Philosophy of Law

An inventive and stimulating reader for students new to philosophy of law, legal theory and jurisprudence. It covers a wide range of topics, helping the student get to grips with the classic and core arguments and emerging debates in philosophy of law in an accessible and engaging way. ..

An inventive and stimulating reader for students new to philosophy of law, legal theory and jurisprudence. It covers a wide range of topics, helping the student get to grips with the classic and core arguments and emerging debates in philosophy of law in an accessible and engaging way. ..

Should surrogacy be allowed? What guidelines are needed to control in vitro fertilization programmes? Birthrights challenges the ethical basis for the legal regulation of matters surrounding birth...

The appearance of ugly staining early in a buildings life, ruins an otherwise pleasing appearance, tarnishes the image of the owners and gives rise to costly refurbishment works. In this book Phil Parnham raises a number of questions that should be considered whenever a new building is being designe..

With over sixty cases as support, this text presents the philosophy of law as a perpetual series of debates with overlapping lines and cross connections. Using law as a focus to bring into relief many social and political issues of pressing importance in contemporary society, this book encourages re..

Was the serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer an evil man responsible for his murders? Or was he an innocent victim of psychiatric illness? Lawrie Reznek addresses these questions and more in his controve rsial investigation of the insanity defence...

Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. They do not merely sustain an array of feminist styles and theories of reading; revealing,and..

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...

New Critical Legal Thinking articulates a newly-emergent stream of politically engaged contemporary critical legal scholarship...

This volume analyzes various features of the NFIB v. Sebelius decision regarding the Affordable Care Act with contributions from a range of academic disciplines, namely philosophy, law, and political science. Essays are divided into five parts: context and history, analyzing the opinions, individual..

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law..