Legal category: 4736 books
Civil Society in China
The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the "New Reform Era"
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This is the definitive book on the legal and fiscal framework for civil society organizations (CSOs) in China from earliest times to the present day. Civil Society in China traces the ways in which laws and regulations have shaped civil society over the 5,000 years of China's history and looks at...
Methodologies of Legal Research
Which Kind of Method for What Kind of Discipline?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Until quite recently questions about methodology in legal research have been largely confined to understanding the role of doctrinal research as a scholarly discipline. In turn this has involved asking questions not only about coverage but, fundamentally, questions about the identity of the discipline....
The Law under the Swastika
Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1997
In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession. Until the late 1960s, historians of the Nazi judicial system were mostly judges...
Black and Blue
How African Americans Judge the U.S. Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The American legal system is experiencing a period of extreme stress, if not crisis, as it seems to be losing its legitimacy with at least some segments of its constituency. Nowhere is this legitimacy deficit more apparent than in a portion of the African American community in the U.S., as incidents...
by John A. Neuenschwander
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to "a method of recording and preserving oral testimony" which results in a verbal document that is "made available in different forms to other users, researchers, and the public." Ordinarily such an academic process would seem...
Modernizing Legal Services in Common Law Countries
Will the US Be Left Behind?
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Most people understand that regulations have a direct bearing on their access to things such as clean air and water and safe working environments. However, in the United States, few people make the connection between how legal services are regulated and how difficult it is for them to access legal...
by Frederic R. Kellogg
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
With Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Legal Logic, Frederic R. Kellogg examines the early diaries, reading, and writings of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) to assess his contribution to both legal logic and general logical theory. Through discussions with his mentor Chauncey Wright...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
It has long been recognized that court trials, both criminal and civil, in the common law system, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal...
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics
New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the law is on the cusp of a revolution that began with text analytic programs like IBM's Watson and Debater and the open-source information management architectures on which they are based. Today, new legal applications are beginning to appear and this...
Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings
A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated...
Perspectives on Legal Education
Contemporary Responses to the Lord Upjohn Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This edited collection offers a critical overview of the major debates in legal education set in the context of the Lord Upjohn Lectures, the annual event that draws together legal educators and professionals in the United Kingdom to consider the major debates and changes in the field.
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Women's Legal Landmarks
Celebrating the history of women and law in the UK and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Women's Legal Landmarks commemorates the centenary of women's admission in 1919 to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland by identifying key legal landmarks in women's legal history. Over 80 authors write about landmarks that represent a significant achievement or turning point in women's engagement...
Gold Mountain Turned to Dust
Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination...
by Caroline Maughan, Julian Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process bridges the gap between academic and practical law for students undertaking skills-based and clinical legal education courses at university. It develops oral and written communication, group working, problem solving and conflict resolution skills in a range of...