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    Politics and the Courts: Toward a General Theory of Public Law » Read Now

    by Barbara M. Yarnold. 154 pgs.

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    In the public law area, it has been noted that judicial decisionmaking is not always objective, that the courts are not constrained by the law and the facts of the case, and that courts are actually policymakers influenced by extraneous factors having little to do with the legal and factual matters...
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    Public Law and Political Theory » Read Now

    by Martin Loughlin. 292 pgs.

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    Public Law and the Scientific Theory Public Law and Political Theory Interpretation in Public Law The Structures of Public Law Thought Foundations of Normativism Foundations of Functionalism Traditions of Public Law Thought Contemporary Thought in Public Law The Triumph of...
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    Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes, and the Law: Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem » Read Now

    by Guido Calabresi. 214 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...Attitudes and the Law Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem GUIDO CALABRESI Sterling Professor of...Abrams lectures Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Public...
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    The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance » Read Now

    by Peter H. Schuck. 492 pgs.

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    In the Limits of Law, Peter Schuck draws on law, social science, and history to explore this momentous clash between law's compelling promise of ordered liberty and the realistic limits of its capacity to deliver on this promise.
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    An Institutional Theory of Law: Keeping Law in Its Place (Chap. 8 "Public Law") » Read Now

    by Peter Morton. 416 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Modern law is to be understood as comprising norms which are implicated in particular forms of life which -- animated by the modern values of individualism -- have emerged in democratic polities. Failure to understand the nature of such fundamental institutional forms as `society' and `state', and...
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    Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law: A Comparative Study of Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory, and Legal Institutions ("Public Law Litigation" begins on p. 150) » Read Now

    by P. S. Atiyah, Robert S. Summers. 444 pgs.

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    This book has a completely original theme, or set of themes. It offers first a new way of analyzing styles of legal reasoning--between more "formal" and more "substantive" styles--that is a major contribution to jurisprudence in its own right. The authors then go on to demonstrate in detail the...
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    Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory ("Private and Public Law" begins on p. 92) » Read Now

    by Hans Kelsen, Bonnie Litschewski Paulson, Stanley L. Paulson. 172 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    One of the leading legal philosophers of this century, Kelsen published this short treatise in 1934, when the neo-Kantian influence on his work was at its zenith. An earlier, "constructivist" phase had been displaced by his effort to provide something approximating a neo-Kantian foundation for his...
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    A Special Relationship? American Influences on Public Law in the UK » Read Now

    by Ian H. Loveland. 322 pgs.

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    This work is a collection of topical essays by many of the UK's leading public lawyers and centred on a single theme: the influence of US jurisprudence upon English Public Law. The contributors address a lively range of topics, while the introduction pulls the many and varied discussions and...
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    A Source-Book on French Law: Public Law--Constitutional and Administrative Law Private Law--Structure, Contract » Read Now

    by Bernard Rudden. 523 pgs.

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    The French legal system is, of all the Common Market legal systems, the most approachable for the common lawyer. An acclaimed resource now in its third edition, A Sourcebook of French Law consists largely of extracts chosen to show the sources, basic legal methods, categories and techniques, and...
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    Public Law in Israel » Read Now

    by Itzhak Zamir, Allen Zysblat. 444 pgs.

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    The origins of this work lie in an attempt by Israeli lawyers to describe and analyse the remarkable efforts of the Supreme Court of Israel to intervene in all kinds of government actions on behalf of basic civil rights and the preservation of the rule of law. Working essentially with the basic...

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