Law & criminology

Rhetoric and the Rule of Law (Paperback)

A Theory of Legal Reasoning

Can the arguments of lawyers be rationally persuasive even if logically inconclusive? If not what becomes of the supposed security of living under the rule of law? This book answers these issues by of...
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Law's New Boundaries (Hardback)

The Consequences of Legal Autopoiesis

A collection of papers presented at the workshop "Consequences of the Autopoietic Law Theory", held in Cardiff, March 2000. The papers featured in this book have been edited....
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Rhetoric and The Rule of Law (Hardback)

A Theory of Legal Reasoning

Discusses theories of legal reasoning and provides an overall view of the rhetoric of legal justification. This book shows how and why lawyers arguments can be rationally persuasive even though rarely...
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Positive Law and Objective Values (Hardback)

Presents a defence of legal positivism on the basis of a novel account of social conventions. Andrei Marmor argues that the law is founded on constitutive conventions, and that consequently moral valu...
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Intention in Law and Philosophy (Hardback)

This work is the outcome of a seminar series on intention in law and philosophy conducted at the Law School, Adelaide University in 1999. Topics include: how decision theory illuminates assignments of...
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Conceptual Foundations of Antitrust (Hardback)

This is a comprehensive antitrust book devoted to the philosophical scrutiny of its concepts....
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Conceptual Foundations of Antitrust (Paperback)

This is a comprehensive antitrust book devoted to the philosophical scrutiny of its concepts....
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International Criminal Law and Philosophy (Hardback)

This is the first anthology to bring together legal and philosophical theorists to examine the normative and conceptual foundations of international criminal law....
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Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect (Hardback)

Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide

This book provides a study of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create a separate state in Sri Lanka. It examines the ways in which this war should, in principle, have invoked 'Res...
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