Philosophy of Law Products

Edited by Chris Surprenant

One of the most important problems faced by the United States is addressing its broken criminal justice system. This collection of essays offers a thorough examination of incarceration as a form of punishment. In addition to focusing on the philosophical aspects related to punishment, the…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Rik Peels

This edited collection focuses on the moral and social dimensions of ignorance—an undertheorized category in analytic philosophy. Contributors address such issues as the relation between ignorance and deception, ignorance as a moral excuse, ignorance as a legal excuse, and the relation between…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Tom Campbell, Kylie Bourne

This collection explores and illustrates issues arising from ‘political’ approaches to human rights in contrast to the more traditional ‘moral’ approaches. Moral approaches conceptualize and justify human rights in terms of priority rights which are both universal and moral. In contrast, political…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Stephen Riley

This book argues that human dignity and law stand in a privileged relationship with one another.  Law must be understood as limited by the demands made by human dignity.  Conversely, human dignity cannot be properly understood without clarifying its interaction with legal institutions and…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Stephen Kershnar

This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. These issues are important because major religious branches (for example, Catholicism and some large branches of Evangelicalism) and leading politicians assert, or are committed to, the following: (a) it…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Daniel Matthews, Scott Veitch

Against an ever-expanding and diversifying ‘rights talk’, this book re-opens the question of obligation from not only legal but also ethical, sociological and political perspectives. Its premise is that obligation has a primacy ahead of rights, because rights attach to practices and modes of being…

Paperback – 2020-01-07 
Routledge
Critical Studies in Jurisprudence

Edited by Jamie Murray, Thomas Webb, Steven Wheatley

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law. Complexity theory – a variant of systems theory – views law as an emergent, complex, self-organising system comprised of an interactive network of actors and systems that operate with no…

Paperback – 2020-01-14 
Routledge
Law, Science and Society

By Sandro Chignola

Oriented around the theme of a ‘politics of philosophy’, this book tracks the phases in which Foucault’s genealogy of power, law, and subjectivity was reorganized during the 14 years of his teaching at the College de France, as his focus shifted from sovereignty to governance. This theme, Sandro…

Paperback – 2020-01-14 
Routledge
Law and Politics