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Democracy, Law and Governance
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95Democracy, Law and Governance details the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for promoting public interest in their public policy. It applies recent research in both theory of law and theory of governance to deepen the analytic impact of the recent pragmatist revival. more...
Parchment, Paper, Pixels
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society—perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial... more...
Law and Public Choice
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 20.00In Law and Public Choice , Daniel Farber and Philip Frickey present a remarkably rich and accessible introduction to the driving principles of public choice. In this, the first systematic look at the implications of social choice for legal doctrine, Farber and Frickey carefully review both the empirical and theoretical literature about interest... more...
L' autonomie humaine
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1995; US$ 22.50Les auteurs examinent les concepts classiques d'autonomie et d'affectivité pour ensuite les relier à l'autonomie affective. Puis, ayant mis l'accent sur les phases qui caractérisent le processus d'autonomisation (initiation, intégration, réalisation et autonomie intégrale), ils présentent les différents... more...
Literary Criticisms of Law
Princeton University Press 2000; US$ 62.95In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as literary innovators, who creatively interpret legal... more...
The Philosophy of Law meets the Philosophy of Technology
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 135.00Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing interrogates the legal implications of the notion and experience of human agency implied by the emerging paradigm of autonomic computing, and the socio-technical infrastructures it supports. The development of autonomic computing and ambient intelligence ? self-governing systems ? challenge traditional philosophical... more...
Economic Efficiency in Law and Economics
Edward Elgar Publishing 2001; US$ 40.00?Economic Efficiency in Law and Economics is an interesting and worthwhile book.? ? Megan Richardson, Economic Record ?Zerbe?s new book is high-powered and potentially important.? ? Bill Goodman, Monthly Labor Review In this path-breaking book, Richard Zerbe introduces a new way to think about the concept of economic efficiency that is both... more...
Law and Art
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00In?engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume?consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a legal theory concerned to address how theoretical abstractions and concrete oppressions overlook singularity and spontaneity. Indeed, the exercise of the legal... more...
Rudolf von Jhering. Anonym publizierte Frühschriften und unveröffentlichte Handschriften aus seinem Nachlaß
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 42.32Hauptbeschreibung Rudolf von Jhering (1818-1892) ist neben Friedrich Carl von Savigny der wohl bekannteste Vertreter der Pandektenwissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Wir wissen bis heute aber wenig darüber, wie Jhering sich in den ersten zehn Jahren seines Schaffens (1842-1852) in der zeitgenössischen Diskussion über die Grundfragen von Recht und Rechtswissenschaft... more...
Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00Law and economics has arguably become one of the most influential theories in contemporary legal theory and adjudication. The essays in this volume, authored by both legal scholars and economists, constitute lively and critical engagements between law and economics and new institutional economics from the perspectives of legal and evolutionary theory.... more...









