The Methodology and Practice of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Author: Nigel Stobbs
Publisher:
Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9781531008208
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International Law and the Politics of History
Author: Anne Orford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1108480942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.
Just Algorithms
Author: Christopher Slobogin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-29
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1108996809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStatistically-derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants, have been lambasted as racist, de-humanizing, and antithetical to the foundational tenets of criminal justice. Just Algorithms argues that these attacks are misguided and that, properly regulated, risk assessment tools can be a crucial means of safely and humanely dismantling our massive jail and prison complex. The book explains how risk algorithms work, the types of legal questions they should answer, and the criteria for judging whether they do so in a way that minimizes bias and respects human dignity. It also shows how risk assessment instruments can provide leverage for curtailing draconian prison sentences and the plea-bargaining system that produces them. The ultimate goal of Christopher Slobogin's insightful analysis is to develop the principles that should govern, in both the pretrial and sentencing settings, the criminal justice system's consideration of risk.
The Continuity of Legal Systems in Theory and Practice
Author: Benjamin Spagnolo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1849468850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Continuity of Legal Systems in Theory and Practice examines a persistent and fascinating question about the continuity of legal systems: when is a legal system existing at one time the same legal system that exists at another time? The book's distinctive approach to this question is to combine abstract critical analysis of two of the most developed theories of legal systems, those of Hans Kelsen and Joseph Raz, with an evaluation of their capacity, in practice, to explain the facts, attitudes and normative standards for which they purport to account. That evaluation is undertaken by reference to Australian constitutional law and history, whose diverse and complex phenomena make it particularly apt for evaluating the theories' explanatory power. In testing whether the depiction of Australian law presented by each theory achieves an adequate 'fit' with historical facts, the book also contributes to the understanding of Australian law and legal systems between 1788 and 2001. By collating the relevant Australian materials systematically for the first time, it presents the case for reconceptualising the role of Imperial laws and institutions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and clarifies the interrelationship between Colonial, State, Commonwealth and Imperial legal systems, both before and after Federation.
Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
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Legal Skills
Author: Emily Finch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 0198831277
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Legal Skills' encompasses all the academic and practical legal skills vital to a law degree in one manageable volume. It is an ideal text for the first year law student and a valuable resource for those studying law at any level.
A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society
Author: Brian Z. Tamanaha
Publisher: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780199244669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw is generally understood to be a mirror of society that functions to maintain social order. Focusing on this general understanding, this text conducts a survey of Western legal and social theories about law and its relationship within society.
Naturalizing Jurisprudence
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199206490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrian Leiter is widely recognized as the leading philosophical interpreter of the jurisprudence of American Legal Realism, as well as the most influential proponent of the relevance of the naturalistic turn in philosophy to the problems of legal philosophy. This volume collects newly revisedversions of ten of his best-known essays, which set out his reinterpretation of the Legal Realists as prescient philosophical naturalists; critically engage with jurisprudential responses to Legal Realism, from legal positivism to Critical Legal Studies; connect the Realist program to themethodology debate in contemporary jurisprudence; and explore the general implications of a naturalistic world view for problems about the objectivity of law and morality. Leiter has supplied a lengthy new introductory essay, as well as postscripts to several of the essays, in which he responds tochallenges to his interpretive and philosophical claims by academic lawyers and philosophers.This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in jurisprudence, as well as for philosophers concerned with the consequences of naturalism in moral and legal philosophy.
Jurisprudence
Author: Brian Bix
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A broad overview of the main topics and central issues in legal theory, Jurisprudence provides students with an informative introduction. Academically challenging and often controversial ideas are pre"
Patterns of American Jurisprudence
Author: Neil Duxbury
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique study offers a comprehensive analysis of American jurisprudence from its emergence in the later stages of the nineteenth century through to the present day. The author argues that it is a mistake to view American jurisprudence as a collection of movements and schools which have emerged in opposition to each other. By offering a highly original analysis of legal formalism, legal realism, policy science, process jurisprudence, law and economics, and critical legal studies, he demonstrates that American jurisprudence has evolved as a collection of themes which reflects broader American intellectual and cultural concerns.
