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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

Hardback. The issue of defining and redefining enmity has been at the heart of constitutional justice since South Korea's change of regime. This book explores how the Constitutional Court of Korea has addressed this challenge, carving the contours of who is included in or excluded from the body politic throughout its jurisprudence. Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; JPHC; JPHV; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137575074
ISBN
9781137575074
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.33

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

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

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

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

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

Hardcover. On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. This title tells the story of the complex legal battles set in motion that tragic night on the western Nebraska plains. Series: Plains Histories Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNTJ; LAZ; LNDC4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896726260
ISBN
9780896726260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.27

Hardback. Selected essays by Professor William Gordon on Roman law and Scots law. Editor(s): Reid, Elspeth. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; LAFR; LAZ; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 241 x 36. Weight in Grams: 778.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625161
ISBN
9780748625161
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.96
€ 111.13

Hardback. In the first book to trace the Russian state's citizenship policy throughout its history, Lohr argues that to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today, we must return to the less xenophobic and isolationist pre-Stalin period--before the drive toward autarky after 1914 eventually sealed the state off from Europe. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JPA; LAZ; LNDA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066342
ISBN
9780674066342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.66
€ 68.00

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691611068
ISBN
9780691611068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.45

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691639093
ISBN
9780691639093
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR; HBJK; LAZ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 256 x 8. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572330818
ISBN
9781572330818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.33

Paperback. A group biography of the relationship between FDR and four of his Supreme Court justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, and William O. Douglas, written by one of the most brilliant legal scholars at work today. Num Pages: 528 pages, 8 pages of b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780446699280
ISBN
9780446699280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 185 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; HBTR; JPH; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877277149
ISBN
9780877277149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99

Paperback. Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for 'gross indecency'. Num Pages: 476 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBK5; LAZ; LNFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 36. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
The Westbourne Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
476
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908906106
ISBN
9781908906106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. Series: American Liberty & Justice. Num Pages: 356 pages, 49 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896729810
ISBN
9780896729810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Cormack, Bradin; Nussbaum, Martha C.; Strier, Richard. Num Pages: 341 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSGS; LAZ; LNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226378565
ISBN
9780226378565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 21.59

Hardback. This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; DSGS; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137572868
ISBN
9781137572868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.40

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford Law Books United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757140
ISBN
9780804757140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.68

paperback. Series: Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804776592
ISBN
9780804776592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.10

Paperback. Sir William Garrow was born in Middlesex in 1760 and called to the Bar in 1783. He was the dominant figure at the Old Bailey from 1783 to 1793, later becoming an MP, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and finally a judge and lawmaker within the Common Law Tradition. This title tells the story of Sir William Garrow. Num Pages: 352 pages, Black & white photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGH; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Waterside Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904380696
ISBN
9781904380696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.82

Paperback. Examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to "try" the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media. This title argues that American literature of the era cannot be fully understood without an appreciation for the slavery debate in the courts and in print. Series: Studies in Legal History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; LAZ; LND. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807858127
ISBN
9780807858127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.01

Hardback. In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer s memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana s determination to keep that vow." Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBLL; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780674088191
ISBN
9780674088191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.16

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