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Book SynopsisReferred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's "Commentaries" on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. This work examines why "Commentaries" became the knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction I: The Law: Science and Mystery II: The Use of History III: The Tendency of History IV: The Use of Aesthetics V: The Limits of Reason VI: The Methods of Reason VII: Humanity VIII: Liberty IX: Property Conclusion: The Advantage of Being a Reasonable Creature Notes A Layman's Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisA prominent evangelical scholar reevaluates Paul's view of the Old Testament law in light of the biblical texts and recent scholarly debate.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Background to the Debate1. The Meaning of the Term Law in Paul2. Why the Works of the Law Cannot Save3. The Purpose of the Law4. Is Paul Opposing Jewish Legalism?5. The Temporary Nature of the Mosaic Covenant6. The Fulfillment of the Law by Christians7. Did Paul Teach Justification by Works?8. Soundings from the Rest of the New Testament Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. Topics addressed in the book include the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the relations between law, the image and identity.

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Book SynopsisA discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image. Topics addressed in the book include the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the relations between law, the image and identity.

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Book SynopsisLanguages of the Law: Vocabularies and Uses. Introduction.- Part I. Legal Language, Signs & Speech Acts.- Language of the Law as a Sign and as a Symbol.- Listing Acts of Legal Communication: An Extension of the Concept of Legal Language.- On Pineapple Wine: Compound Terms and the Ordinary Language(s) of the Law  .- Street Naming, Speech Acts and the Law.- Part II. Conceptualisation of Law via Language.- Law and (Conceptual) Revolution.- The Normativity of Law and Normative Vocabularies in Law: The Inferentialist Explanatory Route.- What Can Content-Force Distinction Teach Us About Law?.- Union is strength. Textual agency of constitutions in the integration of democratic communities.- Part III. Legal Reasoning.- Application and Applicability of the Law in Relation to its Validity.- The Application of Juristic Concepts in Legal Reasoning.- Stranger than legal fictions - the argument of analogy.- , Legal practice as a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union's vocabulary.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores one of the most pressing questions of our time: what happens to law when technological systemsâalgorithms, smart contracts, digital platformsâbegin to regulate our lives as effectively as, or even more effectively than, traditional legal rules?While many scholars have framed this debate in terms of efficiency, compliance, and enforcement, this book takes a step back to ask a deeper question: what is law, and what distinguishes it from mere technological control? Through three interconnected essays, the book moves across theory, contemporary issues, and history. It critiques the popular thesis of the âœdeath of lawâ under conditions of algorithmic regulation, arguing that law itself can be seen as a technology of a special kind. The bookâs central argument is that technological regulation does not âperfectâ the law by guaranteeing compliance. Instead, it abolishes the normative dimension that defines law: the distinction between what is and what ought to be. When algorithms collapse this gap â by making non-compliance impossible â the unique reality that law creates disappears. Accessible, provocative, and interdisciplinary, this is not simply a book about legal theory. It is a book about the future of human freedom, responsibility, and political life in a world increasingly governed by technology.This book will appeal primarily to scholars and high-level students working in the areas of legal theory, the philosophy of law, and law and technology.

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts points to a deep engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. This book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othella.

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Book SynopsisPulling the rug out from under debates about interpretation, this title joins together learning from law, linguistics, and cognitive science to illuminate the fundamental issues and problems in this highly contested area.Trade Review"A worthy successor to Solan's Language of Judges, which remains the best introduction to the value of linguistic analysis to statutory interpretation.... A must-read for any serious student of the debates about the rule of lenity, legislative intent, and the new textualism. A triumph of reason and learning." - William N. Eskridge Jr., Yale Law School"

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Book SynopsisIn the current climate, it is vital that practitioners are aware not just of legal developments, but also of how to sell their expertise in a crowded market place. This high-level title, published in conjunction with the International Bar Association (IBA), brings together the expertise of IBA members and experienced practitioners to produce a practical guide to law firm management and building a successful business. This title is about contributing to the growth of a firm; since growth means higher profits, and everyone can both contribute to and benefit from this; rather than on law firm management. It is a pragmatic guide rather than an attempt at crystal ball gazing, and examines issues ranging from the impact of the financial crisis on law firms to marketing and PR, the challenge of internationalisation, how to grow a law firm and governance. The book features chapters from leading international practitioners and experts, including Stephen Denyer from Allen & Overy, Professor Carole Silver from Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Sean Twomey from Norton Rose. The book will be of practical interest to any lawyers who are looking to build their law firm; whether they be managing partners, lead partners in a department or lawyers seeking to build their client base and contribute to the growth of the firm.Trade ReviewFor anyone starting up a new practice, venturing onto the management side of law or simply interested in contributing more effectively to the growth of their own firm, The Business of Law is an invaluable and highly insightful guide. -- Catriona Watt and Ronnie FoxThe book is a compilation of essays by leaders of well-known major law firms and a smaller number of those who advise such firms. The lessons taught are borne out of experience and the book is a highly practical guide. -- Frank MaherThis book will inform and inspire those striding from management to leadership; finally it will enable those already in positions to confirm what they are doing is correct and to keep them persevering on the path that they have chosen. -- Pippa BlakemoreThis publication should be of practical interest to managing partners, heads of departments or lawyers seeking to build their client base and contribute to the growth of their firm. -- PLCIt is a pragmatic guide that analyses the impact of the financial crisis and demonstrates that maintaining a solid base built up with marketing and PR can develop the client base and contribute to growth. -- The Global Legal PostTable of ContentsBusiness models and strategies: the current state of the art Stephen R N Denyer Allen & Overy LLP Strategic challenges for law firms in the 21st century Alan Hodgart Huron UK Ltd The business of law: the impact of the financial crisis Bryan Hughes Eversheds LLP Bigger isn’t always better Charles Martin Macfarlanes LLP The many ways to grow a law firm Neville Eisenberg Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Effective PR strategies for the succcessful law firm Sean Twomey Norton Rose LLP Governance and CSR Richard Turnor Emma Jane Wedier Corinne Staves Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP Women and the law Lynn McGrade Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Being successful within your jurisdiction Philip Rodney Burness LLP Building a leading position in a regional arena Horst Ebhardt Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH The challenge of internationalisation: diverse regulations and legislation in different jurisdictions Robert Millard Linklaters LLP Professor Carole Silver Indiana University Maurer School of Law Financing techniques for law firms James Tsolakis Royal Bank of Scotland Building a business: successful rainmaking, adding clients and value to the practice Norman Clark Walker Clark LLC

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Book SynopsisReassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, the author shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power.

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game to be played; and a third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power to be actively resisted.

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Book SynopsisIn Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure essential to Dante's Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by sophisticated laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. He makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, crucially introducing Dante to current debates about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty. Examining how Dante probes the limits of the law in this juridical otherworld, Steinberg argues that exceptions were vital to the medieval legal order and that Dante's otherworld represents an ideal system of exception. In the real world, Dante saw this system as increasingly threatened by the dual crises of church and empire: the abuses and overreaching of the popes and the absence of an effective Holy Roman Emperor. Steinberg sh

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Book SynopsisAddresses the break in the alliance between law and divinity - when modern societies, far from connecting the tow, started to think of law simply as the rule human community gives itself. This work explores what this disconnection means for the contemporary world.Trade Review"Brague's sense of intellectual adventure is what makes his work genuinely exciting to read. The Law of God offers a challenge that anyone concerned with today's religious struggles ought to take up." - Adam Kirsch, New York Sun "Scholars and students of contemporary world events, to the extent that these may be viewed as a clash of rival fundamentalisms, will have much to gain from Brague's study. Ideally, in that case, the book seems to be both an obvious primer and launching pad for further scholarship." - Times Higher Education Supplement"

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Book SynopsisLegal doctrinethe creation of doctrinal concepts, arguments, and legal regimes built on the foundation of written lawis the currency of contemporary law. Yet law students, lawyers, and judges often take doctrine for granted, without asking even the most basic questions. How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine is a sweeping and original study that focuses on how to understand legal doctrine via a hands-on approach. Taking up the provocative invitations from the New Doctrinalists, Pierre Schlag and Amy J. Griffin refine the conceptual and rhetorical operations legal professionals perform with doctrinefocusing especially on those difficult moments where law seems to run out, but legal argument must go on. The authors make the crucial operations of doctrine explicit, revealing how they work, and how they shape the law that emerges. How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine will help all those studying or working with law to gain a more systematic understanding of the doctrinal moves many of our beTrade Review"Two talented legal thinkers have put their minds to making a taxonomy of taxonomies! . . . For the benefit of all who read How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine, the book masterfully restates and improves received wisdom on how legal analysis works to create doctrine, but also adds many of its own insights. . . . this is an elegant, useful volume. I highly commend it as a good read." * Journal of Legal Education *"How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine would be a welcome addition for academic law library collections. It provides a comprehensive discussion of legal doctrine and related concepts." * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: What Is Doctrine? I. The Big PictureA. Artifacts B. Sources of Law C. Functions1. Structuration 2. Defusing, Resolving, or Extinguishing Conflict 3. Correction 4. Realization of the Legal System 5. ReflexivityD. Legal Elements 1. Legal Persons 2. Entitlements and Disablements 3. Attribution Rules 4. Transfer Mechanisms 5. Interests/Harms 6. RemediesII. DoctrineA. The Characteristics of Doctrine B. The Structured Elasticity of DoctrineIII. The Itinerary Chapter Two: Frames and Framing I. Entry-Framing II. Broad vs. Narrow Time Frames III. Segmented vs. Continuous Transactions IV. Action vs. Omission V. Level of Abstraction VI. The Theater Metaphor VII. Exit-Framing Chapter Three: Baselines I. Baseline Selection ProblemsA. Classic Baselines B. Variations within a Single Baseline1. Level of Abstraction 2. Individualization 3. MultiplicityII. Baseline Neutrality ProblemsA. Failed Neutrality B. Denial and EvasionIII. Baseline Collapse Problems IV. Summary Chapter Four: The Legal Distinction I. What Do Legal Distinctions Do? II. Three Criteria for “Sound” Legal DistinctionsA. Conceptual Intelligibility B. Practicality C. Normative AppealIII. The Trade-Offs among the Three Criteria IV. The Classic Flaws and Why They MatterA. The Classic Flaws1. Overbreadth 2. Underbreadth 3. Overlap 4. Discontinuity 5. False Dichotomy 6. Incoherence 7. VaguenessB. Why the Classic Flaws Matter: From Form to Substance1. Waste 2. Fairness/Equality 3. Subversion 4. Efficiency 5. Rule of LawVI. Crafting Legal Distinctions VII. Where Do You Draw the Line?A. The Non-ideal World and the Inevitable Trade-Offs B. Arbitrariness C. Indivisibilities D. Dynamic Fields E. Problem Fields and Non-fields: Of Polycentricity and Flux F. The Slippery SlopeVIII. The Fetishism of the Legal Distinction Chapter Five: Rules and Standards I. Defining Rules and Standards II. The Rules vs. Standards DialecticA. Deterrence B. Delegation C. Communication/Formalities/NoticeIII. The Substantialized Versions of the Dialectic IV. The Limitations of the DialecticA. Of Vices and Virtues B. The Polycentricity Challenge C. The Epistemological TwistV. The Irreducibility of the Dialectic Chapter Six: Resolving Regime Conflicts I. TechniquesA. Hierarchy B. Sectorization C. Policy Judgment D. Balancing E. Meta-quantification Approaches F. Conflict Prevention Approaches G. Referral/Deference/Denial H. ChannelingII. Putting It TogetherA. Hybrids B. Entailments C. Summary Chapter Seven: Interpretation I. The Interpretive Situation: Recurrent Tensions and ConflictsA. The “Legal” in the Legal Text B. The Interpretive Contexts1. Fact-Rich 2. Institutionally Localized 3. Procedural Posture 4. Discernible Specific ConsequencesC. The Textual Feedback Loop D. The Plurality of Contexts1. The Context of Application 2. The Authorial Context 3. The Addressee Context 4. The Functional Legal Context 5. Contexts GenerallyE. Fidelity to the Original Meaning F. SummaryII. TextualismA. Individuation: What Is the Unit of Interpretation? B. Intratextual Integrity C. Intertextual IntegrityIII. PurposivismA. Multiple Purposes B. Selection C. The Structure of PurposeIV. Summary Chapter Eight: Cluster Logic I. A Cautionary Note II. The Structural Distinction Clusters III. How the Clusters MatterA. The Clusters as Classic Options B. Nuance: Substituting One Distinction or One Term for Another C. Cluster Functions1. Function Tags for the Choice/Coercion Cluster 2. Function Tags for the Public/Private ClusterIV. Operationalizing the Clusters: InteractionA. Combining Clusters B. The Theatrical MetaphorV. The Logic of DissociationA. Chaining: Running an Argument through Successive Clusters B. Cluster AlliancesVI. Cluster Logic Coda: The Topics of Doctrine Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.The Anthropocene is a âœcrisis of the earth system.â This book addresses its implications for law and legal thinking in the twenty-first century. Unpacking the challenges of the Anthropocene for advocates of ecological law and politics, this handbook pursues a range of approaches to the scientific fact of anthropocentrism, with contributions from lawyers, philosophers, geographers, and environmental and political scientists. Rather than adopting a hubristic normativity, the contributors engage methods, concepts, and legal instruments in a way that underscores the importance of humility and an expansive ethical worldview. Contributors to this volume are leading scholars and future leaders in the field. Rather than upholding orthodoxy, the handbook also problematizes received wisdom and is grounded in the conviction that the ideas we have inherited from the Holocene must all be open to question.Engaging such issues as the Capitalocene, Gaia theory, the rights of nature, posthumanism, the commons, geoengineering, and civil disobedience, this handbook will be of enormous interest to academics, students, and others with interests in ecological law and the current environmental crisis.

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Book SynopsisWith new chapters covering the Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Brexit, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Refugee and Asylum law, and Data Governance, this third edition of The Evolution of EU Law is a must read for any student or academic of EU law.Trade ReviewThis book has been a must and a classic in EU law scholarship since the first edition 1999. This third edition is not only updated to the latest developments in written law and jurisprudence, it includes new chapters on the Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Brexit, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Refugee and Asylum law, and the Evolution of Data Law – including Artificial Intelligence. With 27 contributors from different European countries the book gives not only constant food for thought, it offers a very comprehensive knowledge base on institutional and substantive law as well as legal theory issues. A tour de force of breadth, depth and expertise. * Jacques Ziller, Professor of EU law, Universities of Pavia, Italy, and Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France *This book is a logical – and almost necessary – "further reading" for anybody educated in EU law by Paul Craig and Gráinne De Búrca's widely-used textbook. Seasoned practitioners and academics should read it as well, however, as it provides an authoritative guide to the discipline, which has evolved dramatically since the previous edition was published. All crises and challenges to the EU and its legal order are covered, together with more traditional topics concerning the key areas of EU law. Written by a balanced mix of theory- and practice-oriented scholars, of both the younger and older generation, this book will continue to be a standard reference point for anybody who wants to understand EU law. * Jan Komárek, Professor of EU law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *This important collection of essays on the continuing 'evolution' of EU law reaches us at a time of intensive reflection on the European Union. The ambition of the book reflects both the extraordinary span of EU legal development over the past decade and the challenging wider context within which it has happened, imprinted with the urgency produced by recurring instances of crisis. Each contribution provides, on its own, rich coverage of and insights into specific sectors or themes. Cohering all of these perspectives within one resource is the editors' impressive achievement. * Niamh Nic Shuibhne, Professor of European Union Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK *This long-awaited third edition comes at a critical time for the European Union and EU law scholarship: never has a historical and evolutionary perspective been more important in explaining the origins and purposes of the Union as well as where the Union is and ought to be going. The "Evolution of EU Law" here offers an invaluable compass that masterfully guides its readers through the deep and often tumultuous waters of the Union's constitutional and substantive law. * Robert Schütze, Professor of European and Comparative Law, Durham University, UK and Luiss, Rome, Italy *Review from previous edition This is a serious, comprehensive exploration of the understanding of EU law as it has developed. * Edward Kirke, Liverpool John Moores University *This volume, like many books of its kind, poses more questions than it has answers for, but the answers it suggests are crucial, seminal and riveting to anyone interested in why a nation or a corporate body has a constitution. ... the editors have done a masterly job in weaving together crucial research and opinion on such issues as comitology, delegated agencies, tertiary structures in general and the enumeration and control of them. The heavy intellectualism of this book should not obscure the luminosity of its arguments, which, after all, remain easy to understand. * Michael L Nash, Contemporary Review, December 1999 Page 322 *...an excellent collection of strong and thought-provoking contributions...an extremely accessible account of the story of EU law. * T.K. Hervey, University of Nottingham, European Public Law *Table of Contents1: Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca: Introduction 2: Paul Craig: Integration, Democracy and Legitimacy 3: Paul Craig: Institutions, Power and Institutional Balance 4: Neil Walker: Legal and Constitutional Theory of the European Union 5: Edoardo Chiti: The Agencification Process and the Evolution of the EU Administrative System 6: Kieran Bradley: Judicial Reform and the European Court: Not a Numbers Game 7: Bruno de Witte: Direct Effect, Primacy and the Nature of the Legal Order 8: Catherine Donnelly: Preliminary Rulings and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Continuity 9: Francesca Episcopo: The Vicissitudes of Life at the Coalface: Remedies and Procedures for Enforcing Union Law before the National Courts 10: Laurent Pech: The Rule of Law 11: Joana Mendes and Edoardo Chiti: The Evolution of EU Administrative Law 12: Deirdre Curtin: From a Europe of Bits and Pieces to a Union of Variegated Differentiation 13: Kenneth Armstrong: (Br)Exit from the EU-Control, Autonomy and the Evolution of EU Law 14: Marise Cremona: External Relations of the European Union: The Constitutional Framework for International Action 15: Gráinne de Búrca: The Evolution of EU Human Rights Law 16: Siofra O'Leary and Sara Iglesias Sánchez: Free Movement of Persons, Establishment and Services 17: Stefan Enchelmaier: Free Movement of Goods: Evolution and Intelligent Design in the Foundations of the European Union 18: Jukka Snell: Free Movement of Capital: Evolution as a Non-Linear Process 19: Jo Shaw: Citizenship: Contrasting Dynamics at the Interface of Integration and Constitutionalism 20: Mark Bell: EU Anti-Discrimination Law: Navigating Sameness and Difference 21: Catherine Barnard: EU 'Social' Policy: From Employment Law to Labour Market Reform 22: Alicia Hinarejos: Economic and Monetary Union: Evolution and Conflict 23: Steve Peers: EU Criminal Law and Police Cooperation 24: Eva Storskrubb: Civil Justice Extending its Tentacles 25: Lilian Tsourdi and Cathryn Costello: The Evolution of EU Law on Refugees and Asylum 26: Imelda Maher: Competition Law: Convergence through Law and Networks 27: Liz Fisher: EU Environmental Law and Legal Imagination 28: Stephen Weatherill: Consumer Policy 29: Thomas Streinz: The Evolution of European Data Law

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Book SynopsisConundrums, puzzles, and perversities: these are the author's stock-in-trade. In this book, he focuses on four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand explanation. It contains explanations and apt examples that show why the perversity of the law resists any easy resolutions.Trade Review"Leo Katz wisely peppers his puzzles with humor, jokes, miniplays, and thoughtful warnings of difficult passages to come (along with welcome invitations to skip ahead) that temper this otherwise demanding volume and make following the twists and turns of the argument well worth the challenge. And for those for whom puzzling is a pleasure in itself, the book will be a feast." (Boston Globe) "Mr. Katz unravels the logical tangles with clarity, humor and a light touch - a testament to the quality of his writing." (Wall Street Journal) "Why the Law Is So Perverse is a terrific book. It is original in its general conception and creative in all the particularities of its execution. And in bringing the social choice argument to the law and legal problems, Leo Katz has made an important and novel academic contribution." (Bruce Chapman, University of Toronto)"

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Book SynopsisMozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community. The author examines the role of customary law in Mozambique to ask a larger question: what is the place of law in the neoliberal era, in which the juridical and the economic are deeply intertwined in an ongoing state of structural adjustment?Trade Review"This anthropological study, spiced by a philosophical touch, magnificently explores local appropriations of a national law reform in the turmoil of the post-Cold War moment. The revival of customary law, deeply affected by socialism but now in a neoliberal context, produces hybrids that help people to steer their lives through great uncertainties. A challenging study that opens up new perspectives for understanding the 'structural adjustment state' and its uneasy compromises with rapidly evolving customary practices." (Peter Geschiere, author of Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust)"

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Book SynopsisJustice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the new originalist interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of the words at the time of drafting. For Scalia, the meaning of constitutional provisions and statutes was rigidly fixed by their original meanings with little concern for extratextual considerations. While some lauded his uncompromising principles, others argued that such a rigid view of the Constitution both denies and attempts to limit the discretion of judges in ways that damage and distort our system of law. In this edited collection, leading scholars from law, political science, philosophy, rhetoric, and linguistics look at the ways Scalia framed and stated his arguments. Focusing on rhetorical strategies rather than the logic or validity of Scalia's legal arguments, the contributors collectively reveal that Scalia enacted his rigidly

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Book SynopsisTraces the history of legal practice from its genesis in ancient Rome to its rebirth in the early Middle Ages and eventual resurgence in the courts of the medieval church. This title demonstrates that many features that characterize legal advocacy were already in place by 1250.Trade Review"This book... has been forty years in the making, and given its richness, the reader can be grateful for those decades of research." - Review of Metaphysics "James Brundage tells us a new law book cost on average about thirty-five Bolognese pounds, more than some houses. Today's students, scholars, and lawyers will welcome this very learned and much more affordable volume." - John Hudson, Times Literary Supplement"

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Book Synopsis''Manu was seated, when the great seers came up to him: Please, Lord, tell us the Laws of all the social classes, as well as of those born in between...''The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for two thousand years it still generates controversy, with Manu''s verses being cited in support of the oppression of women and members of the lower castes. A seminal Hindu text, the Law Code is important for its classic description of so many social institutions that have come to be identified with Indian society. It deals with the relationships between social and ethnic groups, between men and women, the organization of the state and the judicial system, reincarnation, the workings of karma, and all aspects of the law.Patrick Olivelle''s lucid translation is the first to be based on his critically edited text, and it incorporates the most recent scholarship on ancient Indian history, law, society, and religion. ABOUT THE SERIES: Fo

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Book SynopsisTournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the American Bar Association's 1992 Silver Gavel Award in recognition of an outstanding contribution to public understanding of the American system of law and justice.Mr. Sobol has produced a readable yet fully researched and detailed study of the operation of the bankruptcy and its effects upon all concernedthe women who were injured, the swarms of lawyers who represented parties in the bankruptcy, and the court which oversaw the bankruptcy in Richmond. . . . This book adds greatly to the current debate about how strong a managerial federal judge our system should have.Paul D. Rheingold, New York Law JournalBending the Law is polemical and relentless. It is also minutely researched, fluidly written, and persuasive.Paul Reidinger, ABA JournalBending the Law is a must read for bankruptcy practitioners, and for anyone else concerned about the use of bankruptcy law to deal with mass torts. Although its author is a civil rights lawyer, he details the subtle art of practicing bank

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Book SynopsisDoes the seller of a house have to tell the buyer that the water is turned off twelve hours a day? Does the buyer of a great quantity of tobacco have to inform the seller that the military blockade of the local port, which had depressed tobacco sales and lowered prices, is about to end? Courts say yes in the first case, no in the second. How can we understand the difference in judgments? And what does it say about whether the psychiatrist should disclose to his patient's girlfriend that the patient wants to kill her? Kim Lane Scheppele answers the question, Which secrets are legal secrets and what makes them so? She challenges the economic theory of law, which argues that judges decide cases in ways that maximize efficiency, and she shows that judges use equality as an important principle in their decisions. In the course of thinking about secrets, Scheppele also explores broader questions about judicial reasoninghow judges find meaning in legal texts and how they infuse every fact sum

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, this book explores the increasing importance of the positions of the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. It argues that the situation in many Asian countries can only be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial experiences.Trade Review"Asian Legal Revivals makes an innovative and significant contribution to the field of law and society scholarship. This book and its largeness of understanding and exceptional vision will establish a new benchmark and will quickly become essential reading." - Carol A. G. Jones, visiting fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong"

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Book SynopsisJudges spend their public lives in courtrooms. They speak to the public through their judgments. But senior judges are frequently invited to contribute to professional, judicial, or academic conferences or publications, on whatever topic engages the attention of the audience at the time. This book contains a selection of the essays and addresses written or given by the present Senior Law Lord (as a Queen''s Bench judge, Lord Justice of Appeal, Master of the Rolls, and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales) over the last 15 years or so, touching on a wide range of legally related topics.Trade Review... beautifully written: scholarly, cogently argued, humorous, and humane. * Counsel, August 2001 *exceptionally thoughtful and illuminating * Marcel Berlins, The Guardian *fine collection of essays and speeches * Florence O'Donoghue, The Spectator *Table of ContentsPART I: THE BUSINESS OF JUDGING ; 1. The Judge as Juror: The Judicial Determination of Factual Issues ; 2. The Judge as Lawmaker: An English Perspective ; 3. The Discretion of the Judge ; PART II: JUDGES IN SOCIETY ; 1. Judicial Independence ; 2. Judicial Ethics ; PART III: THE WIDER WORLD ; 1. 'There is a World Elsewhere': The Changing Perspectives of English Law ; 2. Law in a Pluralist Society ; 3. The Supreme Court of India ; PART IV: HUMAN RIGHTS ; 1. The European Convention on Human Rights: Time to Incorporate ; 2. Should there be a Law to Protect Rights of Personal Privacy? ; 3. The Way we Live Now: Human Rights in the New Millennium ; 4. Tort and Human Rights ; PART V: PUBLIC LAW ; 1. Should Public Law Remedies be Discretionary? ; 2. The Old Despotism ; 3. Mr Perlzweig, Sir John Anderson, and Lord Atkin ; PART VI: THE CONSTITUTION ; 1. The Courts and the Constitution ; 2. Anglo-American Reflections ; PART VII: THE ENGLISH CRIMINAL TRIAL ; 1. The English Criminal Trial: The Credits and the Debits ; 2. Justice and Injustice ; 3. Silence is Golden - or is it? ; 4. A Criminal Code: Must we Wait for Ever? ; PART VIII: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ; 1. The Sentence of the Court ; 2. Justice for the Young ; 3. The Mandatory Life Sentence for Murder ; 4. Speech on the Second Reading of the Crime (Sentences) Bill ; PART IX: MISCELLANEOUS ; 1. Address to the Centenary Conference of the Bar ; 2. Who Then in Law is my Neighbour? ; 3. The Future of the Common law ; 4. Lecture at Toynbee Hall on the Centenary of its Legal Advice Centre ; 5. Address at the Thanksgiving Service for Lord Denning OM

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Book SynopsisRosen looks at contemporary Islamic law and separate reality from Western stereotypes, showing it to be quite flexible and effective.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection grew out of a series of invited lectures given in France on the nature of justice and the law. They represent a reflection on the relationship of the juridical and the philosophical concept of right, situated between moral philosophy and politics.

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Book SynopsisTournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentivethe race to win the promotion-to-partner tournament. This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms.Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal

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