Rättsfilosofi

"Den enda rätta läran" är en granskning av psykoanalysens historia i Sverige, som kartlägger den rörelse som låg bakom en av de mörkaste perioderna i vårt rättsväsende. En häpnadsväckande berättelse som blottlägger de strömningar i psykiatrin, kul...

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Praktisk juridisk metod är en grundläggande lärobok - och handbok - i juridisk problemlösning och presentation. Boken utgår från en sexstegsmetod och utvecklar de kunskaper som problemlösningsmetoden kräver om bland annat identifikation och system...

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A TIMES LAW TOP LEGAL READ 2025 'A timely red alert that democratic values cannot be taken for granted' The Times 'Incisive and eloquent' The Telegraph Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the p...

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Vad är det egentligen en jurist gör när hen ska lösa en juridisk fråga? Vilken metod används? Om du skulle fråga en jurist i dag om vad juridisk metod är, skulle du säkert få samma svar som det påstås att Sankt Augustinus gav när han fick frågan o...

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Denna bok syftar till att hjälpa studenter som är nya på juristprogrammet att förhålla sig kritiskt och kreativt till material som jurister hänvisar till genom att förklara varje rättskällas styrkor och svagheter samt hur rättskällorna samverkar. ...

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Inom många professioner är man i dag rättstillämpare utan att vara jurist. Syftet med den här boken är att ge icke-jurister en introduktion till att göra rättsfallsanalyser och stimulera till att låta detta bli en del av det vardagliga arbetet. Rä...

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Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social, political, and economic life, generating both praise and blame. Nonet and Selznick's Law and Society in Transition explains in accessible language the primary forms of law as a soc...

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I boken behandlas något som är både viktigt och tilltagande problematiskt för dagens straffrätt: dess möte med vad som i dag brukar refereras till som "strukturella perspektiv". Här sätts särskilt i fokus klass-, genus- och mångkulturella perspekt...

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Written with students in mind, Professor Raymond Wacks brings legal theory to life through his lucid and entertaining style. The author has crafted a manageable guide, balancing concise introductions to the key theorists and core issues such as pu...

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"A milestone in political and moral philosophy, as groundbreaking as the theories of Bentham and Kant and arguably the most important and influential piece of contemporary philosophy of the last century." -The Guardian The principles of justice th...

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This profound and scholarly treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. Departing from the formalism of Hart and Kelsen and blending the European tradition of Weber, Habermas and Foucault wit...

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The New Haven School was a school of legal theory and practice that was developed and taught at Yale Law School and named for its place of origin. At its centre stood a 'policy-oriented jurisprudence' - so-called for its emphasis on using law to p...

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Who, or what, is a 'person' according to the law? How did this understanding of personhood come about? In the twenty-first century, environmentalism, animal rights, artificial intelligence, and corporate personhood have compelled us to consider th...

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An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence has established itself as the essential textbook written by leading authorities in this expanding field. The second edition of this bestselling textbook begins with a new introduction a...

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The perennial question posed by the philosophically-inclined lawyer is 'What is law?' or perhaps 'What is the nature of law?' This book poses an associated, but no less fundamental, question about law which has received much less attention in the ...

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Properties of Law is a legal-theoretical analysis about modern state law; about sociality, normativity and plurality as its properties, and what will come after modern state law. The main objective of this study is to offer a legal theoretical rec...

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This volume makes a contribution to the ongoing lively discussion on European constitutionalism by offering a new perspective and a new interpretation of European constitutional plurality. The book combines diverse disciplinary approaches to the c...

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From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason. This volume examines the tension between these two poles, 'ratio and voluntas' in modern law. Par...

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Professor Matthew Kramer is one of the most important legal philosophers of our time - even if the label 'legal philosopher' does not do justice to the breadth of his work. This collection of essays brings together esteemed philosophers, as well a...

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The growing sophistication of surveillance practices has given rise to concerns and discussions in the public sphere, but has also provided a popular theme in literature, film and the arts. Bringing together contributors across literary studies, l...

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Fair Opportunity and Responsibility lies at the intersection of moral psychology and criminal jurisprudence and analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. It links responsibility with the react...

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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lu...

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I denna rättsfilosofiska studie uppmärksammar Ola Svensson den amerikanske filosofen John Rawls teori om rättvisa som skälighet. Svensson har i många år undervisat om denna teori på juridiska institutionen i Lund och framställningen bygger på hans...

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What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart. Yet many others find it perplexing. How could we possibly know how to answer such an abstract question? And what would be the point of doing so? ...

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Intellectual property (IP) law operates with the ontological assumption that immaterial goods such as works, inventions, and designs exist, and that these abstract types can be owned like a piece of land. Alexander Peukert provides a comprehensive...

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In the pathbreaking essays collected here, Neumann and Kirchheimer demonstrate that the death of democracy and the rise of fascism during the first half of the twentieth century suggest crucial lessons for contemporary political and legal scholars...

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An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human creation. Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the America...

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Drawing upon and extending the theoretical insights of Deleuze, Foucault and Agamben, this volume considers the concept of life as it operates in law, politics and contemporary culture. It focuses on key legal cases (such as the Terri Schiavo case...

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Liksom en gam cirklar runt ett kadaver, så kretsar denna bok runt ett antal rättsliga föreställningar och begrepp som genom åren kommit att uppta, och alltmer begränsa, rättsvetenskapens synfält. Här presenteras emellertid ingen metod, inte heller...

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Likhet inför lagen är ett slagord som ofta används i diskussioner av hur det goda samhället bör se ut. Intuitivt ger det positiva associationer: till något bra och alltigenom eftersträvansvärt. Samtidigt är det både rättsligt och filosofiskt svårt...

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