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Collected Essays in Law: Collected Essays in Law

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Each volume in this Collected Essays series brings together a selection of articles by a leading authority on a particular subject. The articles are drawn from a wide range of journals, conference proceedings and books. The collections make readily available the authors' own selections of their most important writings on specific themes, together with an introduction which outlines the context of the work and comments on its significance and potential. The collected essays complement each other to give a retrospective view of the author's achievements and a developmental picture of a subject area. Some volumes include critiques of the author's work which have called for a response and other contain previously unpublished essays on the selected subject.

9 Series Titles


Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory and Rights

Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory and Rights

1st Edition

By Martin P. Golding
June 07, 2019

This book is a selection of articles and chapters published over Martin Golding's academic career. Golding's approach to the philosophy of law is that it contains conceptual and normative issues and in this volume logical issues in legal reasoning are examined, and various theories of law are ...

Legal Scholarship and Education

Legal Scholarship and Education

1st Edition

By Mark Tushnet
June 07, 2019

This book collects Mark Tushnet's essays on legal scholarship and legal education written between the 1970s and the end of the twentieth century. The essays deal with the development of critical legal studies and its current state, with persistent questions about the intellectual status of legal ...

Meaning, Mind and Law

Meaning, Mind and Law

1st Edition

By Dennis Patterson
June 07, 2019

In this important collection of papers, Dennis Patterson continues to show the importance of Wittgenstein's thought for problems in legal theory. Ranging across issues in the philosophy of mind to questions of meaning and normativity, this collection of papers is essential reading for anyone with ...

Democracy Through Law Selected Speeches and Judgments

Democracy Through Law: Selected Speeches and Judgments

1st Edition

By Johan Steyn
August 23, 2018

In this collection of lectures and essays with seminal judgments, the author describes a gradual development of the United Kingdom as a constitutional state. Democracy through Law traces the recent phenomenon of the constitutionalisation of public law and analyses the present state of human rights ...

Beyond Law in Context Developing a Sociological Understanding of Law

Beyond Law in Context: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Law

1st Edition

By David Nelken
February 28, 2009

This intriguing collection of essays by David Nelken examines the relationship between law, society and social theory and the various ideas social theorists have had about the actual and ideal 'fit' between law and its social context. It also asks how far it is possible to get beyond this ...

Law as Resistance Modernism, Imperialism, Legalism

Law as Resistance: Modernism, Imperialism, Legalism

1st Edition

By Peter Fitzpatrick
July 28, 2008

The scandal of this collection lies not just in its equating law and resistance but also in its consequent revision of those critical, realist, social, and even positivist theories that would constitute law in its dependence on sovereign or society, on some surpassing power, or on the state of the ...

Crime, Compliance and Control

Crime, Compliance and Control

1st Edition

By Doreen McBarnet
August 28, 2004

Law is a double-edged sword. It is not just an instrument for implementing social policy, social control, and social rights, but an instrument, in the hands of those with the motivation, power and economic resources to wield it, for undermining them. This topical volume presents seminal socio-legal...

Dispute Processing and Conflict Resolution Theory, Practice and Policy

Dispute Processing and Conflict Resolution: Theory, Practice and Policy

1st Edition

By Carrie Menkel-Meadow
October 17, 2003

This insightful volume is essential for a clearer understanding of dispute resolution. After examining the historical and intellectual foundations of dispute processing, Carrie Menkel-Meadow turns her attention to the future of conflict resolution....

The Great Juristic Bazaar Jurists' Texts and Lawyers’ Stories

The Great Juristic Bazaar: Jurists' Texts and Lawyers’ Stories

1st Edition

By William Twining
May 28, 2002

Some law students find jurisprudence daunting, impersonal, dry and seemingly detached from practical affairs. William Twining believes that many jurists have been fascinating people struggling with questions that are both historically significant and relevant to contemporary issues. This book ...

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