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Wild law is a groundbreaking approach to law that stresses human dependence on nature. For the first time, this volume brings together voices from the leading proponents of wild law around the world. It introduces readers to the idea of wild law and considers its relationship to environmental law, the rights of nature, science, religion, property law and international governance.
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David D. Friedman is Professor of Law at the University of Santa Clara School of Law. He holds a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago and is the author of, among other books, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life and The Machinery of Freedom.
What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional...
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Mariana Valverde is Professor at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, where she teaches social and legal theory. She is the author of Diseases of the Will, The Age of Light, Soap, and Water, and Sex, Power, and Pleasure.
If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of case studies showing...
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Este libro expone algunas representaciones tanto visuales como discursivas del grupo guerrillero FARC-EP y su relación de enemistad con el Estado colombiano, a lo largo de más de 50 años de confrontación. Para llevarlo a cabo, el texto plantea, en primer lugar, un marco teórico en el que se expone el concepto de representación en sus distintas acepciones. En segundo lugar, el análisis de imágenes y discursos en el contexto de cinco acontecimientos...
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Steven H. Shiffrin is Professor of Law at Cornell University. He is the author of The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance (paperback available from Princeton) and the coauthor of Constitutional Law: Cases-Comments-Questions and The First Amendment: Cases-Comments-Questions.
Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should...
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Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years. And this same-named volume on his work has become a minor classic in the field, offering the most complete analysis and integration of Dworkin's work to date. This third edition offers a substantial revision of earlier texts and, most importantly, incorporates discussion of Dworkin's recent masterwork Justice for Hedgehogs....
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This substantial work by one of Europe's most respected twentieth-century legal minds unpacks Luther's doctrine of law, showing how it derived from his central theological concern, justification by faith.
"When Johannes Heckel's Lex Charitatis appeared more than half a century ago, it brought new clarity to the much-disputed issue of Luther's understanding of the law and of God's governance of his created order. The Wittenberg reformer's use...
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Alan Hyde is Professor and Sidney Reitman Scholar at the Rutgers University School of Law (Newark).
The most basic assertions about our bodies--that they are ours and distinguish us from each other, that they are private and have boundaries, races, and genders--are all political theories, constructed in legal texts for political purposes. So argues Alan Hyde in this first account of the body in legal thought. Hyde demonstrates that none of the constructions...
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TheRisale-i Nur Collection is full of "general principles," not only related to the Islamic Jurisprudence but also to all the fields of Islam or Islamic life and Islamic branches of knowledge. Based on or specially favored with profound wisdom having its source in the Divine Wisdom or the Divine Name of the All-Wise, the Risale-i Nur Collection contains numerous principles, precepts, or maxims which are standards or brilliant criteria enabling people...
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Martha Minow is Professor of Law at Harvard University. Her books include Partners, Not Rivals, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Not Only for Myself, and Making All the Difference. She recently served on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. Nancy L. Rosenblum is Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of Membership and Morals, editor of Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, and coeditor of Civil...
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Philip Selznick's wide-ranging writings engaged with fundamental questions concerning society, politics, institutions, law, and morals. Never confined by a single discipline or approach, he proved himself a major figure across a range of fields including sociology, organizations and institutions, leadership, political science, sociology of law, political theory, and social philosophy. This volume, the first book-length treatment of Selznick's ideas,...
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Este libro trata algunos de los desafíos que afronta el Estado de Derecho, en especial aquellos relacionados con la corrupción o, más en general, con aquellos comportamientos indebidos por parte de autoridades públicas en el ejercicio de sus cargos.
Isabel Lifante-Vidal es Profesora Titular de Filosofía del Derecho de la Universidad de Alicante desde 2001. Su trayectoria académica se encuentra vinculada fundamentalmente a esta Universidad,...
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Aharon Barak was president of the Supreme Court of Israel until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of Judicial Discretion, The Judge in a Democracy, numerous articles in English-language law journals, and several books in Hebrew. He is the winner of the 2006 Gruber Justice Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. He is the author of Judicial Discretion (Yale), numerous articles in English-language law journals, and several books...
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Our courts, the third branch of the government, are central in the administration of our democracy. But, their operations are shrouded in a mythology with its ritual incantations of "rule of law," "equal justice" and "presumption of innocence"-one that this book pierces.
We have 30,000 judges. Many are hard-working and distinguished jurists; most are simply lawyers who knew a politician. It does not help that the job pays poorly. We have no judicial...
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El ordenamiento jurídico de un Estado tiene componentes legislativos que empiezan con la Constitución y siguen con las leyes y demás normas jurídicas. Igualmente, existe un marco teórico de comprensión y aplicación de todas esas normas.
Este libro, escrito por Marcial Rubio Correa y Elmer Arce, recoge todos los conocimientos esenciales que un abogado debe tener para manejar con competencia profesional estos distintos elementos normativos y...
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Get the Summary of Frederic Bastiat's The Law in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat is a treatise on the principles of justice, property, and individual rights as they relate to the law. Bastiat argues that the law has been corrupted from its original purpose of protecting these rights into a tool for legal plunder, where the law is manipulated to benefit a select few at the expense of...
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George P. Fletcher is Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University. His books include Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships, Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy, With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials, and A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial. He is a frequent commentator in the media on legal affairs.
America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must...
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Esta obra explora y desarrolla los temas iusfilosóficos que subyacen a una concepción argumentativa del Derecho (que el autor presentó hace unos años en su Curso de argumentación jurídica), esto es, cómo entender el Derecho, el conocimiento jurídico, la justicia o la propia filosofía del Derecho. La tesis principal es que el Derecho no consiste exclusivamente en un conjunto de normas, sino que debe verse, sobre todo, como una práctica social...
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Este libro se enfoca en un aspecto controversial y poco explorado de la teoría del razonamiento jurídico de MacCormick: el razonamiento jurídico consecuencialista.
Piero Ríos Carrillo es abogado por la Universidad Católica San Pablo (Arequipa, Perú), en donde obtuvo el reconocimiento a primer puesto de la promoción de egreso 2018-2. Ha sido orador del equipo que quedó en el segundo lugar de la 10ª edición del Moot Madrid (Madrid, España)...
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Marianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous book, The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge, won the J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History.
Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans...
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