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by Mercedes Araceli
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
Brought To Her Knees is both legal and medical fiction. Mercedes Araceli and Bruno Berceto craft persuasive and insightful legal cases. The first case indicts the Orthopedic industry for knowingly designing and installing faulty, toxic, medical joint replacements. The second case charges the legal...
Making Legal History
Approaches and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods...
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Legal writing is a method of communication which focuses on the exactness and conciseness of words and their meaning. The interpretation of a legal document could impact the life, liberty or property of a person so it is important that the manner in which one engages in legal writing is consistent...
Money in the Western Legal Tradition
Middle Ages to Bretton Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of Western monetary law, covering the civil law and Anglo-American...
Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations
A Guide to Four Major Common Law Jurisdictions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States. Higgins provides a practical set of principles to advise practitioners in the large number of areas where there is uncertainty...
Approaching the U.S. Constitution
Sacred Covenant or Plaything for Lawyers and Judges
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
By reminding readers that early Supreme Court justices refused to reduce the Constitution to a mere legal document, Approaching the U.S. Constitution provides a definitive response to Reading Law by Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner. Turning to the vision of Alexander Hamilton found in Federalists No....
Writing the Legal Record
Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Any student of American history knows of Washington, Jefferson, and the other statesmen who penned the documents that form the legal foundations of our nation, but many other great minds contributed to the development of the young republic's judicial system -- figures such as William Littell, Ben...
The Legal English Manual
Handbook for Professional Legal Language and Practical Skills
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This practical handbook provides a comprehensive overview of professional legal language and practical skills. Prepared by native English-speaking lawyers, the book includes professional legal English terminology, practice-oriented examples and sample documents for use in your daily practice. Structured...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
The study of Canadian legal history has seen a remarkable growth in the past decade, nowhere more so than in Atlantic Canada. Given its early settlement and some of the liberties taken with legal procedure there - as well as some creative interpretations of English law – the region is ripe for close...
Reading The Legal Case
Cross-Currents between Law and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of ‘reading’ as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into...
Neglected Policies
Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
In Neglected Policies, Ira L. Strauber challenges scholars and critics of constitutional jurisprudence to think differently about the Constitution and its interpretation. He argues that important aspects of law, policies, and politics are neglected because legal formalisms, philosophical theories,...
Creating Legal Worlds
Story and Style in a Culture of Argument
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal argument.
Through careful analyses of notable cases...
Legal Integration and Language Diversity
Rethinking Translation in EU Lawmaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
How can the European Union create laws that are uniform in a multitude of languages? Specifically, how can it attain both legal integration and language diversity simultaneously, without the latter compromising the former? C.J.W. Baaijargues that the answer lies in the domain of translation. A uniform...