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Missouri Law and the American Conscience
Historic Rights and Wrongs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Until recently, many of Missouri’s legal records were inaccessible and the existence of many influential, historic cases was unknown. The ten essays in this volume showcase Missouri as both maker and microcosm of American history. Some of the topics are famous: Dred Scott’s slave freedom suit,...
by Geraint Howells, Stephen Weatherill
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This fully revised and updated second edition of Consumer Protection Law introduces the reader to the substantive law of consumer protection in the United Kingdom, the emphasis being on the place of United Kingdom law within an evolving European legal system and also on the need to draw upon comparative...
Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights
Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights.
Bringing together scholars and activists...
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004
From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this important new volume provides a comprehensive history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in...
The Independent Bar
Insights into a Unique Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The business of running a barristers’ chambers has changed immensely over recent years. The traditional image of chambers has been, in many respects, confined to the past and they are now, in large part, run as modern, highly efficient, businesses often with an international reach. The role of the...
by James Oldham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law. Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, 1756-1788, was the dominant judicial force behind these developments. In this abridgment of his two-volume...
The Law guide
Your complete guide to careers with a law degree
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Our goal in creating this guide is to bring together all of the information a law student needs to make the successful transition from education to employment and flourish as a young professional.
Within the guide, we highlight the variety of different career pathways available with a law...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with...
by Stephen Budiansky
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most influential justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Antietam. He lived...
Refugee Repatriation
Justice, Responsibility and Redress
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Voluntary repatriation is now the predominant solution to refugee crises, yet the responsibilities states of origin bear towards their repatriating citizens are under-examined. Through a combination of legal and moral analysis, and case studies of the troubled repatriation movements to Guatemala,...
Countering Terrorism in Britain and France
Institutions, Norms and the Shadow of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Though Britain and France have faced a similar threat from Islamist terrorism in the years following September 11 2001, they have often responded in different ways to the challenges it posed. This groundbreaking work offers the first in-depth comparative analysis of counterterrorist policies and operations...
Conceptions in the Code
How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological...
The Constitution in Congress
Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation. This third volume in the series, the early...
by John W. Compton
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
John Compton shows how evangelicals, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Their early-1800s crusade to destroy property that made immorality possible challenged founding-era legal protections of slavery, lotteries, and liquor sales and opened the door to progressivism.