Oxford University Press

This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark        the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and        one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century.The book        brings together contributions from seventeen of the world's foremost legal...

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This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by leading scholars such as Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, it examines the conceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women...

When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth        Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of        citizens to be "e;secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against        unreasonable searches and seizures."e; Of course, "e;papers and...

Nine new essays examine the close connection between theology and cosmology in Stoic philosophy. The contributors discuss the nature of god, his relation to the material world, fate and causation, rival cosmologies, and the ethical and religious consequences of the Stoic theories of god and cosmos....