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International Relations Theory and International Law
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 25.00Adriana Sinclair provides international relations theorists with a better understanding of law and international law. 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...
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...
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...
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...
Approaches to Legal Ontologies
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99The book provides the reader with a unique source regarding the current theoretical landscape in legal ontology engineering as well as on foreseeable future trends for the definition of conceptual structures to enhance the automatic processing and retrieval of legal information in the Semantic Web framework. It will thus interest researchers in the... more...
Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems
Hong Kong University Press 2008; US$ 60.00This book is a unique attempt to bring together some of the well-established scholars and practitioners from the fields of legal linguistics, legal translation, law, English for Academic and Professional Purposes, and arbitration practice to provide some understanding of the question. more...
Rethinking Law as Process
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision making. more...
Law, Truth, and Reason
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99This book is an innovative contribution to analytical jurisprudence. It is mainly based on the distinct premises of linguistic philosophy and Carnapian semantics, but also addresses the issues of institutional philosophy, social pragmatism, and legal principles as envisioned by Dworkin, among others. Wroblewski's three ideologies (bound/free/legal... more...
Adjudication in Action
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95A rich, praxeological study that engages with 'living law' as it unfolds in context and in action to develop a fuller understanding of what law is, Adjudication in Action engages with Wittgenstein's later thought along with recent developments in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, to explore people's orientation around and... more...









