“…Philosophers and law…”

“…The debate about whether mental health law should be abolished or reformed emerged during the negotiations of the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and has raged fiercely for over a decade. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART I: Philosophical Foundations; Introduction; I.1 From Law to Legal Studies; I.2 General Principles: A Quick History; ONE: Criminal Theory; 1.1 Three Points of Inculpation and Exculpation; 1.2 Three Types of Criminal Law; 1.3 The Nature of Crime: Three Perspectives; 1.4 Four Systems for Thinking about Offenses; 1.5 Three American Schools; TWO: Criminal Law; 2.1 Misleading Labels; 2.2 Statutes and Codes; 2.3 Case Law and Precedent; 2.4 Scholars' Law; 2.5 Constitutional Law; 2.6 International Criminal Law; 2.7 Regional Criminal Law: Europe; THREE: Language; 3.1 Linguistic Diversity; 3.2 The Distinctiveness of English3.3 The Distinctiveness of Languages Other Than English; FOUR: Political Theory; 4.1 The Relevant Categories; 4.2 Libertarianism; 4.3 Liberalism; 4.4 Communitarianism; 4.5 Perfectionism; 4.6 The Political and the Moral; 4.7 Legitimacy; FIVE: Moral Theory; 5.1 The Concept of Morality; 5.2 Utilitarianism; 5.3 Kant's Deontological Morality; 5.4 Loyalty; 5.5 Desert; PART II: Toward a Comparative Synthesis; SIX: Punishment; Preamble to Part II; 6.1 The Nature of Punishment; 6.2 The Rationale of Punishment; 6.3 The Victim's Perspective in Punishment; 6.4 The Universal Significance of Punishment; SEVEN: The Act Requirement; 7.1 Person and Thing; 7.2 Action and Its Opposites; EIGHT: Guilt; 8.1 The Vocabulary of Guilt; 8.2 Biblical Guilt; 8.3 The Psychological Theory of Guilt; 8.4 The Normative Theory of Guilt; 8.5 The Functional Theory of Guilt; 8.6 Collective Guilt…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Contending for moral first things : Christian social ethics and postconsensus culture -- Natural law and the Christian tradition -- Natural law and the Protestant prejudice -- Moral law, Christian belief, and social ethics -- Contending for moral first things in ethical and bioethical debates : critical categories, part 1 -- Contending for moral first things in ethical and bioethical debates : critical categories, part 2 -- Ethics, bioethics, and the natural law, a test case : euthanasia yesterday and today -- The natural law and public morality : second thoughts on what is at stake…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- St. Paul and the Moral Law / C. Kavin Rowe -- Augustine and the Common Good / Josef Lössl -- Thomas Aquinas : Definitions and Vocabulary in His Treatise on Law / Charles J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Norman Doe -- The evolution of the principles of Christian Law / Norman Doe -- Roman Catholic Canon Law / Aidan McGrath OFM and Robert Ombres OP -- The Law of the Eastern Catholic Churches / Astrid Kaptijn -- The Orthodox Canonical Tradition / Nikos Maghioros -- The Anglican Canonical Tradition / Mark Hill -- Lutheran Church Law / Andreas Aarflot -- Methodist Law and Discipline / John Harrod -- Reformed Church Order / Leon van den Broeke -- Presbyterian Polityand Practice / John Chalmers -- Baptist Church Polity / Paul Goodliff -- Pentecostal Church Polity / Paul Rochester -- The Polityofthe United and Uniting Churches / Leo J.Koffeman -- Conclusion / Aetios, Grand Ecclesiarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evolution and the common law : an introduction -- Darwin's excellent adventure : evolution and law -- The creationists' persistence : jurisprudence and God -- Taming the bulldog : the natural and the pragmatic -- Tracking the common law : the routine and the revolutionary -- Looking for Gadamer : traditions and transformations -- Reading between the lines : courts and constitutions -- Making changes : progress and politics -- Among the trees : a conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dimensions of objectivity -- Elements of the rule of law -- Objectivity and law's moral authority…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The core values of arbitration -- Common legal issues in American arbitration law -- The appropriate role of state law in the federal arbitration system : choice and preemption -- Interstate arbitration : chapter 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act -- Consumer arbitration -- International commercial arbitration : implementing the New York Convention -- Tension points: where the authors disagree…”
Sumario

“…Anglo-American private law has been a far more complex phenomenon than has been usually recognized. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A short history of world law -- Today's globalism -- Challenges for globalism -- Values for world law…”