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Influence and Power
Springer 2006; US$ 179.99This book will be of interest to legal, political and other social theorists/philosophers. Unique in its topics as well as in its approach, the book takes substantial steps towards answering essential questions about political influence. It analyses the concepts of social, political and legal power with a view towards arriving at an adequate and theoretically... more...
The Public Nature of Science under Assault
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 69.99Science has development from a self-evident public good to being highly valued in other contexts for different reasons: strengthening the economic competitiveness and, especially in high-tech fields, as a financial investment for future gains. This has been accompanied by a shift from public to private funding with intellectual property rights gaining... more...
The Concept of Rights
Springer 2006; US$ 149.99What is it to have a right? This book defends an alternative to traditional views, the justified-constraint theory of rights. It also solves the puzzle of the relational nature of rights. It gives a systematic account of an important alternative to the best theories of rights in the literature. more...
Objectivity and the Rule of Law
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 27.00Kramer lucidly addresses some of the principal questions in this vital area of philosophical enquiry. more...
Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 2000
Hart Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 198.00The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law, the Law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative Law with a 'European' dimension, and particularly those which have come to the fore during the year preceding publication. The contributions appearing in the collection... more...
International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00Victor Peskin investigates how the UN International Criminal Court pressures states to hand over their own leaders for trial. more...
Autonomy in the Law
Springer 2007; US$ 64.99Autonomy in the Law considers one of the most important benefits of the rule of law. Juxtaposing European and American conceptions of autonomy in the law of families, capital punishment and, criminal trials reveals the common values that justify all legal systems. Law protects the autonomy of individuals and associations by defending the boundaries... more...
Retroactivity and the Common Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 91.80This book analyses the common law's approach to retroactivity. The central claim is that when a court considers whether to develop or change a common law rule the retroactive effect of doing so should explicitly be considered and, informed by the common law's approach to statutory construction, presumptively be resisted. As a platform for this... more...
Religion in the Public Sphere
Springer 2007; US$ 94.99How closely correlated should church and state be? May a state recognize or dignify the role and meaning of religion at all, and if so can it treat different religious groups differently? This book intends to answer these questions through a portrayal and comparison of various legal orders including those of Germany, Israel, France and the USA. more...
Sturing en samenwerking in handhavingsprojecten
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 37.50Sturing en samenwerking in handhavingsprojecten spiegelt de ervaringen in locale projecten aan de wetenschappelijke literatuur over sturing binnen overheidsorganisaties en over samenwerking tussen organisaties. Aan de hand van een historisch overzicht wordt een beeld gegeven van de verandering van opvattingen in de laatste 25 jaar over de organisatie... more...









