This noteworthy book develops a new theory of the natural law that takes its orientation from the account of the natural law developed by Thomas Aquinas, as interpreted and supplemented in the context of scholastic theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Though this history might seem irrelevant to twenty-first-century life, Jean Porter shows that the scholastic appro...(展开全部)

This book provides the first systematic, book-length defence of natural law ideas in ethics, politics and jurisprudence since John Finnis's influential Natural Law and Natural Rights. Incorporating insights from recent work in ethical, legal and social theory, it presents a robust and original account of the natural law tradition, challenging common perceptions of natural law a...(展开全部)

In Section 1, I outline the history of natural law theory, covering Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas. In Section 2, I explore two alternative traditions of natural law, and explain why these constitute rivals to the Aristotelian tradition. In Section 3, I go on to elaborate a via negativa along which natural law norms can be discovered. On this basis, I unpack what I ca...(展开全部)

This thought-provoking book develops and elaborates on the artifact theory of law, covering a wide range of related theoretical and practical topics. Offering a range of perspectives that flesh out the artifact theory of law, it also introduces criticisms of previous formulations of the theory and inquires into its potential payoffs. Featuring international contributions from b...(展开全部)

Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of ...(展开全部)

尼克拉斯•卢曼（Niklas Luhmann，1927—1998） 德国继韦伯之后最富原创性的社会理论大师，社会系统论旗帜性人物，德国比勒菲尔德大学社会学系教授。在与哈贝马斯论战的三十年中，引导了德国乃至整个欧洲在二十世纪后半叶的社会科学潮流，被誉为“当代极少数几个确实 改变了观察范式的社会学家之一”。卢曼倡导“社会学启蒙”，于1989年获得德国哲学界最高荣誉之一“黑格尔奖”（三年授予一位，同获该奖者还包括哲学家伽达默尔），被称为社会学界的“黑格尔”。卢曼著作众多，脉络清晰，包括《法社会学》、《社会诸系统》、《社会的法律》、《社会的经济》等四十余部。 译者 宾凯：北京大学法学博士，上海交通大学凯原法学院讲师。 赵春燕：北京大学法学博士，北京石油化工学院讲师。

尼克拉斯•卢曼（Niklas Luhmann，1927—1998） 德国继韦伯之后最富原创性的社会理论大师，社会系统论旗帜性人物，德国比勒菲尔德大学社会学系教授。在与哈贝马斯论战的三十年中，引导了德国乃至整个欧洲在二十世纪后半叶的社会科学潮流，被誉为“当代极少数几个确实 改变了观察范式的社会学家之一”。卢曼倡导“社会学启蒙”，于1989年获得德国哲学界最高荣誉之一“黑格尔奖”（三年授予一位，同获该奖者还包括哲学家伽达默尔），被称为社会学界的“黑格尔”。卢曼著作众多，脉络清晰，包括《法社会学》、《社会诸系统》、《社会的法律》、《社会的经济》等四十余部。 译者 宾凯：北京大学法学博士，上海交通大学凯原法学院讲师。 赵春燕：北京大学法学博士，北京石油化工学院讲师。

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 The existence and grounding of human or natural rights is a heavily contested issue today, not only in the West but in the debates raging between "fundamentalists" and "liberals" or "modernists in the Islamic world. So, too, are the revised versions of natural law espoused by thinkers such as John Finnis and Robert George. This book focus...(展开全部)

The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law. Coercion and the Nature of Law is concerned with reviving the Coercion Thesis, presenting a strong case for the inherently coercive nature of legal regulation, and arguing that anything properly chara...(展开全部)