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Jurisprudence & general issues

Paperback. Death, wrote Walter Benjamin, lends storytellers all their authority. How do trials, in turn, borrow their authority from death? This volume offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBT; JFC; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009516
ISBN
9780674009516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 36.40

Hardback. This book considers the relationship between law and ethics in our increasingly globalized world. Editor(s): Shingleton, Bradley; Stilz, Eberhard. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JP; LATC; LB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Nomos/Bloomsbury
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474259262
ISBN
9781474259262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.72
€ 68.32

Hardback. From a decidedly left-of-center perspective, Making Babies and Making Law discusses how law and public policy grapple with differences between the genders while simultaneously struggling to maintain a commitment to equal treatment under the law. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742551503
ISBN
9780742551503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.84

Paperback. In the late 1960s an Amish community considered state education detrimental to its own values. When the state claimed truancy and took Jonas Yoder to court, a legal battle of landmark proportions followed. This volume is a complete and compelling account of the Yoder case. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBT; HRCC99; LA; LND; LNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612734
ISBN
9780700612734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.03

Hardcover. Papua New Guinea's two most powerful legal orders - customary law and state criminal law - undermine each other in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, can lead to an activity being advanced by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice and each legal order's diminished ability to deter wrongdoing. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; LAF; LNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782386483
ISBN
9781782386483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.90

Paperback. Thoroughly updated new edition of this introduction to the sociology of law, full of up to date and relevant examples. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JPV; LAQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United Kingdom
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781412945608
ISBN
9781412945608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

paperback. Editor(s): Shapiro, Ian. Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 396 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAF; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814780244
ISBN
9780814780244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 31.18

hardcover. This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power. Series: Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: JPB; LAM; LBHG; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107031135
ISBN
9781107031135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.10

Paperback. The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented. It addresses each of the nine characteristics protected by the Act in turn, examining the research and practice issue associated with each and offering positive guidance. Editor(s): Sewell, Hari. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: LAY; LNTM1; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849052849
ISBN
9781849052849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.05

Paperback. First paperback edition of the celebrated insider study of William Brennan (1906-1997), widely considered the Supreme Court's most influential twentieth-century justice, as well as its greatest liberal and preeminent strategist. The Washington Post called this "Perhaps the best judicial biography ever written." Num Pages: 688 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700619122
ISBN
9780700619122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.30

Hardback. As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 718.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674971486
ISBN
9780674971486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.12
€ 50.93

Paperback. In the 1960s and 1970s, analogies between sex discrimination and racial injustice became potent weapons in the battle for women s rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri s "Reasoning from Race" is the first history of this key strategy and its consequences for American law. Num Pages: 382 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; LAQG; LAZ; LNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674284302
ISBN
9780674284302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.07

Paperback. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBTB; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268041458
ISBN
9780268041458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.17

paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages, 17, diagrames. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 249 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1076.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877277385
ISBN
9780877277385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black and white photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; HBJD; HBTV; HBW; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 227 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Merrion Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781785370519
ISBN
9781785370519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 8.87

Hardback. He chronicles the impact of litigation on college access policies, including the rise of selectivity and institutional differentiation, the decline of de jure segregation, the spread of contractual understandings of enrollment, and the triumph of vocational emphases. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; JNM; LAQ; LNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418841
ISBN
9781421418841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.14

paperback. Explores how lawyers, in the face of intense market pressures, may transcend their own self-interest to act as agents of transformative politics and justice. Editor(s): Cummings, Scott L. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 b/w illus. 13 tables. BIC Classification: LAS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780521145992
ISBN
9780521145992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 43.54

Paperback. Legality is a profound work in analytical jurisprudence, the branch of legal philosophy which deals with metaphysical questions about the law. In this book, the author shows how law can be thought of as a set of plans to achieve complex human goals. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674725782
ISBN
9780674725782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.08

Paperback. "..An excellent and balanced review of the justice's first years on the Court." (National Review) The paperback edition includes a provocative new Afterword by the author bringing the book up to date by assessing Justice Thomas's performance, and the reaction to his decisions, during the last five years. Num Pages: 305 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
V9780814731000
ISBN
9780814731000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.69

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Edition
Edition Unstated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813525846
ISBN
9780813525846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 47.36

Hardcover. The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty--three original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Blackwell Companions to Sociology. Num Pages: 688 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JH; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 188 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
688
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631228967
ISBN
9780631228967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 220.59

Hardback. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha. Series: The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804790819
ISBN
9780804790819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.68

Hardback. Parole in Canada explores how concerns about aboriginality, gender, and the multicultural ideal of "diversity" have altered parole policy and practice - and asks whether these changes go far enough. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: JKVP1; LA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774831932
ISBN
9780774831932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.82

Paperback. How school-aged girls used the legal system to gain access to contact sports Series: Sport and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBS; LAZ; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252075841
ISBN
9780252075841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.95

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