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Searching for Justice After the Holocaust
Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The Nazis and their state-sponsored cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, returning survivors had to navigate a frequently unclear path to recover their property from governments and neighbors who had failed to protect them and who often had been complicit...
by David Cabrelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
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Canadian State Trials, Volume IV
Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression. War prompted the development of new government powers and raised questions about citizenship...
Power, Politics, and Principles
Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy features original contributions by international scholars on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Lauro Martines' Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence, which is recognized as a groundbreaking study challenging traditional...
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China
Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.
Divergent Paths
The Academy and the Judiciary
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics criticize judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges to dismiss academic discourse as divorced from reality. Richard Posner reflects on the causes and consequences of this widening gap and what can be done to close it.
by Marc O. DeGirolami
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Legal scholars expect to resolve religious dilemmas according to principles of equality, neutrality, or separation of church and state. But such abstractions fail to do justice to the clashing values in today’s pluralistic society. Marc DeGirolami explains why conflicts implicating religious liberty are so emotionally fraught and deeply contested.
China's Governance Puzzle
Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
China is widely viewed as a global powerhouse that has achieved a remarkable economic transformation with little political change. Less well known is that China's leaders have also implemented far‐reaching governance reforms designed to promote government transparency and increase public participation...
Escaping Salem:The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Few events in American history are as well remembered as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. But there was another witch hunt that year, in Stamford, Connecticut, that has never been examined in depth. Now Richard Godbeer describes this "other witch hunt" in a concise, fascinating narrative that illuminates...
by Nathaniel M. Miller, Marsha C. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2017
Though it's more important to prevent an auto accident, the impact of an auto accident personal injury to the quality of life of an individual cannot be over emphasized, thus the need to be well informed about what to do to get justice and appropriate compensation. This eBook cannot provide any legal...
by David Foxton
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Karl Llewellyn described Thomas Scrutton as 'the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century'. Scrutton played a key role in a number of politically sensitive court cases from the Great War to the 1930s. This biography draws on unpublished sources to evaluate his contribution as counsel,...
by Marcus Vinicius Ribeiro
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Este livro é fruto das anotações de aulas de História do Direito. Nele são feitas observações com intuito didático e sem pretensão de aprofundamento científico-filosófico em cada assunto tratado. Trata-se de resumo do direito vigente em cada época e em cada local, com observações do...
How to Like Being a Lawyer
Thriving in BigLaw, SmallLaw & Solopreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Modern lawyers face an unusual paradox. Studies reveal that lawyers are among the least happy of any profession, if not the least happy. The abundance of lawyer jokes in circulation confirms that the public doesn’t love its lawyers any more than those lawyers love their job. And yet, there are an...