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Routledge Research in Legal Philosophy


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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.

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Moral Pluralism and the Complexity of Punishment The Penal Philosophy of H.L.A. Hart

Moral Pluralism and the Complexity of Punishment: The Penal Philosophy of H.L.A. Hart

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Nicolas Nayfeld
May 05, 2023

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 and ...

A Theory of Legal Punishment Deterrence, Retribution, and the Aims of the State

A Theory of Legal Punishment: Deterrence, Retribution, and the Aims of the State

1st Edition

Forthcoming

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

The Origin of Copyright: Expression as Knowing in Being and Copyright Onto-Epistemology

1st Edition

Forthcoming

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 ...

Legal Ethics for Lawyers A New Model

Legal Ethics for Lawyers: A New Model

1st Edition

By Barbara Mescher
October 17, 2022

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 ...

Human Dignity and the Law A Personalist Theory

Human Dignity and the Law: A Personalist Theory

1st Edition

By Michał Rupniewski
August 05, 2022

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....

Procedural Justice and Relational Theory Empirical, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives

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...

Constitutional Imaginaries A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism

Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism

1st Edition

By Jiří Přibáň
September 30, 2021

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 ...

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