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W. J. Waluchow

Review "Anyone wishing to see a well-argued defense of a legal theory that attempts to take legal phenomena at fact value...

Should Trees Have Standing?: Law, Morality, and the Environment

Christopher D. Stone

Review "Christopher Stone's book reflects a truly original contribution to the environmental law movement. Stone's unique...

Quo Vadis Medical Healing: Past Concepts and New Approaches (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 44)

S. Elm, Stefan N. Willich

Review From the reviews: "The book aims to pique interest in the concept of medical healing, and shed light on how a dive...

Practical Reason and Norms

Joseph Raz

Review `Any serious reader should recognize the volume's rigor, sophistication, subtlety, and admirable ambitious sweep. ...

Ethics, Law and Society - Volume 4

Soren Holm, Ian Kenway, Jennifer Gunning

About the Author Dr Jennifer Gunning is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and ...

Torture: When the Unthinkable Is Morally Permissible

Mirko Bagaric, Julie Clarke

From the Back Cover The "war on terror" has brought the subject of torture to the forefront of public attention. In con...

Justice, Equality and Constructivism: Essays on G. A. Cohen's Rescuing Justice and Equality (Ratio Special Issues)

Brian Feltham

From the Back Cover G.A. Cohen has made a major contribution to contemporary political theory as an egalitarian and a cri...

Legislating Morality: Pluralism and Religious Identity in Lawmaking

Lucinda Peach

Review "Recommended for general readers, undergraduates, and graduate students."--CHOICE About the Author Lucin...

Human Rights in a Post Human World: Critical Essays

Upendra Baxi

About the Author Upendra Baxi is an internationally renowned scholar of constitutional law. He is Professor at the Unive...

Moral Vision and Professional Decisions: The Changing Values of Women and Men Lawyers

Dana Crowley Jack, Rand Jack

From Publishers Weekly To research this incisive study of "lawyers' moral values and psychological development" in light ...

The Justice Broker: Lawyers and Ordinary Litigation

Herbert M. Kritzer

Review "A model of competent social-scientific inquiry into a complex social phenomenon. It is dispassionate, thorough, a...

Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict

Michael L. Gross

Review "Michael Gross has written a thoughtful, lucid book about the dilemma of 'asymmetric conflict,' as when a nation c...

Pragmatic Neuroethics: Improving Treatment and Understanding of the Mind-Brain (Basic Bioethics)

Eric Racine

Review Today the measurable health burden of neurological and mental health disorders matches or even surp...

Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law)

Arthur Ripstein

Review "Yields a wealth of insights..." Dialogue "This is an excellent and challenging book that makes a significant co...

Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics

Joseph Raz

Review "The arguments throughout both sections are carefully and reasonably developed and invariably shed significant lig...

The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law

Steven Lubet

From Publishers Weekly Lubet, a law professor at Northwestern (Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn from Car...

Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law

Martha C. Nussbaum

From Publishers Weekly Often, contentious social issues like gay marriage, pornography and stem cell research are framed ...

Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled (Basic Bioethics)

Norman L. Cantor

Review "Autonomy rules American bioethics, but as Norman Cantor demonstrates in this wonderfully lucid and...

Terms of Trust: Arguments over Ethics in Australian Governments

John Uhr

About the Author Now a senior academic at the Australian National University, author John Uhr has worked as a parliamenta...

Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View

Arthur G. Lipman, Douglas E. Rollins, Erik Luna, Jeanette C. Roberts, Margaret P. Battin, Paul M. Gahlinger, Troy L. Booher

Review "The monograph is cohesive, well written, and unbiased; the extensive references and bibliography should be most v...

Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive Views

Arthur G. Lipman, Douglas E. Rollins, Erik Luna, Margaret Pabst Battin, Paul M. Gahlinger

Review "The monograph is cohesive, well written, and unbiased; the extensive references and bibliography should be most v...

Essential Professional Conduct: Accountancy for Lawyers (Essential Professional Conduct)

David Barker, Bronwyn Olliffe, Brownwyn Olliffe

About the Author Bronwyn Olliffe, BA, LLB, LLM, is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney ...

Patent Ethics Litigation

David Hricik

Review "David Hricik is the authority that the intellectual property community relies on for answers to ethics issues in ...

100 Cases in Clinical Ethics and Law

Carolyn Johnston, Penelope Bradbury

Review "This is a basic introduction to the field of medical ethics from the clinical perspective and is particularly wel...

A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age

Daniel Markovits

Review [An] ambitious, original, and theoretically elegant book. -- David Luban, Ethics A Modern Legal Ethics is an intel...

Moral Aspects of Legal Theory: Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility

David Lyons

Review "A rich and diverse collection of important essays by one of this country's outstanding legal and political philos...

Essential Professional Conduct: Legal Ethics (Essential Professional Conduct)

Geoff Monahan

About the Author Geoff Monahan, BA, LLB, LLM, Solicitor and Public Notary of the Supreme Court of New Wales, is Associate...

Patent Ethics Prosecution

David Hricik, Mercedes Meyer

Review "This is a book that includes specific guidance for both patent attorneys and patent agents. It should be within t...

Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 9: Assuring Safety in Long Term Care: Ethical Imperatives, Legal Strategies, and Practical Limitations

Marshall Kapp Jd Mph Fclm

About the Author Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM, was educated at Johns Hopkins University (BA), George Washington Universi...

Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions

Cass R. Sunstein, Martha C. Nussbaum

Review "Eloquent essays."--The Atlantic Monthly "Our society is in the midst of a major debate over animal rights, our d...

Psychiatry in Law Law in Psychiatry

Ralph Slovenko

About the Author Ralph Slovenko, B.E., M.A., J.D., Ph. D., is professor of law at Wayne State University. ...

Essential Project Investment Governance and Reporting: Preventing Project Fraud And Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Steven C. Rollins, Richard B. Lanza

About the Author Steven Rollins, PMP, MBA, is a well-known expert in Enterprise Program/Project Management Office, a best...

Kurzgrammatik Spanisch (Ausgabe 2008)

Kurzgrammatik Spanisch (Ausgabe 2008)...

Der Gegenschlag: Roman

Vince Flynn

Der Gegenschlag: Roman...

Nietzsches Genialitat der Gerechtigkeit (German Edition)

Petersen, Jens

Nietzsches Genialitat der Gerechtigkeit (German Edition)...

Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer

Milton C. Regan

About the Author Milton C. Regan, Jr., is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. ...

A Debate Over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries

Hillel Steiner, Matthew Kramer, N. E. Simmonds

Review "...all three of the essays are quite well written, and the authors expound their positions with admirable vigor a...

The Verdict of the Court: Passing Judgment in Law and Psychology

Jenny Mcewan

Review ..it provides a concise invitation to rethink current treatments of topics, standards, and beliefs within the law....

Re-envisioning Sovereignty (Law, Ethics and Governance)

Ramesh Thakur, Charles Sampford, Trudy Jacobsen

About the Author Trudy Jacobsen is a Research Assistant with the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Gr...

Organizing Transnational Accountability: Mobilization, Tools, Challenges

Christina Garsten, Magnus Bostrom

Review 'In the expanding academic literature on accountability, there remains significant ambiguity about the scope and c...

Treatise on Law

Aquinas, Saint Thomas

Language Notes Text: English, Latin (translation) Original Language: Latin --This text refers to an out of print or un...

Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice, Second Edition

Paul S. Appelbaum, Charles W. Lidz, Jessica W. Berg, Lisa S. Parker

Review "This remarkable book would be an excellent core text for every medical school curriculum." -- American Journal of...

Ethics, Law, and Aging Review: Issues in Conducting Research With and About Older Persons. Vol. 8

Marshall Kapp Jd Mph Fclm

About the Author Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM, was educated at Johns Hopkins University (BA), George Washington Universi...

The Law and Ethics of Medical Research: International Bioethics and Human Rights

Aurora Plomer

The growing globalization of medical research and the application of new biotechnologies in morally contested areas has forced a ...

La Raz?n Del Deber Moral Y Jur?dico

Juan Damián Traverso

La Raz?n Del Deber Moral Y Jur?dico...

Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector: A Toolkit

Development, Oecd Organisation For Economic Co-Operation

Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector: A Toolkit...

Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges

Margrit Shildrick, Roxanne Mykitiuk

The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of...

In Search of Consistency: Ethics And Animals

Lisa Kemmerer

This volume introduces the most important ideas in animal ethics and builds on a critical dialogue emerging at the intersection ...

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