Product Description: English summary: The degree of law will determine how goods are distributed and balanced in legal relationships. The selected essays take up the question of how to understand law, and especially how to behave within the extent of the law...read more

Product Description: Karl N. Llewellyn was one of the founders and major figures of legal realism, and his many keen insights have a central place in American law and legal understanding. Key to Llewellyn’s thinking was his conception of rules, put forward in his numerous writings and most famously in his often mischaracterized declaration that they are “pretty playthings...read more

Product Description: International law is playing an increasingly important role in international politics. However, international relations theorists have thus far failed to conceptualise adequately the role that law plays in politics. Instead, IR theorists have tended to operate with a limited conception of law...read more

Product Description: This law school casebook was developed by a team of professors at Harvard Law School to introduce students with little or no quantitative background to the basic analytical techniques that attorneys need to master to represent their clients effectively...read more

Product Description: The last decade has witnessed a particularly intensive debate over methodological issues in legal theory. The publication of Julie Dickson's "Evaluation and Legal Theory" (2001) was significant, as were collective returns to H.L.A...read more

Explores the operation of logical reasoning in trials and legal argumentation, specifically as it applies to the law of evidence. (view table of contents)