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by Ursula Furi-Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Holidays are deeply personal and emotional times, and as such have a way of provoking strong feelings in just about everyone over just about any issue. And then we liberally mix in booze, sugary foods, and wild parties. In twelve chapters—one for each month—The Little Book of Holiday Law covers...
Managed Speech
The Roberts Court's First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Our constitutional freedom to speak out against government and corporate power is always fragile, but today it faces unprecedented hazards. In Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment, leading First Amendment scholar, Gregory Magarian, explores and critiques how the present U.S. Supreme...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 2 include:
* Article, "The (Non)Finality of Supreme Court Opinions," by Richard J. Lazarus
* Book Review, "The Laws...
by Amelia Castresana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 4, 2017
En el libro se explica de manera clara y concisa, y siempre en clave histórica, todo el proceso de formación de un ordenamiento jurídico. Y es que hace más de 2000 años Roma descubrió para la humanidad una cultura jurídica común que se expresa en una lengua universal y que sirve a la justicia...
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book III: Of Private Wrongs
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of English law and Blackstone's thought through the...
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book IV: Of Public Wrongs
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of English law and Blackstone's thought through the...
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book I: Of the Rights of Persons
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of English law and Blackstone's thought through the...
El sistema de justicia
Trayectorias y descolocaciones
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Ensayo que expone el funcionamiento del sistema de justicia mexicano, emanado de la Constitución de 1917, vigente hasta nuestros días, para dar cuenta de las fortalezas y debilidades de nuestro orden jurisdiccional. El autor utiliza el método, denominado por él, Douglas-Hume para identificar en...
La justicia prometida
El Poder Judicial de la Federación de 1900 a 1910
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 19, 2015
En este libro el autor presenta una nueva imagen de la implantación de justicia durante el Porfiriato. Hasta la actualidad, la historiografía ha transmitido una explicación de caracteres personalista que señala que el mal funcionamiento provenía de la subordinación de los jueces a la autoridad...
by Michel Foucault
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Invitado por la Escuela de Criminología de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, en 1981 Michel Foucault dicta las seis clases del curso “Obrar mal, decir la verdad. Función de la confesión en la justicia”, en un contexto marcado por los debates entre abolicionistas y partidarios de posiciones...
by Carlos Nino
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Carlos Nino fue una figura clave en el enjuiciamiento a los máximos responsables de las violaciones a los derechos humanos cometidas por la dictadura militar, entre 1976 y 1983. Contribuyó decisivamente en el diseño del Juicio a las Juntas, que representa un hecho histórico único: conocemos experiencias...
Broken Scales
Reflections on Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
However rare, some injustices are “objectively” determined, often through DNA evidence, which allows us to squarely establish innocence despite a conviction. But the stories selected for this book represent a cross-section: some are such that (almost) every reader will see and acknowledge the...
by Carol Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
This fascinating book examines coffee, from its origins to its current status in our daily lives as an essential part of Western European and American culture. You'll discover how law and the trade in coffee have evolved together including cases involving free trade, contracts in the global coffee economy,...
by Cecil C. Kuhne III
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Elvis Aaron Presley was a true icon of 20th century American culture. From the beginning, Elvis and his business advisors were well aware of his fame and immediately sought to capitalize on it. He entered into license agreements to use his name and likeness in connection with the marketing and sale of...