Philosophy of Law Products

Edited by Péter Cserne, Magdalena Małecka

Law and Economics is an established field of research and arguably one of the few examples of a successful interdisciplinary project. This book explores whether, or to what extent, that interdisciplinarity has indeed been a success. It provides insights on the foundations and methods, achievements…

Hardback – 2019-09-05
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The Economics of Legal Relationships

By Massimo De Carolis

This book addresses how the erosion of traditional forms of political association and legal regulation has given rise to a pluralism of "imperfect communities" constantly exposed to the risk of dissolution. These are niches and micro-worlds that are connected through precarious and ambivalent ties.…

Paperback – 2019-09-05
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Law and Politics

By Lanxin Xiang

Xiang explains the nature and depth of the legitimacy crisis facing the government of China, and why it is so frequently misunderstood in the West. Arguing that it is more helpful to understand the quest for legitimacy in China as an eternally dynamic process, rather than to seek resolutions in…

Hardback – 2019-09-05
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Routledge Studies on Asia in the World

By Marett Leiboff

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility. Confronting a Baconian antitheatrical legality embedded in its jurisprudences and interpretative practices, Marett Leiboff turns to…

Hardback – 2019-08-23
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Space, Materiality and the Normative

By Kim Treiger-Bar-Am

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone. It explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive freedom. At heart, freedom is inextricably linked to the obligation to respect the autonomy and dignity…

Hardback – 2019-08-22
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By M. Seliger

Originally published in 1968. This book presents the synthesis of a coherent view of the Lockeian argument from his various works. This tests the inner consistency of Locke’s political theory against his own examples from history. The layers of Locke’s argumentation are analysed on metaphysics in…

Hardback – 2019-08-12
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Routledge Library Editions: 17th Century Philosophy

Edited by Brian W. Nail, Jeffrey A. Ellsworth

This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice as a crucial nexus for theorizing the dynamics of creation, destruction, transcendence, and violence within the philosophical and legal discourse of western society. At a time of populist political unrest, what philosophical and…

Hardback – 2019-08-07
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By Julia J.A. Shaw

Engaging with the underlying social context in which emotions are a motivational force, Law and the Passions provides a uniquely inclusive commentary on the significance and influence of emotions in the history and continuing development of legal judgment, policy formation, legal practice and legal…

Hardback – 2019-07-25
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Edited by Luigi Corrias, Lyana Francot

In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the…

Paperback – 2019-07-25
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Law and Politics

Edited by Tim Dare, Christine Swanton

Although our moral lives would be unrecognisable without them, roles have received little attention from analytic moral philosophers. Roles are central to our lives and to our engagement with one another, and should be analysed in connection with our core notions of ethics such as virtue, reason,…

Hardback – 2019-07-18
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Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

By Karla M. O'Regan

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasive understanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy – but has it? Beginning with an overview of consent’s role in law today, this book investigates the doctrine’s inseparable association with personal autonomy…

Hardback – 2019-07-16
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By Robert J. Hartman

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become more blameworthy by luck. For example, two reckless drivers manage their vehicles in the same way, and one but not the…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
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Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory