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Legal Theory, Sources of Law and the Semantic Web
IOS Press 2009; US$ 167.00Attempts to construct an integrated conceptual framework for the application-neutral and problem-neutral representation of sources of law using Semantic Web technology and concepts and some technically straightforward extensions to Semantic Web technology based on established practices found in fielded applications. more...
The Judge in a Democracy
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 29.95Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes before them under law? What are the criteria for... more...
The Cloaking of Power
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00How did the US judiciary become so powerful—powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? In The Cloaking of Power , Paul O. Carrese provides a provocative analysis of the intellectual sources of today’s powerful... more...
Technology for Justice
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 54.50Technology for Justice examines impacts of information technology (IT) on the administration of justice. more...
The Methodology of Maurice Hauriou
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 68.00This book shows that Haurious positivist and pragmatic jurisprudence and social theory, as well as their application to the study of institutions, is satisfactorily supported by his idealistic philosophy. The nine chapters first locate Haurious influences, then situate his disciplinary methodologies within methodology in general. The central... more...
Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 149.00This volume functions as a guide to the multidisciplinary nature of Forensic Linguistics understood in its broadest sense as the interface between language and the law. It seeks to address the links in this relatively young field between theory, method and data, without neglecting the need for new research questions in the field. Perhaps the most striking... more...
Doing Justice to Court Interpreting
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 135.00First published as a Special Issue of Interpreting (10:1, 2008) and complemented with two articles published in Interpreting (12:1, 2010), this volume provides a panoramic view of the complex and uniquely constrained practice of court interpreting. In an array of empirical papers, the nine authors explore the potential of court interpreters to... more...
Approaches to Legal Rationality
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99Legal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation. Each of them provides specific insights into highly complex phenomena. Different disciplines, but also different traditions in disciplines (e.g. analytical and continental traditions in philosophy) find here a rare... more...
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
IOS Press 2010; US$ 160.00The 23rd edition of the JURIX conference was held in the United Kingdom from the 15th till the 17th of December and was hosted by the University of Liverpool. This year submissions came from 18 countries covering all five continents. These proceedings contain thirteen full and nine short papers that were selected for presentation. As usual they cover... more...
Semiotics of International Law
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect.... more...









