Law category: 29588 books
The Lean Law Firm
Run Your Firm like the World’s Most Efficient and Profitable Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
It's a difficult world for law firms these days. Client demands, increased competition, and the distractions of technology can put pressure on any business. Law firms who attempt to respond with "traditional" firm management practices are perhaps more susceptible than any other business...
The Common Place of Law
Stories from Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than four...
International Aviation Law
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
International Aviation Law: A Practical Guide explains the international context and application of the law as it applies to commercial and recreational aviation, and to the broader aviation environment. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of aviation law, from criminal law to...
Law Street
America’S Dysfunctional and Sometimes Corrupt Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The American legal system is far from perfect. High standards of fairness and equal justice for all are lacking, and conflicts of interest are an integral part of the systems practitioners. In Law Street, author Wim J.M. Touw discusses the ills of the American legal system and investigates the roots...
Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900
Legal Thought before Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing other than a...
Contract and Consent
Representation and the Jury in Anglo-American Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J. R. Pole posits that legal history has become highly specialized, while mainstream political and social historians frequently ignore cases that figure prominently in the legal literature. Pole makes a start at remedying the situation with a series...
Treatise on Law, The
(Summa Theologiae, I-II; qq. 90-97)
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1993
In this translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s The Treatise on Law, R. J. Henle, S.J., a well-known authority on philosophy and jurisprudence, fluently and accurately presents the Latin and English translation of this important work. Henle provides the necessary background for an informed reading...
Law and the Making of the Soviet World
The Red Demiurge
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book is an unconventional reappraisal of Soviet law: a field that is ripe for re-evaluation, now that it is clear of Cold War cobwebs; and, as this book shows, one that is surprisingly topical and newly compelling. Scott Newton argues here that the Soviet order was a work of law. Drawing on a...
Are mixed legal systems necessarily systems in transition, or can they achieve stability?
Do they remain mixes of Civil and Common law, or can they become creative sources of their own distinctive type of rules?
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: 72%, Stellenbosch Universitiy (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa - Department for Private Law), course: Comparative Private Law, 27 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
The Natural Law
A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1998
Originally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as represented in the writings of Cicero, Aquinas, and Hooker and the revolutionary doctrines of natural rights espoused by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
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by Paul Bergman,Sara Berman
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Criminal law rules and procedures, explained in plain English. The criminal justice system becomes increasingly complex each year as new laws and decisions can change legal standards dramatically. And at a time when even law enforcement is being affected by hiring freezes and budget cuts, the result...
The Devry Smith Frank LLP Guide to the Basics of Ontario Family Law, 3rd Edition
A Short and Easy-to-Understand Guide to Separation, Divorce, Child and Family Law Issues, the Family Court Process and the Alternatives to Court
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Are you separating? Do you have no idea what to expect? What does getting married really mean? The Guide to the Basics of Ontario Family Law is for everyone who: is separating or divorcing, needs to change an order or separation agreement, is involved with a children's aid society, is getting married...
Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law
Holding Agents of Atrocity Accountable to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity. The author provides criteria for determining the kinds of actions...
by Laurence Ginnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
“The Brehon Laws” explores early Irish—or “Brehon”—law, which shaped everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland. It looks at the history, influences and development of the laws, as well as what little remained of them in contemporary Irish law. Brehon Law survived in Ireland until the 17th...