According to natural law theory, there exists an objective law of morality based in the nature
of human society or human nature. Thus, natural law is inherently true, not a product of a …

While an abundance of literature covers the right of states to defend themselves against
external aggression, this is the first book dedicated to the right to personal self-defense in …

ABSTRACT A 2018 US Department of Justice report assessing data from thirty states found
that eighty-three percent of those individuals released from state prisons in 2005 were …

This article explores the doctrine of self-defence within the context of the challenges directed
at the imminence requirement, from the perspective of both national and international law …

Self-defense is a right so fundamental that the scholarly literature regularly refers to it as the
ancient right or the first civil right. But despite the right's bedrock status in criminal law …

The" ancient right" of self-defense is among the handful of criminal law areas that has
received substantial academic (and increasingly public) attention, and deservedly so, given …

In 1977, the Israeli parliament (Knesset) changed the section on abortion in the colonial
criminal code which Israel inherited from the British mandate in Palestine. Like most other …

This chapter discusses the issue of access to self-defence for women who kill their abusers,
focusing on the UK landscape. As with most jurisdictions, self-defence is highly significant in …

Drawing from scholarship across law, history, politics and philosophy, Self-Defence in
International and Criminal Law provides a broad and interdisciplinary approach to the …

How should Christians think about law? In every age, this is one of the most difficult
questions faced by followers of Christ. Within the modern church, there is little unity on how …