Author: González, Ana Marta Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As medical technology advances and severely injured or ill people can be kept alive and functioning long beyond what was previously medically possible, the debate surrounding the ethics of endoflife c...
Author: Hochstrasser, T. J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the early stages of the Enlightenment in Germany and France. T. J. Hochstrasser investigates the influence e...
Author: Bamforth,Nicholas / Richards,David A. J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Legal theorists are familiar with John Finnis's book Natural Law and Natural Rights, but usually overlook his interventions in US constitutional debates and his membership of a group of conservative C...
Author: Veitch, Scott Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P><P>It is commonly understood that in its focus on rights and obligations law is centrally concerned with organising responsibility. In defining how obligations are created, in contract ...
Author: Sarat, Austin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompan...
Author: Allan, James Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book debates the issues ranging from theoretical jurisprudential concerns to less abstract constitutional ones, and how our understanding and valuation of the most topical and important issues in...
