Books in the Legal Theory Today series

This book develops the rudiments of a sociological perspective on state law and legal theory drawing upon Max Weber's writings.

This book shows that jurisprudence must acknowledge that the political, the moral, and the legal are located within a continuum of practical reason.

This book takes as its starting point Shelley's assertion that poets are legislators and then tracks this aesthetic.

The book does not claim to solve the mysteries of meta-legal theory but seeks to contribute to and engender rigorous and focused debate on this topic.

This book explores the conceptual place of risk across a number of fields of law.

Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability.

This book offers a critical re-appraisal of contemporary feminist legal and political theory.

This book offers a genealogical explanation of laws normativity.

This book aims to provide an overview of how economic analysis enriches understanding of law and provides standards for its critical evaluation.

This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems.

Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability.

The book offers a clear, coherent and critical account of these complex moral and intellectual processes entailed in the making of legal persons.

This book examines the role of consent as a procedural justification, discussing the prerequisites for an adequate consent.

An accessible introduction to Luhmanns' complex work as well as an exploration of his claim that jurisprudence is part of laws self-description.

This fresh, contextual and interdisciplinary book argues that we live in an age 'after Modernity' and that legal theory must account for this fact.