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  • Avid Uncut

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Avid Uncut

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisLeverage the full power of Avid Media Composer with this essential guide from an Avid guru. Master timesaving tricks and techniques that utilize the latest Media Composer features and state-of-the-art workflows. Learn the secrets of the postproduction professionals from box office blockbusters like Harry Potter, I am Legend, Dark Shadows, Men in Black II, Charlie's Angels, 42, and The Last of the Mohicans, as well as primetime hits like SMASH, Big Bang Theory, Weeds, The Mindy Project, and MythBusters.In Avid Uncut, Steve Hullfish taps into the expertise of the world's top editors to share in-depth, behind-the-scenes secrets and best practices that will boost your editing and color correction skills to the next level. Five distinct sections cover: Pre-post, including discussion of metadata, prepping ScriptSync, decomposing, and more SettingTrade Review"A great book for experienced editors of all NLEs. Hullfish wrangled an impressive number of ‘A list’ editors who provided incredible insight into the specific ways that Media Composer empowers them. It makes a great read for those who wish to maximize their creativity and efficiency in editing." - Ben Kozuch, Co-Founder, Future Media Concepts "Like Hullfish's Color Correction for Video, Avid Uncut should sit on the shelf as a reference in every Avid suite. Condensing years of experience and real-world examples, Avid Uncut is easy to read yet packed full of tips, tricks and powerful time-saving Avid features. So whether you're a newbie needing to learn the ropes or a seasoned professional wanting to get up to speed on modern workflows and tools fast, this book is a must-have." - Ra-ey Saleh, Senior On-line Editor/Colorist, MythBusters; Taboo; Hidden in America "Avid Uncut is one of the most comprehensive Avid Media Composer training manuals I’ve seen. Hullfish has years of Avid experience and is well-respected for covering some of the lesser known tips that make a Media Composer more productive. This book is no exception, covering not only software features, but numerous workflows. Plus, the reader gets to hear from top television and film editors throughout the chapters for glimpses at their creative solutions. Hullfish isn’t afraid to include informative explanations of some of the lesser covered features, like ScriptSync, the Marquee titler and more, that other writers usually skip. Avid Uncut is a great handbook for editors moving over from other software, but even experienced Media Composer editors will be surprised at how much they’ll pick up." - Oliver Peters, Editor/Colorist, Oliver Peters Post Production Services, digitalfilms.wordpress.com "Over the years, Kathlyn and I have worked with many of the most respected Avid editors in the world, people who have edited some of the top-ranked movies and television shows in the market today. Among these prolific and respected editors, Steve Hullfish is often named as their go-to expert when they want to learn the Avid and master its many powers and nuances. You aren't going to master the Avid overnight but with Steve Hullfish showing you the way, you will learn its powers and maximize the workflow that makes the Avid the industry leader in high-end professional editing circles. If you are looking to excel in your understanding of Avid Media Composer, you have picked up the right book." - Ronald & Kathlyn Lindeboom, Founders, CreativeCOW.net "In today's adapt-or-die climate of non-linear editing, Avid Uncut is pre-requisite reading for every editor who needs to be relevant with complex file-based editing processes. The fact that this important book was organized with a creative mindset and written conversationally with commentary from the world’s best editors also makes it a fun read." - Mitch Jacobson, Author, Mastering Multicamera Techniques (Focal Press 2010) "For students of Media Composer all the way to longtime editors, I highly recommend Avid Uncut. Hullfish is a clear and comprehensive writer and he writes from deep personal experience as well as consulting with other top names. Books like these are an easy recommendation, because if you pick up just a few time-saving tips, the book will pay for itself within a week." - Making the Movie "Avid Uncut is an essential read for any assistant editor looking to prepare themselves for work on film and TV productions. The book would also be really helpful for experienced editors moving to Avid from other NLE’s to understand how to get work done effectively in it’s unique environment." - Jonny Elwyn Table of ContentsPre-postproduction; Settings; Off-Line; Effects; On-Line; Video Hardware;

    1 in stock

    £45.59

  • English Legal System Key Facts Key Cases

    Taylor & Francis English Legal System Key Facts Key Cases

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisKey Facts Key Cases: English Legal System will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your English Legal System module with ease. This book explains in concise and straightforward terms:â Discussion of the courts system, both civil and criminal; â Details of the tribunal systemâ The doctrine of precedentâ Statutory interpretationâ Personnel in the legal system, both professional and layKey Facts Key Cases is the essential series for anyone studying law at LLB, postgraduate and conversion courses and professional courses such as ILEX. The series provides the simplest and most effective way to absorb and retain all of the material essential for passing your exams. Each chapter includes: diagrams at the start of chapters to summarise key points structured headings and numbered points to allow for clear recall of the essential points charts and tables to break down more complex information Where relevant, chapters also contain a Key Cases section which provides the simplest and most effective way to absorb and memorise essential cases needed for exam success. Essential and leading cases are explained The style, layout and explanations are user friendly Cases are broken down into key components by use of a clear system of symbols for quick and easy visual recognition Table of Contents1. What is law? 2. Judicial precedent 3. Legislation 4. Statutory Interpretation 5. European Union law 6. Law reform 7. The civil justice system 8. Tribunals and Inquiries 9. Police powers 10. The criminal process and courts 11. Sentencing 12. The legal profession 13. The Judiciary 14. Lay magistrates 15. Juries 16. Legal services and funding

    15 in stock

    £35.14

  • EU Law

    Taylor & Francis Ltd EU Law

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisKey Facts Key Cases: EU Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your EU Law module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for: The constitution of EU law, its institutions, the sources of EU law and the means of enforcement The relationship with national law The law of the single market EU competition law EU discrimination law and other social policy  Key Facts Key Cases is the essential series for anyone studying law at LLB, postgraduate and conversion courses. The series provides the simplest and most effective way to absorb and retain all of the material essential for passing your exams. Each chapter includes: diagrams at the start of chapters to summarise key points structured headings and numbered points to allow for clear recall of the essenTable of Contents1. The constitution and character of EU law 2. The Institutions of the European Union 3. The sources of European law 4. Enforcement of EU law 5. The relationship between EU law and national law 6. Introduction to the law of the internal market 7. Art 34 and Art 35 and the free movement of goods 8. Art 30 and customs tariffs, and Art 110 and discriminatory taxation 9. Art 45 and the free movement of workers 10. Art 49 and freedom of establishment, Art 56 and the right to provide services 11. EU competition law 12. Art 157 and anti-discrimination law 13. The social dimension

    1 in stock

    £35.14

  • Strangers to the Law

    The University of Michigan Press Strangers to the Law

    15 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    15 in stock

    £23.70

  • The Triumph of Venus

    University of California Press The Triumph of Venus

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisSchroeder brings toether very different theories and provides a completely new view on law and economics. Looks at contemporary debates in legal theory through the lens of psychoanalysis and continental philosophy. Through metaphors drawn from classical mythology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Juno Moneta Chapter 1. Pandora's Amphora: The Eroticism of Contract and Gift Prologue: The Myth of Allgifts The Nature of Gift Gift as Potlatch The Eroticism of the Market Commodification and Relationship Epilogue: Pandora's Gift Chapter 2. Orpheus's Desire: The End of the Market Prologue: Orpheus and Eurydice, Eros and Thanatos The Desire of Economics The Perfect Market The Perfect Market as the End of the Actual Market Chapter 3. Narcissus's Death: The Calabresi-Melamed Trichotomy Prologue: Narcissus Viewing the Cathedral; Seeing the Feminine Three's a Crowd: The Calabresi and Melamed Trichotomy Six Hypotheticals Property Procedural and Substantive Critiques of the Calabresi and Melamed Trichotomy Conclusion: The Masculine Phallic Metaphor Chapter 4. The Midas Touch: The Lethal Effect of Wealth Maximization Prologue: The Golden Touch Defining Wealth The Denial of Enjoyment Lacan avec Posner Epilogue: The Ass's Ears Chapter 5. The Eumenides' Return: The Founding of Law Through the Repression of the Feminine Prologue: The Deus ex Machina The Erinyes The Law's Necessary Repression of the Feminine Epilogue: The Birth of Venus Index

    1 in stock

    £56.80

  • Consensual Violence

    University of California Press Consensual Violence

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisUsing a fresh approach to understanding consent, the author presents two case studies of activities in which participants engage in violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts (MMA) and sexual sadism and masochism (BDSM).

    1 in stock

    £72.00

  • Laws and Societies in Global Contexts

    Cambridge University Press Laws and Societies in Global Contexts

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis text seeks to situate socio-legal studies in a global context. Law and society scholarship in the United States and elsewhere typically assumes one legal system and one society and explores the relationship between them. Such a narrow endeavor perpetuates a Western international relations model that too often conflates law, culture and the nation-state. A more global socio-legal perspective engages with multiple laws and societies within and across national borders and recognizes diverse socio-legal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national and global levels. This more global perspective also reveals an array of transnational issues including regional conflicts, genocide, mass immigration, environmental degradation, and climate change that have consistently defied resolution via conventional international system of governance. The approach to global legal pluralism outlined here seeks to provide a framework for enviTrade Review'In its scope, ambition and passion the result is one of the best books to emerge from this field in recent years. It will remain a reference point in years to come.' Desmond Manderson, Law and HumanitiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: socio-legal scholarship in the twenty-first century; 2. Interconnected themes and challenges; 3. Producing legal knowledge; 4. Re-imagining legal geographies; 5. Securing peoples; 6. Re-racializing the world; 7. Conclusion: the enduring relevance of law?

    15 in stock

    £33.99

  • The Content and Context of Hate Speech

    Cambridge University Press The Content and Context of Hate Speech

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from around the world.Trade Review'… a wide and encompassing look at hate speech in its various forms and the various factors (of which modern communications is but one) that push for a rethink of regulations. … The Content and Context of Hate Speech is a useful and enjoyable book for anyone who is interested in the issue, whether as part of academic research, as a participant in the public debate or as a media professional. The book can be read through from beginning to end, to challenge the mind and get new ideas, or it can be used to go deeper on specific issues through the interesting sources referred to and the many new facts presented.' Katrin Merike Nyman-Metcalf, International and Comparative Law Quarterly'The 'context' of anti-Gypsyism, and the connections between hateful words and heinous deeds pose profound and troubling questions for champions of free speech and opponents of content-based bans … This stimulating collection of interviews and essays edited by Herz and Molnar provides a singularly comprehensive rethink on responses to the content and context of hate speech.' Bernard Rorke, European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) blog'[The title] The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses is well chosen for the collection of essays assembled by [Herz and Molnar] … To the extent that this can be done in a few words, it encapsulates an important part of the debate over what to do about hate speech. The essays reflect a broad consensus that hate speech is one of the afflictions of our era and that there is a need to counter it. … There is much to admire in the essays …' Aryeh Neier, International Journal of Constitutional LawTable of ContentsForeword: hate speech and the coming death of the international standard before it was born (complaints of a watchdog) Miklos Haraszti; Foreword: hate speech and common sense Adam Liptak; Part I. Overviews: 1. Interview with Robert Post Peter Molnar and Robert Post; 2. Is there a case for banning hate speech Bhikhu Parekh; 3. Hate speech C. Edwin Baker; 4. Interview with Kenan Malik Peter Molnar and Kenan Malik; 5. Hate speech and the demos Jamal Greene; 6. On American hate speech law Floyd Abrams; Part II. Refinements and Distinctions: 7. Social epistemology, Holocaust denial, and the post-millian calculus Frederick Schauer; 8. Denying experience: Holocaust denial and the free speech theory of the state Julie Suk; 9. What's wrong with defamation of religion? Kwame Anthony Appiah; 10. 'Hate speech' and imminent danger of violence Peter Molnar; 11. Reconceptualizing counter-speech in hate speech policy (with a focus on Australia) Katharine Gelber; 12. Hate speech and self-restraint Arthur Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink; 13. Hate speech in constitutional jurisprudence: a comparative analysis Michel Rosenfeld; 14. One step beyond hate speech: post-Soviet regulation of 'extremist' and 'terrorist' speech in the media Andrei Richter; 15. Hate speech and comprehensive forms of life Alon Harel; Part III. Equality and Fear: 16. Hate speech and political legitimacy Jeremy Waldron; 17. Reply to Jeremy Waldron Ronald Dworkin; 18. Waldron, Machiavelli, and hate speech Stephen Holmes; 19. Shielding marginalized groups from verbal assaults without abusing hate speech laws Yared Legesse Mengistu; 20. Interview with Nadine Strossen Peter Molnar and Nadine Strossen; 21. Interview with Theodore Shaw Peter Molnar and Theodore Shaw; Part IV. International Law: 22. Does international law provide for consistent rules on hate speech? Toby Mendel; 23. State-sanctioned incitement to genocide: the responsibility to prevent Irwin Cotler; 24. A survey and critical analysis of Council of Europe strategies for countering 'hate speech' Tarlach McGonagle; 25. The American convention on human rights: regulation of hate speech and similar expression Eduardo Bertoni and Julio Rivera, Jr; 26. Orbiting hate: satellite transponders and free expression Monroe Price.

    15 in stock

    £44.99

  • How to Do Things with Rules A Primer of

    Cambridge University Press How to Do Things with Rules A Primer of

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisNew to English law? Need to know how rules are made, interpreted and applied? This popular and well-established textbook will show you how. It simplifies legal method by combining examples with an account of rules in general: the who, what, why and how of interpretation. Starting with standpoint and context, it identifies factors that give rise to doubts about the interpretation of a rule and recommends a systematic approach to analysing those factors. Questions and exercises integrated in the text and on the accompanying website will help you to develop skills in reading, interpreting and arguing about legal and other rules. The text is fully updated on developments in the legislative process and the judicial interpretation of statutes and precedent. It includes a new chapter on 'The European Dimension' reflecting the changes brought about by the Human Rights Act 1998.Trade Review'… one of the most influential legal academic books of the last 30 years. It has substantially and beneficially affected the thinking of law students and lawyers worldwide. It is a wonderfully vivid and stimulating introduction to legal methods and to the general arts of interpreting and applying rules. Using a cornucopia of examples from all sorts of real cases, legislation, human rights law, and European law, the authors demystify the processes by which rules are interpreted and applied. In a masterfully clear exegesis, the arcane world of rules and how they work is made easily accessible. This is an inspiring and indispensable book for all those whose scholarship involves argument about the making and breaking of rules. In fact, anyone whose work involves doing things with rules will gain great advantage, skill, and insight by reading this enjoyable book.' G. J. Slapper, Director of the Centre for Law, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Some food for thought; Part II. Reading, Using and Interpreting Rules in General: 2. Problems and mischiefs; 3. Of rules in general; 4. Interpretation and application; 5. Imperfect rules; Part III. Reading Law: Reading, Using and Interpreting Legislation and Cases: 6. Routine and problematic readings; 7. Legislation; 8. Interpreting legislation; 9. Reading cases; 10. The European dimension; 11. Rules, reasoning and interpretation; Part IV: Questions and exercises.

    1 in stock

    £37.99

  • Courting Social Justice Judicial Enforcement of

    Cambridge University Press Courting Social Justice Judicial Enforcement of

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis book is a five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation. Detailed studies of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa present systematic and nuanced accounts of court activity on social and economic rights in each country. The book develops new methodologies for analyzing the sources of and variation in social and economic rights litigation, explains why actors are now turning to the courts to enforce social and economic rights, measures the aggregate impact of litigation in each country, and assesses the relevance of the empirical findings for legal theory. This book argues that courts can advance social and economic rights under the right conditions precisely because they are never fully independent of political pressures.Trade Review'Human rights are meaningless if they cannot be claimed. The formal court system is playing an increasingly important role in enforcing human rights claims in many countries, frequently with life-saving impacts, as part of the overarching institutional architecture and social mobilization for human rights accountability. Gauri and Brinks have produced a timely, distinctive and important comparative empirical analysis of prerequisites for effective legal claims to socio-economic rights, and their social policy implications. I have no doubt that this book will appeal to a wide readership of public policy makers, economists, social scientists and lawyers, transcending stale theoretical dichotomies between rights of different kinds and showing vividly what a cross-disciplinary field human rights has become.' Louise Arbour, UN Commissioner for Human Rights'Judicial enforcement of social and economic rights has generated much theoretical controversy but little empirical work. Gauri and Brinks have taken a giant step forward with this methodologically innovative volume. The chapters fit together seamlessly, and provide a host of comparative and theoretical insights into the causes and consequences of judicial intervention in social and economic rights. The result is a major contribution to the literatures on rights, judicial power and social change, and the role of law in development.' Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School'The book offers a comparative analysis of five countries, South Africa, Brazil, India, Nigeria and Indonesia. Each case is rich in empirical data, as well as relevant social and political factors … This book is written to be accessible to both the serious empirical scholar of law and justice, as well as anyone interested in social justice and the protection of rights for disadvantaged populations. The ideas presented offer academics, scholars, and activists alike, the possibility of applying theoretical and empirical analysis to their own practices to further social justice … Overall, this book successfully merges theoretical analysis regarding the courts as policy makers and their ability to protect rights with empirical data through the case studies.' Jamila Smith-Loud, University of MarylandTable of Contents1. Introduction: the elements of legalization, and the triangular shape of social and economic rights Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks; 2. Litigating for social justice in post-apartheid South Africa: a focus on health and education Jonathan Berger; 3. Accountability for social and economic rights in Brazil Florian F. Hoffmann and Fernando R. N. M. Bentes; 4. Courts and socio-economic rights in India Shylashri Shankar and Pratap Bhanu Mehta; 5. The impact of economic and social rights in Nigeria: an assessment of the legal framework for implementing education and health as human rights Chidi Anselm Odinkalu; 6. The implementation of the rights to health care and education in Indonesia Bivitri Susanti; 7. A new policy landscape: legalizing social and economic rights in the developing world Helen Hershkoff; 8. Transforming legal theory in the light of practice: the judicial application of social and economic rights to private orderings Daniel M. Brinks and Varun Gauri.

    1 in stock

    £27.89

  • Great Repression

    Penguin Random House India Great Repression

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £14.95

  • Minding Justice

    Harvard University Press Minding Justice

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention, and protection of people with mental disabilities provides innovative solutions to problems associated with criminal responsibility, protection of society from dangerous individuals, and the state's authority to act paternalistically.Trade ReviewWith penetrating analysis and startling originality, Slobogin examines the underpinnings of mental health law, cutting across both criminal and civil domains, to propose a provocative restructuring of legal doctrine. This extremely well-written book is a superb example of interdisciplinary scholarship, combining philosophical, legal, and clinical insights in a new synthesis. -- Bruce J. Winick, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of MiamiSlobogin's book is a tour de force on issues concerning interventions into the lives of those with mental illness. -- Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Gould School of Law, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Clinical and Legal Landscape Part I: The Punishment Model 2. The Insanity Defense 3. Mental Disability and the Death Penalty Part II: The Prevention Model 4. A Jurisprudence of Dangerousness 5. The Civilization of the Criminal Law Part III: The Protection Model 6. Competency in the Criminal Process 7. Treatment Decision-Making Conclusion: Rethinking Legally Relevant Mental Disorder Notes Index

    2 in stock

    £56.76

  • Legal Integration of Islam A Transatlantic

    Harvard University Press Legal Integration of Islam A Transatlantic

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    Book SynopsisChristian Joppke and John Torpey show how four liberal democracies—France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S.—have responded to the challenge of integrating Muslim populations. Demonstrating the centrality of the legal system to this process, they argue that institutional barriers to integration are no greater on one side of the Atlantic than the other.Trade ReviewThis short but engaging and provocative work provides an overview of the legal interaction of Islam with the liberal state in France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S.… According Joppke and Torpey, compared to their European counterparts, Muslims in the U.S. are more educated and wealthier and, hence, less challenging to the larger non-Muslim communities. This book’s strength is its analysis of the two European cases, where the focus is on law and the legal integration of Islam into the existing constitutional structure. -- H. Shambayati * Choice *This is a valuable contribution to the comparative analysis of Islam in western liberal societies. It is written in a lively and engaging manner, which is no small feat for a work that deals with complex legal issues. The book's treatment of these issues never comes at the expense of its engagement with matters of broad public concern. -- Rogers Brubaker, University of California, Los AngelesA sober, nuanced, and rigorously researched study of how four countries approach Islam in politics and, in particular, law. It recognizes that Muslim immigrants create particular challenges, but is in no way hysterical or pessimistic about these states' capacity to address them. It is a provocative book that will attract a wide readership and generate much debate. -- Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

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    £37.76

  • Law and Leviathan

    Harvard University Press Law and Leviathan

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    Book SynopsisMany Americans fear the power of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats—the “deep state.” Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule seek to calm those fears by proposing a moral regime to ensure that government rulemakers behave transparently and don’t abuse their authority. The administrative state may be a Leviathan, but it can be a principled one.Trade ReviewThis short book is as brilliantly imaginative as it is urgently timely. By identifying an inner morality of administrative law, Sunstein and Vermeule refute the most serious legal and political attacks on the administrative state since the New Deal. The book makes major contributions to the theory of the rule of law. -- Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Story Professor of Law, Harvard Law SchoolThis is a sparkling vindication of the enduring relevance of Lon Fuller’s classic account of the rule of law. It is an exemplary piece of legal scholarship in the way it connects a sensitive exploration of legal doctrine to underlying moral concerns. -- John Tasioulas, Director, Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy, and Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College LondonIn the face of decades of robust attacks on the administrative state as unconstitutional, immoral, or worse, Sunstein and Vermeule offer a doctrinally careful and theoretically sophisticated defense of pervasive administrative regulation tempered by the kinds of rule of law concerns associated with Lon Fuller’s internal morality of law. At no time more than the present, a defense of expertise-based governance and administration is sorely needed, and this book provides it with gusto. -- Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of LawA must-read for critics and defenders of the administrative state. -- Jeffrey Pojankowski, Notre Dame Law SchoolIn this elegant and thoughtful book, Sunstein and Vermeule seek to offer an ‘appealing second best’ on which the administrative state’s friends and foes can agree. Whether they will succeed in that task remains to be seen, but their effort to move us past old debates is exactly right. The pandemic has shown the urgent need for an administrative state that is both lawful and effective, empowered as well as constrained. Sunstein and Vermeule offer us an insightful account of how that uneasy balance is attained through core principles emanant in administrative law. -- Gillian Metzger, Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law, Columbia Law SchoolSunstein and Vermeule pack in a great deal of information, almost a thumbnail course in administrative law…For lawyers, the book provides an easy entry point to the latest developments in a complex and technical field of law...Put[s] forward a new analytical framework for thinking about the direction of the administrative state. -- Terence Check * Cipher Brief *Has something to offer both critics and supporters of the administrative state and is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate over the constitutionality of the modern state. -- Joseph Postell * Review of Politics *Law and Leviathan is a useful source to learn about the current state of US public law discourse. The reader can find an interesting mapping of concerns and solutions advanced towards developments which—to different degrees and under various labels—have taken place in most Western constitutional systems, as well as within the institutional structures of global governance. -- Angelo Jr Golia * Heidelberg Journal of International Law *

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    £21.56

  • PrivacyS Blueprint

    Harvard University Press PrivacyS Blueprint

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisWoodrow Hartzog develops the underpinning of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and use digital technologies. Rather than permit exploitation, it would demand encryption, prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable, and require safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance.Trade Review[A] smart new book… [W]ill repay the attention of designers, privacy professionals, and anyone who wants to learn how design guided by strengthened laws and regulations might help us emerge from today’s swirl of privacy problems. -- James Barszcz * The Privacy Advisor (International Association of Privacy Professionals website) *Deceptive design nudges, tricks, and goads you into sharing more than you might intend to online, Hartzog argues in his new book… And when you think you’re in control of your own data, you rarely are. -- Ariel Bogle * ABC News (Australia) *Privacy’s Blueprint is a real tour de force, introducing a rigorous structure for multiple dimensions of privacy protections. -- Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and InformationFilled with fascinating examples and written in a lively and accessible way, Privacy’s Blueprint is the definitive chronicle of Privacy by Design. This is one of the most important books about privacy in our times. -- Daniel J. Solove, author of Understanding PrivacyA bold and innovative privacy agenda and a beautifully written book. Hartzog demonstrates how and why privacy design is about power and politics. -- Paul M. Schwartz, author of Information Privacy LawWith deep insight, passion, and humor, Woodrow Hartzog demands that we see what has been in front us all along yet never meaningfully reckoned with. As Hartzog makes clear, we can design apps, social media, and networked clothing (underwear!) with privacy in mind but we need a plan and this book provides it in spades. This is a defining book for our information age and a must read. -- Danielle Keats Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

    3 in stock

    £28.86

  • Why People Obey the Law

    Princeton University Press Why People Obey the Law

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisPeople obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment, this is the startling conclusion of this study. This book suggests that lawmakers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to instil fear. It finds that people obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority.Trade ReviewPraise for the original edition: "[T]he argument and findings of Why People Obey the Law have important implications for the debate about the way in which people subject to legal procedures should be treated... [T]he study is provocative and raises an issue of real importance."--Roger Hood, Times Literary Supplement Praise for the original edition: "Theoretically and empirically, Tyler makes a powerful case... The data set is unusually rich."--V. Lee Hamilton, Michigan Law Review Praise for the original edition: "[A] major contribution by a well-known, well-respected scholar in the field."--Austin Sarat, Law & Society Review Praise for the original edition: "Tyler's book is interesting, significant, and clearly written. Most important, it contributes to an urgent need for critical consideration of ... an ideology whose main results have been the current shameful state of the American penal system."--Dario Melossi, Contemporary Sociology "Tyler's book posits an alternative model of legal compliance--one that focuses upon ways of obtaining public consent for and cooperation with particular regulatory regimes... Though written from the perspective of the discipline of social psychology, there are lessons here for everybody involved or interested in legal regulation, governance or, indeed, community relations."--Andrew Goldsmith, Law Society Journal

    2 in stock

    £31.50

  • The Republic of Beliefs

    Princeton University Press The Republic of Beliefs

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Diane Coyle's Best Economic Books of 2018""One of the most interesting and exhilarating books I’ve read for ages. . . . This is a beautifully written book, very profound. . . . The Republic of Beliefs offers a distinctive and revealing perspective on public policy, and couldn’t be more timely."---Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics"In this important book which is most lucidly written, Basu shows that a game-theory paradigm can lead us to ask critically important questions about what it is that might make people observe the law."---Robert Lee, Journal of Law and Society"An unqualified success. . . . the argument in its totality is overwhelming, and it is only to behoped that practitioners of the discipline of law and economics will be willing to bringits suggestions to fruition."---Mario Ferrero, Journal of Economics"The book is a message of hope that institutions and laws governing citizens are not static. It has the potential to reinvigorate the space for multidisciplinary inquiries into law and economics, and promises to develop a framework for law and economics that departs from orthodoxy."---Sarthak Gaurav, Economic & Political Weekly"The book resolves several conundrums faced by the existing L and E discipline. . . . the book provides a rich framework that can be used by the researchers and policymakers to address the outstanding issues."---Ram Singh, Indian Economic Review

    15 in stock

    £25.50

  • Spiderweb Capitalism

    Princeton University Press Spiderweb Capitalism

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the PROSE Award in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the Asia/Transnational Book Award, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association""A revealing look at how a secretive, often criminal element enables the rich to ‘make and protect not only their money, but also their reputations.’ . . . A work of true crime as much as scholarship, highly readable and maddening." * Kirkus Reviews *

    15 in stock

    £22.50

  • Bringing Down Goliath

    Ebury Publishing Bringing Down Goliath

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis*The Sunday Times Bestseller*''Inspiring and illuminating'' JAMES O''BRIENPicked as a 2023 highlight by the Guardian---------------A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law Project.Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful - for those who have the means to use the courts to enforce their will and defend their interests. But we can fight back.Jolyon Maugham KC founded Good Law Project in 2017 with the belief that the law can also put power into the hands of ordinary people. It has brought a series of landmark cases against a dishonest and increasingly autocratic government and won widespread acclaim in successfully reversing Boris Johnson''s unlawful suspension of Parliament. Already the largest legal campaign group in the UK, Good Law Project is shining light into corners the establishment would rather keep dark -Trade ReviewMaugham doesn't just speak truth to corrupt and compromised power, he takes the fight to their front door and won't be ignored. Inspiring and illuminating * James O'Brien *A mighty blast . . . This is how to challenge the powerful * Owen Jones *With astonishing panache and determination, Jolyon Maugham has taken on some of the most powerful and corrupt interests in the UK - and won. This is his remarkable story * George Monbiot *

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  • The Aegean Maritime Disputes and International

    Taylor & Francis Ltd The Aegean Maritime Disputes and International

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    Book SynopsisThis key work analyses the disputes between Greece and Turkey as to their respective rights in the Aegean Sea, paying particular attention to the claims regarding territorial waters, the continental shelf, and the yet to be declared exclusive maritime zones in the area. While many earlier studies have concentrated on political factors, this study provides an exhaustive analysis of the relevant principles of international law in general and rules and principles of maritime law in particular, identifying the legal principles appropriate to the settlement of the Aegean dispute. With this regard, it makes a detailed examination of all the related aspects of the Aegean Sea and its islands, as well as the legal arguments of Greece and Turkey on the disputes concerned. It also clarifies the prospects for settling the dispute on the basis of international law, either by the two parties involved, or by the intervention of a third party such as the International Court of Justice. As such, itTrade Review’The book by Yucel Acer contributes significantly to the understanding of the political and especially the legal aspects of the Aegean maritime disputes between Turkey and Greece. The book is simply a great achievement in examining the Aegean maritime disputes on the basis of equity developed through the international tribunals since 1951 for issues related to the delimitation of the territorial waters and since 1969 for the delimitation of the continental shelf areas. The author gives a complete account of all the related aspects of the juridical settlement of the Aegean maritime disputes such as the legal arguments of Turkey and Greece and the special circumstances of the Aegean Sea that effect their settlement. The book is especially recommended for those who would like to comprehend the Turkish views of the maritime disputes in the Aegean Sea in an undisputable objectivity.’ Professor Yuksel Inan, The Bilkent University, Ankara, TurkeyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. The Aegean Sea in its Contemporary Context: Geographical and social characteristics of the Aegean Sea; Legal characteristics of the Aegean Sea. Prospect for a Judicial Settlement of the Aegean Maritime Disputes: Considerations related to the settlement of the Aegean disputes; Prospect for a judicial settlement; Reflections on possibility of judicial settlements. The Law on the Maritime Areas: The territorial sea; The continental shelf; The exclusive economic zone; Islands and their maritime areas. Judicial Settlement of the Aegean Territorial Sea Dispute: Basic considerations; Basic legal considerations as to the dispute; The general principles and the breadth of the territorial sea; The applicable principles and the territorial sea limits in the Aegean Sea. The Parties' Arguments over the Delimitation and the Relevant Law in Practice: Legal arguments over the delimitation of the Continental Shelf in the Aegean Sea; The delimitation law as applied in practice. Maritime Delimitation in the Aegean Sea: Basics of the maritime delimitation in the Aegean Sea; Equitable delimitation in the Aegean Sea; Other relevant considerations. Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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  • The Data Protection Directive and Medical

    Taylor & Francis Ltd The Data Protection Directive and Medical

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    Book SynopsisThe Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series focuses on the 'Privacy in Research Ethics and Law' EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries. The series consists of five separate volumes following the complete development of the PRIVIREAL project. This volume relates to the first stage of the project regarding the implementation of the Data Protection Directive, in particular in the area of medical research. It contains an introduction and overview of this topic, keynote papers addressing specific questions on the subject, and a report on both the general implementation of the Directive and the implementation in relation to medical research in 26 European countries. The book will be invaluable for those people with an interest in data protection, medical research and their implications for each other. It lays open the actual situation across Europe, including both New Member States and Newly Associated Member States.Trade Review'Up until now there has been a notable absence of sustained comparative analysis to assess the impact of the [EU Data Protection] Directive [95/46/EC] across the member states of the EU - this book fills that void. It is an invaluable resource providing detailed information regarding the comparative perspective to this issue...This book is likely to prove an invaluable source to those interested in the impact of the EU Data Protection Directive in the research practice at member states.' Jean V. McHale, University of Leicester, UK 'This book...will appeal to experts in the field because of the detailed analysis but it could also give someone new to this field a sense of how this directive operates and its implications for the use of medical data.' SCRIPT-edTable of ContentsContents: Introduction And Keynote Papers: Introduction, Deryck Beyleveld, Ségolène Rouillé-Mirza, David Townend and Jessica Wright; An overview of Directive 95/46/EC in relation to medical research, Deryck Beyleveld; The concept of privacy: an analysis of the EU directive on the protection of personal data, Mette Hartlev; Anonymization and pseudonymization: the legal framework at an European level, Carlos María Romeo-Casabona; The scope for exemptions for medical research, Herman Nys; The duty to provide information to the data subject: articles 10 and 11 of Directive 95/46/EC, Deryck Beyleveld; Overriding data subjects' rights in the public interest, David Townend; Genetic information and the data protection directive of the European union, Lasse A. Lehtonen. Report Framework And Comparative Studies: EU, Norway and the NAS law report framework, Deryck Beyleveld and David Townend; Comparative study on the implementation and effect of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in Europe: general standards, Ségolène Rouillé-Mirza and Jessica Wright; Comparative study on the implementation and effect of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in Europe: medical research, Ségolène Rouillé-Mirza and Jessica Wright; Index; List of cases.

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  • Courts and Judges The International Library of

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Courts and Judges The International Library of

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    Book SynopsisScores of works have made important contributions to the study of courts and judges but far fewer are sufficiently powerful to alter perspectives about entire areas of study. The articles in this volume do just that. They are, to be sure, a rather diverse set covering four substantive concerns - judicial selection and retention, judicial decision making, constraints on judicial power and the role of courts in democracies - but all have played crucial roles in shaping or changing the way we think about courts and judges.Table of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction. The Selection and Retention of Judges: Senate voting on Supreme Court nominees: a neoinstitutional model, Charles M. Cameron, Albert D. Cover and Jeffrey A. Segal; The politics of Supreme Court nominations: a theory of institutional constraints and choices, Brian J. Moraski and Charles R. Shipan; Constituent influence in State Supreme Courts: conceptual notes and a case study, Melinda Gann Hall. Judicial Decision Making: Divisions of opinion among justices of the US Supreme Court, C. Herman Pritchett; On the mysterious demise of consensual norms in the United States Supreme Court, Thomas G. Walker, Lee Epstein and William J. Dixon; The study of judicial decision-making as an aspect of political behavior, Glendon A. Schubert; Sophisticated voting and gate-keeping in the Supreme Court, Gregory A. Caldiera, John R. Wright and Christopher J.W. Zorn; Predicting Supreme Court cases probabilistically: the search and seizure cases, Jeffrey A. Segal; Voting behavior in the United States Courts of Appeals 1961-64, Sheldon Goldman; Judicial policy-making and southern school segregation, Michael W. Giles and Thomas G.Walker,; Civic virtue and the feminine voice in constitutional adjudication, Suzanna Sherry; What do judges and justices maximize? (the same thing everybody else does), Richard A. Posner; Strategic policy considerations and voting fluidity on the Burger Court, Forrest Maltzman and Paul J, Wahlbeck. Constraints on Judicial Power: Lower court checks on Supreme Court power, Walter F. Murphy; Judicial partisanship and obedience to legal doctrine: whistleblowing on the Federal Courts of Appeals, Frank B. Cross and Emerson H. Tiller; Overriding Supreme Court statutory interpretation decisions, William N. Eskridge Jr; The logic of strategic defection: court-executive relations in Argentina under dictatorship and democracy, Gretchen Helmke. The Role of Courts in Democracies: Decision-making in a democracy: the supreme court as a na

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  • The Jury System Contemporary Scholarship The

    Taylor & Francis Ltd The Jury System Contemporary Scholarship The

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    Book SynopsisThis volume collects new, high-quality scholarship on the perennially controversial institution of trial by jury. The book provides accounts of the jury''s historical development and contemporary use, as well as empirical work on jury selection, jury decision making and jury reform.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. The Development of Trial by Jury: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: The international development of the jury: the role of the British Empire, R. Vogler; The American criminal jury, Nancy J. King; Appellate courts and civil juries, Stephan Landsman; Europe's new jury systems: the cases of Spain and Russia, Stephen C. Thaman; Citizen participation in judicial decision making: juries, lay judges and Japan, Richard O. Lempert. The Jury Selection Process: The representative jury requirement: jury representativeness and cross sectional participation from the beginning to the end of the jury selection process, Hiroshi Fukurai; Case studies of pre- and mid-trial prejudice in criminal and civil litigation, Neil Vidmar; Assessing pre-trial publicity effects: integrating content analytic results, Christina A. Studebaker, Jennifer K. Robbenolt, Maithilee K. Pathak-Sharma and Steven D. Penrod. Juror Judgments of Trial Evidence: Sexual harassment stories: testing a story-mediated model of juror decision making in civil litigation, Jill E. Huntley and Mark Costanzo; Juror competence in processing complex information: implications from a simulation of the Maxwell trial, T.M. Honess, M. Levi and E.A. Charman; Jurors' evaluations of expert testimony: judging the messenger and the message, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkvic and Valerie P. Hans; The eye of everyman: witnessing DNA in the Simpson trial, Sheila Jasanoff ; Folk knowledge as legal action: death penalty judgments and the tenet of early release in a culture of mistrust and punitiveness, Benjamin D. Steiner, William J. Bowers and Austin Sarat Jury Deliberation Processes: Civic awakening in the jury room: a test of the connection between jury deliberation and political participation, John Gastil, E. Pierre Deess and Phil Weiser; A meta-analysis of the effects of jury size, Michael J. Saks and Mollie Weighner Marti; The hung jury: the American jury's insights and contemporary understanding, Valerie P. Hans, Paula L. Hannaford-Agor, Nicole L. Mott and G.T. Munsterman. Jury Research and Jury Reform: Juror comprehension and public policy: oerceived problems and proposed solutions, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, and Alan Reifman; Inside the jury room: evaluating juror discussions during trial, Shari Seidman Diamond, Neil Vidmar, Mary Rose, Leslie Ellis and Beth Murphy; Precious little guidance: jury instruction on damage awards, Edith Greene and Brian Bornstein; reconciling experimental incoherence with real-world coherence in punitive damages, Theodore Eisenberg, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Martin T. Wells; Index.

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  • Organ and Tissue Transplantation The

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Organ and Tissue Transplantation The

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    Book SynopsisOrgan transplantation has been one of the miracles of modern-day medicine but, in addition to presenting enormous technical and clinical challenges, it throws up major ethical and legal issues principally from the perspective of the donor. Evolving capabilities in the spheres of both organ and tissue transplantation, coupled with rapidly-escalating demand, assert consistent and critical pressure on our ethical and legal principles and frameworks, including the expansion of the potential donor pool beyond the conventional categories of donor. This volume brings together seminal papers analyzing such matters in the context of an ever-increasingly important area of clinical practice.Trade Review'Organ and tissue transplantation continues to generate heated debate within the broad disciplines of medical law and medical ethics. For the first time here is a volume which will help to provoke, stimulate and promote ongoing debate by bringing together a wide selection of key sources and cutting edge materials within this important and developing area.' R.D. Mackay, De Montfort University, UK 'David Price is one of the leading international experts in the ethics and law of organ and tissue transplantation. This collection is a reflection of that expertise; timely, comprehensive and balanced yet simultaneously thought-provoking. It is an essential read for anyone interested in the issues or working in the field.' Heather Draper, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Meaning of Death: Is it time to abandon brain death?, R. Truog; The importance of being dead: non-heart-beating organ donation, J. Menikoff. Part II The Body as Property: An alternative to property rights in human tissue, R. Marusyk and M.S. Swain; Living tissue and organ donors and property law: more on Moore, B.M. Dickens. Part III Commerce in Organ Procurement: Nephrarious goings on: kidney sales and moral arguments, J. Radcliffe-Richards; Why liberals should accept financial incentives for organ procurement, R.M. Veatch; Increasing the supply of transplant organs: the virtues of a futures market, L.R. Cohen; Money talks, money kills - the economics of transplantation in Japan and China, C. Becker. Part IV Cadaveric Organ and Tissue Donation: Freedom to choose and freedom to lose: the procurement of cadaver organs for transplantation, B. Hoffmaster; The moral duty to contribute and its implications for organ procurement policy, P.T. Menzel; The case for presumed consent to transplant human organs after death, C. Cohen; Presumed consent or contracting out, C.A. Erin and J. Harris; The failure to give: reducing barriers to organ donation, J.F. Childress; 2 steps to 3 choices: a new approach to mandated choice, S.E. Herz; Ethical issues in limb transplants, D. Dickenson and G. Widdershoven; On the ethics of facial transplantation, O. Wiggins, J. Barker, S. Martinez, M. Vossen, C. Maldonado, F. Grossi, C. François, M. Cunningham, G. Perez-Abadia, M. Kon, J. Banis. Part V Living Donor Transplantation: Autonomy's limits: living donation and health-related harm, R. Sauder and L.S. Parker; Moral agency and the family; the case of living related organ transplantation, R.A. Crouch and C. Elliott; Organ donations by incompetents and the substituted judgment doctrine, J.A. Robertson. Part VI Specific Classes of Donors: Taking the camel by the nose: the anencephalic as a source for pediatric organ transplants, J.A. Friedman; A

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  • The Family Law and Society 5Volume Set

    Routledge The Family Law and Society 5Volume Set

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    Book SynopsisVirtually different areas of family law have undergone major doctrinal and theoretical changes - from the definition of marriage and the financial and parenting consequences of divorce, to the legal construction of parenthood. This series brings together articles and papers in key aspects of family law from an international perspective.

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  • Exploiting the Limits of Law Swedish Feminism and the Challenge to Pessimism

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Exploiting the Limits of Law Swedish Feminism and the Challenge to Pessimism

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    Book SynopsisMoving beyond the question of whether an area of scholarly investigation can truly be characterized as ''legal'', Exploiting the Limits of Law combats the often unhelpful constraints of law''s subject-matter and formal processes. Through a process of reflection on the limits of law and repeated efforts to redraw them, this book challenges the general sense of pessimism among feminists and others about the usefulness of law as an instrument of change. The work combines theoretical analysis of the law''s boundaries with investigation of the practical settings for changing legal and policy environments. Both the empirical focus of this volume, and its underlying theoretical concern with the limits of the law and its gender implications, render it of interest to legal scholars throughout the world, whether of EU law, feminism, social policy or philosophy.Trade Review'This book deepens our understanding of Swedish legal feminism by contextualising it within the paradigms and epistemologies of Nordic legal scholarship. The authors’ thoroughgoing excavation of the field and their sustained, feminist challenge to the boundaries and limits of accepted legal knowledge, are both thought-provoking and inspiring.' Professor Rosemary Hunter, University of Kent, UK and Chair, Working Group on Gender and Law, Research Committee on Sociology of Law 'This joint Swedish-Australian edited book is useful and inspiring for those generally interested in contemporary understandings of law in a changing world. It takes advantage of the fact that this world is legally plural. The challenges to Nordic understandings of law and to feminist pessimism offered in the diverse theoretical and practice oriented contributions are both timely and uplifting.' Professor Hanne Petersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 'Exploiting the limits of law is a well-edited collection of exciting articles moving beyond the disciplinary question of what exactly should or could be characterised as 'legal' studies. The book offers very helpful critical analysis for all those interested in Scandinavian realism, legal dogmatics, current developments in welfare state feminism and the shortcomings of critical legal studies in the Nordic context, from a feminist point of view. It also contributes to the critical discussion on how to approach the question of law and politics, and how to challenge the social inequalities and power structures that reproduce gender inequalities and sexual hierarchies. The book is very suitable for use as course material in EU law, feminist jurisprudence, social policy, history of law and women's law.' Feminist Legal StudiesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Reflecting the Epistemology of Law – Exploiting Boundaries, ÅsaGunnarsson, Eva-MariaSvensson, MargaretDavies; Chapter 2 Boundary-Work in Legal Scholarship, Eva-MariaSvensson; Chapter 3 An Apparent Boundary Between Law and Politics, ÅsaPersson; Chapter 4 Legal Texts as Discourses, JohannaNiemi-Kiesiläinen, PäiviHonkatukia, MinnaRuuskanen; Chapter 5 Beyond Constructed Boundaries in Criminal Law Discourse, MonicaBurman; Chapter 6 Children Crossing Borders – On Child Perspectives in the Swedish Aliens Act and the Limits of Law, EvaNilsson; Chapter 7 Challenging the Heteronormativity of Law, GörelGranström; Chapter 8 Social Insurance Law – The Core of Swedish Welfare Law, RuthMannelqvist; Chapter 9 Challenging one Fundamental Norm in Labour Law – the Exception of the Employer’s Family and Home, CatharinaCalleman; Chapter 10 Exclusion of Solo Mothers in the Welfare State, LenaWennberg; Chapter 11 Gender Equality and the Diversity of Rights and Obligations in Swedish Social Citizenship, ÅsaGunnarsson; Chapter 12 Notes Towards an Optimistic Feminism, MargaretDavies;

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  • The European Union and the Culture Industries

    Taylor & Francis Ltd The European Union and the Culture Industries

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    Book SynopsisThis edited collection brings together leading academics in their respective fields to examine the European Union''s impact on media and public policy. It provides an analysis of the broader areas of EU policy and links these together to give a greater appreciation of the nuances and scope of EU regulatory initiatives and their impact on the member states. Under a broad public interest perspective, the authors provide an assessment of the success of EU policy in protecting the public interest in the culture industries and respecting certain normative principles and balancing these with market dynamics.Trade Review'This comprehensive and indispensable guide to European Union policy for the cultural industries is enlightening, well informed, well written and up to date. Authoritatively covering innovation in European cultural and media governance, competition law and regulation and the articulation of European policies on copyright, protection of minors, film, television and telecommunications, this book is a model of its kind.' Richard Collins, Open University, UK 'An important contribution deserving of wide readership, this comprehensive collection of expert contributions explores the European Union's role across a range of policy issues in the communications sector. At once authoritative and accessible, it sheds light on the complexities of the relationship between the EU institutions and the Member States, providing a fascinating account of the jurisdictional grey areas and the tensions inherent in the EU's system of multi-level governance.' Peter Humphreys, University of Manchester, UK.Table of ContentsThe European Union and the Culture Industries

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  • Legal Symbolism On Law Time and European Identity

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Legal Symbolism On Law Time and European Identity

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    Book SynopsisJirà PribÃn''s book contributes to the field of systems theory of law in the context of European legal and political integration and constitution-making. It puts recent European legislative efforts and policies, especially the EU enlargement process, in the context of legal theory and philosophy. Furthermore, the author shows that the system of positive law has a symbolic meaning, reflecting how it also contributes to the semantics of political identity, democratic power and moral values, as well as the complex relations between law, politics and morality.Trade Review'Jiri Priban brilliantly challenges us to rethink our conventional ideas about the relationship between morality, culture and law - in particular, constitutional law. In this erudite and compelling book, he takes up the thorniest problems of today’s Europe, including the enlargement of the European Union and post-communist constitution-making in Central Europe, and analyses them against the theory of symbolic communication through law. A bold, ambitious, relentlessly intelligent work.' Wojciech Sadurski, Professor in the Department of Law; European University Institute in Florence. 'Jirí Pribán's rich and sophisticated discussion thoughtfully explores law's complex interactions with morality and politics, and the crucial significance of constitutions in linking legal, moral and political systems. Not least, he highlights major implications for European politics today of the legal and constitutional realities he identifies.' Roger Cotterrell, Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory Queen Mary, University of London 'Pribán manages to put together a timely exposition of the connection between law, politics and morality, both abstractly and in the context of post-communist Central Europe, through a convincing reworking of his previous theses and and expansion in the direction of a firmer understanding of temporality.' International Journal for the Semiotics of LawTable of ContentsContents: Series editor's preface; Introduction; Part I Theory of Symbolic Communication in Law: A Social Systems Perspective: Constitution-making and the symbolic rationality of law: a systemic differentiation of law, politics and morality; The symbolic evolution of political identity from the spirit of the laws; Law and the symbolization of time: the limits of dealing with the past and the future. Part II Identity and Law: European Reflections on Demos and Ethnos: Civil and ethnic traditions and identities: post-communist constitution-making in Central Europe; Identity, constitution-making and the enlargement of the European Union; The symbolic power of European law and search of European politics. Part III The Temporality of Justice: Between Retrospective Laws and Prospective Politics: The retrospectivity of laws and the temporality of justice in post-communist Central Europe; Moral paradoxes of legal justice: an analysis of restitutive and administrative dealing with the past; On legal symbolism and social theory: concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

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  • Studies in Law Politics and Society 40 Studies in

    Emerald Publishing Limited Studies in Law Politics and Society 40 Studies in

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    Book SynopsisDescribes a broader audience of legal scholars who study: the intersection of legal thought and consciousness and the development of legal practices and institutions; and the development of legal thought and practices. This title provides the research that spans a wide range of law related subjects including law and inequality.Table of Contents“Your Client has a Profile:” Race and National Security in Canada After 9/11. Law's Enemies: Enemy Concepts in U.S. Supreme Court Decisions. Move(ments) Beyond Rights: Welfare Rights in an Era of Personal Responsibility. The Electoral Capture of Gay and Lesbian Americans: Evidence and Implications from the 2004 Election. Can Prosecutors be Social Workers?. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Dead Souls, Phantom Clients and the Modern Class Action. List of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD.

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  • Law and Society Reconsidered

    Emerald Publishing Limited Law and Society Reconsidered

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    Book SynopsisContains articles from political science, sociology, and law, which examine the legal treatment of 'suspect' populations, the work of legal actors, and the works of various legal devices.Table of ContentsEmbracing Eclecticism. Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Methodology). Precedents of Injustice: Thinking About History in Law and Society Scholarship. Deconstructing Law and Society: A Sociolegal Aesthetics. Would You Like Theory with that? Bridging the Divide between Policy-Oriented Empirical Legal Research, Critical Theory and Politics. International law and sociolegal scholarship: Toward a spatial global legal pluralism. Policing and the Politics of Public and Private in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Remorse and Psychopathy at the Penalty Phase of the Capital Trial – How Psychiatry's View of “Moral Insanity” Helps Build the Case for Death. List of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD.

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  • Defending Rights in Russia

    University of British Columbia Press Defending Rights in Russia

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    Book SynopsisLawyers often play pivotal roles in building democracies. PamelaJordan's engaging study of the Russian bar (advokatura) providesa richly textured portrait of how, after the USSR's collapse,practising lawyers called advocates began to assume new, self-definedroles as contributors to legal reform and defenders of rights inRussia.Using the historical institutionalism approach as her analyticalframework and drawing from comparative literature on legal professions,Jordan argues that the post-Soviet advokatura as an institution gainedmore, although not complete, autonomy from the state as it struggled toredefine itself as a profession. Advocates formed new bar associationsand law offices and now have a broader range of ways to defendclients' rights than they did during the Soviet era. Jordansuggests that advocates' work is supporting the groTrade ReviewJordan’s book represents a major contribution to the study of Russian legal institutions, as well as post-Soviet Russian politics. As such, the book should be of interest to Russian specialists as well as a broader audience interested in comparative law and the development of civil society. Her exemplary scholarship includes thorough consideration of available literature as well as numerous interviews with leading Russian advocates and jurists… Nevertheless, Jordan’s comprehensive discussion of legal hisotyr and current practices will serve as mandatory reading for scholars interested in Russian politics and understanding Russia’s uneven attempts – both past and present – at legal reform. -- William E. Pomeranz, PhD, Attorney, Reed Smith, Washington DC * Law and Politics Books Review, Vol. 16, No. 3 *The struggle for legal reform in Russia, the famous Russian political cases, and the behavior of Russian courts get a lot of attention, but Russian lawyers themselves rarely do. How their role is changing, who sets the standards for their education and admission to the guild, how they earn a living, and what their contribution has been to modernizing the Russian legal system are matters little studied -- until Jordan's efficient account. -- Robert Levgold * Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Russian and Soviet Bars: A Historical Perspective,1864-1984 2. The Advokatura in the Gorbachev Period, 1985-91 3. Chaos in the Advokatura, 1992-2002 4. Autonomy and Dependence: State-Bar Relations in the 1990s 5. Restructuring the Advokatura from Above, 2002-3 6. Russian Criminal Defence Advocacy in the Post-Soviet Era 7. New Trends in Advocates’ Practice in the Civil Sphere Conclusion Appendices 1 Surveys of Advocates’ Opinions / 2 Stages of a Russian Criminal Case / Notes / Selected Bibliography / Index /

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  • Negotiating Responsibility

    University of British Columbia Press Negotiating Responsibility

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    Book SynopsisThe meaning of criminal responsibility emerged in early- to mid-twentieth-century Canadian capital murder cases through a complex synthesis of socio-cultural, medical, and legal processes. Kimberley White places the negotiable concept of responsibility at the centre of her interdisciplinary inquiry, rather than the more fixed legal concepts of insanity or guilt. In doing so she brings subtlety to more general arguments about the historical relationship between law and psychiatry, the insanity defence, and the role of psychiatric expertise in criminal law cases.Through capital murder case files, White examines how the idea of criminal responsibility was produced, organized, and legitimized in and through institutional structures such as remissions, trial, and post-trial procedures; identity politics of race, character, citizenship, and gender; and overlapping narratives of mind-state and capacity. In particular, she points to the subtle but deeply influential ways in which comTrade Review"The scholarship is both extensive and rigorous. This book will make a pioneering and important contribution to Canadian historiography and social science in the area of mental disorder and justice. - Michael Petrunik, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa"Table of ContentsPreface1 Introduction2 The Making and Mapping of Capital Murder Case Files3 Criminological Thinking and Ways of “Knowing” the Criminal4 Negotiating Responsibility in Law’s “Marketplace”: Beyond the Insanity Defence5 The Racialization of Criminal Responsibility6 Murder between “Wives” and “Husbands”7 Concluding ThoughtsAppendicesNotesBibliography

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  • The Grand Experiment

    University of British Columbia Press The Grand Experiment

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    Book SynopsisFeatures essays that reflect the different directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. This title shows how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project.Table of ContentsForewordIntroduction: Does Law Matter? The New Colonial Legal History / Benjamin L. Berger, Hamar Foster, and A.R. BuckPart 1: Authority at the Boundaries of Empire1 Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30 / Barry Wright2 The Limits of Despotic Government at Sea / Bruce Kercher3 One Chief, Two Chiefs, Red Chiefs, Blue Chiefs: Newcomer Perspectives on Indigenous Leadership in Rupert’s Land and the North-West Territories / Janna Promislow4 Rhetoric, Reason, and the Rule of Law in Early Colonial New South Wales / Ian Holloway, Simon Bronitt, and John Williams5 Sometimes Persuasive Authority: Dominion Case Law and English Judges, 1895-1970 / Jeremy FinnPart 2: Courts and Judges in the Colonies6 Courts, Communities, and Communication: The Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Circuit, 1816-50 / Jim Phillips and Philip Girard7 Fame and Infamy: Two Men of the Law in Colonial New Zealand / David V. Williams8 Moving in an “Eccentric Orbit”: The Independence of Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen’s Land, 1833-47 / Stefan Petrow 9 “Not in Keeping with the Traditions of the Cariboo Courts”: Courts and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1920-50 / Jonathan Swainger Part 3: Property, Politics, and Petitions in Colonial Law 10 Starkie’s Adventures in North America: The Emergence of Libel Law / Lyndsay M. Campbell11 The Law of Dower in New South Wales and the United States: A Study in Comparative Legal History / A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright12 Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s New Brunswick / Greg Marquis13 From Humble Prayers to Legal Demands: The Cowichan Petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian Land Question / Hamar Foster and Benjamin L. Berger Afterword: Looking from the Past into the Future / John P.S. McLarenNotes Selected Bibliography Index

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  • Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada

    University of British Columbia Press Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada

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    Book SynopsisLaw and Religious Pluralism in Canada seeks to elucidate the complex and often uneasy relationship between law and religion in democracies committed both to equal citizenship and religious pluralism. Leading socio-legal scholars consider the role of religious values in public decision making, government support for religious practices, and the restriction and accommodation by government of minority religious practices. They examine such current issues as the legal recognition of sharia arbitration, the re-definition of civil marriage, and the accommodation of religious practice in the public sphere.Trade Review"The range of perspectives offered on the vexed relationship between law and religion is one of the strengths of this book. It clearly illustrates the multiple dimensions involved, the lack of easy solutions, and the many defensible positions that one can take. Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada will contribute significantly to the literature and debates on this pressing issue. - Peter Beyer is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa and the author of Religions in Global Society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada / Richard Moon1 View from the Succah: Religion and Neighbourly Relations / Shauna Van Praagh2 Clashes of Principle and the Possibility of Dialogue: A Case Study of Same-Sex Marriage in the United Church in Canada / Jennifer Nedelsky and Roger Hutchinson 3 Associational Rights, Religion, and the Charter / David Schneiderman4 The Canadian Conception of Equal Religious Citizenship / Bruce Ryder5 Living by Different Law: Legal Pluralism, Freedom of Religion, and Illiberal Religious Groups / Alvin Esau6 In the (Canadian) Shadow of Islamic Law: Translating Mahr as a Bargaining Endowment / Pascale Fournier7 Living Law on a Living Earth: Aboriginal Religion, Law, and the Constitution / John Borrows8 Defining Religion: The Promise and the Peril of Legal Interpretation / Lori G. Beaman9 Government Support for Religious Practice / Richard Moon10 Ontario’s Sharia Law Debate: Law and Politics under the Charter / Lorraine E. Weinrib11 Law’s Religion: Rendering Culture / Benjamin L. Berger Index

    1 in stock

    £73.95

  • Otters Journey through Indigenous Language and

    University of British Columbia Press Otters Journey through Indigenous Language and

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisTold in contemporary Anishinaabe storytelling style, Otter’s Journey takes us across the globe to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization.Trade Review[T]he evocative language which Borrows offers in her telling of the creation story in her introduction, in her enmeshing of the realities of language revitalization in Canada and New Zealand in Chapter Three, and especially, I find, in her experiences in the Salish Sea in Chapter Five, talking with Raven, serves to make real for me as a reader the power of the stories as conduits to ecologically, linguistically, and legally precise truths. -- Jasmine Spencer, postdoctoral fellow in linguistics, University of Victoria * Canadian Literature *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 Place Where the Land Narrows / Neyaashiinigmiing2 Our Land / Nunavut3 Land of the Long White Cloud / Aotearoa4 Place of Learning / Gabe-gikendaasoowigamig5 The Salish Sea / Mayagi-Anishinaabe Kichi-Gaming6 Sky-Tinted Waters / Minnesota7 Return Home / GiiweEpilogueGlossary; Notes; Index

    10 in stock

    £29.99

  • Legal Naturalism  A Marxist Theory of Law

    Cornell University Press Legal Naturalism A Marxist Theory of Law

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisLegal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence.Trade ReviewTaiwo proposes the novel, even startling thesis that 'an adequate Marxist theory of law must locate itself in the natural law tradition.' Examining Marx's early as well as later works, Taiwo claims that Marx moved from a position of legal rationalism to legal naturalism, finding the source of natural law in society. * Choice *

    1 in stock

    £45.00

  • Legal Naturalism  A Marxist Theory of Law

    Cornell University Press Legal Naturalism A Marxist Theory of Law

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisLegal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence.Trade ReviewTaiwo proposes the novel, even startling thesis that 'an adequate Marxist theory of law must locate itself in the natural law tradition.' Examining Marx's early as well as later works, Taiwo claims that Marx moved from a position of legal rationalism to legal naturalism, finding the source of natural law in society. * Choice *

    1 in stock

    £23.19

  • Liberty Under Law

    Johns Hopkins University Press Liberty Under Law

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    Book SynopsisSupreme Court, from its antecedents in colonial and British legal tradition to the present.Trade ReviewThose who teach constitutional history or constitutional law often find themselves looking for a short, interpretive history of constitutional law to assign to students... [ Liberty under Law] provide[s] teachers with real choices when choice has been absent for such a long time. -- Mark Tushnet Law and History Review Students used to dull recitations of the facts will find this an unusually lively, significant interpretation of the importance of the judicial process in our society. Midwest Book Review A tightly drawn chronological examination of the origin and development of the Supreme Court's power of judicial review. American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The United States Supreme Court and American ConstitutionalismChapter 1. The Origins of American ConstitutionalismChapter 2. The Court under Chief Justice MarshallChapter 3. Democracy, Slavery, and Capitalism before the Taney CourtChapter 4. Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Rights of Black PeopleChapter 5. The Formalist EraChapter 6. Foreign Affairs, Executive Authority, and the CourtChapter 7. Substantive Equal ProtectionChapter 8. Substantive Due ProcessGlossaryRecommended ReadingsIndex

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    £25.20

  • The Evolution of Law

    Johns Hopkins University Press The Evolution of Law

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisOne of the world's foremost scholars of Roman and comparative law here describes the nature of legal traditions and develops a general and coherent view of legal change.Trade Review[A] pioneering work... It bids fair to open up a new direction in legal history... This book maintains the scholarly standards of Watson's previous works, and it is certainly one of his most provocative offerings. American Journal of PhilologyTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. The Roman System of Contracts and the Legal TraditionChapter 2. Customary LawChapter 3. The Cause of the Reception of Roman LawChapter 4. Evolution and RevolutionChapter 5. Conclusions Appendix: About the IllustrationsNotesGlossaryIndex

    1 in stock

    £20.25

  • Presidential Secrecy and the Law

    Johns Hopkins University Press Presidential Secrecy and the Law

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    Book SynopsisPresidential Secrecy and the Law will be the standard in presidential powers studies for years to come.Trade ReviewThe well-organized and clearly written book illustrates the way the president's use of document classification and state-secrets privilege to solidify presidential control are reinforced by legal decisions sympathetic to presidential power. Chronicle of Higher Education 2007 Robert Pallitto and William Weaver provide a well-written discussion of a controversial issue related to American governance... Given the comprehensive scope and depth of analysis throughout the book, the authors are successful in providing a thoughtful and challenging approach to an evolving governmental matter. -- Amanda Harmon Cooley Political Studies Review 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Secret Presidency1. The Secret Presidency in Historical-Theoretical Perspective2. The Classified President3. State Secrets and Executive Power4. The Shadow President: The Attorney General, Executive Power, and the New Anti-Terror Laws5. The President and National Security Surveillance6. The New Executive PrivilegeConclusion: A Secret Presidency for the New Millennium?NotesIndex

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    £40.95

  • The Big Vote

    Johns Hopkins University Press The Big Vote

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn the end, the Get-Out-the Vote campaigns shed light not only on the problem of voter turnout in the 1920s, but on some of the problems that hamper the practice of full democracy even today.Trade ReviewNot only illuminates an aspect of the 1920s that has not received sufficient attention but, in doing so, it also propounds a provocative thesis that historians will need to address. -- Nicholas Burckel History 2005 Gidlow's topic is a timely one. Her account of the largely forgotten GOTV campaigns of the 1920s may carry lessons for the present era. -- Nikki Mandell American Historical Review 2005 Gidlow's... observations are helpful for serious students of marketing and political science. Minneapolis Star Tribune 2004 Gidlow has achieved much, giving us a new understanding of political cultures and how they are created and transformed. No one should henceforth assume that Get Out the Vote campaigns are innocuous. -- Gayle Gullett Journal of American History 2006Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Dominance1. "Civic Slackers" and "Poll Dodgers": Nonvoting and the Construction of Discursive Dominance2. "A Whole Fleet of Campaigns": The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns in Overview3. "Vote as You Please—But Vote!": The Leadership of the Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns4. "Good for at Least 100 Votes": The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns at the Local Level5. The Expert Citizen: Civic Education and the Remaking of Civic Hierarchies6. The Methods of Wrigley and Barnum: The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns and the Commodification of Political CultureConclusion: The New RegimeAbbreviationsNotesA Note on Method and SourcesIndex

    1 in stock

    £22.50

  • Against Obscenity

    Johns Hopkins University Press Against Obscenity

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIt cautions against framing debates over sexual material narrowly in terms of harm to children while highlighting the dangers of surrendering discourse about sexuality to the commercial realm.Trade ReviewWhat constitutes obscenity is a contentious issue, and Wheeler makes it clear that historically, it has been dangerous ground for feminists... Her analysis is convincing. Choice 2005 Wheeler's account of the anti-obscenity campaign illuminates the importance of gender to that history; she seamlessly explores the movement as it shifted from the local to the national level; and she meticulously recounts the day-to-day struggles women faced. Along the way, she draws on an impressive list of archival sources to reconstruct women's involvement in the campaign, provides a detailed account of the victories and hardships women experienced as they attempted to shape the... anti-obscenity movement, and offers a thoughtful and well-argued addition to a growing number of studies about women activists and how their concerns for mothers and children shaped public policy. American Historical Review 2005 Tells the complicated and compelling story of women's meteoric rise to prominence in competing branches of the anti-obscenity movement prior to and immediately following passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, and their arguably more rapid exit from the scene during the late 1920s and early 1930s... A superbly written book. -- Heather Lee Miller Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 2005 A welcome addition to the growing historiography of obscenity and censorship. In its solid research, Wheeler's book is [also] an important addition to the historiography of grassroots struggles over free speech and other rights in twentieth-century America. Journal of American History In this important book, Leigh Ann Wheeler examines a little-discussed corner of popular culture, women's campaigns to regulate 'obscenity' in the late 1800[s] and early 1900s. Those interested in issues of obscenity and the development of the concept of free speech in the United States will find Wheeler's work compelling. -- Lisa K. Boehm Journal of Popular Culture Wheeler has uncovered a fascinating chapter in the story of women's perennial attempts to protect children and vulnerable young women from the dangers of commercial vice. Her study considers several of these dangers, such as prostitution and burlesque shows, but focuses above all on the new medium of film. -- Cynthia Eagle Russett H-Net Book Review/H-SHGAPE Deftly illuminates the 'possibilities in our past' while addressing the complex struggles of women and citizens in more recent times. -- Hiroshi Kitamura American Quarterly 2006 The study gives a very good sense of the anti-obscenity reform activity and concern in the period under study. -- Encarna Trinidad Journal of American Studies 2006 This is a very good book about an important topic. -- Rebecca J. Mead Journal of Social History 2007 Wheeler's impressively researched study is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of anti-obscenity reform and women's activism in general. -- Christine Erickson American StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Crossing the Great Divide: Women, Politics, and Anti-obscenity Reform Chapter 1. " "Protect the Innocent!": Men, Women, and Anti-obscenity Reform, 1873 - 1911 Chapter 2. Dressing Elsie: Women's Theater Reform, 1912 - 1919 Chapter 3. "Censorship Does Not Protect": Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1919 - 1922 Chapter 4. "Woman vs. Woman": The Leading Ladies of Motion Picture Reform, 1923 - 1930 Chapter 5. "We Don't Want Our Boys and Girls in a Place of That Kind": Women's Burlesque Reform, 1925 - 1934 Chapter 6. "Thinking as a Woman and of Women": Sex Education, Obscenity's Antidote, 1925 - 1934 Chapter 7. "Sinful Girls Lead": Crises in Women's Motion Picture Reform, 1932 - 1934 Chapter 8. "'Catholic Action' is Blazing a Spectacular Trail!": The Collapse of Women's Anti-obscenity Leadership, 1934 - 1935 Conclusion: Anti-obscenity Reform and Women's History List of Abbreviations Notes Notes on Sources Index

    1 in stock

    £23.85

  • Brokers of Public Trust Notaries in Early Modern

    Johns Hopkins University Press Brokers of Public Trust Notaries in Early Modern

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis magisterial new work brings fresh insight into the essential functions of early modern Roman society and the development of the modern state.Trade ReviewA major and pioneering contribution to the history of writing, books, knowledge, information, and political paperwork. -- Jacob Soll American Historical Review 2011 In this thorough and resourceful study, Laurie Nussdorfer documents the intermittent institutional and personal vicissitudes of a class of notaries on the Roman scene over a period of some 400 years. -- Paul D. McLean Journal of Modern History 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsMonetary UnitsIntroduction1. The Jurists: Writing Public Words2. The Profession: Defining Urban Identities3. The Laws: Shaping Notarial Pages4. The Archives: Creating Documentary Spaces5. The Office: Building Scribal Lives6. The State: Policing Notarial PracticesConclusionAppendixesA. Study Sample of the Thirty Capitoline Notaries in 1630B. The Proposals of the Capitoline NotariesC. The Creation of a NotaryNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

    1 in stock

    £51.00

  • The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make

    Stanford University Press The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make

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    Book SynopsisThe Worlds Cause Lawyers Make examines the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions.Trade Review"The research Sarat and Scheingold present here substantially transforms our understanding of cause lawyering and the legal profession and makes an important contribution to the field. The essays in this volume represent a wide variety of cause lawyering settings, in terms of political orientation, nationality, and structure of practice." -Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law "Yet again, Sarat and Scheingold advance the cause of cause lawyering as surely the most successful collective project on the legal profession. This volume of illuminating case studies from across the world will inspire a new generation of morally and politically committed lawyers to recognize their prospects of bringing justice to an unjust world." -Terence C. Halliday, Northwestern University and Research Fellow for the American Bar FoundationTable of ContentsContents Contributors Introduction: The Dynamics of Cause Lawyering: Constraints and Opportunities 1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold Section I: Causes and the Lawyers Who Serve Them: How Do Causes Make Their Lawyers and Lawyers Make Their Causes 1. Corporate Responsibility and the South African Drug Wars: New Frontier for Cause Lawyers 37 Ronen Shamir 2. A Political-Professional Commitment? French Workers' and Unions' Lawyers as Cause Lawyers 000 Laurent Willemez 3. Professional Identities and Political Commitment among Lawyers for Conservative Causes 000 Ann Southworth 4. Economic Libertarians, Property, and Institutions: Linking Activism, Ideas, and Identities among Property Rights Advocates 000 Laura Hatcher 5. From Cause Lawyering to Resistance: French Communist Lawyers in the Shadow of History (1929-1945) 000 Liora Israel Section II: Making a Practice: Balancing Professionalism and Activism 6. Supporting a Cause, Developing a Movement, and Consolidating a Practice: Cause Lawyers and Sexual Orientation Litigation in Vermont 000 Scott Barclay and Anna-Maria Marshall 7. Exploring the Sources of Cause and Career Correspondence among Cause Lawyers 000 Lynn C. Jones 8. Dilemmas of "Progressive" Lawyering: Empowerment and Hierarchy 000 Corey S. Shdaimah 9. Negotiating Cause Lawyering Potential in the Early Years of Corporate Practice 000 Douglas Thomson Section III. Strategy and Social Capital 10. Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community 000 Patricia J. Woods 11. Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of India 000 Jayanth K. Krishnan 12. Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice: A Case Study of the Amparo Colectivo in Argentine 000 Stephen Meili 13. Asylum Law Practice in the United Kingdom after the Human Rights Act 000 Richard J. Maiman 14. ATLA Shrugged: Why Personal Injury Lawyers Are Not Public Defenders of Their Own Causes 000 Michael McCann and William Haltom AFTERWORD: In the End, or the Cause of Law 000 Peter Fitzpatrick Index

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    £126.65

  • A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills

    Taylor & Francis A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisLegal skills are an important and increasing part of undergraduate law degrees as well as postgraduate vocational law courses. This fully updated fourth edition continues to bring together the theory and practice of these skills in an accessible and practical context. The authors draw on their experience of teaching and of law in practice to develop the core skills taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Skills covered include: â written communication; â mediation; â opinion writing; â drafting; â advocacy; â interviewing; â negotiation; â legal research. The text also considers the professional and ethical context of legal practice, provides an insight into the legal services landscape as well as offering valuable careers advice. Diagrams and flow charts help to explain and develop each skill and each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading. A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills is essential reading for all undergraduate and vocational law students seeking to develop the necessary skills to work successfully with law in the twenty-first century. Table of Contents1: Foreword by The Secret Barrister; 2: Chapter 1: Legal Writing: Basic Principles, Planning, Plain English and Presentation; 3: Chapter 2: Legal Writing: Applying Writing Skills – Letters, Memoranda, Briefs, Attendance Notes, Reports and Minutes; 4: Chapter 3: Legal Research; 5: Chapter 4: Practical Legal Research; 6: Chapter 5: Opinion Writing; 7: Chapter 6: Legal Drafting: Planning, Structure and Content of Formal Documents; 8: Chapter 7: Advocacy; 9: Chapter 8: Interviewing/Conferencing Skills; 10: Chapter 9: Negotiation; 11: Chapter 10: Mediation: The Process and Practice of Mediation as a Form of Dispute Resolution; 12: Chapter 11: Ethics; 13: Chapter 12: Legal Services Landscape; 14: Chapter 13: Careers, Employability and Commercial Awareness; 15: Index

    15 in stock

    £36.09

  • Gender Law and Resistance in India

    University of Arizona Press Gender Law and Resistance in India

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £19.96

  • Access to Justice for Vulnerable People

    Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing Access to Justice for Vulnerable People

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis volume presents some of the challenges that exist in achieving sufficient access to justice for vulnerable people, primarily in criminal and family proceedings and provides international comparisons of best practice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword -The Hon. Ms Justice Alison Russell Contributors Introduction -The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Dorrian, Lord Justice Clerk 1. ‘Moving at a pace’: Towards a new approach to vulnerability in courts and tribunals? -Professor Penny Cooper 2. Cartesian perfection: The route out of failure - The Rt Hon. Sir John Gillen 3. Bringing the court closer to the person with disability: Judicial exemption from the Equality Act and interference with reasonable adjustments for litigants with physical disabilities - Dr. Anton van Dellen 4. Judges and lawyers: Getting it wrong about the disabled for all these years - John Horan 5. Challenges in defining and identifying a suspect’s vulnerability in criminal proceedings: What’s in a name and who’s to blame? - Lore Mergaerts, Prof. dr. Dirk Van Daele, Prof. dr. Geert Vervaeke 6. Caught by language: The language competence of young offendersand the implications for the (Dutch) youth justice system - Mr. Mw. K.G.M. van Dijk – Fleetwood-Bird 7. Justice denied? The experience of unrepresented defendants in the criminal courts - Penelope Gibbs 8. Anunga 40 years on – Rights remain limited for Indigenous suspects in the Northern Territory of Australia - Felicity Gerry QC and David Woodroffe 9. The effects of intersectionality: Women with learning disabilities, difficulties and autism in the criminal justice system - Dr. Hugh Asher 10. The importance of identifying vulnerable females and males with autism in the prison environment - Dr. Clare S. Allely, Dr. Toni Wood, & Christopher Gillberg 11. Confusion and communication in deaf cases: Towards a model of best practice - Dr. Sue O’Rourke, Chantelle de la Croix, Noel Traynor and Robert Grieve 12. Trauma and victim participation in the criminal process - Professor Louise Ellison and Professor Vanessa E Munro 13. The pre-trial Position of vulnerable victims of crime In Ireland - Dr. Alan Cusack 14. Balancing accessibility and authority: Towards an integrated approach to vulnerability in the criminal courts - Dr. Jessica Jacobson 15. Advocating PEACE: Will it make people cross? - Professor Ray Bull and Dr. Andy Griffiths Postscript - Linda Hunting

    2 in stock

    £35.59

  • The Behavior of Law

    Emerald Publishing Limited The Behavior of Law

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisA work on sociology that presents a theoretical approach of pure sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction Stratification Morphology Culture Organization Social Control Anarchy

    15 in stock

    £44.64

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