Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy

Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy
Author: Ruth Gavison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Papers from a conference held in Jerusalem in March 1984.

Philosophy of Law

Philosophy of Law
Author: Andrei Marmor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014-12-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0691163960

In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law—an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Marmor argues that the myriad questions raised by the factual and normative features of law actually depend on the possibility of reduction—whether the legal domain can be explained in terms of something else, more foundational in nature. In addition to exploring the major issues in contemporary legal thought, Philosophy of Law provides a critical analysis of the people and ideas that have dominated the field in past centuries. It will be essential reading for anyone curious about the nature of law.

Law and Social Justice

Law and Social Justice
Author: Joseph Keim Campbell
Publisher: Topics in Contemporary Philoso
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Leading scholars consider a variety of philosophical issues in law and social justice, from foundational concepts to specific legal problems.

African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems

African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems
Author: Oche Onazi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9400775377

The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mark on them, a common theme that runs throughout the essays in this book is that African legal theory has been excluded, under-explored or under-theorised in the search for solutions to such contemporary problems. The essays make a modest attempt to reverse this trend. The contributors investigate and introduce readers to the key issues, questions, concepts, impulses and problems that underpin the idea of African legal theory. They outline the potential offered by African legal theory and open up its key concepts and impulses for critical scrutiny. This is done in order to develop a better understanding of the extent to which African legal theory can contribute to discourses seeking to address some of the challenges that confront African and non-African societies alike.

Law and Morality

Law and Morality
Author: David Dyzenhaus
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 1095
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0802094899

Since its first publication in 1996, Law and Morality has filled a long-standing need for a contemporary Canadian textbook in the philosophy of law. Now in its third edition, this anthology has been thoroughly revised and updated, and includes new chapters on equality, judicial review, and terrorism and the rule of law. The volume begins with essays that explore general questions about morality and law, surveying the traditional literature on legal positivism and contemporary debates about the connection between law and morality. These essays explore the tensions between law as a protector of individual liberty and as a tool of democratic self-rule, and introduce debates about adjudication and the contribution of feminist approaches to the philosophy of law. New material on the Chinese Canadian head tax case is also featured. The second part of Law and Morality deals with philosophical questions as they apply to contemporary issues. Excerpts from judicial decisions as well as essays by practicing lawyers are included to provide theoretically informed legal analyses of the issues. Striking a balance between practical and more analytic, philosophical approaches, the volume's treatment of the philosophy of law as a branch of political philosophy enables students to understand law in its function as a social institution. Law and Morality has proved to be an essential text in both departments of philosophy and faculties of law and this latest edition brings the debates fully up to date, filling gaps in the previous editions and adding to the array of contemporary issues previously covered.

Legal Philosophy

Legal Philosophy
Author: Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen
Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9788792130013

Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions is a collection of original contributions from a distinguished score of the world's most prominent and influential legal philosophers. They deal with questions such as what drew them towards the area; how they view their own contribution to the field; and what the future of legal philosophy looks like.

Philosophy of Law

Philosophy of Law
Author: Mark Tebbit
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0415334411

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

The Problems of Jurisprudence

The Problems of Jurisprudence
Author: Richard A. Posner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1990
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780674708761

In this book, Richard A. Posner examines how judges go about making difficult decisions. Posner argues that they cannot rely on either logic or science, but must fall back on a grab bag of informal methods of reasoning that owe less than one might think to legal training and experience. -- Adapted from Amazon.com summary.

Freedom and Force

Freedom and Force
Author: Sari Kisilevsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1782253076

This collection of essays takes as its starting point Arthur Ripstein's Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy, a seminal work on Kant's thinking about law, which also treats many of the contemporary issues of legal and political philosophy. The essays offer readings and elucidations of Ripstein's thought, dispute some of his claims and extend some of his themes within broader philosophical contexts, thus developing the significance of Ripstein's ideas for contemporary legal and political philosophy. All of the essays are contributions to normative philosophy in a broadly Kantian spirit. Prominent themes include rights in the body, the relation between morality and law, the nature of coercion and its role in legal obligation, the role of indeterminacy in law, the nature and justification of political society and the theory of the state. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience, including legal scholars, Kant scholars, and philosophers with an interest in Kant or in legal and political philosophy.