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by Thomas D. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically,...
Women Before the Bar
Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic...
The Purse and the Sword
The Trials of Israel's Legal Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The Purse and the Sword presents a critical analysis of Israel's legal system in the context of its politics, history, and the forces that shape its society. This book examines the extensive powers that Israel's Supreme Court arrogated to itself since the 1980s and traces the history of the transformation...
by Brian Z. Tamanaha
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university department. Law professors are among the highest paid and play key roles as public intellectuals, advisers, and government officials. Yet behind the flourishing...
by Deborah L. Rhode
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession, yet it has done little to prepare them for this role. Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of powerful law firms, businesses, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Two of the last three presidents...
by Epsten Grinnell Howell
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This book represents a compilation of California and federal statutes and regulations. It contains the materials which the publishers believe will most likely assist community association managers and board members in the performance of their duties. It is not intended to include every statute or...
Remade in China
Foreign Investors and Institutional Change in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Since opening to foreign investment in 1979, China has emerged as the leading investment site for multinational corporations. Remade in China looks beyond the macroeconomic effects of China's investment boom to analyze how foreign investors from the US, Japan, and other nations are shaping China's...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law takes the reader through the most important controversies and critical developments in law and U.S. sports. Over the course of 30 chapters, leading scholars explore this expanding and captivating area of law. The Handbook is the first book to gather dozens...
by Karl N. Llewellyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Written generations years ago, but highly relevant today, 'The Bramble Bush' remains one of the books most recommended for students to read when considering law school, just before beginning its study, or early in the first semester. Its first edition began as a collection from a series of introductory...
Rules for a Flat World
Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The ground is shifting beneath our feet. Technology and globalization continue to uproot and reshape daily life and economics. Global supply chains are growing more deeply embedded in every region of the world. Digital platforms connect billions around the planet in ever more complex networks of data...
Law 101
An Essential Reference for Your Everyday Legal Questions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
A solid reference for both the everyday and the unexpected legal issues, written by practicing attorneys
Law 101 is an essential reference that explains:
How laws are made
How the court system works
How each area of the law impacts your daily life
Key information for important questions:
How...
by Diana Deverell
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Three full-length thrillers in one ebook--get them all for a savings of more than fifty percent!
This trilogy features Nora Dockson, an ex-con who pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals attorney.
Nora works only for convicted felons, rescuing innocents trapped by the...
by Anna Mancini
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Our Law and its philosophy have been conceived for an economic world where the main source of wealth was material. Although this world no longer exists, its laws are still alive and slow down the development of modern economies. Patent law strikingly shows this fact. Invented mainly during the industrial...
Literary Executions
Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue...