Eric J Heinze

Eric Heinze

Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at the School of Law Queen Mary, University of London. His contributions are in the areas of legal philosophy, ...

Ethics, Authority, and War: Non-State Actors and the Just War Tradition

In original essays written by both senior scholars as well as rising younger scholars in the field of international ethics, this volume addresses the ethics of war in an era when non-state actors are playing an increasingly prominent role in armed conflict. Central to this concern is the issue of wh...

The Concept of Injustice [Hardcover] [2012] (Author) Eric Heinze

The Concept of Injustice [Hardcover] [2012] 1 Ed. Eric Heinze

The Logic of Liberal Rights: A Study in the Formal Analysis of Legal Discourse (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy)

The Logic of Liberal Rights uses basic logic to develop a model of argument presupposed in all disputes about civil rights and liberties. No prior training in logic is required, as each step is explained. This analysis does not merely apply general logic to legal arguments but is also specifically t...

Justice, Sustainability, and Security: Global Ethics for the 21st Century

In this interdisciplinary volume, Heinze and a diverse group of senior scholars explore global ethics through sustainability, justice, and security. They address topics within these categories based on recent world events (BP oil spill, 'War on Terror', UN Climate Conference, for example) with an ey...

The Logic Of Constitutional Rights (Applied Legal Philosophy)

Examples are drawn from the world's oldest and most intricate body of law on civil rights and liberties, the case law of the U.S. supreme court. Yet the model is designed to account for any legal system that recognises civil rights and liberties. The author applies techniques of logical analysis to ...

The Concept of Injustice

This book insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice. For 2500 years, philosophers have subordinated the concept of injustice to the concept of justice, as if injustice were only a secondary, derivative notion. This book summons literary classics, notably Shakespeare, to argue that in...

Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention

Examines the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of military intervention for humanitarian reasons.

The Logic Of Constitutional Rights

Landmark Cases in Public International Law