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by Deborah A. Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The First Seminole War shaped how the United States demarcated its spatial and legal boundaries. Rooted in exceptionalism, manifest destiny, and racism, the legal framework that emerged from Andrew Jackson’s invasion of Florida laid the groundwork for the Monroe Doctrine, the Dred Scott decision, and westward expansion, as Deborah Rosen shows.
The Dual Penal State
The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This book addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the rampant, at best haphazard, and ever-expanding use of penal power by states ostensibly committed to the enlightenment-based legal-political project of Western liberal democracy. Penal regimes in these states operate...
Spacing Law and Politics
The Constitution and Representation of the Juridical
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Examining the inherent spatiality of law, both theoretically and as social practice, this book presents a genealogical account of the emergence and the development of the juridical. In an analysis that stretches from ancient Greece, through late antiquity and early modern and modern Europe, and on...
The Boundaries of Desire
A Century of Bad Laws, Good Sex, and Changing Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
“A bracing look at the often-strange relationship between sexuality and the legal system over six tumultuous decades” (Booklist).
Society’s acceptance of sex and the grasp of its many variables are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless...
by Tony Curto
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Over the span of three centuries, America's iconic system of justice has made it the envy of the world. Yet, in virtually every corner of society today, we see the Rule of Civil Law under stress, indeed - in crisis. Our courts are mired in delay, bogged down with tens of thousands of cases. Lawsuits...
Japanese Contract and Anti-Trust Law
A Sociological and Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Little has been written on Japanese contract law and anti-trust law in Western languages. This book describes the role of this law in protecting the distributor against unilateral terminations of distribution agreements. There have been significant pressures both to lower prices and restructure distribution...
Speaking of Language and Law
Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers...
The Law Office
A Novel of Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
From his office at a picnic table next to the Andy Gump outhouse at the Venice Pier, ruthless, 27 year-old college freshman Kurt Stafford practices criminal law and guarantees every client total victory, as long as they keep committing more crimes and pay him daily with cash from each job. Then he...
Diversity in Europe
Dilemnas of differential treatment in theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
From bans on religious symbols in public spaces, to the provision of abortion by doctors, recent cases across Europe have highlighted acute dilemmas about how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups feeling that their values or beliefs are not treated fairly by the law.
Diversity...
IT'S OVER!! What Happens to the House?
How To Apply For An 'Order For Sale' If Your Ex Won't Sell Or Buy You Out
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
* Do you jointly own a UK property with an ex partner, family member or friend?
* Have you been left with no option but to apply to the court for an Order For Sale but don't know where to start?
* Are you willing to represent yourself in the county court?
If the answer is yes then this book...
The Twelve Man Bilbo Choir
Inspired by actual events that made legal history
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A mystery, a scam, a prison escape, a love story, a philosophical debate ...
Meet Pango Brown, loving husband, father of two, and as decent a person as you could wish to meet. He's also a convict, sentenced for manslaughter. He freely admits his guilt and remorse. The mystery is "what...
by Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcefully that ‘Sinhalese Buddhism’ in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial...
by James M. Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century. He demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped...
The Jurisprudence of Emergency
Colonialism and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
The Jurisprudence of Emergency examines British rule in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, tracing tensions between the ideology of liberty and government by law used to justify the colonizing power's insistence on a regime of conquest. Nasser Hussain argues that the interaction...