagallo present a succinct introduction to the legal issues related to the design and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Exploring human rights, constitutional law, data protection, criminal law, tort law, and intellectual property law, they consider the laws of a number of jurisdictions including the US, the European Union, Japan, and China, making reference to case law and statutes.

Advanced Introduction to Law and Psychology

Advanced Introduction to Law and Psychology
Author: Tyler, Tom R.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1839109734

Leading scholar Tom R. Tyler provides a timely and engaging introduction to the field of law and psychology. This Advanced Introduction outlines the main areas of research, their relevance to law and the way that psychological findings have shaped – or failed to shape – the corresponding areas of law. Key features include focus on the relevance of psychological theories to topics in law, emphasis on the institutional realities within which law functions and discussion of the problems of bringing research findings into the legal system.

Advanced Introduction to Law and Development

Advanced Introduction to Law and Development
Author: Mariana M. Prado
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788970896

In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, Mariana Mota Prado and Michael J. Trebilcock offer a succinct and readable introduction to the main concepts and debates in the field of law and development. They examine the role of legal systems and institutions, investigate perceptions around what laws and legal arrangements encourage and facilitate development, and probe the issues arising in both private law and public law as well as in international economic relations. Written with the insight of two top experts in the field, this Advanced Introduction covers the most recent trends in law and development research and highlights areas that remain underexplored.

Advanced Introduction to Law and Renewable Energy

Advanced Introduction to Law and Renewable Energy
Author: Eisen, Joel B.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-07-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789906873

This clear and concise book provides an overview of how laws and policies around the world are designed to support and accelerate the growth of renewable energy. Throughout, Professor Eisen focuses on how national and sub-national governments have responded to the revolutionary transformation of the world’s energy system by developing and implementing support programs for renewable energy.

Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography

Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography
Author: Cox, Kevin R.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789909473

The Advanced Introduction to Marxism and Human Geography explores the fundamental aspects of Marx’s conceptualization of capital and of capitalist development, including value theory, the class relation, accumulation and the development of the capitalist division of labor. Kevin Cox goes beyond simplistic analysis to further engage with key concepts, and how their relationships with one another can illuminate the human geography of the world.

Advanced Introduction to Comparative Legal Methods

Advanced Introduction to Comparative Legal Methods
Author: Monateri, Pier
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2021-10-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789906164

Drawing on historical, normative, theoretical, and economic methodologies, Pier Giuseppe Monateri offers a fresh critical analysis of various dimensions of comparative law methods. Comprehensive and engaging with a multidisciplinary approach, this Advanced Introduction spans the fields of comparative legal studies, law and finance and global law.