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Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses. The book is organised in three parts: Part I sets out the key elements of modern law and their relation to political, economic, and social conditions. Part II presents competing accounts of the nature of legal validity, legality, legal reasoning, and justice. Both parts feature corresponding tutorial questions. Part III contains advanced topics including chapters on legal pluralism, law and disciplinary power, and law and the Anthropocene. Every chapter gives guidance on further reading. This fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to take into account the latest developments in jurisprudential scholarship. Additional material is included in the coverage of social law, colonialism, critical race theory, the challenges of digital technology, and the emergence of new legal subjects. Accessible, interdisciplinary and socially informed, Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts is essential reading for all students of jurisprudence and legal philosophy.

A Editora Contracorrente tem a honra de anunciar a publicação do livro Constitucionalismo político e a ameaça do'mercado total', de Emilios Christodoulidis. Trata-se do segundo volume da coleção'Desafios Constitucionais Contemporâneos', coordenada por Chris Thornhill. Com cuidadosa tradução de Pedro Canário, a obra debate, de modo inovador, os desafios impostos pelo mundo globalizado aos princípios do constitucionalismo político. Nas palavras do jurista Pedro Serrano, o livro'se vale da nomenclatura Constituição Política não com o propósito de apartá-la de uma Constituição Jurídica, mas de distingui-la das chamadas formas de'constitucionalismo de mercado', as quais (…) procuram subordinar as expectativas normativas da Constituição e, inclusive, as expressões da vontade democrática às exigências do poder econômico'. Com amplo destaque ao caso latino-americano – cujo constitucionalismo, de acordo com o autor, apresenta características novas ('a dos movimentos políticos antissistema'e a da'referência explícita ao poder constituinte') –, a obra se revela de leitura indispensável a todos que se preocupam com a democracia constitucional.

Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses. The book is presented in three parts: the first two contain general themes with corresponding tutorial questions, and the third contains advanced topics. Every chapter in the book gives guidance on further reading. Accessible, interdisciplinary and socially informed, this book has been revised to take into account the latest developments in jurisprudential scholarship.

In a critical engagement with the function of public law and with constitutionalism in its political dimensions, this volume brings together the reflections of three leading constitutionalists: Martin Loughlin, James Tully and Frank Michelman. Comprising three critical commentaries on each, it addresses the multiple ways in which public law is implicated in the logic of rule. This operates on the one hand in maintaining and underwriting relative patterns of power and weakness through political structures and processes. On the other hand, public law is considered to contain the potential to redress these patterns through the use of constitutional authority, social and economic as well as civil and political rights, redistribution of political power, the expansion of territorial governance, and moves to supra-state levels of authority. The book reproduces, in a succinct and organized way, the insights into both the limitations and the potentialities of public law within its political setting.