{"title":"Legal history Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-ticket-collector-from-belarus-9781398503298","title":"The Ticket Collector from Belarus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliantly gripping' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e; 'Compelling' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e; 'Heart-rending' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e; 'Excellent' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e; 'Engrossing' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in \u003ci\u003eThe Ticket Collector from Belarus​\u003c\/i\u003e can the full story be told.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ticket Collector from Belarus\u003c\/i\u003e tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. 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The Handbook concludes with a Part Six, entitled People in Portrait, which explores the life and work of twenty prominent scholars and thinkers of international law, ranging from Muhammad al-Shaybani to Sir Hersch Lauterpacht.The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international law. It provides historians with new perspectives on international law, and increases the historical and cultural awareness of scholars of international law. It is the standard reference work for the global history of international law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Handbook on the History of International Law is an excellent and up-to-date contribution to a broad topic that has increasingly attracted the interest of academia in the last years. The editors certainly succeeded in bringing together a broad range of renowned experts on the various fi elds covered. 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Under the skilled editorship of Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters, the contributors, experts who themselves come from all parts of the world, present a history that imagines international law as the product of different regions, cultures, actors, and eras. Setting a new agenda for the field, the Handbook will be the indispensable starting point for students and researchers exploring the history of international law. * ASIL Award Citation *\u003cbr\u003eThere is no doubt that The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law will become what editors and authors intended,\" the new standard reference work for the global history of international law,\" provides the reader with a broad spectrum of useful information on a high level which is not easily assembled. * Karl Heinz Ziegler, German Yearbook of International Law *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: ACTORS; PART TWO: THEMES; PART THREE: REGIONS; I. 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Data Correction for Table 2.5\u003cbr\u003e 5.         Laws and Actions Designed to Preserve Segregation\u003cbr\u003e 6.         Method for Obtaining Information for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1\u003cbr\u003e 7.         Illegal Abortions\u003cbr\u003e 8.         Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 8.1a, 8.1b, 8.2a, and 8.2b, and for Figures 8.1 and 8.2\u003cbr\u003e 9.         Make Change, Not Lawsuits\u003cbr\u003e 10.       Coding Rules and Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, and 12.6\u003cbr\u003e Case References\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732905275735,"sku":"9780226312477","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226312477.jpg?v=1719998894"},{"product_id":"sincerely-held-american-secularism-and-its-believers-class-200-new-studies-in-religion-9780226817958","title":"Sincerely Held American Secularism and Its","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McCrary casts this complex subject in a new light. 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A rich, engrossing, fresh and enlivening addition to the field.” * Journal for the Academic Study of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholars of church and state likely will find the [history of the sincerity test] compelling, as it works through the details of specific court cases to show how 'the sincere believer is an identity, a protected class whose rights are to be secured and defended.'\" * Journal of Church and State *\u003cbr\u003e\"Charles McCrary’s brilliant \u003ci\u003eSincerely Held\u003c\/i\u003e shows the declining fortunes of truth and the steadily appreciating value of sincerity to be sides of a single American coin.  As the acceptable face of religion under secular law, sincerity severs belief from veracity, hedges it with protections, and exempts it from democratic accountability.  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In so doing, McCrary reveals religious sincerity’s crucial role in both secular governance and racial formation. At a time when sincerely held religious beliefs are increasingly invoked by Christian conservatives to justify limits on women’s reproductive freedom and LGBTQ+ equality, \u003ci\u003eSincerely Held\u003c\/i\u003e is bracing and urgent reading. -- Ann Pellegrini, New York University","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732925460823,"sku":"9780226817958","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226817958.jpg?v=1719998975"},{"product_id":"a-question-of-freedom-the-families-who-challenged-slavery-from-the-nations-founding-to-the-civil-war-9780300234121","title":"A Question of Freedom The Families Who Challenged","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"William Thomas casts a bright light into the period’s darkness. . . . 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Chapter Two - John Banks the Elder: His Life, Illness and Death  Chapter Three - The Wills of John Banks the Elder Chapter Four - Margaret Banks Goodfellow: The Niece and Beneficiary of the Last Will  Chapter Five - The Trials of the Will  Chapter Six - John Banks the Younger: The Claimant Chapter Seven - Edward Barron Goodfellow: The Defendant Chapter Eight - The Questions that still Remain Appendix I -Information Appendix II - Biographical Sketches of the Judges and Principal Barristers Appendix III -The Judgment in Queen’s Bench Endnotes Index","brand":"Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737614922071,"sku":"9780854902538","price":21.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780854902538.jpg?v=1723811308"},{"product_id":"monitoring-american-federalism-9781009325578","title":"Monitoring American Federalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonitoring American Federalism examines some of the nation''s most significant controversies in which state legislatures have attempted to be active partners in the process of constitutional decision-making. Christian G. Fritz looks at interposition, which is the practice of states opposing federal government decisions that were deemed unconstitutional. Interposition became a much-used constitutional tool to monitor the federal government and organize resistance, beginning with the Constitution''s ratification and continuing through the present affecting issues including gun control, immigration and health care. Though the use of interposition was largely abandoned because of its association with nullification and the Civil War, recent interest reminds us that the federal government cannot run roughshod over states, and that states lack any legitimate power to nullify federal laws. Insightful and comprehensive, this appraisal of interposition breaks new ground in American political and constitutional history, and can help us preserve our constitutional system and democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fritz's meticulously researched and timely book reframes our understanding of interposition and shows that it was distinct in important ways from nullification. This book fills a gap in our knowledge of the states' role in early national federalism, placing the founders' ideas in context and showing how those ideas were reshaped in the early nineteenth century.' Alison L. LaCroix, University of Chicago, author of The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms\u003cbr\u003e'Christian Fritz is one of the most illuminating students of American constitutional development. His latest book, on the theory and practice of state interposition, casts dazzling new light on the complexities of unified constitutional meaning in a fractious federal system.' Sanford Levinson, University of Texas, author of Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance\u003cbr\u003e'With perfect timing, Fritz's book on the history of state legislative resistance hits the market, just as debate about the theory of the independent state legislature heats up, and the Supreme Court considers it. Reading Fritz's fascinating examination of state legislative actions should fill the need for accurate history absent from the debate thus far.' Maeva Marcus, Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University\u003cbr\u003e'In this deftly argued book, Christian Fritz traces the complex ways in which the American states attempted to 'interpose' their authority to challenge federal acts. He explains what the idea of interposition meant to its main author, James Madison, but also why Madison's concept proved so ambiguous and controversial to its interpreters.' Jack Rakove, Stanford University, author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution\u003cbr\u003e'… the book succeeds in recovering the history of interposition and documenting its status as one of state governments' key weapons in their skirmishes with the federal government in the early decades of the republic. Fritz's prose is crisp and clear, and his voluminous references appear as endnotes in a way that does not slow the reader down but document his insights thoroughly. Readers will learn a tremendous amount about interposition in particular as well as about American political development as it relates to federalism. It should therefore be of interest to both scholars with specific interests in interposition and the early American republic as well as those with a more general interest in how American federalism works.' John D. Nugent, Publius\u003cbr\u003e'… an excellent primer on how constitutional meaning developed as the country gained experience with its new constitution…' John D. Nugent, The Journal of Federalism\u003cbr\u003e'Monitoring American Federalism is a rich source that likely will become an essential text about the distribution and exercise of constitutional powers for scholars and educators who are experts in the subject matter. Yet it also is accessible to a broader audience of readers, including those who wish to be better informed while navigating real contemporary questions about balancing federal and state power. … a must-read.' Nicholas Allard, The Journal of Things We Like\u003cbr\u003e'Professor Fritz has done a great service in unearthing the history of original interposition theory and exploring the divergent interpretations and uses that developed over the decades … Equally his book nicely shows some of the ways that Americans have reshaped the nation's constitutional law and theory as they sought to manipulate and exploit the indeterminate, built-in tensions in the Constitution's federal structure. Students of American federalism will find this excellent book a treasure-trove of information, insight, and scholarly inspiration.' Edward A. Purcell, Jr, Balkin.com\u003cbr\u003e'Fritz's prodigiously researched book engages in the vital work of teasing apart meaning from myth, interpretation from invocation. The project is more imperative than ever, given the current urgency for constitutional history to distinguish among meaning, interpretation, continuity, and change.' Alison L. LaCroix, Balkin.com\u003cbr\u003e'Christian Fritz's new book offers a rich exploration of state opposition to perceived unconstitutional acts by the federal government since the Founding. Fritz recovers a tradition of state interposition distinct from the more familiar, and more abhorred, phenomenon of nullification…Monitoring American Federalism can help us make sense of contemporary state resistance to the federal government as well as its lineage.' Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Balkin.com\u003cbr\u003e'Monitoring American Federalism … casts tremendous new light on the actualities of the American federal system … Quite literally, every scholar of American constitutional development will have to contend with this book at pains of being deemed illiterate … As a history of ideas - and of political actions - the book is … a stunning contribution… Fritz casts immense light on important aspects of the historical American constitutional order and how we should think about it even today.' Sandford Levinson, Balkin.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 1. The riddle of federalism and the genesis of interposition; 2. Early state use of interposition: testing the powers of the new national government; 3. State interposition and debates over the meaning of the Constitution; 4. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and Madison's report of 1800; 5. State interposition during the Jefferson and Madison presidencies; 6. State challenges to the Supreme Court's control over constitutional interpretation; 7. The transformation of interposition: the theory of nullification emerges; 8. State interposition and nullification on the path to secession; 9. State interposition during and after the Civil War; 10. Modern interposition by states and 'nullification'; Epilogue.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738030879063,"sku":"9781009325578","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"enmity-and-violence-in-early-modern-europe-9781009287326","title":"Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during Europe's transition to modernity between 1500 and 1800. This book transforms our understanding of that process, exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies, the violence it engendered and the solutions that helped create modern society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Based on extensive research in several languages, this book is the first major study of enmity across western Europe in the early modern period. Stuart Carroll argues that enmity remains one of the greatest challenges to liberal democracy and, as such, the concept of enmity remains of central importance today. This book makes a direct challenge to our very understanding of early modern Europe and it is an original and significant contribution to the histories of the state, violence, the law, and emotions.' 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Sühne: the theory and practice of peace-making; France; 8. Village politics and vendetta; 9. Peace and justice under the absolute monarchy; England; 10. Justice and violence; 11. Enmity in Early Modern England; Comparisons; 12. The experience of enmity; 13. Enmity and sacred space; 14. 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Zietlow recounts how Ashley and his antislavery allies shared an egalitarian free labor ideology that was influenced by the political antislavery movement and the nascent labor movement - a vision that conflicted directly with the institution of slavery. Ashley''s story sheds important light on the meaning and power of popular constitutionalism: how the constitution is interpreted outside of the courts and the power that citizens and their elected officials can have in enacting legal change. The book shows how Reconstruction not only expanded racial equality but also transformed the rights of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Rebecca E. Zietlow is right - James Mitchell Ashley has been all but forgotten and deserves to be remembered. Thanks to Zietlow, we can now appreciate Ashley's pivotal role in the pre-Civil War struggle against slavery, abolition during the war, and the battle for black rights during Reconstruction. But she also emphasizes his commitment to the rights of all labourers, and we would benefit today from recalling his vision of a 'free labour' society of equals.' Eric Foner, Columbia University, New York\u003cbr\u003e'James Mitchell Ashley spent decades of the nineteenth century crusading against slavery, discrimination, and labor injustice - positions in absolute harmony with one another, as the author Rebecca E. Zietlow deftly shows. This readable biography reveals Ashley in his heroism, defeat, and contradictions. More than that, it illuminates the challenges that any old-line egalitarian faced in a modern, industrializing world. In Zietlow's able hands, Ashley's life becomes as significant for our present era as it was for his own.' Michael Vorenberg, Brown University, Rhode Island\u003cbr\u003e'An impressively informative and original work of seminal scholarship from beginning to end, The Forgotten Emancipator is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library 19th century American history collections and supplemental studies reading lists.' Midwest Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue; 1. James Ashley, the forgotten emancipator; 2. Antislavery constitutionalism and the meaning of freedom; 3. Free labor and wage slavery – the labor and antislavery movements; 4. Ashley's egalitarian free labor vision; 5. Ashley in Congress, 1859–63; 6. The thirteenth amendment and a new republic; 7. Enforcing the thirteenth amendment: reconstruction and a positive right to free labor; 8. After Congress: the 'Old Antislavery Guard' and the northern worker; Epilogue.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738238726487,"sku":"9781107095274","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781107095274.jpg?v=1723811849"},{"product_id":"civil-rights-9781108736947","title":"Civil Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and to necessary assistance with our caregiving. Our civil rights are our rights to the protections of ordinary law - not constitutional law, and not only antidiscrimination law - that will ensure that we can participate in civil society, and hence lead flourishing lives. In this innovative work, Robin L. West looks back to nineteenth-century Civil Rights Acts to argue that the point of civil rights law is not only non-discrimination, but also to assure that all of us receive the protection of legal rights that promote human flourishing. Since the 1960s, Supreme Court decisions on civil rights issues have focused on non-discrimination and thus have ''hollowed out'' this broader meaning of civil rights law. This book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social proje\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'… this is a well-researched tome that includes copious footnotes … this volume is a sound accomplishment …' S. A. Merriman, Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 1. The antidiscrimination principle and its discontents; 2. Residues of injustice: formal equality and civil rights; 3. Toward a jurisprudence of civil rights; 4. A frayed quilt: our lost, imperfect, and unimagined civil rights; 5. Protecting rights to enter: constitutional rights and civil rights in conflict; Conclusion.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738323628375,"sku":"9781108736947","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781108736947.jpg?v=1723811927"},{"product_id":"our-democratic-first-amendment-9781108723671","title":"Our Democratic First Amendment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe First Amendment to the US Constitution protects free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association and assembly, and the right to petition the government. Why did the Framers protect these particular rights? What role were these rights intended to play in our democracy? And what force do they retain in today''s world? In this highly readable account, Ashutosh Bhagwat explores the answers to these questions. The first part of the book looks at the history of the First Amendment, early political conflicts over its meaning, and the lessons to be learned from those events about the nature of our system of government. The second part applies those lessons to our modern, fractious democracy as it has evolved in the age of the Internet and social media. Now as then, the key to maintaining that democracy, it turns out, is an active citizenry that fully embraces the First Amendment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'By highlighting the First Amendment's too often neglected press, assembly, and petition clauses, Bhagwat shows how the democratic free speech tradition most closely associated with Louis Brandeis complements rather than contradicts the broadly libertarian understanding that finally emerged following the McCarthy era. Eschewing censorship, Bhagwat would turn to what Tocqueville identified as America's distinctive democratic strength - civil society institutions - to tackle our age's pathologies of information silos, Internet trolls, and fake news. Our Democratic First Amendment is at once clear-eyed and boldly free of cynicism.' Michael C. Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell University\u003cbr\u003e'Ash Bhagwat offers an original and powerful analysis of the core purposes of the First Amendment and of how those purposes should play out today. In particular, he notes that almost all of the Supreme Court's attention has focused on the freedom of speech, and that the Court has essentially written out of the First Amendment the freedom of the press, the right of assembly, the right of association, and the right to petition the government. It is only, he argues, by considering all of these rights in their relation to one another that the Court can come to a proper understanding of 'Our Democratic First Amendment'. Bhagwat then turns to the challenges of the present, including social media, the collapse of 'mainstream media', and the 'siloing' of American society. In the end, he offers suggestions for how, in the current state of affairs, we can still save our democracy.' Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e'Bhagwat's eminently readable prose drives home the importance of speech, press, assembly, and petition to our current and future democratic experiment. Readers will benefit from this book's careful consideration of these rights individually and collectively, and how our use of them protects and performs sovereignty, citizenship, and democracy.' John Inazu, Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law \u0026amp; Religion, Washington University, St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e'The First Amendment lists four specific freedoms of expression: speech, press, assembly (association), and petition, but the courts have tended to merge them all into one. This engaging book discusses each of these freedoms on its own terms, and explains for a general audience why they all matter now, more than ever. Whether you are liberal or conservative, this book will help you understand your rights as an American.' Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e'This title is well sourced, remarkably engaging, and for students and scholars alike.' D. E. Smith, Choice\u003cbr\u003e'… an exceptional review of the First Amendment's principles and their interdependent purposes. These passages provide great value for theorists, scholars, and practitioners - and especially for students of American politics, constitutional law and history, and the Bill of Rights.' Andy Carr, Law and Politics Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; Part I. The Framers' Democrocratic First Amendment: 1. Freedom of speech and of the press; 2. Assembly and association; 3. The petition clause; 4. Cognate rights and democratic citizenship; Part II. The Democratic First Amendment in the Age of Twitter: 5. Cacophony: speech and press in the Internet era; 6. DeSiloing: of civic associations, book clubs, and taverns; 7. Why assembly and petition still matter; Conclusion.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738325004631,"sku":"9781108723671","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781108723671.jpg?v=1723811928"},{"product_id":"trust-in-early-modern-international-political-thought-15981713-9781107175464","title":"Trust in Early Modern International Political","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan there ever be trust between states? This study explores the concept of trust across different and sometimes antagonistic genres of international political thought during the seventeenth century. The natural law and reason of state traditions worked on different assumptions, but they mutually influenced each other. How have these traditions influenced the different concepts and discussions of trust-building? Bringing together international political thought and international law, Schröder analyses to what extent trust can be seen as one of the foundational concepts in the theorising of interstate relations in this decisive period. Despite the ongoing search for conditions of trust between states, we are still faced with the same structural problems. This study is therefore of interest not only to specialists and students of the early modern period, but also to everyone thinking about ways of overcoming conflicts which are aggravated by a lack of mutual trust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Alberico Gentili (1552–1608): new ways of posing the problem of war and interstate relations; 1.1 Confessional strife and the question of trustworthiness among European states; 1.2 A new concept of the enemy and war: trust among equals; 1.3 Pirates and other enemies hors la loi: the untrustworthy foes; 2. Plans for universal peace in Europe: the limits of a balance of power; 2.1 Sully (1559–1641) and the Grand Dessein; 2.2 Crucé (1590–1648) and the Nouveau Cynée; 3. Jus naturae et gentium: the limits of a juridical order; 3.1 Hugo Grotius (1583–1645); 3.2 Thomas Hobbes (1588–1673); 3.3 Samuel Pufendorf (1632–94); 4. The struggle for hegemony and the erosion of trust; 4.1 Leibniz (1646–1716) and his guerre des plumes against Louis XIV's claims to hegemony; 4.2 'Triomphe de la Foi: religion and interstate relations after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; 4.3 The Abbé de Saint-Pierre's (1658–1743) project for peace and his challenge to early modern statecraft; 5. The doux commerce and interstate relations: trust and mistrust in the emerging economic discourse; Conclusion. The thing which was not; Bibliography.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738528395607,"sku":"9781107175464","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"law-and-mimesis-in-boccaccios-decameron-9781316512746","title":"Law and Mimesis in Boccaccios Decameron","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJustin Steinberg's field-defining work on Boccaccio's Decameron shows how historical changes in the prosecution of crime profoundly influenced literary realism. Arguing that the Decameron's trials respond to a crisis in verisimilitude, the book engages scholars and students of medieval and early modern studies, literary theory and legal history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Written with vigor and wit, Justin Steinberg's book incisively examines how Boccaccio's realism responds to medieval legal procedure. His sophisticated historicist approach both appreciates Boccaccio's work in its medieval world and highlights points of contact with modern forms of literature and with contemporary concerns. A major contribution to the study of literature, Steinberg's book will open the Decameron to a new generation of readers.' David G. Lummus, author of The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy\u003cbr\u003e'In this ambitious, magnificently realized study of Boccaccian 'realism' and 'naturalism' through the lens of the evolving legal culture of his time, Justin Steinberg has achieved something truly rare among the ongoing attempts to synthesize close textual analysis with historical-cultural contextualization: a genuine, many-faceted dialogue between the two, in which neither cedes pride of place to the other, but rather are mutually interpreting. For Steinberg, mimetic representation (as defined by Auerbach and others) is 1on trial' in the Decameron, in the sense that Boccaccio continually probes the possibilities and limitations of representing 'the real', even as his mimetic practice itself is a trial, the residue of the author's inquisition into the vagaries of human 'judgment' at both the individual and the institutional level. Among its many specific accomplishments, Mimesis on Trial, unveils the anachronistic emphases of much of contemporary criticism, which has consistently wrenched key Boccaccian problems (notably but by no means exclusively the status of 'the natural'; the defense of female desire as a triumph of subjectivity; the encounters between individual subjects and legal institutions; and so on) out of their original contexts, thus, paradoxically, losing sight of what makes this text so extraordinarily 'novel,' such an important marker of, and participant in, the long, uneven process that moves us toward what we are so fond of calling modernity.' Albert Ascoli, Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e'In this highly original book, Justin Steinberg opens our eyes to the pervasive nature of legal culture and its notions of truth as they influenced Boccaccio in his composition of the Decameron. Not only does Boccaccio parody courtroom dramas and legal disputes, but he creates highly unlikely events across the hundred tales that stage the 'human stakes of plausibility.' His characters enact and respond to unrealistic contingencies, dwelling between the world of chance and the fictional construction of the real. Law and Mimesis challenges traditional theories of realism in the Decameron and leaves us with a new understanding of Boccaccio as an author who was trained in law but constantly reckoned with its implications for art. The consequences of Steinberg's analysis are formidable and far-reaching for studies of Boccaccio, law and literature, and genre.' Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University\u003cbr\u003e'This brilliant, revisionary account of the history of Western mimesis lays aside what we have 'long known' about verisimilitude, realism, and law in Boccaccio (and Dante) in favor of original research, and original thought. It impacts understanding not only of 'the rise of the novel,' but also our current consumption of procedural drama, suspended between 'the poetics of likelihood' (in TV courtroom argumentations) and the hard fact of the smoking gun. Written open-handedly, and a joy to read, this book grounded in historical inquiry speaks to issues of prime importance in our own troubled, story-driven times. Recommended.' David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 1. The Novella on trial; 2. The artist and the Police; 3. The widow and the sovereign; 4. Torture and the sense of an ending; 5. Another way of possessing; 6. 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Its institutional practices reflect our changing ideas about children and crime control. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court provides a sweeping overview of the American juvenile justice system's development and change over the past century. Noted law professor and criminologist Barry C. Feld places special emphasis on changes over the last 25 yearsthe ascendance of get tough crime policies and the more recent Supreme Court recognition that children are different.Feld's comprehensive historical analyses trace juvenile courts' evolution though four periodsthe original Progressive Era, the Due Process Revolution in the 1960s, the Get Tough Era of the 1980s and 1990s, and today's Kids Are Different era. In each period, changes in the econom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeld has created a thorough and insightful history of the juvenile court system that is a worthy read for both those new to the field and those with extensive knowledge. 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Feld applies his deep reading of legal, social, economic, demographic, and crime trends throughout the past century to help us understand how and why we punish children as we do, and what we should do better. Feld weaves together his background as legal scholar, historian, and sociologist to produce this extraordinary analysis - it is the most thorough and important treatment of juvenile justice I have read. -- Aaron Kupchik,Author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear\u003cbr\u003eStudents of juvenile justice, youth advocates, and policymakers need to read this book. They will undoubtedly learn the sad reality of late twentieth-century juvenile justice reforms, and why current policies disproportionately punish impoverished minority youth. No scholar has written more persuasively and boldly about the legal, sociological, and developmental reasons to pursue justice for all juveniles than Barry Feld. -- Simon I. 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Deftly juxtaposing classical Islamic jurisprudence alongside social media propaganda videos, the polemics of Western politicians alongside the narratives of individual jihadis, the PowerPoint presentations of private military corporations alongside glossy org charts produced by extremist groups, and more, Schneider brilliantly challenges prevailing assumptions about sovereignty, the nation state, the monopoly on violence, and more. Through her erudite analysis, entities like ISIS emerge not as atavistic reincarnations of medieval brutality, but rather as responses to political and economic conditions that implicate and even darkly mirror developments in the imperial core. 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In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes.  What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them.  The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime. 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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY  Part 1: Contract  Part 2: Debt, Bankruptcy, Insolvency  Part 3: The Limited Liability Company  Part 4: Legal Control of Anti-Competitive Activity  Part 5: Technological Advance and The Patent System   CHAPTER FOUR. LABOUR RELATIONS  Part 1: Service and Its Regulation 1760–1875  Part 2: Employment 1875–1950    CHAPTER FIVE. THE FAMILY  Part 1: Private Family Law 1750–1850  Part 2: New Pressures on Family Law: 1850–1950    CHAPTER SIX. POVERTY AND EDUCATION  Part 1: Destitution in Country and Town 1750–1890  Part 2: Schools: Learning and Mass Literacy to 1890  Part 3: Poor Relief and Its Alternatives  Part 4: Education – The Modern Structure    CHAPTER SEVEN. ACCIDENTS  Part 1: Compensation by Civil Suits  Part 2: Planning Against Accidents    CHAPTER EIGHT. 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His 'gifts to the world' include altering the relationship between judge and jury (the former had until then dominated over the latter in criminal trials), helping to forge the presumption of innocence, rules of evidence and ensuring a general right to put forward a defence using a trained lawyer. He gave new meaning to the trial advocate's forensic art of cross-examination, later diverting skills honed as a radical to help the Crown when it was faced with alleged plots, treason and sedition. This is a generous work in which well-known legal historian and biographer John Hostettler and family story-teller Richard Braby (a descendant of Garrow) combine their skills and experience to produce a gem of a book. The lost story of Sir William Garrow and its rediscovery will prove enlightening for professional and general readers alike and provide an invaluable 'missing-link' for legal and social historians. 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But her own north east of England and criminologists apart, she remains largely forgotten, despite poisoning up to 21 victims in Britain's 'arsenic century'.  Exploding myths that every serial killers is a 'monster', the author draws attention to Cotton's charms, allure, capability, skill and ambition - drawing parallels or contrasting the methods and lifestyles of other serial killers from Victorian to modern times. He also shows how events cannot be separated from their social context  -  here the industrial revolution, growing mobility, women's emancipation. And concerning the reticence of 'human nature', Like Dr Harold Shipman, Cotton was allowed to go on killing despite reasons to suspect her.The book contains other resonances to aid understanding of how serial murderers can continue to kill despite such things as coincidence, gossip, whispers or motives that become more obvious with the benefit of hindsight. It is also a detective story in which the persistence of a single individual saw Cotton tried and executed, events analysed first-hand and in detail from the records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating book... The historical research is illuminating'- feminists@law; 'The great strength of Wilson's book is in providing an extensive examination of Mary Ann Cotton and the murders she committed, framed within the context of Britain's industrial revolution ... an interesting and useful book'- Howard Journal of Criminal Justice; 'This book is an enthralling read. I started off firmly believing that Mary Ann Cotton was innocent - that, indeed, there had been no murders. David Wilson's meticulous research, his eye for detail, his forensic ability to reconstruct the material that survives, and assess the probabilities where gaps remain in the record, opened my eyes. He does not write generic \"true crime\", but history of the highest order': Judith Flanders, best-selling author, journalist and historian.","brand":"Waterside Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742439584087,"sku":"9781904380917","price":18.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781904380917.jpg?v=1720061400"},{"product_id":"the-forgotten-shipwreck-solving-the-mystery-of-the-darlwyne-9781909455313","title":"The Forgotten Shipwreck: Solving the Mystery of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Forgotten Shipwreck is the tragic true story of a Cornish pleasure boat which sank without trace or sensation, relegated in news columns by England's football World Cup triumph the day before. It spans so many facets, from a village numbed with whole families wiped out, to angry exchanges in the House of Commons and law courts. There is intrigue, chicanery, deceit, incompetence and greed. It had far-reaching ramifications and yet, for all that, the Darlwyne tragedy lacked an ending. On Thursday 4 August 1966 the sea began to give up its dead. The relatives of twelve of the thirty-one people who had set out on a pleasure trip on 31 July could at least temper their grief to some small extent with the fact that their remains had been found. The loved ones of the other nineteen would have no such solace. Some fifty years later a team of divers, archaeologists, filmmakers, photographers and wreck researchers set about to change that. By piecing together eyewitness accounts, news stories, court proceedings, weather reports and archive material, and by applying modern methods and underwater search techniques would they be able to succeed where the original search mission had been unable? Could they unravel the mystery of complicated waters and pinpoint the final resting place of the Darlwyne?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As with all Nick's books, this is well written and extremely well researched. Nick tells a good story with realism and when appropriate, a touch of humour... 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The book describes how her ambition was forged as a child after seeing her mother patronised by a solicitor. It tells how the press were quick to pigeon-hole and harass her, leading to disciplinary proceedings for 'self-advertising'. Enmeshed in a world of men, Helena Normanton faced a constant struggle to establish herself against a backdrop of prejudice, misogyny and discrimination - as when solicitors, fearful of the unknown, were reluctant to instruct her, leaving her to take on poor person's cases, dock briefs and those 'deemed suitable for a woman'. But Helena Normanton was a force to be reckoned with. She was not just the first woman to be admitted to an Inn of Court, hold briefs in the High Court and Old Bailey, and (with Rose Heilbron) be made a King's Counsel, but a prolific author, leading feminist and speaker who entranced audiences at home and abroad. 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The defendant, Mozoltuv Barukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year old child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Malcolm] is acute—and devastating.\"—Emily Bazelon, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e (Editor's Choice)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading [Malcolm], you have the sensation of encountering a mind at once incredibly blunt and terrifically precise: a sledgehammer that could debone a shad. 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A gripping read.\"—Marcel Berlins, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Malcolm] is an excellent observer, with a good eye for detail.\"—Lynn Barber, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ms. Malcolm’s books have wintry atmospheres—both intellectual and aesthetic—that derive partly from the way she takes facts and attaches them, like someone hanging tea-light candles from high rafters, to mythology and classic literature.\"—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It would be interesting to put Tom Wolfe (a humidifier) and Ms. Malcolm (a dehumidifier) on the same court case and let them fight it out for the available oxygen in the room.\"—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Malcolm's] observations about the legal system in America are fierce and finely ground.\"—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This new book does for the courtroom what Malcolm’s previous books did for biography, journalism and psychoanalysis. It shows that in a high-stakes trial nobody, least of all the judge, is an entirely disinterested player.\"—Jonathan Bate, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Janet Malcolm’s new book, \u003ci\u003eIphigenia in Forest Hills\u003c\/i\u003e, is a slim little volume. If it is a cold night and you don’t mind a few wrinkles, you can read the entire thing in the bath. If it is not a cold night, it will feel like one by the time you finish.\"—Kathryn Schulz, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIphigenia in Forest Hills\u003c\/i\u003e is an incendiary book that begins and ends—like any good epic must—in medias res. . . . It's a story that discomfits as much as it explains. Not for Malcolm the journalism of 'reassurance' or 'rhetorical ruses,' her small book with big stakes and mythic underpinnings flies close to the sun. It unsettles and scorches and soars.\"—Parul Sehgal, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Absorbing. . . . \u003ci\u003eIphigenia in Forest Hills\u003c\/i\u003e casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell—the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted.\"—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Janet Malcolm has produced another masterpiece of literary reportage.\"—Geoff Dyer, \u003ci\u003eFT.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Malcolm’s interpretation is . . . astonishing. . . . Under her brilliant gaze, a seemingly incidental detail shines suddenly with meaning.\"—Elizabeth Gumport, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This absorbing book is [Malcolm’s] account of a trial that throws an unflattering spotlight on the US justice system, and will make every American cross their fingers and hope never to sit in the dock.\"—Rosemary Goring, \u003ci\u003eGlasgow Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you have never read Malcolm, you are in for a treat. All her books are short and sharp and fiercely intelligent: as one of her colleagues put it, her ‘blade gleams with a razor edge’….Trials make great theatre and the five week trial of Borukhova and Mallayev offered Malcolm some very colourful characters.\"—Craig Brown, \u003ci\u003eThe Mail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Malcolm has written a fascinating story….her essay’s after effect is entirely disproportionate to its brevity. The disquiet stays with you. It’s there in the pit of your stomach.\"—Rachel Cooke, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As soon as I read this bizarre murder story, I felt impelled to read it again. It is impossible to put down.\"—Julia Pascal, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\". . . . it’s after the trial, when Malcolm gets among the Bukharan families in their homes, that she is most splendidly and poignantly in her element. Her presence in the text is lighter, her touch firmer and more delicate, and her attention more warmly and accurately attuned, than those of any other writer I can think of. All her life she has been perfecting this superb narrating and analytical voice and I for one would follow it anywhere.\"—Helen Garner, \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A prize-winning journalist discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational murder trial. This is a riveting account of the recent bizarre and intriguing Borukhova case. Janet Malcolm’s journalistic brilliance paints an unsettling picture of a fractured marriage, legal manoeuvrings and a fatal custody battle that precipitated murder.\"—\u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Janet Malcolm’s characteristically incisive account of a murder trial.\"—Geoff Dyer, \u003ci\u003eProspect Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A passionate, incredulous indictment of the American legal system and its brutal bureaucracy.\"—Christopher Hirst, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent i\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Lifetime Achievement award for 2011 was given to nonfiction writer and journalist Janet Malcolm by the English-Speaking Union of the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRunner-up for the Biography\/Autobiography category at the Los Angeles Book Festival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2012 Book of the Year in the True Crime category, as awarded by ForeWord Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864333037911,"sku":"9780300181708","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300181708.jpg?v=1722271457"},{"product_id":"legal-lessons-9780674251243","title":"Legal Lessons","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLegal Lessons examines how China's party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period. Archival records, advice manuals, and colorful propaganda materials reveal how official attempts to promote correct understanding of laws intersected with the interpretations and practical experiences of the people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the book is focused on China’s two most important urban centers, Altehenger’s careful work in the Beijing and Shanghai archives, complemented by local gazetteers and restricted internal documents, rewards readers with a multilayered depiction of cultural work in the PRC. -- Brian DeMare * China Journal *\u003cbr\u003eThis terrific book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of propaganda in China as well as to the fields of law, politics and history of the PRC…Altehenger’s analysis contributes mightily to our understanding of the period that she examines, but also is useful in appreciating the dilemmas of law in China today. -- Pitman B. Potter * China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eA thorough and accessible account of a very complex and important topic, and it deserves wide readership. The book will prove especially helpful for researchers interested in the PRC legal system, Chinese legal history, China’s governance capacity, and its state-society relations. -- Ji Li * China Review International *\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon abundant archival records, internal reports, newspapers, and posters, Altehenger offers a fresh look into the CCP’s campaigns of disseminating legal knowledge. Her vivid accounts not only demonstrate the significant role of mass legal education in China’s socialist governance, but also disclose the complex dynamics between party leaders, propaganda officials, state and private publishers, and cultural workers in various campaigns. -- Weiting Guo * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eA pioneering account of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) endeavored to use legal propaganda to mold ideological consciousness and valorize the disparate phases of its revolution between 1949 and 1989…Altehenger has filled a key gap in the literature on the PRC legal system with an engaging, richly sourced study that bridges multiple fields of scholarship…Her book will appeal to historians of modern China, culture, and law, as well as to observers of the contemporary PRC, and that is an exceptional feat. -- Glenn Tiffert * Law and History Review *\u003cbr\u003eExhaustively researched and methodologically innovative, \u003ci\u003eLegal Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read not only for PRC historians but also for legal historians of China and elsewhere. It redresses a glaring paucity of scholarship in an important field and provides a deeply textured narrative of the continued tussle between state and society over the varied meanings of law. By crossing important epochal divides, it also places China’s ongoing legal reforms in their proper historical context to demonstrate how they were not exclusively inventions of the post-Mao government seeking to rebuild its political legitimacy and rejoin the global economy. -- Philip Thai * PRC History Review *\u003cbr\u003eAn important work for scholars interested in the cultural dimensions of the law, Maoist-era mass political campaigns, and the comparative study of socialist states. -- Joshua Hill * Twentieth-Century China *\u003cbr\u003eWhen it seized power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party abolished the modern legal codes of the Republican era and created ‘socialist law’ for the new People’s Republic. Altehenger places the Chinese experience firmly within the world of the ‘socialist brother countries.’ This is not a book about rule by law, but the story of rule by propaganda. Going far beyond legal history, it is a compelling study of the enduring political culture of a regime that still argues today that it need not abide by its own constitution. -- William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eA major scholarly accomplishment, \u003ci\u003eLegal Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e masterfully details how the Chinese state over forty years spread knowledge about law. By providing an extraordinarily deft portrayal of the deep internal conceptual and practical tensions that the party-state encountered in endeavoring to use law as a governing instrument, and the intricate ways in which China’s populace received and understood those messages, Altehenger shows that creating law for a new China was far more complex an undertaking than had previously been presumed. -- William Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School\u003cbr\u003eThis is a beautifully researched and illuminating study of how the Chinese communist state has struggled to popularize laws since the 1950s through campaigns around the Marriage Laws, various drafts of the constitution, and more general legal awareness. It demonstrates the importance of law to the communist state throughout its history and the crucial role of culture and the media in how law has been understood. -- Henrietta Harrison, Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford China Centre\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegal Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e links the practice of legal education in the early PRC to the larger international project of socialist lawmaking, and raises new questions about the relationship between legal propaganda, legal ‘reform,’ and the quest for new kinds of legal polities in the late twentieth century and beyond. Altehenger’s masterful study provides a critical foundation for understanding the Chinese path to that contested condition we call rule of law. -- Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eWith its wide-ranging implications, \u003ci\u003eLegal Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e is worth learning! 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Tracing the gradual rise in demands for public-service government from the Civil War through the Progressive Era, he finds that attitudes about the role of the state changed long before FDR was in office.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuperb…Bound to become a landmark in constructing the map of governance’s constitutional history…A major contribution to an overall narrative of U.S. constitutional development. -- Mark Tushnet * Balkinization *\u003cbr\u003eEmphasizes the dramatic departure of the modern American state from its roots…Novak expertly weaves together intellectual, legal, and political history to show that the critical turning point in American politics came during the Progressive era…A useful complement to the ongoing study of the critical decision points that led us to our present moment. -- Joseph Postell * Claremont Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eNovak deftly examines how Dewey and other progressive reformers reimagined the state to meet the challenges of their own time…Deeply researched and beautifully organized. -- Kate Masur * Tocqueville 21 *\u003cbr\u003eAn enlightening analysis of the intellectual and theoretical underpinnings of policies enacted in [the Progressive Era]…Antitrust aficionados and general history nerds will also find much to like here…Novak has synthesized a vast amount of material for readers interested in discovering how we arrived at the current state of antitrust law. -- Claude Marx * FTC Watch *\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling historical blueprint of progressive reform with utmost pressing relevance for our immediate future. -- Orly Lobel * Yale Journal on Regulation *\u003cbr\u003eNovak has done us all an extraordinary service in bringing together so many ideas, practices, laws, and policies into a single, beautifully-written, energetic, erudite volume that will surely reshape how we and subsequent generations see the creation of the modern American state. -- Ganesh Sitaraman * Yale Journal on Regulation *\u003cbr\u003eSplendid…Skillfully and persuasively, Novak ties the administrative state and the New Deal’s federal policies—and the legal framework that made them possible—to the decades that preceded the Great Depression…[Novak] aims not just to highlight aspects of the multidimensional and centuries-long existence and gradual expansion of the nation’s commitment to regulation in the public interest. 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Altschuler * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *\u003cbr\u003eA rich, complicated book examining the origins of the modern American state…Novak’s argument is one that has, and will continue, to spark debate as it goes to the heart of one of oldest questions in American political life. -- Phillip Payne * S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History *\u003cbr\u003eIlluminat[es] the enormous expansion of both state and federal governmental authority well before the New Deal, especially in the laws and agencies regulating public utilities and enacting Progressive social-welfare regulation and benefits. -- Robert Gordon * Stanford Lawyer *\u003cbr\u003eThis much anticipated book is a magisterial revision of the history of modern American governance. More powerfully than any work I have read, it shows concretely when and how the modern American state took shape and what made it fundamentally different from what came before. 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Explaining that the Founders may well have intended a ‘limited monarch,’ he effectively and colorfully repudiates the dangerous idea that presidents can add to their powers without limitation. The current assertions of presidential power are indeed, in Prakash’s words, ‘a funhouse-mirror version of the Founders’ presidency.’ -- Russ Feingold, former United States Senator\u003cbr\u003eEverything this sort of book ought to be: it is smart, clear, full of important distinctions and thought-inducing observations, and has an unambiguous vision for how we ought to approach our constitutional framework. -- David Murphy * Open Letters Review *\u003cbr\u003e[A] trenchant debut on the subject of modern-day Oval Office overreach…Prakash chronicles the metastasis of presidential prerogatives over the past 50 years to encompass the almost untrammeled ability to declare war, make foreign policy, stop enforcing laws, and informally make new laws, all without constitutionally mandated congressional consent…A persuasive case against presidential usurpations—and for a more respectful reading of the Constitution. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eCouldn’t come at a better time…Prakash’s book is well-written, well-researched, and dead-on in walking the reader through the history of the American presidency…He puts the presidency within the broader parameters of culture and political institutions—something that many books on the presidency fail to do. -- Gary L. 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This book provides an invaluable birds-eye view of what its like to fight for justice in a law-free zone, representing men who the government has labeled the worst of the worst. -- David Cole,author of Justice at War: The Men and Ideas that Shaped Americas War on Terror\u003cbr\u003eThe narratives are excellent and very powerful, and provide an insightful view into what it is like to be a prisoner at Guantánamo and the challenges and emotional experiences in representing those prisoners. -- Jules Lobel,co-author of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fascinating and revealing behind-the-scenes account of the human stories inside Guantánamo, told candidly by some of Americas best, and most public-spirited, lawyers. -- Jane Mayer,author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals\u003cbr\u003e“The most compelling reason to read is that the legal questions created by Guantanamo have not yet been fully resolved. President Obama’s promise to close the prison has so far gone unfulfilled, and John Paul Stevens, who will perhaps be remembered more for his writings on Guantanamo than any other subject, will leave the Court at the end of this term. No matter how the Guantanamo question is resolved, historians will no doubt benefit from Denbeaux and Hafetz’s excellent book. -- Tyler D. Helmond, in The Champion (NACDL)\u003cbr\u003eThe desperate words, quoted here, of Gitmo detainees on torture grab the heart and do not let go. This compelling book on the American penal colony and its residents is a cautionary tale of overzealous executive wartime power and the awful mess it sometimes leaves behind. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of stirring narrative, government data and testimony, edited by two of the lawyers for those detained by the Bush administration as unlawful combatants at Guantánamo, puts America on notive about the issues of civil liberties and constitutional freedoms * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eA new and remarkable book... made up of the written accounts by more than a hundred of the lawyers who provide detailed accounts of their meetings with their clients inside the prison... an informative and telling chronicle of what Guantanamo is really like... * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e[M]akes for gripping if somber reading. . .They have produced a book that will make other lawyers vicariously proud. * TimesOnline *\u003cbr\u003eThe Guantánamo Lawyers is a powerful and important book. These first-hand accounts strip way much of the veneer that has encased tepid and lifeless news stories of what has happened at Guantanamo and elsewhere. This behind-the-scenes look at these brave lawyers and abused detainees is fascinating and revealing. * TruthOut *\u003cbr\u003eA valuable contribution to the record of an unfinished story bound to reverberate for years to come. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eIn this admirable compliation, Mark P. Denbeaux, a professor at Seaton hall University School of Law and Jonathan Hafetz, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s National Security Project, have explored one of this generation’s great moral questions by assembling first-person reports from over 100 attourneys who represent prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.” * New York Law Journal *\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is as chilling an indictment of the executive's disdain for the rule of law as could be imagined…. The details of what passes for law in Guantánamo will shock readers familiar with any concept of due process…. The skill, courage and resourcefulness of the unofficial Guantánamo Bay Bar Association give us genuine cause for pride in lawyers. * New York Law Journal *\u003cbr\u003eProvides an invaluable perspectiveor more accurately, perspectives, since more than one hundred lawyers contributed to the volume. These men and women, all working for nothing, have gained intimate access to those whom the United States sought to keep hidden behind strictly closed doors.The stories these lawyers have been able to tell, adroitly edited by Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, offer a multifaceted portrait of life on the base. * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz Prelude 1 Representing the \"Worst of the Worst\"  How and Why the Lawyers Started Representing Detainees 2 Getting behind the Wire  Rasul\/Al Odah: The Right to Representation 3 Uncovering Guantanamo's Human Face  First Impressions  Rendered: How the Detainees Got to Guantanamo  Female Attorneys  Family Members  Interpreters 4 Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts  Barriers to Representation  The No-Hearing Hearings: Combatant Status Review Tribunals  Military Commissions  Political Maneuvering  Boumediene v. Bush: The Death Knell for Prisons beyond the Law 5 Tortured  A Product of Torture Culture  Reactions Hunger Strikes  Suicides 6 Alternative Forms of Advocacy 7 Leaving Guantanamo  Stuck in Limbo  Out but Not Free  Happy Endings? 8 Guantanamo beyond Cuba: A Global Detention System outside the Law Guantanamo Comes to America Black Sites  Coda Timeline: Guantanamo and the \"War on Terror\" Contributors","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865992376663,"sku":"9780814785058","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814785058.jpg?v=1722276541"},{"product_id":"legality-and-legitimacy-9780822331742","title":"Legality and Legitimacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarl Schmitt ranks among the original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. This book contains translations of Schmitt's 1958 commentary on the work, explanatory notes, and an appendix including articles of the Weimar constitution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An English translation of Carl Schmitt’s \u003ci\u003eLegalität und Legitimität\u003c\/i\u003e is long overdue. \u003ci\u003eLegality and Legitimacy\u003c\/i\u003e concludes the critique of legal positivism and the rationality of statute law he began in \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePolitical Theology\u003c\/i\u003e and does so in the historical context of Weimar’s final crisis. It was an important argument at the time and is just as significant seventy-odd years later.”—Ellen Kennedy, author of \u003ci\u003eConstitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Carl Schmitt is an unorthodox classic. One of the intellectual grave-diggers of the Weimar Republic, he wrote this brilliant book in the middle of the political crisis, opting for presidential dictatorship. Excellent in its analysis,\u003ci\u003e Legality and Legitimacy\u003c\/i\u003e is unwise regarding political consequences and without a realistic political vision for the future. This first English-language translation should stimulate European-American dialogue about the vitality of democratic institutions in view of the challenges of antidemocratic and antiliberal temptations.”—Michael Stolleis, University of Frankfurt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Preface \/ Jeffrey Seitzer ix \u003cbr\u003e Identifying or Exploiting the Paradoxes of Constitutional Democracy? An Introduction to Carl Schmitt’s \u003ci\u003eLegality and Legitimacy\u003c\/i\u003e JOHN P. McCORMICK xiii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLegality and Legitimacy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Legislative State System of Legality Compared to Other State Types (Jurisdiction, Governmnetal, and Administrative States) \/ John P. McCormick 3\u003cbr\u003e I: The System of the Legality of the Parliaamentary Legislative State \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Legislative State and the Concept of Law 17\u003cbr\u003e 2. Legality and the Equal Chance for Achieving Political Power 27\u003cbr\u003e II: The Three Extraordinary Lawgivers of the Weimar Constitution \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Extraordinary Lawgiver \u003ci\u003eRatione Materiae\u003c\/i\u003e: The Second Principal Part of the Weimar Constitution and a Second Constitution 39\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Extraordinary Lawgiver \u003ci\u003eRatione Supremitatis\u003c\/i\u003e: Actual Meaning - Plebiscitary Legitimacy instead of Lgislative State Legality 59\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Extraordinary Lawgiver \u003ci\u003eRatione Necessitatis\u003c\/i\u003e: Actual Meaning - The Administrative State Measure Displaces the Parliamentary Legislative State Statute 67\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 85\u003cbr\u003e Afterword (1958) 95\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Selected Articles of the Weimar Constitution 103\u003cbr\u003e Notes 109\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited by Carl Schmitt in \u003ci\u003eLegality and Legitimacy\u003c\/i\u003e 161\u003cbr\u003e Index 165","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866011185495,"sku":"9780822331742","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822331742.jpg?v=1722276615"},{"product_id":"research-handbook-on-the-theory-and-history-of-international-law-9781035300211","title":"Research Handbook on the Theory and History of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcclaim for the First Edition:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'It is a good time in which to be a thinker about the remarkable present and the daunting future of the human world. 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It could not be more timely or more necessary.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- From the Foreword to the First Edition by Philip Allott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Foreword to the First Edition  viii Editor’s Preface to the Second Edition  x  PART I THE ESSENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY 1 The relevance of theory and history: the essence and origins of international law 2 Alexander Orakhelashvili  2 Early-modern scholarship on international law 19 Alain Wijffels  3 Natural law and the law of nations 58 Patrick Capps  4 The origins of consensual positivism: Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel 90 Alexander Orakhelashvili  5 The transformation of international law in the nineteenth century 108 Amnon Lev  6 Hans Kelsen’s place in international legal theory 139 Jörg Kammerhofer   PART II THEMATIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY 7 International human rights law theory 164 Frédéric Mégret  8 The philosophy of international criminal law 200 Robert Cryer and Albert Nell  9 International law, international politics and ideology 240 Alexander Orakhelashvili   PART III HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 10 Periodization and international law 281 William E. 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