International legal theory, or theories of international law, comprise a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches used to explain and analyse...

concerned with "evaluative" theories of law. It deals with what the goal or purpose of law is, or what moral or political theories provide a foundation for...

IR theories (which stand in contrast to the aforementioned "positivist/rationalist" theories), such as critical theory. Early international relations...

Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s. CLS adherents claim that laws are devised...

of representing the state on the international stage. There are two theories on recognition; the declaratory theory sees recognition as commenting on...

There are theories to consider when deciding how international legal personality should be applied and from where the power comes. The Legal Traditionalist...

normative theories that significantly inform normative legal theory: A conceptual rival against utilitarianism, deontological moral theories explore the...

This is a list of notable conspiracy theories. Many conspiracy theories relate to supposed clandestine government plans and elaborate murder plots. They...

legal-theory-project.html. Accessed 2 October 2017. Levit, Nancy, and Robert R.M. Verchick. "Feminist Legal Theories." Feminist Legal Theory (Second...

Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested...

In jurisprudence and legal philosophy, legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts, such as acts...

(psychological school) Emotional choice theory English school of international relations theory International legal theories Logic of appropriateness Finnemore...

case theories. In popular usage, the term ‘conspiracy’ means a secret agreement of two or more persons usually to commit a bad act. In a broad legal sense...

mainstream IR theories that tend to be both positivist and state-centric. Further linked in with Marxist theories is dependency theory and the core–periphery...

prolonged hiatus. Legal evolution saw a revival at the end of the 20th century and is continued in multiple contemporary theories. Theories of legal evolution...

international Jewish conspiracy or the world Jewish conspiracy has been described as "one of the most widespread and long-running conspiracy theories"...

freemen on the land. The theory holds that an individual has two personas, one of flesh and blood and the other a separate legal personality (i.e., the...

or reason". Natural law theory can also refer to "theories of ethics, theories of politics, theories of civil law, and theories of religious morality"...

investigations and independent reviews have rejected these theories. Proponents of these theories assert that there are inconsistencies in the commonly accepted...

A legal fiction is a construct used in the law where a thing is taken to be true, which is not in fact true, in order to achieve an outcome. Legal fictions...

The Third International Theory (Arabic: نظرية عالمية ثالثة), also known as the Third Universal Theory and Gaddafism, was the style of government proposed...

variety of philosophical and moral theories have been advanced to inform understanding of justice. Early theories of justice were set out by the Ancient...

principles regulating the international community are developed. They have been influenced by a range of political and legal theories. Article 38(1) of the...

knowledge about international legal issues, with special emphasis on human rights, democracy, intellectual property, and international business transactions...

Law International law Law and economics Law and literature Legal formalism Interpretivism (legal) Legal positivism Legal realism Libertarian theories of...

Pure Theory of Law is a book by jurist and legal theorist Hans Kelsen, first published in German in 1934 as Reine Rechtslehre, and in 1960 in a much revised...

study of international politics and who have used feminist theory and sometimes queer theory to better understand global politics and international relations...

In international law, odious debt, also known as illegitimate debt, is a legal theory that says that the national debt incurred by a despotic regime should...

Vatican conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories that concern the Pope or the Roman Catholic Church. A majority of the theories allege that the Church...

sway in civil law legal systems, analogy, which is present in common law legal systems, especially in the US, and argumentative theories that occur in both...