Legal Theory

Authoritarianism

Günter Frankenberg

‘Why do authoritarian regimes bother with a constitution? This book pursues this seeming paradox with deep theoretical insight and broad empirical reach. The result is an indispensable guide to understanding the emerging varieties of aut...

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After Meaning

Jean d’Aspremont

‘If you are the rare kind of jurist on the international scene disposed to engage in introspection so radical that none of your epistemic postulates will be safe, not even your most evident assumptions (that the words of a law-text carry...

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Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism

Peter Coe

‘Concerns about media freedom are growing at the same time as non-institutional media become more important. This insightful and thoughtful book explores the concept of media freedom, its rationale and its justifications and provides an ...

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Constitutional Crowdsourcing

Antoni Abat i Ninet

‘Dare to get lost in this unmissable, erudite dive into the crowds present, past, and future – and their essential constitutional significance!’ – Dimitry Kochenov, Central European University

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The Insanity Defense

Wojciech Załuski

‘Wojciech Załuski’s work focusing on the insanity defense, one of the classic problems of criminal law, is an excellent demonstration of how to impartially explain the presumptive underpinnings of this field, an approach which is often a...

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Law-Making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law

Edited by Heike Krieger, Jonas Püschmann

‘Formally, states, and states alone, make and authoritatively interpret international humanitarian law. But this legalistic maxim hardly reflects the actual process by which IHL emerges and evolves. Law-Making and Legitimacy in Internati...

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Advanced Introduction to Comparative Legal Methods

Pier Monateri

‘This magisterial study shows a deep understanding of the methods of comparative law which will be useful to veterans in the field and yet accessible to newcomers. Monateri achieves the difficult task of presenting the approaches of each...

Paperback (2021)

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Legal Doctrinal Scholarship

Mátyás Bódig

‘Competent legal scholars need to be familiar with the right ways in which claims about the law can be vindicated, but this does not imply they possess great awareness of either the epistemic status or the political implications of their...

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Globalisation, Populism, Pandemics and the Law

Mark Findlay

Advocating a style of law and a role for legal agency which returns to its essential humanist ideology and represents public spiritedness, this unique book confronts the myths surrounding globalisation, advancing the role for law as a ch...

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Law’s Reality

Allan Beever

‘This book is a sustained and penetrating application of the linguistic and social philosophy of John Searle to legal theory. Convincingly affirming the insufficiently explored interest of Searle’s work in this regard, questions, includi...

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Legal Fictions in International Law

Reece Lewis

‘The topic of legal fictions is making a much-deserved comeback, following Jeremy Bentham’s scornful critique of them in English common law. In this cautiously enthusiastic defence, Reece Lewis identifies, taxonomises and evaluates the p...

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