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Written anonymously at the end of the Year Book period, the Discourse Upon the Exposicion and Understandinge of Statutes is the earliest English treatise on the subject. Originally published: San Marino: Huntington Library, 1942. vii, 194 pp. Thorne’s edition has the additional appeal of lengthy manuscript notes compiled from a copy owned by Sir Thomas Egerton [1540?–1617], an attorney who held several important posts in Elizabethan England including Solicitor-General and Lord Chancellor. Reprint of first edition.

The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively. It addresses the controversies surrounding the idea of normative supervenience and the philosophical conceptions they generated, deserve a recapitulation, as well as a new impulse for further development.

Recently, there has been renewed interest in the concepts of normativity and supervenience. The research on normativity - a term introduced...

In this book, experts from the fields of law and philosophy explore the works of Aristotle to illuminate the much-debated and fascinating relationship between emotions and justice. Emotions matter in connection with democracy and equity - they are relevant to the judicial enforcement of rights, legal argumentation, and decision-making processes in legislative bodies and courts. The decisive role that emotions, feelings and passions play in these processes cannot be ignored - not even by those who believe that emotions have no legitimate place in the public sphere.

A growing body of...

Das Religions(verfassungs)recht hat angesichts der aktuellen religionspolitischen Lage Konjunktur. Kompakt und leserfreundlich fuhrt der Autor in das Thema ein. Konkret und nachvollziehbar erlautert er die Grundprobleme, bezieht aber kontrare Ansichten mit ein...