Portail universitaire du droit

Cannons and Codes

Alison L. LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, Laura Weinrib

Law, literature, and war are thus all profoundly connected—and it is this connection this edited volume aims to explore, assembling...

The Function of Equity in International Law

Catharine Titi

Provides unrivalled insights into equity in specialised fields of international law, such as international cultural heritage law, climate...

Contingency in International Law

Ingo Venzke, Kevin Jon Heller

This books reflects on a deceptively simple question: could international law have turned out differently? It discusses the theoretical...

The Decline of Natural Law

Stuart Banner

The first book to explain how natural law worked in the American legal system. Relates the decline of natural law to the rise of familiar...

Crafting the International Order

Marcus M. Payk, Kim Christian Priemel

Uncovers the significant contribution of lawyers to international politics over the past three hundred years. Explores how politicians,...

Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint

Matthew H. Kramer

Provides a philosophically rigorous exposition on the principle of freedom of expression. Defends an absolutist position on matters...

Perfecting the Union

Max M. Edling

Contends that the Constitution profoundly transformed the structure of the Union, thereby making the national government more effective....

Birth of the State

Charlotte Epstein

The book analyses the fundamental rights to security, liberty, and property respectively as the initial knots where the state-subject...

The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union

Signe Rehling Larsen

Draws on rich historical material from the German Confederation and the antebellum United States to provide a comparison of similarities...

Administrative Justice Fin de siècle

Giacinto della Cananea, Stefano Mannoni

Provides historical context for European administrative law systems between 1890 and 1910. Offers case studies of the Austro-Hungarian...

Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence

Christopher T. Fleming

Offers the first comprehensive account of Ownership and Inheritance in Indian Sanskrit intellectual history from the classical to the...

New Legal Approaches to Studying the Court of Justice

Claire Kilpatrick, Joanne Scott

The idea behind this volume is to make available new tools and approaches through which the activities of the Court of Justice can...

The Renaissance of Roman Colonization

Jeremia Pelgrom, Arthur Weststeijn

Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes...

The Laws of Hammurabi

Pamela Barmash

Illuminates the development of the concept of justice by analyzing the role of scribes. Analyzes the confluence of royal ideology and...

Separate but Faithful

Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Joshua C. Wilson

Treads new empirical ground as the first book-length treatment of so-called "Christian Worldview" law schools and their impacts on...

The Religion Clauses

Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman

Presents an authoritative yet concise overview of what the Constitution says about the proper relationship between Church and State....

The President and Immigration Law

Adam B. Cox, Cristina M. Rodriguez

Presents a novel theory of the historical and structural sources of the President's control over immigration law. Provides a blueprint...

Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature

Stephanie Elsky

Illuminates the centrality of legal custom to early modern literature's form and content. Reveals the deep connection between Renaissance...

The Laws of War in International Thought

Pablo Kalmanovitz

Innovative examination of the origins, modern articulation, and contemporary relevance of the idea of regular war. Reconstructs key...

Legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Carsten Stahn, Carmel Agius, Serge Brammertz, Colleen Rohan

Provides an in-deth and first-hand account of the legacies of the ICTY, one of the pioneering experiments in international criminal...

Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism

Edward A. Purcell, Jr.

A comprehensive study of the constitutional jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia. Examines whether Scalia's judgments were consistent...

The Myth of Judicial Independence

Mike McConville, Luke Marsh

Explores the role played by the British government and senior judges in the regulation of policing at home and across the commonwealth...

Orders of Exclusion

Kyle M. Lascurettes

Orders of Exclusion offers a new and counterintuitive explanation for great power international order-building motives based on competition...

Law in the Roman Provinces

Kimberley Czajkowski, Benedikt Eckhardt, Meret Strothmann

The study of the Roman Empire has changed dramatically in the last century, with significant emphasis now placed on understanding the...

Roman Law and Economics

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Dennis P. Kehoe

Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery,...

Who's the Bigot?

Linda C. McClain

Shows similarities and differences in moral and constitutional controversies over interfaith, interracial, and same-sex marriage. Uses...

The Right to Erasure in EU Data Protection Law

Jef Ausloos

The first scholarly work to focus on the right to erasure in the context of Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)....

Mobilized by Injustice

Hannah L. Walker

Brings immigration into conversation with research on American criminal justice. Sheds new light on how the criminal justice system...

Political Theology of International Order

William Bain

Introduces medieval theology and philosophy as a source of international theory. Demonstrates that ideas that originate in Christian...

Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Equity

Dennis Klimchuk, Irit Samet, Henry E. Smith

Identifies key questions and issues underlying the law of Equity, including the legal, philosophical and moral senses of equity, the...

The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech

Wendell Bird

This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America...

The Invention of Jewish Theocracy

Alexander Kaye

This book makes an original contribution to modern Jewish and Israeli intellectual history by challenging those who contend there is...

Sovereignty

Feisal G. Mohamed

This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an...

Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire

Luca Scholz

Reconceptualises the historical relationship between political authority and human mobility and reveals the extensive freedoms of movement...

Brexit and Financial Regulation

Jonathan Herbst, Simon Lovegrove

Provides clear and practical guidance on the complexities of Brexit relating to financial institutions to enable understanding of the...

Presidential Elections and Majority Rule

Edward B. Foley

Outlines a solution for returning the Electoral College to the Jeffersonian ideal of popular sovereignty. Provides a primer on American...

The Enlightenment and the Rights of Man

Vincenzo Ferrone

The Enlightenment redefined the ethics of the rights of man as part of an outlook that was based on reason, the equality of all nations...

Law in Common

Tom Johnson

The first comprehensive socio-legal history of this period for two decades. Offers a new social history of law that aims to explain...

A False Tree of Liberty

Susan Marks

Offers a fresh perspective on human rights, which enriches the understanding of what human rights can mean ; situates human rights...

Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta

Jennifer Jahner

An innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the understudied literature of thirteenth-century England, encompassing Latin, Anglo-French,...

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law

Pamela Barmash

Examines source materials and the discipline with fresh eyes ; offers a critique of the state of the art of the field ; addresses the...

Priests of the Law

Thomas J. McSweeney

Tells the story of a formative episode in English legal history. Offers a new understanding of the early history of the common law,...

Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations

Paolo Amorosa

Provides an uniquely comprehensive and well-researched account of James Brown Scott, a key figure in interwar international law. Shows...

The New Histories of International Criminal Law

Immi Tallgren, Thomas Skouteris

Carefully curated, this book focusses in on themes that resonate strongly in contemporary debates in international law, such as gender,...

The Clash of Legitimacies

Andrea Gamberini

Offers a truly original reinterpretation of the state-building process in medieval Italy. Illuminates the myriad conflicts attending...