Product Description: 25 leading contemporary theorists of criminal law tackle a range of foundational issues about the proper aims and structure of the criminal law in a liberal democracy. The challenges facing criminal law are many. There are crises of over-criminalization and over-imprisonment; penal policy has become so politicized that it is difficult to find any clear consensus on what aims the criminal law can properly serve; governments seeking to protect their citizens in the face of a range of perceived threats have pushed the outer limits of criminal law and blurred its boundaries...read more

Product Description: Few thinkers can have had a more diverse or a more contested impact on theorizing law than Michel Foucault. This diversity is reflected in the wide range of Foucault's work and of the intellectual fields it has so conspicuously influenced...read more

Niklas Luhmann's social theory stands in direct opposition to the dominant 'anthropocentric' traditions of legal and political analysis. King and Thornhill now offer the first comprehensive, critical examination of Luhmann's highly original theory of the operations of the legal and political systems.

Product Description: Inhalt Jan C. Joerden / Roland Wittmann: Vorwort Peter Macke: Rechtsgefuehl und Urteilsfindung Juergen Habermas: Religiose Toleranz als Schrittmacher kultureller Rechte Wolfgang Naucke: Die Folgen der reinen Rechtslehre fuer das Verhaltnis von Recht und Politik Dietmar von der Pfordten: Politik und Recht als Reprasentation Winfried Hassemer: Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in einer Demokratie Peter Koller: Das Recht im Spannungsfeld zwischen Macht und Moral Michael Pawlik: aSelbstgesetzgebung der Regierteno: Glanz und Elend einer Legitimationsfigur Bernd Schuenemann: Globalisierung als Metamorphose oder Apokalypse des Rechts? Mario G...read more

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Product Description: Inhalt: G.-G. Grau: Macht, Recht und Moral bei Nietzsche S. Goyard-Fabre: Comment le droit a detruit le droit P. Valadier: Nietzsche et la noblesse du droit H. Kerger: Verhaltnis von normativer Regel und Handlungsrationalitat bei Nietzsche H...read more

Product Description: Aus dem Inhalt: I. Dietmar von der Pfordten: Rechtsethische Rechtfertigung - material oder prozedural? Kommentar: Rainer Forst: aNormativer Individualismuso: Substantielle Grundlage einer prozeduralen Rechtfertigung des Rechts? u Elisabeth Holzleithner: Prekare Verhaltnisse? Das Individuum in der Gemeinschaft II...read more

Product Description: Philosophy of Law: An Introduction provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law as it assumse no prior knowledge of either subject. The book is structured around the key issues and themes in the philosophy of law, including: what is the law? - exploring the major legal theories of realism, positivism and natural law the reach of the law - covering authority, rights, liberty, privacy and tolerance criminal responsibility and punishment -  including legal defenses, crime, diminished responsibility and theories of punishment...read more