Pure theory of law

Livro the law in quest of itself

Society and nature

Livro em bom estado. -- Páginas limpas e em ótimo estado, perfeita leitura. Miolo firme. Lombada conservada. Corte conservado, com sinais leves de poeira e amarelado pelo tempo. Capa dura e sobrecapa conservadas. Sem riscos ou grifos.

The first casebook, Harvard Law School, 1871. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1871. xvi, 1022 pp. The landmark work that introduced the revolutionary idea of the case system to legal education, which Langdell instituted in his position as Dean at Harvard law School. A response to the European educational practice of the expository textbook as the basis of study, Langdell invented...

The Most Important Treatise on Criminal Law Produced by American Legal ScholarshipFirst published to great acclaim in 1947, Halls General Principles of Criminal Law is one of the undisputed classics in its field. It provides more than a broad overview. Drawing on his expertise in jurisprudence and the work of the legal realists, it analyzes the principles that comprise criminal activity with an em...

A concise history of the common law. fifth edition.

A selection of legal maxims

Areopagitica [1890]

Livro a common law for the age of statutes

Livro constitutionalism ancient and modern (1940)

Livro fundamental legal conceptions as applied in judicial

Livro handbook on the construction and interpretation of the law

Livro handbook on the construction and interpretation of the laws

Livro studies in the problem of sovereignty

Livro the code of hammurabi

Livro the dual state

Livro the constitutional history of england

Livro the income tax

Livro the political theory of bolshevism

Livro the paradoxes of legal science

Livro the roman law of damage to property (1886)

Of the vocation of our age for legislation and jurisprudence

The law of the united nations

The principles of the administrative law of the united states

Villainage in england (1892)

Arguably his most important work, Principles of International Law was published after Kelsens retirement from the University of California at Berkeley in 1952. It is an important synthesis of Kelsens earlier work on international law and jurisprudence. Any contribution by Professor Kelsen to international law is always welcome. This certainly applies to the book under review. It represents an atte...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. xi, 743 pp. Reprint of the second edition, which includes a new chapter on the income tax of 1913. Seligman argues persuasively that graduated income taxes distribute the burden of taxation with greater justice than other systems. After he sets out the fundamental problem of the concept of income taxation, Seligman enhances his theoretic...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregard ultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts ...

Reprint of the first American edition. One of the most interesting jurists of the post-World War II era, Ross [1899-1979] was a legal and moral philosopher, scholar of international law and the leading representative of Scandinavian Legal Realism. This book and On Law and Justice (1958) are his principal works. In Directives and Norms Ross asks whether imperatives (or, to use his term, directives)...

Important Study of the Legal Realism MovementThe history of the concept of legal realism as it evolved at Yale University Law School is in fact a history of the development of legal education in this country during the years 1927-1960, as Kalman shows in this important study. The realists attention toward the importance of the role of litigation, the practitioner, judges and judicial reasoning, an...

This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of specific animals or p...

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATIONAccording to Goodnow, politics is concerned with policy and other expressions of state will. Administration is concerned with the faithful execution of enacted legislation. He observes that administration has a tendency to overstep this boundary and concedes that politics must therefore monitor administration to keep it in line with the states wil...

Highly acclaimed when it was published, this remains a classic. McIlwain [1871-1968], a professor of history at Harvard University for more than three decades, developedwith a particular emphasis on Parliament's role as a judicial bodyPollock and Maitlands thesis from their landmark work The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895) that Parliament was not a legislature in the mode...

Since his death Hohfelds essays on the concepts of right and duty have been increasingly recognized for their significance as a foundation of thought on analytical jurisprudence. Posthumously collected and published by Yale University Press in 1964, the essays were originally published as two articles in the Yale Law Journal in 1913 and 1917 and are .now a standard part of legal thinking. Walker, ...

LEGAL POSITIVISM AND NATURAL LAWThree lectures by the Harvard Law School professor examine legal positivism and natural law. In the course of his analysis Fuller discusses Kelsens theory as a reactionary theory and Hobbes theory of sovereignty. He defines legal positivism as the viewpoint that draws a distinction between the law that is and the law that ought to be and interprets natural law as th...

Published after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought William of Orange and Mary to the throne, but written in the throes of the Whig revolutionary plots against Charles II in the early 1680s, John Locke offers a theory of natural law and natural rights which distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate civil governments, and argues for the legitimacy of revolt against tyrannical governments....

LEGAL POSITIVISM AND NATURAL LAWThree lectures by the Harvard Law School professor examine legal positivism and natural law. In the course of his analysis Fuller discusses Kelsens theory as a reactionary theory and Hobbes theory of sovereignty. He defines legal positivism as the viewpoint that draws a distinction between the law that is and the law that ought to be and interprets natural law as th...

A PIONEERING, AND FASCINATING, COMPARATIVE STUDYIn these six lectures Cherry compares ancient Irish, Hebrew, Mohammedan, Roman and English penal law systems. It was described as a sound and careful piece of work in a branch of comparative law not yet adequately treated by any English writer in an 1891 review in the Law Quarterly Review (Vol. 7, p. 89).RICHARD ROBERT CHERRY [1859-1923] was an Irish...

Reprint of the first edition. This classic work by the importantAustrian jurist is the fullest exposition of his enormouslyinfluential pure theory of law, which includes a theory of the state.It also has an extensive appendix that discusses the pure theory incomparison with the law of nature, positivism, historical natural law,metaphysical dualism and scientific-critical philosophy. The scope ofth...

Provocative Essays on Judicial Review. This book contains five historical essays, three of them on the concept ofjudicial review, which is defined as the power and duty of a court to disregardultra vires legislative acts. In Marbury v. Madison and the Doctrine of Judicial Review, Corwin asks:What is the exact legal basis of the power of the Supreme Court to pass uponthe constitutionality of acts o...

An Essential Function of International Law. Professor Kelsens high standing as a scholar is sufficient to commend in advance any volume that comes from his pen. But in this case he has chosen a subject that will at once challenge attention. The main function of the volume, in the words of the author, is to show that collective security is an essential function of law, that it is by its very nature...

Von Savignys treatise on possession; or the jus possessionis of the civil law. 6ª ed.; translated fron the german by Sir Erskine Perry - chief justice of the supreme court at Bombay.novo, não lacrado. E8DLA19062024 EV AM

A rewritten and expanded version of his Freedom of Speech (1920), the seminal work that established modern First Amendment theory, this work became a foremost text of U.S. libertarian thought and influenced the jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Louis Brandeis. It considers, along with other related topics, the social necessity of free speech in the United States from the 1920s throug...