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Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

Paperback. Presents an overview of the English legal system. This work provides the groundwork for an understanding of legal institutions, processes and materials, and places the study of law within a framework of inquiry focusing on the evaluation and explanation of legal decision making at various levels. It examines the civil justice system after Woolf. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
4th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780421960602
ISBN
9780421960602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.34

Paperback. Understanding Criminal Justice addresses the fundamental relationship between law and the criminal justice system, and the ways in which both are intimately connected with wider social forces. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKV; LAB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 173 x 241 x 13. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761940326
ISBN
9780761940326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 109.70

Paperback. A critique of the Law & Economics movement, this book draws connections between conceptions of science and efforts at legitimating American legal theory as an objective enterprise. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCA; LAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339984
ISBN
9780822339984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Editor(s): Behme, Thomas. Translator(s): Oldfather, William Abbott. Num Pages: 425 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
425
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865976207
ISBN
9780865976207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.73

Paperback. This new translation offers fidelity to the Latin in a readable version that will prove useful to students of the natural law tradition in ethics, political theory, and jurisprudence, as well as to students of the Western intellectual tradition. Translator(s): Regan, Richard J., S.J. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: LAB; LAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 6. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
102
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872205482
ISBN
9780872205482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.17

Hardback. "The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860" (1977) disclosed the many ways that judge-made law favored commercial and property interests and remade law to promote economic growth. This title focuses on ideas that reshaped law as we struggled for objective and neutral legal responses to our country's crises. Editor(s): Hamilton, Daniel W.; Brophy, Alfred L. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHC; LAB; LNCB; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1080.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
598
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9780674053274
ISBN
9780674053274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.46

The law of torts is concerned with the obligations that are created by the infringement of rights. This work seeks to show that this apparently simple proposition provides the groundwork for a new theoretical model for conceiving the law of torts, and a new way of understanding the subject. Num Pages: 404 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; JPVH; LAB; LAM; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 779.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199211609
ISBN
9780199211609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 217.61

Hardcover. The book provides an account of the uncertainty problem that arises in tort litigation. It examines the existing doctrinal solutions of the problem, as evolved in England, the US, Canada, and Israel, and also offers a number of original solutions. The book combines the traditional doctrinal depiction of the law with general theoretical insights. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; LAB; LAM; LNAC3; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198267973
ISBN
9780198267973
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 256.60

Paperback. Revising and extending the arguments he put forth in "Spheres of Justice", the author frames his ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of the new political world that has arisen in the past decade. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; J; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268018979
ISBN
9780268018979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. The Street Politics of Abortion uses three Supreme Court cases to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front anti-abortion protests in the 1980s and 1990s, and illustrates how these conflicts influenced the contemporary form of reproductive politics and the greater New Christian Right. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JPVH4; LA; MBNH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785341
ISBN
9780804785341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. The Street Politics of Abortion uses three Supreme Court cases to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front anti-abortion protests in the 1980s and 1990s, and illustrates how these conflicts influenced the contemporary form of reproductive politics and the greater New Christian Right. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JFMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785334
ISBN
9780804785334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.11

Hardback. This volume explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawence; Umphrey, Martha. Series: The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804782593
ISBN
9780804782593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardback. This collection of essays demonstrates that the death of democracy and the rise of fascism during the first half of the 20th century suggest crucial lessons for contemporary political and legal scholars. It includes writings on constitutionalism, political freedom, and both Nazi and liberal law. Editor(s): Scheuerman, William E. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JPA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520203792
ISBN
9780520203792
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.01
€ 49.47

Paperback. The idea of 'The Rule of Law' as the foundation of modern states and civilisations is more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? This book examines what the idea actually means. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141034539
ISBN
9780141034539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Hardback. Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. 368 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPS; JPA; LAB. Dimension: 235 x 170 x 27. Weight: 614. Translator(s): Flynn, Jeffrey.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231147088
ISBN
9780231147088
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.62
€ 80.25

Paperback. Seeks to restore the jurisprudence of the late Justice of the Supreme Court George Sutherland - a jurisprudence anchored in the understanding of natural rights. He is remembered as one of the "four horsemen" who resisted Roosevelt and the New Deal; but we have forgotten his leadership in the cause of voting rights for women. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPVH; LAB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691016283
ISBN
9780691016283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.95

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
396
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872204324
ISBN
9780872204324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.21

Paperback. The philosophy of law has long been dominated by two rival doctrines, one stating that law is far more than politics, and the other claiming that it is purely politics, with judges wielding arbitrary powers. Posner rejects these as either too metaphysical or nihilistic, and argues for pragmatism. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674708761
ISBN
9780674708761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Paperback. Mr. Friedrich develops his own position within the framework of the history of Western legal philosophy from the Old Testament down to contemporary writers. In addition, he highlights some important problems of the present day, including certain aspects of legal realism. First published in 1958, this book has been revised and enlarged. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446. Very good copy with minor shelf wear. Previous owners name on FFEP. Cover has light shelf wear, remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0008269
ISBN
9780226264660
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Demonstrates that the weaknesses of international rule of law confound legalist ambitions - and that whatever their professed commitments, all nations stand ready to dispense with international agreements when it suits their short- or long-term interests. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: LAB; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226675756
ISBN
9780226675756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.27

Paperback. An anthology to treat the role that emotions play, don't play, and ought to play in the practice and conception of law and justice. It contributes to the efforts to humanize law and reveals how this previously unacknowledged aspect of decision-making exerts a much greater impact on justice and the practice of law than most tend, or like, to think. Editor(s): Bandes, Susan. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JM; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814713068
ISBN
9780814713068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.10

Hardcover. Num Pages: 316 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPC; JPA; LAB; LAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Edition
y First edition thus
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865971608
ISBN
9780865971608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.88

Paperback. Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's "Commentaries" on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. This work examines why "Commentaries" became the knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire. Num Pages: 274 pages, 9 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 2AB; DSBD; LAB; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064987
ISBN
9780226064987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Series: The Storrs Lectures. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300010701
ISBN
9780300010701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.87

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