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Paperback. A concise readable summary and guide to "Plessy v. Ferguson" (1896), one of the Supreme Court's most famous and controversial decisions--one that offered legal cover for the practice of segregation for nearly six decades. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH1; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618477
- ISBN
- 9780700618477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.18
€ 35.18
Hardcover. The Latin text of Magna Carta (the 1217 issue of Henry III) is reproduced, together with a modern translation and an introduction which traces the background to the making of the charter and its subsequent revisions through the centuries. It also explains how this text has become an enduring symbol of freedom in Britain and throughout the world. Editor(s): Bodleian Library. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 100. .
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Translation, Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851244522
- ISBN
- 9781851244522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.22
€ 8.22
hardcover. This book presents an empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated account of political trials. Editor(s): Meierhenrich, Jens; Pendas, Devin O. Num Pages: 430 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JPA; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107079465
- ISBN
- 9781107079465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.55€ 96.72
€ 122.55
€ 96.72
Hardback. Part of the "Portrait of a Patriot" series that presents the major papers of the Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr (1744-1775). This volume introduces you to Quincy's "Legal Commonplace Book" which illustrates the systematic program of reading through which aspiring young lawyers learned their trade in colonial New England. Editor(s): Coquillette, Daniel R.; York, Neil Longley. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1111.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Colonial Society of Massachusetts United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780962073786
- ISBN
- 9780962073786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.66
€ 56.66
Hardback. Josiah Quincy Jr, Boston lawyer and patriot penman, had he lived longer could have been a leader of the new American Republic with a name familiar in most households. This work provides a biographical introduction, followed by Quincy's "Political Commonplace Book", in which the patriot noted down passages from his reading in politics and history. Editor(s): Coquillette, Daniel R.; York, Neil Longley. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Colonial Society of Massachusetts United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780962073793
- ISBN
- 9780962073793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.92
€ 54.92
Hardback. Helps you meet Quincy as a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, making a tour of the southern colonies to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there. This work shows how Quincy was dazzled by the opulence and sophistication of late-eighteenth-century Charleston society. Editor(s): Coquillette, Daniel R.; York, Neil Longley. Num Pages: 390 pages, 24 colour & b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Colonial Society of Massachusetts United States
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979466205
- ISBN
- 9780979466205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.50
€ 55.50
Hardback. Some of the most unique and important of all early American law reports are those of Josiah Quincy Junior (1744-1775). This book presents Quincy's candid accounts of events great and small that shed light on life in the American colonies just before the Revolution. Editor(s): Coquillette, Daniel R.; York, Neil Longley. Num Pages: 434 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 975.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Colonial Society of Massachusetts United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979466243
- ISBN
- 9780979466243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.22
€ 56.22
Hardback. Some of the most unique and important of all early American law reports are those of Josiah Quincy Junior (1744-1775). This book presents Quincy's candid accounts of events great and small that shed light on life in the American colonies just before the Revolution. Editor(s): Coquillette, Daniel R.; York, Neil Longley. Num Pages: 596 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white tables, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Colonial Society of Massachusetts United States
- Number of pages
- 596
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979466267
- ISBN
- 9780979466267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.38
€ 57.38
Paperback. Reassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, the author shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power. Num Pages: 424 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226061542
- ISBN
- 9780226061542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Hardcover. A concise legal history of Illinois,Prairie Justice covers the French, British, early-American, and Illinois-statehood periods to 1900. It illustrates the changes over time in the different judicial systems, culminating in the establishment of a unique body of Illinois law. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809333691
- ISBN
- 9780809333691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.69
€ 46.69
Paperback. Presents a reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace. This book argues that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties - labor, lawyers, and legislators - benefited from the ruling. Series: National Bureau of Economic Research - Long Term Factors in Economic Development. Num Pages: 324 pages, 27 tables. BIC Classification: HBT; LAZ; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226249841
- ISBN
- 9780226249841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.35
€ 38.99
€ 30.35
Hardback. Scholars in this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe, property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution. This volume analyzes both historical and contemporary forms of land ownership in Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Editor(s): Siegrist, Hannes; Muller, Dietmar. Num Pages: 376 pages, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; LAZ; LNS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384618
- ISBN
- 9781782384618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.98
€ 167.98
Paperback. In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a 'colored' cabman. This title explains legal history, a day-by-day narrative of the trial itself, and analyses of the trial's place in the culture of the 1920s North. Num Pages: 432 pages, 10 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859391
- ISBN
- 9780807859391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.89
€ 53.89
Hardback. Practitioners of private law opened the way toward Japan's legal modernity in ways the samurai and the state could not. Tracing law regimes from Edo to Meiji, Flaherty shows how the legal profession emerged as a force for change in modern Japan, founding private universities and political parties, and contributing to twentieth-century legal reform. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066779
- ISBN
- 9780674066779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.06
€ 44.99
€ 37.06
Hardcover. As frequent swing vote and centrist voice, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor helped shape many of the Supreme Court's landmark decisions and opinions under the leadership of William Rehnquist. This book describes how policy leadership was subdivided among these eminent jurists in a way that fostered an individualist conception of judicial power. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 2008 No other Dates
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700616107
- ISBN
- 9780700616107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.39
€ 64.39
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
€ 34.99
€ 30.07
Paperback. Over a century ago the United States Supreme Court decided the "Insular Cases," which limited the applicability of constitutional rights in Puerto Rico and other overseas territories. Essays in Reconsidering the Insular Cases examine the history and legacy of these cases and explore possible solutions for the dilemmas they created. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979639579
- ISBN
- 9780979639579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.04
€ 24.99
€ 22.04
Hardback. Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver Wendell Holmes's set of principles, properly understood, continues to provide the best guide to contracts for a new generation of students, practitioners, and judges. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: KJ; LAY; LAZ; LNCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072480
- ISBN
- 9780674072480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.05
€ 53.99
€ 45.05
Paperback. The uproar over legitimate rape during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that rape remains a word in flux, subject to political power and social privilege. Redefining Rape describes the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the U.S., through the experiences of accusers, assailants, and advocates for change." Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088115
- ISBN
- 9780674088115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.21
€ 34.99
€ 30.21
Hardcover. Provides a survey of the history and background of Lochner versus New York. This title argues that the decision was well grounded in precedent - and that modern constitutional jurisprudence owes at least as much to the limited-government ideas of Lochner proponents as to the more expansive vision of its Progressive opponents. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226043531
- ISBN
- 9780226043531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.57€ 62.14
€ 73.57
€ 62.14
Hardback. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930787
- ISBN
- 9780813930787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.63
€ 60.63
Paperback. In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight were sentenced to death. This book explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and become a lens for perceptions of race and class. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140476
- ISBN
- 9780691140476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.73
€ 45.99
€ 32.73
Paperback. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the 18th century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack, and insolvency was seen merely as an economic setback. This work focuses on this crucial transformation in early American society. Num Pages: 358 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; KCZ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032415
- ISBN
- 9780674032415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.07
€ 33.99
€ 29.07
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630014
- ISBN
- 9780691630014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.27
€ 142.27