Routledge Research in Legal Philosophy
About the Book Series
This series features thought-provoking and original scholarship on the philosophy of law. Books explore key topics, themes and questions in the field as well as philosophical issues associated with particular legal subjects.
Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty and International Law and Politics: A Theory
1st Edition
By Jorge Emilio Núñez
December 18, 2024
This book assesses the relationship between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty. Often considered to be incompatible, it is argued here that the two concepts are in many ways interrelated and to some extent rely on one another. By introducing a novel theory, the work presents a detailed philosophical ...
Moral Pluralism and the Complexity of Punishment: The Penal Philosophy of H.L.A. Hart
1st Edition
By Nicolas Nayfeld
October 08, 2024
This book advances a new interpretation of Hart’s penal philosophy. Positioning itself in opposition to current interpretations, the book argues that Hart does not defend a mixed theory of punishment, nor a rule utilitarian theory of punishment, nor a liberal form of utilitarianism, nor a goal/...
Act and Omission in Criminal Law: Autonomy, Morality and Applications to Euthanasia
1st Edition
By Roni Rosenberg
August 30, 2024
This book offers an innovative perspective on the critical distinction between acts and omissions in criminal law, a distinction that runs like a defining thread through all types of criminal offenses. While any act that positively causes a prohibited harm is sufficient for a conviction, an ...
Human Dignity and the Law: A Personalist Theory
1st Edition
By Michał Rupniewski
May 27, 2024
This book reassesses the relationship between human dignity, law, and specifically the ‘personalist’ school of agency. The work argues that a specific way of appreciating dignity is contained in how law understands the person, and so can be used to improve upon how we explain and interpret the law....
Legal Ethics for Lawyers: A New Model
1st Edition
By Barbara Mescher
May 27, 2024
This book proposes a new model of professional ethics enabling lawyers to advise clients upon both the law and ethics. This will better protect clients, and society, and enhance lawyers’ professional obligations. The current model of legal ethics, developed in the 19th century, specified that the ...
Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism
1st Edition
By Jiří Přibáň
May 31, 2023
This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics. Constitutional imaginaries invite constitutional and political theorists, philosophers and sociologists to rethink the concept of constitution as the normative legal limitation ...
A Theory of Legal Punishment: Deterrence, Retribution, and the Aims of the State
1st Edition
By Matthew Altman
January 09, 2023
This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state. A central question in the philosophy of law is why the state’s punishment of its own citizens is justified. Traditionally, two theories of punishment have ...
The Origin of Copyright: Expression as Knowing in Being and Copyright Onto-Epistemology
1st Edition
By Wenwei Guan
January 09, 2023
Contemporary copyright was born in a heroic era of human history when technologies facilitated idea dissemination through the book trade reaching out mass readership. This book provides insights on the copyright evolution and how proprietary individual expression’s copyright protection forms an ...
Procedural Justice and Relational Theory: Empirical, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Denise Meyerson, Catriona Mackenzie, Therese MacDermott
April 29, 2022
This book bridges a scholarly divide between empirical and normative theorizing about procedural justice in the context of relations of power between citizens and the state. Empirical research establishes that people’s understanding of procedural justice is shaped by relational factors. A central...