Philosophy

This second edition aims to explore and define the emerging component of Juvenile Justice in the United States and the special challenges facing juvenile justice in the 1990s.Bartollas and Miller focus on the control, correction and treatment of both juvenile offenders and delinquents. The book desc... More

A radical reappraisal of the role of myth in modern society. Fitzpatrick uses the example of law, an integral category of modern social thought, to challenge modernity and the denial of the relevance of myth to law in modern society. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more informat... More

This book considers how the post-Cold War democratic revolution has affected international law. Traditionally, international law said little about the way in which governments were chosen. In the 1990s, however, international law has been deployed to encourage transitions to democracy, and to justif... More

For the last twenty-five years, "Language, Discourse, Society" has been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its titles range across the disciplines from linguistics to biology, from literary criticism to law, combining vigorous scholarship and theoretical analysis at the service o... More

Unlike other works in philosophy of law, which focus on the nature of law in the abstract, this comprehensive anthology presents law as a "process," part and parcel of a system of government and defined constitutional procedures. Using the U.S. legal system as a model, it establishes the basis of la... More

In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel's notion of property and Lacan's idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessi... More

Written by a scholar with extensive research experience, this book applies an original approach to assessing criminal justice policies, based on their impact on errors of justice. The study covers the error of failing to bring offenders to justice as well as the errors of imposing costs on innocent ... More

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"Philosophy of Law: An Introduction" provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law, assuming no prior knowledge of either subject.The book is structured around the key issues and themes in philosophy of law: * What is the law? - the major legal theories including realism, posit... More

"Philosophy of Law: An Introduction" provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law, assuming no prior knowledge of either subject.The book is structured around the key issues and themes in philosophy of law: * What is the law? - the major legal theories including realism, posit... More

This major new book by one of America's preeminent legal theorists is concerned with the conflict between the goals of justice and economic efficiency in the allocation of risk, especially risk pertaining to safety. The author approaches his subject from the premise that the market is central to lib... More

This book examines in some detail how our concepts of an ideal or universal' audience influence legal argument. It shows how asking what are the arguments and the forms of argumentation that we believe would be accepted by such an audience, is a useful analytical tool. The book explores what, if any... More

This timely Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings on the relationship between law and geography. In so doing, it has fostered the creation of an intellectual forum for scholars and students in related disciplines, who have - until now - been working in parallel, rather than in tan... More

Debate about trade and culture has a long history, but the application of WTO rules to cultural products such as films, radio and books remains one of the most divisive issues in the organisation. After assessing the economic and social arguments for treating cultural products differently from thing... More

Institutional and political developments since the end of the Cold War have led to a revival of public interest in, and anxiety about, international law. Liberal international law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. This book brings together... More