Stanford Law Books imprint: 65 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's...
Framing Equal Opportunity
Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In the struggle to ensure that schools receive their fair share of financial and educational resources, reformers translate policy goals into legal claims in a number of different ways. This enlightening new work uncovers the options reformers have in framing legal challenges and how the choices they...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion. General principles of criminal liability receive prominent coverage in each essay—including discussions of rationales for punishment, the role and design of criminal...
The Italian Legal System
An Introduction, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system. The book's original authors, Mauro Cappelletti, John Henry Merryman, and Joseph M. Perillo, provided not only an overview of Italian law, but a definition...
No Law
Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The original text of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create a regime of intellectual property protection. The first amendment, however, prohibits Congress from enacting any law that abridges the freedoms of speech and of the press. While many have long noted the tension between these...
All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not
Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
We live in an age where one person's judicial "activist" legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply...
The Expanding Spaces of Law
A Timely Legal Geography
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
The Expanding Spaces of Law presents readers with cutting-edge scholarship in legal geography. An invaluable resource for those new to this line of scholarship, the book also pushes the boundaries of legal geography, reinvigorating previous modes of inquiry and investigating new directions. It guides...
Tort, Custom, and Karma
Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's perceptions...
by Guyora Binder
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law. Legal scholars almost unanimously condemn it as irrational, concluding that it imposes punishment without fault and presumes guilt without proof. Despite this, the law persists in almost every U.S. jurisdiction....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Competition and the State analyzes the role of the state across a number of dimensions as it relates to competition law and policy across a number of dimensions. This book re-conceptualizes the interaction between competition law and government activities in light of the profound transformation of...
The Constitution of Electoral Speech Law
The Supreme Court and Freedom of Expression in Campaigns and Elections
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Bush v. Gore brought to the public's attention the significance of election law and the United States Supreme Court's role in structuring the rules that govern how campaigns and elections function in America. In this book, Brian K. Pinaire examines one expanding domain within this larger legal context:...
Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs
Comparative Liability in Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
"Don't blame the victim" is a cornerstone maxim of Anglo-American jurisprudence, but should the law generally ignore a victim's behavior in determining a defendant's liability? Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs criticizes the current criminal law approach and outlines a more fair, coherent,...
Dead Hands
A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact...