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Principles of Criminal Law (with Built-in Study Guide) (3rd Edition)
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This paperback book, which is briefer than most of its competitors, presents the basic concepts and principles of criminal law.
The authors present the prevailing positions on specific issues, without going into lengthy explanations of majority and minority positions. This clarity of presentation allows them to include material not often found in other books on criminal law, such as white collar crime, victimless crime, political crime, and non-political crimes against the government.
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Biodiversity and the Precautionary Principle: Risk and Uncertainty in Conservation and Sustainable Use
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* The first book to examine the application of the Precautionary Principle -- the most important and controversial approach to biodiversity and natural resource management worldwide
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Great uncertainty typically surrounds decisions and management actions in the conservation of biodiversity and natural resource management, and yet there are risks of serious and irreversible harm for both biodiversity and the humans that rely on it. The Precautionary Principle underlies all international conservation efforts and entails acting to avoid serious or irreversible environmental harm, despite lack of scientific certainty as to the likelihood, magnitude, or cause of harm.
This book, the first to examine the application of the Precautionary Principle to conservation, analyzes how it has been applied in the
management of biodiversity, including the impact on forests products and aquaculture, as well as wildlife and livelihoods. The book also examines how power, equity, and science intertwine in the Principle. Evidence is drawn from a vast range of countries and the book provides guidelines for applying the Precautionary Principle in all international contexts for the conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity and natural resources.
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This book offers the only detailed presentation available in English of the theory of Muslim law (usul al-fiqh). Often regarded as the most sophisticated of the traditional Islamic disciplines, Muslim jurisprudence is concerned with the way in which the rituals and laws of religion are derived from the Qur'an and the Sunna - the precedent of the Prophet. At a time when many Muslim countries are moving towards the reintroduction of Islamic law, it is important that the principles and nature of this rich and diverse legal tradition be correctly understood, both by legislators themselves and by outside observers. Written as a university textbook, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence is distinguished by its clarity and readability; it is an essential reference work not only for students of Islamic law, but also for anyone with an interest in Muslim society or in issues of comparative jurisprudence.
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A five star contribution to the understanding of Islamic law.......2007-05-11
An exellent book covering the principles of 'Usul al-Fiqh' or the fundamentals of Islamic jurisprudence according to the four sunni schools of Islam.
The book begins with an introduction to the principles of Islamic jurisprudence and a short history of its development before the author covers its understanding (which is far more complicated than what some modern so called 'experts' on the middle east (and yes, I am talking about Pipes (a man who thinks Muhammad may have not even existed! (see his reviews) and the rabble of pseudo 'scholars' (such as the author of 'Politically incorrect guide') who cant even speak a word of Arabic and the equally useless (unless your a tabloid journalist) fanatics would have you believe)
The author further covers the development of Usul during the last few centuries especially concering the controversial issue of Ijtihad and the attempts over the centuries to revive it.
An exellent read but not one that can be taken lightly. It will need to be read and read again, this is a book for serious study.
A treatise on Islamic law, its sources and history .......2005-07-27
This 390 pages book is a dense compendium (or treatise) of Islamic law for students and scholars. It is not for beginners and it is a tough reading. Since this textbook is for student of Islamic law written by an Islamic lawyer, this book assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge of both Qur'an and Shariah. The author is professor of law at the International Islamic University of Malaysia, founded in the 80s to be a center of excellence in several fields and sponsored by the Organization of Islamic Conference and other governments. The main language at the University is English and this text is mainly catered for those students. In the preface, the author says he had initiated the book while he was teaching Islamic Law to postgraduate students at McGill University in Montreal. However, it does not offer international comparisons with other Western legal systems. The book devotes a lot of space to the rules of interpretations of the law within a historical context. So you get Islamic law and history to explain its developments within the several traditions in the Islamic world. It is divided in 19 chapters that span from the Source of the law (Quar'an and Sunnah); Rules of interpretations; Abrogation; Analogical deduction; Revealed laws preceding the Shariah; Equity in Islamic law; Public interest; Custom; Conflict of evidences etc. The author shows a scholarly detachment from the subject and therefore don't expect moral judgments of value on a specific norm, whether it is right or wrong, but only a legal analysis. It is a worthy reading for those who have an interest, other than in Islamic law, in Political Science, International relations and Islamic civilization.
Best of Its Kind.......2000-12-31
I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in Islamic Law, either Muslim or not. To my knowledge, it is the best book available of its kind in the english language. In these days of many extremes, it is essential to erase our ignorance with knowledge.
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Business Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants
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Being a Legal Nurse Consultant is your calling. You love what you do. You are ready to go into practice for yourself. You have the education, the drive, and the ability - but is that really enough to succeed? Business Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants is an invaluable resource developed under the auspices of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC) that can help you along the way. The editor taps into the collective wisdom and experience of LNCs who have already built their own thriving practices. These trailblazing professionals reveal the secrets of their successes and the pitfalls they encountered through chapters that illustrate how to: · Develop a straightforward, comprehensive business plan · Cultivate the precise marketing mix that gets results · Engage the right technology for your web site and office needs · Effectively manage finances, employees, contractors - and change · Build and maintain beneficial client relationships · Leverage what you know to become a successful expert witness · Deal with that potential minefield known as ethics While these issues may seem overwhelming, they don't have to be. Business Principles for Legal Nurse Consultants is an essential single-source guide that can help you navigate through the details so you can get on with your career!
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MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF MEDIA LAW is a comprehensive and concise summary of media law. The text offers a lawyer's grasp of current cases and a teacher's grasp of the key principles of communication law. The text is revised every year to include the most recent developments in communication law through the end of the Supreme Court's term. Each August, a new edition is available for fall classes, with recent developments through July 1, 2005, fully integrated into the text, not added as an appendix or separate supplement.
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Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers left and right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the trouble with principle. Specifically, Fish has a quarrel with neutral principles. The trouble? They operate by sacrificing everything people care about to their own purity. And they are deployed with equal highmindedness and equally absurd results by liberals and conservatives alike.
In this bracing book, Fish argues that there is no realm of higher order impartiality--no neutral or fair territory on which to stake a claim--and that those who invoke one are always making a rhetorical and political gesture. In the end, it is history and context, the very substance against which a purportedly abstract principle defines itself, that determines a principle's content and power. In the course of making this argument, Fish takes up questions about academic freedom and hate speech, affirmative action and multiculturalism, the boundaries between church and state, and much more. Sparing no one, he shows how our notions of intellectual and religious liberty--cherished by those at both ends of the political spectrum--are artifacts of the very partisan politics they supposedly transcend. The Trouble with Principle offers a provocative challenge to the debates of our day that no intellectually honest citizen can afford to ignore.
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A Masterpiece of Sharp Thought on Contemporary Issues.......2006-01-07
Fish's book on principle, where he dismantles the fanciful notions of "neutral zones" and "non-position positions" of argumentation, is a truly engaging work, like most of his books have been. You can't quite function fully as an American intellectual unless you engage with his thinking at some level, even if it is to disagree. He's often misrepresented in certain circles as "just another academic nutjob," but nothing could be more foolishly dismissive. Think he's a right-winger? Think again -- he supports affirmative action. Think he's a lockstep-leftist? Hold on: he is not a strong pro-abortion guy. Is he an enlightenment liberal? A closet commie, or a neocon? He must at least be a multiculturalist! No -- at least, not the way many academics often are. Is he anti-religion? Anti-Christianity? The answers to these and many questions may surprise you. This is what makes his thinking so much fun, and so fascinating to explore -- in other words, he's about the precise opposite of most academic worker bees.
Any "intellectual" book that opens with a long allusion to "The Wild Bunch" has got to have something going for it. And this one does: Fish moves calmly and with marvellous irony through pop culture, serious philosophy, current case law, classical literature, and questions of faith and knowledge. Sometimes the best irony is when there isn't any. With chapter titles like "Truth and Toilets" and "Beliefs about Belief," you know there's something here, if not for everyone, then at least for a lot of us. For example, the essay "Putting Theory in its Place" uses a (deliberately skewered) quotation from Meatloaf -- "two out of four ain't so good" -- to respond to one speculator's suggestion that Fish was "in favor of affirmative action, abortion rights, and equal treatment of gays and lesbians, and he generally opposes university speech codes." What I like most about this is that he manages to ascribe to Meatloaf, in the middle of all this, the modifying phrase "great singer." Who else is willing to do that? Academics love to hide behind obfuscation, crippling and encrypting their expression with impenetrable jargon, perhaps (apparently) deathly afraid to make any actual assertion whatsoever, lest they be deemed by their peers as either stupid, or, worse yet, actually believing in something instead of holding a "neutral position" or principle.
I studied with Professor Fish (along with eight or nine other PhD students) at Duke in his last Milton seminar there before he left for Chicago. I have to say he's got the sharpest mind I've ever worked with, and he refuses to be pinned down to party lines on either right or left. He just plain thinks -- and thinks well. Nothing escapes critique (or even appreciation!) when merited. This doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I've yet to encounter anyone who causes me to enagage with ideas like he does. I have my own students read a variety of his works and they are almost always stimulated, challenged, and startled by his arguments. His texts, more than any other, invigorate classroom discussion among bright students, no matter what they bring to the table individually. A great read for anyone wanting to engage with a great mind that isn't utterly enslaved to the same old thing (whatever that may be...)
Exit stage left from the enlightenment.......2005-09-26
First and most importantly, no one should presume to have refuted antifoundationalism without confronting the challenge Fish lays down in these pages.
Since they are putatively on opposite sides of the academic and culture wars, it is striking how closely the position Stanley Fish takes in this book resembles that of Peter Kreeft in his "A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews With an Absolutist": lurking behind enlightenment precepts such as open-mindedness, neutrality, impartiality, fairness, tolerance, diversity, and so on, each sees a more uncompromising, definite, and substantive set of values. You may say you are for free speech and equal opportunity for all, but when it comes down to hard cases, there are forms of speech and opportunity you would quash. For Fish, this means these frequently invoked principles have merely verbal status; for Kreeft, this means we need to forsake the enlightenment's empty promises and make sure we pick God's values. (Kreeft will be glad to tell you which ones those are.)
Fish and Kreeft reduce the enlightenment to rhetoric and differ only in their conception of what lies at the bottom: for Fish, it is rhetoric (a.k.a. politics) all the way down; for Kreeft, there is an exclusive discourse that belongs and resolves to God. Unsurprisingly, Kreeft's views correspond with this Godly Archimedean point at every turn. How convenient!
One last similarity is that both books are repetitive, but Fish's argument gains cogency from the repetition because of the way in which he presents challenges from a wide variety of thinkers and across a number of illustrative cases. Where Kreeft offers unshakeable certainty about his conclusions, Fish offers erudition, completeness, and spectacularly clear prose that other academics and philosophers would do well to mimic.
Go fish.......2004-05-17
The trouble with this text,of course, is that Fish's thought that all thought is culturally and subjectively driven, etc., is that his thought that this is so is also culturally, historically, socially and subjectively driven. This is taken into account, and I must say he defends it as well as he possibly can when this -seems- to happen to be so. It is very similar to the moral relativists, though, who take a moral stance that there is none. This is fascinating reading in circles.
If this book didn't make you think...what are you thinking?!.......2004-01-13
It has been about three months since I've read this book and I am still calling it to mind on a regular basis. Like some reviewers below, I give this book a high rating while admitting that Fish's views are unpalatable, infuriating, and troubling, as often as not.
Fish's central thesis here is that there are no such things as neutral principles - those completely objective, a priori dicta, formula, and abstract ideas to base our 'neutral' theories on. From my experience with this book (and I think you will have the same experience), not only was Fish saying something quite differnt (less radical?!) than what his critics pretend he was saying, but I found myself in more agreement with Fish than I thought I would (or wanted to be!).
To make it brief: Fish is saying that whereas intellectuals like to think that we derive theories from neutral principles ("We value freedom, liberty and individual autonomy; therefore we shall create a policy of free-markets."), it is usually the opposite that takes place: we figure out what our ideology is and THEN we quest for the 'neutral principles' that will justify it. ("I believe in the free-market; the free-market emphasises liberty, freedom, and individual autonomy, so I will use those to justify my preferences.") More directly, the neutral principles, Fish writes, are not _a priori_ but _a posteriori_. Actually his most revealing example (towards the end of the book, as I recall) was that of christians struggling to 'justify' creation science by using, of all things, the postmodern criticism that science (or evolution, at least) is simply ideology masked as empiricism. These christian thinkers even CITE POSTMODERN THEORIESTS AS AUTHORITIES. This is fishy (excuse the pun) becuase, as Fish writes, there is no way these christian thinkers would have aligned themselves with the post-modern argument (that they usually criticize) unless they found the argument, not true, but useful. That is, whereas christians might believe in objectivity of facts as a general principle, they don't really mean that. They'll gladly switch to the postmodern 'relativist' argument if it suits their needs.
He's not ONLY bashing the christins or the right wing in this book (his criticism is dispersed over all ideology). Rather, through 'deconstruction', he is trying to show that ALL general principles are constructed in the service of conclusions ALREADY REACHED. I do not take it that far as I think that in science and law, for instance, where the rules are already somewhat 'set', one can reach conclusions not ideological by nature, therefore I found myself disagreeing with Fish's assessment of the first amendment as ideologically laden.
Still, I found the book a warm antidote to some of the problems in this petty world I sometimes call crackademia. Particularly, I can vividly recall not being able to control my laughter (signifying agreement with Fish) in, of all places, my university library, during a chapter where Fish criticizes academic philosophers. Philosophers, he says, think that in order for morality, epistemology, of what have us, to work, there needs to be a coherent, internally consistent system or theory (and it is the philosophers job to argue for one). Therefore, moral philosophers are baffled because morality (as it is in the real world) doesn't seem to follow one system, any system. The philosopher wants a sound argument for a cogent system, looking at human action as somehow extracted from this system. The philosopehr wants first principles (without those, we can't act). Fish's response? "Open your eyes, look at the world, and realize, dear philosopher, that people survive without your philosophic systems and first principles." The philosophers job, then, is not to concoct general principles or argue for systems that nobody will use anyway, but to actually look at behavior, action, and things as they are in the real world, not the fake one philosophers gleefully construct for themselves. The chapter is the last one called "On Truth and Toilets" and is alone worth the price of the book!
To end, while I do not agree with Fish's ideas as applied as extremely as he applies them, I think there is much more truth to what Fish says than critics let on. Fish does not say that judgment is impossible; he only says that neutral judgment (an oxymoron) is impossible. We judge from where we are; our first person subjective viewpoint. Nor is Fish a nihilist. If the world is not objective, FIsh is not saying it is nihililstic, but _intersubjective_. Basically, may the best first-person argument win. Whether Fish seems like your cup of tea or makes your stomach churn, you will not come away from this book unchanged or unscathed.
Posturing, pseudointellectual hooey........2003-09-26
All Stanley Fish does is rephrase Machiavelli and Hasan I Sabah. "Nothing is true, all is permissible, and I will gladly lie to you if it advances my interests." He's a phony, his prose is repetitive and self-congratulatory, and his constant and shameless self-promotion is nauseating to behold.
He is the glib and gladhanding public face of an utterly useless and morally repugnant philosophy, and he has as much as admitted--in this book as well as his other works-- that he'd be happy in a totalitarian society as long as he and his fellow postmodernism-peddlers were the ones making the rules and burying the bodies.
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Lon Fuller coined the term "eunomics" for "the study of good order and workable social arrangements." The essays in this volume--representing most of the work of his mature years--are his "exercises in eunomics." They are studies of the principal forms of legal order, including contract, adjudication, mediation, legislation, and administration. In addition, the volume includes several essays on legal education and the ethics of lawyering. The volume also includes a lecture on freedom published here for the first time, in which Fuller develops the idea that the forms of legal order are the diverse vehicles by which freedom is effectively exercised in society.
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Principles of Law
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WordBridge Publishing presents the translation of the Principles of Law, the first installment of the multivolume Philosophy of Law by Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802-1861), the greatest work of confessionally Christian jurisprudence ever written. The Principles of Law presents the core ideas of Stahl's common-law system.
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This introductory book targets the reader who has the ambition to apply economic analysis but may be missing a technical introduction to its mathematical techniques or seeks a structured elaboration of its philosophical principles. The text juxtaposes economic analysis with moral philosophy, political theory, egalitarianism, and other methodological principles and then progresses to the details of methods such as model-building, derivatives, differential equations, statistical tests, and the use of computer programs.
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Helps redefine the way we see law.......2006-01-04
Outstanding work by a prominent commentator in the law and economics. Georgakopoulos is one of the real leaders in this area, and I've used his work in a number of my own studies and research. I strongly recommend this book for any students of government, law, economics (especially social or welfare economics), and related areas. This puts a whole new spin on the discipline.
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The concept of global justice makes visible how we citizens of affluent countries are potentially implicated in the horrors so many must endure in the so-called less developed countries.
Distinct conceptions of global justice differ in their specific criteria of global justice. However, they agree that the touchstone is how well our global institutional order is doing, compared to its feasible alternatives, in regard to the fundamental human interests that matter from a moral point of view.
We are responsible for global regimes such as the global trading system and the rules governing military interventions. These institutional arrangements affect human beings worldwide, for instance by shaping the options and incentives of governments and corporations. Alternative paths of globalization would have differed in how much violence, oppression, and extreme poverty they engender. And global institutional reforms could greatly enhance human rights fullfillment in the future.
The importance of this global justice approach reaches well beyond philosophy. It helps ordinary citizens evaluate their options and their responsibility for global institutional factors, and it challenges social scientists to address the causes of poverty and hunger that act across borders.
The present volume addresses four main topics regarding global justice: The normative
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human rights standards, and some institutional arrangements that may make the present world order less unjust.
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