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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited well over 10,000 times in American judicial opinions alone. Prominent in recent reassessment of Blackstone...
by Wade Mansell, Belinda Meteyard, Alan Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Challenging the usual introductions to the study of law, A Critical Introduction to Law argues that law is inherently political and reflects the interests of the few even while presenting itself as neutral.
This fully revised and updated fourth edition provides contemporary examples to demonstrate...
by Gautam Bhatia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
We think of the Indian Constitution as a founding document, embodying a moment of profound transformation from being ruled to becoming a nation of free and equal citizenship. Yet the working of the Constitution over the last seven decades has often failed to fulfil that transformative promise. Not...
by Simeon C.R. Mcintosh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Historically, revolution has been one of the principal means of founding a new state. But can this new state have any moral legitimacy, born as it is out of violence? That is the critical question for legal theorists. The late Hans Kelsen, arguably one of the leading legal theorists and philosophers...
All for Civil Rights
African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted...
Learning to Lead
What Really Works for Women in Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This book (a) synthesizes and distills the research, anecdotal evidence, and key concepts on leadership techniques and success that help working women, in any field, develop in their careers; (b) tailors these principles for women practicing law, regardless of practice area, and creates practical...
Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives
The Ideology of a Humanitarian Treaty, 1949-1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application. Featuring 436 documents from thirteen repositories in the United States, the United Kingdom,...
Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives
The Politics of International Humanitarian Law, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This document collection highlights the legal challenges, historical preconceptions, and political undercurrents that had informed the UN Genocide Convention, its form, contents, interpretation, and application. Featuring 436 documents from thirteen repositories in the United States, the United Kingdom,...
El interés público en América Latina
Reflexiones desde la educación legal clínica y el trabajo probono
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2011
El derecho se entiende hoy como una herramienta idónea para producir cambios en las sociedades y atender las necesidades y desafíos modernos, lo cual era casi impensable hace algunos años; se concibe como un medio para formar profesionales, pero, ante todo, abogados que son conscientes de su rol...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through...
In Defense of Honor
Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2000
In this book Sueann Caulfield explores the changing meanings of honor in early-twentieth-century Brazil, a period that saw an extraordinary proliferation of public debates that linked morality, modernity, honor, and national progress. With a close examination of legal theory on sexual offenses and...
by Craig Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
F*ck You, Your Honor is* *a satirical literary novel about a low-end attorney and real estate broker who is ordered by a judge to write a book to save his law license.
Attorney Darwyn “Wyn” VanWye is down on his luck. He squats in a foreclosed government-owned HUD home and conducts his...
by Nicola Ch. Corkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Europeanization of Judicial Review argues that the higher complexity of the political framework in which laws are made today leads to less well-designed laws and loop-holes, allowing politicians to leave decisions to the courts. The higher complexity of the political framework is a result of the need...
Evidence and the Archive
Ethics, Aesthetics and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This collection explores the stakes, risks and opportunities invoked in opening and exploring law’s archive and re-examining law’s evidence. It draws together work exploring how evidence is used or mis-used during the legal process, and re-used after the law’s work has concluded by engaging...