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Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions...

Author: James E. Clapp ,  Elizabeth G. Thornburg
ISBN: 9780300172461
Format: Hardback
$109.95

Not just for lawyers, these illuminating histories of popular law-related expressions will delight anyone fascinated...  Read More >>

Private Law in Theory and Practice

Private Law in Theory and Practice

Author: Michael Bryan (University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415516365
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Private Law in Theory and Practice explores important theoretical issues in tort law, the law of contract and the...  Read More >>

Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law

Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration,...

Author: Richard A. Epstein
ISBN: 9780674061842
Format: Hardback
$74.95

The noted legal scholar Richard Epstein advocates a much smaller federal government, arguing that our over-regulated...  Read More >>

Regulating the International Movement of Women: From Protection to Control

Regulating the International Movement of Women: From...

Author: Sharron Fitzgerald (University of Aberystwyth, UK)
ISBN: 9786613460974
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates the complex relationship between the state and the normative...  Read More >>

Eeo Law and Personnel Practices, Third Edition

Eeo Law and Personnel Practices, Third Edition

Author: Dr Arthur Gutman (Florida Institute of Technology) ,  Laura L Koppes
ISBN: 9781283643153
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation

Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation

Author: Danielle Tyson (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781283586221
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has now...  Read More >>

Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention, The: Practical Planning Tools

Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention,...

Author: Carolyn Whitzman (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781281752796
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Violence and insecurity are among the most important issues facing communities in the 21st century. Both family...  Read More >>

Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse

Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse

Author: Anastasia Vakulenko (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781283606851
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse looks at relevant law and surrounding discourses in order to examine the assumptions...  Read More >>

Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality

Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to...

Author: Natalie Persadie (University of the West Indies, Barbados)
ISBN: 9781283542876
Format: Electronic book text
$211.17

Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change. While this might be so, it must be complemented...  Read More >>

Genocide, State Crime, and the Law: In the Name of the State

Genocide, State Crime, and the Law: In the Name of the...

Author: Jennifer Balint (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415543811
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Genocide, State Crime and the Law argues that genocide and other forms of state crime must be located in relation...  Read More >>

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans...

Author: Dean Spade
ISBN: 9780896087965
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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Contracting for Space: Contract Practice in the European Space Sector

Contracting for Space: Contract Practice in the European...

Author: Ingo Baumann ,  Lesley Jane Smith
ISBN: 9781409419235
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The developments in the European space sector have had an impact on business and the growth of national and European...  Read More >>

Balancing Liberty and Security: Human Rights, Human Wrongs

Balancing Liberty and Security: Human Rights, Human...

Author: Kate Moss
ISBN: 9780230230293
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Examining the erosion of people's democratic rights and the potential catastrophic dangers of neglecting civil liberties,...  Read More >>

Policing Economic Crime in Russia: From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatization

Policing Economic Crime in Russia: From Soviet Planned...

Author: Gilles Favarel-Garrigues ,  Roger Leverdier
ISBN: 9780231702140
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Gilles Favarel-Garrigues explores the management of economic crime in Russia, from the time of Leonid Brezhnev to...  Read More >>

With Liberty and Justice For Some

With Liberty and Justice For Some

Author: Glen Greenwald ,  USA
ISBN: 9780805092059
Format: Hardback
$68.64

From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Global Justice

Encyclopedia of Global Justice

Author: Deen K. Chatterjee
ISBN: 9781402091599
Format: Hardback
$1792.56

This two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, published by Springer, along with Springer's book series, Studies...  Read More >>

Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities

Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems,...

Author: Austin Sarat (Amherst College, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781139030656
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany...  Read More >>

Das Kopftuchverbot in Deutschland Und Frankreich: Ein Beitrag Zur Interpretation Der Deutschen Und Franz�sischen Islam-Politik

Das Kopftuchverbot in Deutschland Und Frankreich: Ein...

Author: Janine Ziegler
ISBN: 9783506772374
Format: Paperback
$198.00

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitat M�unchen, 2010  Read More >>

Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment, Readings and Interpretations

Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New...

Author: Russell D. Howard ,  Bruce Hoffman
ISBN: 9780073527789
Format: Paperback
$190.34

Analyzes the philosophical, political, and religious roots of terrorist activities around the world. This work also...  Read More >>

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public...

Author: Nicholas Blomley
ISBN: 9780415598378
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of...  Read More >>

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