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Civil Society in China: "The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the ""New Reform Era"""

Civil Society in China: "The Legal Framework from Ancient...

Author: Karla W Simon (Professor of Law, Professor of Law)
ISBN: 9780199765898
Format: Hardback
$195.95

This is the definitive book on the legal and fiscal framework for civil society organizations (CSOs) in China from...  Read More >>

Historical Memory and Criminal Justice in Spain: A Case of Late Transitional Justice

Historical Memory and Criminal Justice in Spain: A Case...

Author: Josep M. Tamarit Sumalla
ISBN: 9781780681436
Format: Hardback
$170.78

The Spanish transition from the Franco regime to democracy has not been a very popular subject amongst researchers...  Read More >>

Father, Son, and Constitution: How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy

Father, Son, and Constitution: How Justice Tom Clark...

Author: Alexander Wohl
ISBN: 9780700619160
Format: Hardback
$145.17

A dual career biography of Tom and Ramsey Clark and their profound impact on American law and society. For nearly...  Read More >>

Age and Equality Law

Age and Equality Law

Author: Michael Selmi ,  Professor Suzanne B. Goldberg
ISBN: 9781409437239
Format: Hardback
$168.00

This volume brings together classic articles which explore the increasingly crucial and relatively recent concept...  Read More >>

Gender and Equality Law

Gender and Equality Law

Author: Julie Goldscheid ,  Professor Suzanne B. Goldberg
ISBN: 9781409438953
Format: Hardback
$735.00

This volume draws on several decades of advocacy for law reform to advance gender equality. The essays illustrate...  Read More >>

Sexuality and Equality Law

Sexuality and Equality Law

Author: SuzanneB. Goldberg ,  Professor Suzanne B. Goldberg
ISBN: 9781409435075
Format: Hardback
$683.00

Sexual rules and regulations are among society's oldest yet it is only in recent decades that this once-stigmatized...  Read More >>

The Politics of the Common Law: Perspectives, Rights, Processes, Institutions

The Politics of the Common Law: Perspectives, Rights,...

Author: Adam Gearey (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) ,  Wayne Morrison (Queen Mary University)
ISBN: 9780415662369
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book offers an introduction to the English legal system that places the law in its contemporary context. Unlike...  Read More >>

Religion, Politics and Law in the European Union

Religion, Politics and Law in the European Union

Author: Lucian N. Leustean (Aston University, UK) ,  John T.S. Madeley (London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415850315
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This edited volume examines the activities of religious actors in the context of supranational European institutions,...  Read More >>

The Positive Obligations of the State under the European Convention of Human Rights

The Positive Obligations of the State under the European...

Author: Dimitris Xenos
ISBN: 9780415870245
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The system of the European Convention of Human Rights imposes positive obligations on the state to guarantee human...  Read More >>

Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe

Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of...

Author: Gauthier de Beco
ISBN: 9780415859493
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Law and Religion in Public Life: The Contemporary Debate

Law and Religion in Public Life: The Contemporary Debate...

Author: Nadirsyah Hosen ,  Richard Mohr
ISBN: 9780415859646
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Addresses contemporary issues in the relationship of law, religion and the state. This book highlights the interaction...  Read More >>

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law

Author: Jamie Murray (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415496018
Format: Hardback
$196.00

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory.  Read More >>

Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity

Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay:...

Author: Francesca Lessa
ISBN: 9781137269386
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship...  Read More >>

Payback: The Case for Revenge

Payback: The Case for Revenge

Author: Thane Rosenbaum
ISBN: 9780226726618
Format: Hardback
$46.95

We call it justice - the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers,...  Read More >>

Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture

Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture...

Author: Sheryl Hamilton
ISBN: 9781442616066
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Sheryl N. Hamilton uses five different kinds of persons - corporations, women, clones, computers, and celebrities...  Read More >>

Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison

Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison...

Author: Christian Joppke ,  John Torpey
ISBN: 9780674072848
Format: Hardback
$86.95

Christian Joppke and John Torpey show how four liberal democracies—France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S.—have responded...  Read More >>

Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact?: Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide

Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact?: Women and the...

Author: Farida Jalalzai (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis)
ISBN: 9780199943531
Format: Hardback
$179.95

How do men's and women's paths to political office differ? Once in office, are women's powers more constrained that...  Read More >>

Child of Another Century: Recollections of a High Court Judge

Child of Another Century: Recollections of a High Court...

Author: Ronald Waterhouse
ISBN: 9781780764993
Format: Hardback
$100.00

"The author became a High Court judge in 1978, and went onto lead the biggest inquiry into child abuse ever held...  Read More >>

Estate Planning for Gay and Lesbian Couples: How to Get Your Affairs in Order and Achieve Peace of Mind

Estate Planning for Gay and Lesbian Couples: How to...

Author: Julie a Calligaro
ISBN: 9781484168653
Format: Paperback
$21.09

This book is a step-by-step estate planning guide for gay couples and lesbian couples. There are individual chapters...  Read More >>

Readings in Law and Popular Culture

Readings in Law and Popular Culture

Author: Steven Greenfield (University of Westminster, UK) ,  Guy Osborn (University of Westminster, UK)
ISBN: 9780415651349
Format: Paperback
$58.99

Fascinating and varied, this is the first book to bring together high quality research, with an emphasis on context,...  Read More >>

Law and Intersystemic Communication: Understanding ‘Structural Coupling’

Law and Intersystemic Communication: Understanding ‘Structural...

Author: Gorm Harste ,  Alberto Febbrajo
ISBN: 9781409421108
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume provides an overview of current perspectives on socio-legal studies with particular attention focused...  Read More >>

Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America

Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America...

Author: Devon W. Carbado (, Associate Dean, UCLA School of Law) ,  Mitu Gulati (, Professor of Law, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780195382587
Format: Hardback
$74.95

"What does it mean to ""act black"" or ""act white""? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from...  Read More >>

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