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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
€ 18.99
€ 18.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; LAZ; LNZC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Dundee University Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845860677
- ISBN
- 9781845860677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.22
€ 32.99
€ 30.22
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Triepel, Heinrich; Pohl, Heinrich. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JNU; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 5. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1919
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642982651
- ISBN
- 9783642982651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.84
€ 67.84
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
€ 35.84
€ 35.84
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€ 15.10
€ 15.99
€ 15.10
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
€ 19.99
€ 19.99
From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed insufficiently stringent to southerners, who often sought other redress. This title presents the 'honor defense' in six celebrated murder trials, 1896-1977. Num Pages: 356 pages, 48 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; JKV; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726628
- ISBN
- 9780896726628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.84
€ 31.99
€ 28.84
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
€ 26.99€ 21.59
€ 26.99
€ 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
€ 122.44
€ 122.44
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
€ 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
€ 34.99€ 31.10
€ 34.99
€ 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
€ 31.30
€ 31.30
Book. Contributions to a conference in honor of Hans Josef Wieling held in 2006 in Trier. Editor(s): Finkenauer, Thomas. Num Pages: 349 pages, VIII, 349 S. BIC Classification: GBC; HB; JF; JHB; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 701.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 349
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540369530
- ISBN
- 9783540369530
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Condition: New
€ 176.85
€ 176.85
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
€ 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
€ 46.99
€ 39.16
Paperback. Based on Supreme Court archives, the personal papers of justices and other figures at the Supreme Court, and interviews and written surveys with 150 former clerks, this title offers a behind-the-scenes look at the life of a law clerk, and how it has evolved since its nineteenth-century beginnings. Num Pages: 352 pages, 19 figures, 31 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794203
- ISBN
- 9780814794203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.18
€ 36.99
€ 31.18
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Kohlrausch, Eduard; Kaskel, Walter; Spiethoff, A. Series: Enzyklopadie Der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft. Num Pages: 237 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: JNU; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1931
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642983016
- ISBN
- 9783642983016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.44
€ 69.44
Hardcover. Series: Constitutional Thinking. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619238
- ISBN
- 9780700619238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.98
€ 70.98
Hardcover. Series: Constitutionalism and Democracy. Num Pages: 256 pages, tables, figures. BIC Classification: LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813933740
- ISBN
- 9780813933740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.16
€ 52.16
Paperback. Reveals the ambiguous, often contested nature of marital law, showing that husbands' superior status and wives' dependence were fluid and negotiable Num Pages: 171 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; LAZ; LNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814740651
- ISBN
- 9780814740651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.87
€ 29.99
€ 26.87
Paperback. Deals with such questions as: when did European international law become universally binding? Can states, which did not, and could not, participate in its origin and development question some of its rules, which are inimical to their interests? And, how can and does this law change in the absence of any supra-national legislature? Series: Developments in International Law. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LAZ; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Brill Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789004138599
- ISBN
- 9789004138599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
hardcover. This is the first book-length study of the four penitentials composed in Old English. Series: Studies in Legal History. Num Pages: 247 pages, 3 b/w illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107083417
- ISBN
- 9781107083417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Although much of Kansas law reflects US law, the state court's arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country. This work presents the history of a state through the use of its Supreme Court decisions as evidence. Series: Law in the American West. Num Pages: 392 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803248410
- ISBN
- 9780803248410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.40
€ 76.40
Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPQB; KNXB; LAZ; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 264 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469613697
- ISBN
- 9781469613697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.35
€ 40.35