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Approximate Justice: Studies in Non-Ideal Theoryby George SherISBN 0847687546 (0-8476-8754-6)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Approximate Justice: Studies in Non-Ideal Theory'Book summary:In this book, distinguished philosopher George Sher explores the normative moral and social problems that arise from living in a decidedly non-ideal world_a world that contains immorality, evil, and injustice, and in which resources (including knowledge) are often inadequate. Sher confronts difficult issues surrounding preferential treatment and equal opportunity, compensatory justice and punishment, the allocation of goods by lottery, and abortion and moral compromise. In each case, Sher asks not what an ideal society would involve, but how we should deal with failures to live up to individual or social ideals. Challenging current academic orthodoxy, Sher's work is sure to incite discussion among students and scholars alike. Approximate Justice is an engaging and provocative book that will excite anyone with interest in social and political philosophy, justice, and law. [via]
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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracyby Jurgen HabermasISBN 0745620116 (0-7456-2011-6)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy'Book summary:Jurgen Habermas, an esteemed political philosopher who lived in Germany during the Nazi reign, has produced a thought-provoking work on what he calls "deliberative politics." To summarize his view, true democracy isn't just the compilation of opinions or a blanket treatment of majority rules, but a social process in which people meet, discuss, modify and, ultimately, agree. He draws connections between how such a process could shape the making of laws and direct the course of nations. His writings here represent a lifetime of political thought on the nature of democracy and law, and deserve an audience and a place in the foundations of democratic theory. [via]
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Causation in the Lawby Tony Honore, H. L. A. HartISBN 0198254741 (0-19-825474-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Common Lawby Oliver W. HolmesISBN 1404343806 (1-4043-4380-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Common Law'Book summary:Only paperback edition of great legal classic by noted Supreme Court Justice. Lucid, accessible coverage, from a historical perspective, of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, many other aspects of civil and criminal law. Indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, interested general readers.[via]More editions of The Common Law:
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Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Lawby Edward B. McLeanISBN 1882926358 (1-882926-35-8)
Hardcover, Isi Books
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Compensation and Restitution to Victims of Crimeby Stephen SchaferISBN 0875859011 (0-87585-901-1)
Softcover, Patterson Smith
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The Concept of Lawby Herbert Lionel Adolphus HartISBN 0198761236 (0-19-876123-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Concept of Law'Book summary:Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (18 July 1907 - 19 December 1992) was an influential legal philosopher of the 20th century. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. His most famous work is The Concept of Law (1961). [via]
Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critiqueby Andrew AltmanISBN 0691024677 (0-691-02467-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Death Is Different: Studies in the Morality, Law, and Politics of Capital Punishmentby Hugo Adam BedauISBN 1555530087 (1-55553-008-7)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Economic Analysis of Lawby Richard A. PosnerISBN 0735563543 (0-7355-6354-3)
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Equality and Preferential Treatmentby Cohen, Thomas Nagel, Thomas ScanlonISBN 0691019886 (0-691-01988-6)
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishmentsby Beccaria, Cesare, Marchese DiISBN 082831800X (0-8283-1800-X)
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Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitutionby Ronald William DworkinISBN 0674319281 (0-674-31928-1)
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Getting Even: Revenge As a Form of Justiceby Charles K. B. BartonISBN 0812694023 (0-8126-9402-3)
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Harm to Othersby Joel FeinbergISBN 0195046641 (0-19-504664-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Harm to Selfby Joel FeinbergISBN 0195059239 (0-19-505923-9)
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Lifeby Giorgio AgambenISBN 0804732183 (0-8047-3218-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life'Book summary:The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italys most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it.[via]
In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucaults fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotles notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over life is implicit.
The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl Schmitts idea of the sovereigns status as the exception to the rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not sacrificeda paradox he sees as operative in the status of the modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the collective naked life of all individuals.More editions of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life:
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Lawby Marshall L. Derosa, R. PoundISBN 1560009403 (1-56000-940-3)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Lawby R. PoundISBN 1584773278 (1-58477-327-8)
Hardcover, Lawbook Exchange Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law'Book summary:Pound, Roscoe. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922. 307 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002044351. ISBN 1-58477-327-8. Cloth. $70. Pound's Introduction outlines the philosophical foundations that support Anglo-American common law. A written version of the Storrs Lectures delivered at Yale University during the academic year 1921-1922. "Dean Pound has given us a clear, concise introduction to the philosophy of the law. It is so concise that it is impossible to summarize it so as to give any idea of its wealth of learning....An excellent, impartial and concise presentation of the subject..." William Herbert Page, Harvard Law Review 36:115-117 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 922. [via]
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The Lawby Frederic BastiatISBN 1419168878 (1-4191-6887-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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When a reviewer wishes to give special recognition to a book, he predicts that it will still be read ''a hundred years from now.'' The Law, first published as a pamphlet in June of 1850, is already more than a hundred years old. And because its truths are eternal, it will still be read when another century has passed.
The Law is relevant today because the same situation exists in America now as in France of 1848. The same socialist-communist plans and ideas that were adopted in France are now sweeping America, notwithstanding the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. The explanation and arguments then advanced against socialism by Mr. Bastiat are, word for word, equally valid today. His ideas deserve a serious hearing. [via]More editions of The Law:
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The Lawby Claude Fred BastiatISBN 1425026230 (1-4250-2623-0)
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This book is based on the economic situation prevalent in 19th-century France. It is an in-depth analysis of the importance of liberty, law, economics and socialism. According to Bastiat, government redistribution of wealth and resources for equity leads to corruption in society. Hence, in order to provide people with more choices, government role should be minimized. Highly recommended!
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Law After Auschwitz: Towards A Jurisprudence Of The Holocaustby David FraserISBN 0890892431 (0-89089-243-1)
Hardcover, Carolina Academic Pr
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Law's Empireby Ronald DworkinISBN 1841130419 (1-84113-041-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Law's Empire'Book summary:With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles it is grounded. Laws Empire is a full-length presentation of his theory of law that will be studied and debatedby scholars and theorists, by lawyers and judges, by students and political activistsfor years to come.
Dworkin begins with the question that is at the heart of the whole legal system: in difficult cases how do (and how should) judges decide what the law is? He shows that judges must decide hard cases by interpreting rather than simply applying past legal decisions, and he produces a general theory of what interpretation isin literature as well as in lawand of when one interpretation is better than others. Every legal interpretation reflects an underlying theory about the general character of law: Dworkin assesses three such theories. One, which has been very influential, takes the law of a community to be only what the established conventions of that community say it is. Another, currently in vogue, assumes that legal practice is best understood as an instrument of society to achieve its goals. Dworkin argues forcefully and persuasively against both these views: he insists that the most fundamental point of law is not to report consensus or provide efficient means to social goals, but to answer the requirement that a political community act in a coherent and principled manner toward all its members. He discusses, in the light of that view, cases at common law, cases arising under statutes, and great constitutional cases in the Supreme Court, and he systematically demonstrates that his concept of political and legal integrity is the key to Anglo-American legal theory and practice.
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Law, Liberty and Moralityby H. L. HartISBN 0804701547 (0-8047-0154-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Legal Ethicsby Kent D. KauffmanISBN 076684255X (0-7668-4255-X)
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Leviathanby Thomas HobbesISBN 1419169211 (1-4191-6921-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan'Book summary:Hobbes' classic work has set the tone for the course of political philosophy through to our own day. This new Broadview edition includes the full text of the 1651 edition, together with a wide variety of background documents that help set the work in context. Also included are an introduction, explanatory notes, and a chronology. [via]
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Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civilby Thomas Hobbes, Michael Joseph OakeshottISBN 0684842955 (0-684-84295-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil'Book summary:After the publication of his masterpiece of political theory, "Leviathan, Or the Matter, and Power of Commonwealth Ecclesiastic and Civil", in 1651, opponents charged Thomas Hobbes with atheism and banned and burned his books. The English Parliament, in a search for scapegoats, even claimed that the theories found in "Leviathan" were a likely cause of the Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666. For the modern reader, though, Hobbes is more recognized for his popular belief that humanity's natural condition is a state of perpetual war, with life being 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'. Despite frequent challenges by other philosophers, "Leviathan's" secular theory of absolutism no longer stands out as particularly objectionable. In the description of the organization of states, moreover, we see Hobbes as strikingly current in his use of concepts that we still employ today, including the ideas of natural law, natural rights, and the social contract. Based on this work, one could even argue that Hobbes created English-language philosophy, insofar as "Leviathan" was the first great philosophical work written in English and one whose impact continues to the present day. [via]
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Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668by Thomas Hobbes, Edwin CurleyISBN 0872201775 (0-87220-177-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668'Book summary:This new edition of Hobbe's masterpiece is uniquely suited to meet the needs of both student and scholar. It offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin Curley, modernised spelling and punctuation of the text, and a key annotative feature found in no other edition: the inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the most significant variants between the English version of 1651 and the Latin version of 1668. A glossary of seventeenth century English terms and indexes of persons, subjects, and scriptural passages help make this the most thoughtfully conceived edition of Leviathan available. [via]
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Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedomby R. M. DworkinISBN 0679733191 (0-679-73319-1)
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A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Lawby Amy Gutmann, Antonin Scalia, Gordon S. Wood, Laurence H. Tribe, Ronald Dworkin, May Ann GlendonISBN 0691026300 (0-691-02630-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law'Book summary:We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim--"distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to tackle him from the rear, until (bravo!) he reaches the goal--good law." But is this common-law mindset, which is appropriate in its place, suitable also in statutory and constitutional interpretation? In a witty and trenchant essay, Justice Scalia answers this question with a resounding negative.In exploring the neglected art of statutory interpretation, Scalia urges that judges resist the temptation to use legislative intention and legislative history. In his view, it is incompatible with democratic government to allow the meaning of a statute to be determined by what the judges think the lawgivers meant rather than by what the legislature actually promulgated. Eschewing the judicial lawmaking that is the essence of common law, judges should interpret statutes and regulations by focusing on the text itself. Scalia then extends this principle to constitutional law. He proposes that we abandon the notion of an everchanging Constitution and pay attention to the Constitution's original meaning. Although not subscribing to the "strict constructionism" that would prevent applying the Constitution to modern circumstances, Scalia emphatically rejects the idea that judges can properly "smuggle" in new rights or deny old rights by using the Due Process Clause, for instance. In fact, such judicial discretion might lead to the destruction of the Bill of Rights if a majority of the judges ever wished to reach that most undesirable of goals. [via]
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A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Lawby Antonin Scalia, Amy GutmannISBN 0691004005 (0-691-00400-5)
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A Matter of Principleby Ronald DworkinISBN 0674554612 (0-674-55461-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Matter of Principle'Book summary:This is a book about the interplay of urgent political issues and hotly debated questions of moral philosophy. The controversies it joins are old; but history has given them fresh shape. For example, whether judges should and do make law is now of more practical importance than ever before, as recent presidents have appointed enough justices to the Supreme Court to set its character for a generation.
With forceful style, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions about the Anglo-American legal system as protector of individual rights and as machinery for furthering the common good. He discusses whether judges should make political decisions in hard cases; the balancing of individual rights versus the good of the community; whether a person has the right to do what society views as wrong; and the meaning of equality in any framework of social justice. Dworkin strongly opposes the idea that judges should aim at maximizing social wealth. It is his conviction that the area of discretion for judges is severely limited, that in a mature legal system one can always find in existing law a right answer for hard cases.
Dworkin helps us thread our way through many timely issues such as the rights and privileges of the press under the First Amendment. He reviews the Bakke case, which tested affirmative action programs. These essays also examine civil disobedience, especially in nuclear protests, and bring new perspective to the debate over support of the arts.
Above all, this is a book about the interplay between two levels of our political consciousness: practical problems and philosophical theory, matters of urgency and matters of principle. The concluding essay on press freedom expands the discussion of conflict between principle and policy into a warning. Though some defenders of the press blend the two in order to expand freedom of speech, the confusion they create does disservice to their aim and jeopardizes the genuine and fragile right of free speech. We stand in greater danger of compromising that right than of losing the most obvious policy benefits of powerful investigative reporting and should therefore beware the danger to liberty of confusing the two. The caution is general. If we care so little for principle that we dress policy in its colors when this suits our purpose, we cheapen principle and diminish its authority.
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The Metaphysical Elements of Ethicsby Immanuel KantISBN 1419172700 (1-4191-7270-0)
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Metaphysical Elements of Justice: Part One of the Metaphysics of Moralsby Immanuel Kant, John LaddISBN 0872204189 (0-87220-418-9)
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Morality and the Lawby Desmond M. Clarke, Radio Telefis EireannISBN 0853426694 (0-85342-669-4)
Softcover, Published in collaboration with Radio Telefis Eireann by Mercier Press
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The New Pacificby Michael MacIntyreISBN 0002173484 (0-00-217348-4)
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On Crimes and Punishmentsby Cesare Beccaria, Jane Grigson, Marvin WolfgangISBN 1568860307 (1-56886-030-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Crimes and Punishments'Book summary:Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. The equality of every citizen before the law, the right to a fair trial, the abolition of the death penalty, the elimination of the use of torture in criminal interrogationsthese are but a few of the vital arguments articulated by Beccaria.
This volume offers a new English translation of On Crimes and Punishment alongside writings by a number of Beccaria's contemporaries. Of particular interest is Voltaire's commentary on the text, which is included in its entirety. The supplementary materials testify not only to the power and significance of Beccaria's ideas, but to the controversial reception of his book. At the same time that philosophes proclaimed that it contained principles of enduring importance to any society grappling with matters of political and criminal justice, allies of the ancien régime roundly denounced it, fearing that the book's attack on feudal privileges and its call to separate law from religion (and thus crime from sin) would undermine their longstanding privileges and powers.
Long appreciated as a foundational text in criminology, Beccaria's arguments have become central in debates over capital punishment. This new edition presents Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments as an important and influential work of Enlightenment political theory.
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The Passions of Lawby Susan A. BandesISBN 081471305X (0-8147-1305-X)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr
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Paternalismby Rolf SartoriusISBN 0816611726 (0-8166-1172-6)
Hardcover, University of Minnesota Press
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Philosophy of Lawby Joel Feinberg, Jules ColemanISBN 0495095052 (0-495-09505-2)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy of Law'Book summary:This leading anthology contains legal cases and essays written by the best scholars in legal philosophy, representing all major points of view on central topics in philosophy of law. This classic text is distinguished by its clarity, readability, balance of topics, balance of substantive positions on controversial questions, topical relevance, imaginative use of cases and stories, and the inclusion of only lightly-edited or untouched classics. This revision is marked by inclusion of many articles relevant to womenUs issues and a greater emphasis on concrete legal problems. [via]
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Hardcover, Thomson Learning - Philosophy of Law: ISBN 0534524974 (0-534-52497-4)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning - Philosophy of Law: ISBN 0534584683 (0-534-58468-3)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning - Philosophy of Law: ISBN 0822101505 (0-8221-0150-5)
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Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspectiveby FriedrichISBN 0226264661 (0-226-26466-1)
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Philosophy of Rightby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, S. W. DydeISBN 157392105X (1-57392-105-X)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truthby Pamela BrandweinISBN 0822323168 (0-8223-2316-8)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Responsibility and Punishmentby J. Angelo CorlettISBN 0792371674 (0-7923-7167-4)
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Right and Wrongby Charles FriedISBN 0674769759 (0-674-76975-9)
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Rights, Restitution, and Risk: Essays in Moral Theoryby Judith Jarvis Thomson, William ParentISBN 0674769813 (0-674-76981-3)
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The Rule of Lawby Ian ShapiroISBN 0814780245 (0-8147-8024-5)
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Taking Rights Seriouslyby R. M. DworkinISBN 0674867114 (0-674-86711-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taking Rights Seriously'Book summary:What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally free to disobey?
A renowned philosopher enters the debate surrounding these questions. Clearly and forcefully, Ronald Dworkin argues against the ruling theory in Anglo-American lawlegal positivism and economic utilitarianismand asserts that individuals have legal rights beyond those explicitly laid down and that they have political and moral rights against the state that are prior to the welfare of the majority.
Mr. Dworkin criticizes in detail the legal positivists theory of legal rights, particularly H.L.A. Harts well-known version of it. He then develops a new theory of adjudication, and applies it to the central and politically important issue of cases in which the Supreme Court interprets and applies the Constitution. Through an analysis of John Rawlss theory of justice, he argues that fundamental among political rights is the right of each individual to the equal respect and concern of those who govern him. He offers a theory of compliance with the law designed not simply to answer theoretical questions about civil disobedience, but to function as a guide for citizens and officials. Finally, Professor Dworkin considers the right to liberty, often thought to rival and even pre-empt the fundamental right to equality. He argues that distinct individual liberties do exist, but that they derive, not from some abstract right to liberty as such, but from the right to equal concern and respect itself. He thus denies that liberty and equality are conflicting ideals.
Ronald Dworkins theory of law and the moral conception of individual rights that underlies it have already made him one of the most influential philosophers working in this area. This is the first publication of these ideas in book form.
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A Theory of Justiceby John RawlsISBN 0674000773 (0-674-00077-3)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. "Each person," writes Rawls, "possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override." Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.
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A Theory Of Justice: Original Editionby John RawlsISBN 0674000781 (0-674-00078-1)
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Today's Moral Issues: Classic and Contemporary Perspectivesby Daniel BonevacISBN 1559345136 (1-55934-513-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Leviatan: O La Materia, Forma Y Poder De Un Estado Eclesistico Y Civil / the Matter, Form and Power of a Civil State and Ecclesiasticalby Thomas HobbesISBN 8420679569 (84-206-7956-9)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Principios De La Filosofia Del Derechoby G. HegelISBN 9500725290 (950-07-2529-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Homo Sacerby Giorgio AgambenISBN 8806138502 (88-06-13850-2)
Hardcover, G. Einaudi
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