Jurisprudence & philosophy of law (189)

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book aims to find a workable interpretation of the non-appropriation principle that is compatible with both the existing international space law framework and the move of the private space industry towards the mining of asteroids and other celes...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This volume addresses the study of family law and society in Europe, from medieval to contemporary ages. It examines the topic from a legal and social point of view. Furthermore, it investigates those aspects of the new family legal history that have...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field. It examines the broader significance of the ongoing Bancoult litigation in the UK Courts, the Chag...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establish a specific form of Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh al-aqalliyyat attempts to strike a balance between Mus...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Connected to the jurisprudence surrounding the copyrightability of a factual compilation, this book locates the footprints of the standard envisaged in a US Supreme court decision (Feist) in Europe. In particular, it observes the extent of similarity...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This book uses the landmark case Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union to examine the strategies of prison inmates using race and radicalism to inspire the formation of an inmate labor union.

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is an updated and revised edition of Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation published in 1999. It discusses new developments that have taken place in the past 15 years in research of legal argumentation, legal justification and legal interpret...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively. Theoretical papers cover topics such as intercultural pragmatics, evolutionism, argumentation theory, pragmatics and law, the semantics/pr...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book deals with convergences of legal doctrine despite jurisdictional, cultural, and political barriers, and of divergences due to such barriers, examining topics that are of vital importance to contemporary legal scholars. Written by leading sc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book provides insights into the viability of the idea of global constitution. Global constitutionalism has emerged as an alternative paradigm for international law. However, in view of the complex and varied structure of contemporary constitutio...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is based on the observation that international law is undergoing a process of change and modernization, driven by many factors, among which the affirmation and consolidation of the role of the individual and of the theory of human rights st...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Jenseits etatistischer und territorialer Modellräume entwickelt Reik Kirchhof eine soziologische Theorie der normativen Ordnung und des Rechts und rekonstruiert mit neuer Theoriesprache das traditionelle Narrativ der Islamwissenschaft über die Schari...