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by Shiping Hua
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
This book examines China’s striving for a constitutional order in the 20th century from comparative, historical, and theoretical perspectives.
Through a comprehensive study of six major constitutional reforms experienced by China in the last century, Shiping Hua explores pragmatism, instrumentalism,...
Dangerous Leaders
How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: all these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures among leaders with legal training. When we look closer at one profession from which we often...
Feminist Legal History
Essays on Women and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women’s interests. At its core, the nascent field of...
Under Cover of Science
American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence. In this authoritative intellectual history, James R. Hackney Jr. situates the modern law and economics movement within the trajectory of American...
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy
A Polemic Against the System
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journals—unprecedented for a self-published work—and influenced a generation...
Building an Outstanding Legal Team
Battle-Tested Strategies from a General Counsel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In this practical “how to” guide, Bjarne P Tellmann, General Counsel and SVP of Pearson, draws upon more than 20 years of leading top legal organisations across Europe, Asia and the United States to provide a structured plan for upgrading your legal team in an age of disruption. The challenge:...
Law, Society, and History
Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All of them have been influenced by the eminent and prolific legal historian, legal sociologist and scholar of comparative law, Lawrence M. Friedman. Not just a Festschrift of essays...
The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs
Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to historical legal discourse. It is the first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts....
by Robert Saute
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
'For the Poor and Disenfranchised' is an historical and institutional analysis of the public interest bar in the United States. It traces how the legal profession delivered on the legal system's promise of equal justice for all by making the legal system available to all and a vehicle for substantive...
by John Boston, Daniel E Manville
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights. Clear, comprehensive, practical advice provides prisoners...
Empirical Legal Analysis
Assessing the performance of legal institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This innovative volume explores empirical legal issues around the world. While legal studies have traditionally been worked on and of letters and with a normative bent, in recent years quantitative methods have gained traction by offering a brand new perspective of understanding law. That is, legal...
Women and Justice for the Poor
A History of Legal Aid, 1863–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women's organizations first offered...
by Santi Romano
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
First published in 1917 (Part 1) and 1918 (Part 2), with a second edition in 1946, this is the first English translation of Santi Romano’s classic work, L’ordinamento giuridico (The Legal Order). The main focus of The Legal Order is the notion of institution, which Romano considers to be both...
Law Books in Action
Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled...