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Jurisprudence
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 79.00The book provides a wide ranging, in-depth but accessible account of the major traditions in jurisprudence. more...
The Judicial Process
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 50.00This book dismantles the outdated theories still exhibited in much judicial reasoning, and seeks to bridge the gap between legal theory and judicial practice. The author propounds a coherent and comprehensive judicial methodology for modern times which is realistic and pragmatic and which embraces a revised conception of practical reasoning. more...
Math on Trial
Basic Books 2013; US$ 26.99In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by journalists, politicians or other public figures, but in the case of the law your liberty?and your life?can depend on the right calculation. Math on Trial tells the story of ten trials in which mathematical arguments were used?and disastrously... more...
The Path of the Law
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 3.99The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. A cornerstone of his jurisprudential philosophy was the prediction theory of law, believing the law should be defined specifically as a prediction of how the courts work. In The Path of the Law... more...
Freuds Modell der "Übertragung und Gegenübertragung" in der Sozialen Arbeit
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 24.81Sozialarbeiter sind in ihrem täglichen Umgang mit hilfsbedürftigen Menschen und Schutzbefohlenen immer wieder mit äußerst festgefahrenen Situationen konfrontiert. Häufig kommt es vor, dass die Kommunikation mit dem Klienten in einem schier unlösbaren Knoten steckt, der jeden zielgerichteten Zugang zur jeweiligen Problemlage verhindert. These der hier... more...
Ratio and Voluntas
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 134.95From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason. This volume examines the tension between these two poles in modern law, building on the views of distinctive features of the ideal-typical mature modern legal system that was previously presented in the... more...
United Nations Justice
United Nations University Press 2010; US$ 36.00At the end of the 20th century, and at the dawn of the 21st, the United Nations was tasked with the administration of justice in territories placed under its executive authority, an undertaking for which there was no established precedent or doctrine. Examining the UNs legal and judicial reform efforts in Kosovo and East Timor, this volume argues... more...









