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.
Theorizing Legal Punishment
1st Edition
By Richard L. Lippke
February 06, 2024
This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking. The work argues that legal punishment censures convicted offenders and thus morally communicates with them, any victims, and the broader community, while ...
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...