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Constitutionalism and democracy have been interpreted as both intimately related and intrinsically opposed. These differences are reflected in the different types of constitutional democracy found in the US, Britain and many commonwealth countries. This book explores these issues from the perspectives of law, philosophy and political science.

The papers in these two volumes demonstrate the variety of sociological perspectives on law. The first volume covers "Classical Foundations" and consists of papers about the classics of legal sociology. The papers in the second volume focus on broad questions of theory and method.

The essays in this volume reflect several important and widely-discussed issues in legal theory. One set of issues may be characterized as legal hermeneutics and related issues discussed include the use of literature and literary criticism to understand law and legal rhetoric.

These articles represent a collective introduction to the law and legal theory of China. They were chosen to illustrate the best of English-language academic scholarship concerning law in China, whilst also including a range of works having theoretical significance.

Part of the second series of the "International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory". In choosing the papers for this collection, the editor leaned towards contributors with sympathy for legal positivism but not lacking critical elements in their attitude towards the tradition.

The papers that comprise this collection emphasize the link between law and politics, arguing that many developments in the practice and theory of democracy are redolent with implications for law and legal theory.

This title explores the relationship between gender and justice. Common law is discussed, and the definition of basic terms, such as "gender" is debated. The text notes that womens' experiences need to be contrasted with mens' to be meaningful, while the reverse is not the case.

Across the variety of material examined and the social contexts explored, the series of articles gathered here share a concern with the social power of systems of specialised knowledge. They demonstrate the engagement of anthropologists in the contradictions of the contemporary political order.

This text collects influential essays of the 70s, 80s and 90s critiquing and defending the liberal rights tradition and the issues arguably at its heart: the dangers of the overly atomistic conception of human nature; and the preference of liberal states for negative over positive rights.

This collection of eighteen key essays from jurists, political theorists and public law political scientists, aims to explore the role law plays in the political system.

An anthology of articles on law and economics. The first part contains more traditional law and economics articles, covering a range of conventional legal topics. The second part attempts to introduce new methodological techniques and subject-matter concerns to law and economics.

Legal scholarship is concerned with distinctive issues and problems of regulatory governance. This volume draws together writings on regulation which problematize law in regulatory settings and which introduce problems of regulatory law to legal theory.

A collection of essays on privacy, many taken from American periodicals. They explain why privacy is valuable; offer different definitions of the right; present views about its scope and character; examine the feminist critique of privacy; and address the information society and cyberspace.

Iillustrates ideas that have informed the historical development of the discipline of public international law. This book outlines three approaches, based on systems of natural laws, positivist systems and finally the system of 'public' international order.