Law: Jurisprudence & General Issues

By David Kelly

Slapper and Kelly’s The English Legal System explains and critically assesses how our law is made and applied. Trusted by generations of academics and students, this authoritative textbook clearly describes the legal rules of England and Wales and their collective influence as a sociocultural…

Paperback – 2020-04-22 
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By Patrick Emery Longan, Daisy Hurst Floyd, Timothy W. Floyd

Becoming a lawyer is about much more than acquiring knowledge and technique. As law students learn the law and acquire some basic skills, they are also inevitably forming a deep sense of themselves in their new roles as lawyers. That sense of self – the student’s nascent professional identity…

Paperback – 2019-10-16
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Edited by Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Victor V Ramraj, Arun K Thiruvengadam, Supriya Routh

This volume introduces and collects some of the leading articles on noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen’s contributions to law and jurisprudence. While Sen has not contributed explicitly to the discipline of law, his scholarship has inspired significant investigations of core…

Hardback – 2019-10-08
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Philosophers and Law

By Sam S. Souryal, John T. Whitehead

Introducing the fundamentals of ethical theory, Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth, Seventh Edition, exposes the reader to the ways and means of making moral judgments by exploring the teachings of the great philosophers, sources of criminal justice ethics, and…

Paperback – 2019-10-01
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By James Bernard Murphy

Edited by Richard O. Brooks

St. Augustine and Roman law are the two bridges from Athens and Jerusalem to the world of modern law. Augustine's almost eerily modern political realism was based upon his deep appreciation of human evil, arising from his insights into the human personality, the product of his reflections on his…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
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Philosophers and Law

By Martin P. Golding

This book is a selection of articles and chapters published over Martin Golding's academic career. Golding's approach to the philosophy of law is that it contains conceptual and normative issues and in this volume logical issues in legal reasoning are examined, and various theories of law are…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
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Collected Essays in Law

By Paul Cliteur, Afshin Ellian

A New Introduction to Jurisprudence takes one of the central problems of law and jurisprudence as its point of departure: what is the law? Adopting an intermediate position between legal positivism and natural law, this book reflects on the concept of ‘liberal democracy’ or ‘constitutional…

Paperback – 2019-04-01
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By Barbara Stark, Jacqueline Heaton

Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law in once unimaginable ways. Families have been torn apart and new families have been created. Borders have become more porous, allowing adoptees and mail order brides…

Hardback – 2019-02-12
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Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean

Genetics and Gene Therapy shows the wide range of the debate and the very real significance that genetics and its associated developments have for human beings, individually and collectively. Few areas of science and medicine have resulted in the volume of academic and popular literature as has…

Paperback – 2018-08-23
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The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law

Edited by Theo Gavrielides

This up-to-date resource on restorative justice theory and practice is the literature’s most comprehensive and authoritative review of original research in new and contested areas. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions, disciplines and legal traditions, this edited…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
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By Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Marco Goldoni

Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses. The book is presented in three parts: the first two contain general themes with corresponding tutorial questions, and the third contains advanced…

Paperback – 2018-06-07
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By Rafael Domingo

Roman Law: An Introduction offers a clear and accessible introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition. In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian’s massive Codification, the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system…

Paperback – 2018-04-18
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