Author: R. H. Helmholz Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674504615 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
Natural-law theory grounds human laws in universal truths of God’s creation. The task of the judicial system was to build an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. R. H. Helmholz shows how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in the West, and concludes that historically it has advanced the cause of justice.
Author: Barry E. Hill Publisher: Environmental Law Institute ISBN: 9781585761241 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 500
Book Description
Environmental risks and harms affect certain geographic areas and populations more than others. The environmental justice movement is aimed at having the public and private sectors address this disproportionate burden of risk and exposure to pollution in minority and/or low-income communities, and for those communities to be engaged in the decision-making processes. Environmental Justice provides an overview of this defining problem and explores the growth of the environmental justice movement. It analyzes the complex mixture of environmental laws and civil rights legal theories adopted in environmental justice litigation. Teachers will have online access to the more than 100 page Teachers Manual.
Author: International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Canadian Section Publisher: Edmonton, Alta. : Academic Printers & Publishing ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 408
Author: Marett Leiboff Publisher: Lawbook Company ISBN: 9780455226064 Category : Jurisprudence Languages : en Pages : 587
Book Description
So what does legal theory have to do with life, the universe, and everything -- including the everyday practices of the law? LEGAL THEORIES: CONTEXTS AND PRACTICES shows how the seemingly remote world of legal theory, philosophy and jurisprudence is actually used in the day-to-day experience of law in all its forms. The book considers how basic legal concepts, such as tort and contract law, are grounded in social and political theory, and how the different legal outcomes will result from the use of theories of varying types and dimensions. This new book reinforces Marett Leiboff and Mark Thomas' reputation as innovators and popularises of legal theory as an active practice of law. Drawing on the historical, legal and social conditions in which various legal theories emerged, this book examines how they influenced and continue to influence the practices of law. Diagrams, illustrations, tables, charts and now photographs are used to explain and uncover the ideas behind legal theory and its uses in practice, and an historical and contextual timeline tracks the contexts and practices of the theories across generations. In doing so, LEGAL THEORIES: CONTEXTS AND PRACTICES provides a new and original exploration of legal theory and its relationship with society and practice. Leiboff and Thomas tell legal theory as a story, through a dispute in 17th century England between a king and a judge. Their explorations of legal theory encompass real, decided case law -- and Monty Python, Harry Potter and stories and ideas drawn from popular culture, psychology, and contemporary life. This book makes for an entertaining, lively, and engaging read, despite its serious purpose. LEGAL THEORIES: CONTEXTS AND PRACTICES is highly suitable for anyone engaging in legal theory, legal philosophy, and jurisprudence -- it is invaluable reading for scholars and practitioners alike.
Author: Hanoch Dagan Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1788971620 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 520
Book Description
This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary private law theory. Featuring original contributions by leading experts in the field, its extensive examinations of the core areas of contracts, property and torts are complemented by an exploration of a breadth of topics that cross the divide between private and public law, including labor law and corporate law.
Author: William H. Simon Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674043669 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Should a lawyer keep a client's secret even when disclosure would exculpate a person wrongly accused of crime? The Practice of Justice is a fresh look at this and other traditional questions about the ethics of lawyering.
Author: MaksymilianDel Mar Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351560492 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 484
Book Description
The third in a series of three volumes on Contemporary Legal Theory, this volume deals with four topics: 1) the role of legal theory in the legal curriculum; 2) the teaching of legal theory; 3) the relationship of legal theory to legal scholarship; and 4) the relationship of legal theory to comparative law. The focus of the first two topics is on the common law world, where the debates over the aims and proper place of legal theory in the study of law have traversed a good deal of ground since John Austin's 1828 lecture, 'The Uses and the Study of Jurisprudence.' These first two parts offer a selection of the most important papers, including surveys, as well as pedagogical viewpoints and particular course descriptions from analytical, critical, feminist, law-and-literature and global perspectives. The last three decades have seen just as many changes for legal scholarship and comparative law. These changes (such as the rise of empirical legal scholarship) have often attracted the attention of legal theorists. Within comparative law, the last thirty years have witnessed intense methodological reflection within the discipline; the results of these reflections are themselves properly recognised as legal theoretical contributions. The volume collects the key papers, including those by Neil MacCormick, Mark Van Hoecke, Andrew Halpin, William Ewald and Geoffrey Samuel.
Author: Michael Giudice Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351542621 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 559
Book Description
The last decade has witnessed a particularly intensive debate over methodological issues in legal theory. The publication of Julie Dickson's Evaluation and Legal Theory (2001) was significant, as were collective returns to H.L.A. Hart's 'Postscript' to The Concept of Law. While influential articles have been written in disparate journals, no single collection of the most important papers exists. This volume - the first in a three volume series - aims not only to fill that gap but also propose a systematic agenda for future work. The editors have selected articles written by leading legal theorists, including, among others, Leslie Green, Brian Leiter, Joseph Raz, Ronald Dworkin, and William Twining, and organized under four broad categories: 1) problems and purposes of legal theory; 2) the role of epistemology and semantics in theorising about the nature of law; 3) the relation between morality and legal theory; and 4) the scope of phenomena a general jurisprudence ought to address.
Author: R. H. Helmholz
Author: Barry E. Hill
Author: International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Canadian Section
Author: Henry Rottschaefer
Author: Marett Leiboff
Author: Hanoch Dagan
Author: William H. Simon
Author: David A. Frenkel
Author: MaksymilianDel Mar
Author: Michael Giudice