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Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy Making

Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy Making

Author: Brooks ,  Kim Brooks
ISBN: 9781283340199
Format: Electronic book text
$889.68

This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world. Contributors based in eight different...  Read More >>

States of Passion: Law, Identity, and Social Construction of Desire

States of Passion: Law, Identity, and Social Construction...

Author: Yvonne Zylan
ISBN: 9781283116213
Format: Electronic book text
$267.30

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Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society

Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making...

Author: Lesley Erickson
ISBN: 9781283245494
Format: Electronic book text
$348.48

Through the study of hundreds of criminal cases, Westward Bound explores how encounters between the courts and ordinary...  Read More >>

Troubling Sex

Troubling Sex

Author: Elaine Craig
ISBN: 9781299588035
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

When legal scholars or judges approach the subject of sexuality, they are often constrained by existing theoretical...  Read More >>

Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished: A Study of the Status 'Female Slave' in Early Jewish Law

Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished: A Study of the Status 'Female...

Author: Diane Kriger
ISBN: 9781306152983
Format: Undefined
$126.72

A masterful intersection of Bible Studies, Gender Studies, and Rabbinic law, Diane Kriger explores the laws pertaining...  Read More >>

Understanding European Union Law

Understanding European Union Law

Author: Karen Davies ,  Karen Davies (Swansea University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415582346
Format: Paperback
$100.19

An introduction to EU law. It looks at the main themes of EU law in a logical and progressive manner. It provides...  Read More >>

Social Control: Informal, Legal and Medical

Social Control: Informal, Legal and Medical

Author: James J. Chriss ,  Mathieu Deflem
ISBN: 9780857243454
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Explains and conceptualizes social control in its diversity. This title includes treatments of informal control...  Read More >>

Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making: Psychological Perspectives

Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making: Psychological...

Author: Richard L. Wiener ,  Brian H. Bornstein
ISBN: 9781441942760
Format: Paperback
$224.27

This book invites the legal and psychology communities to work together in solving some of our most pressing social...  Read More >>

Violence Against Women Under International Human Rights Law

Violence Against Women Under International Human Rights...

Author: Alice Edwards
ISBN: 9786613112514
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

Alice Edwards critically analyses current international human rights legal approaches to and strategies around combating...  Read More >>

Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society

Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society...

Author: Reza Banakar
ISBN: 9781409407393
Format: Hardback
$315.00

A collection that offers a snapshot of how rights are debated and employed in public discourse to reshape legal...  Read More >>

From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story

From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story

Author: Pamela Burton ,  Michael Kirby
ISBN: 9781742580982
Format: Paperback
$49.95

In 1987 Mary Gaudron became the first female justice of the High Court of Australia. This book investigates Gaudron's...  Read More >>

Women and the Law Stories

Women and the Law Stories

Author: Elizabeth M. Schneider ,  Stephanie M. Wildman
ISBN: 9781599415895
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This book examines landmark cases establishing women’s legal rights, offering accounts of the litigants, history,...  Read More >>

Medical Law and Moral Rights

Medical Law and Moral Rights

Author: Carl Wellman
ISBN: 9789048169535
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Ought fetuses to be given legal rights requiring pregnant women to submit to medical treatment without their consent?...  Read More >>

Criminal Defence and Procedure: Comparative Ethnographies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States

Criminal Defence and Procedure: Comparative Ethnographies...

Author: T. Scheffer ,  K. Hannken-Illjes
ISBN: 9780230230224
Format: Hardback
$169.00

This book, written by three authors from different disciplinary backgrounds, provides an in-depth comparison of...  Read More >>

Institutional Design and Voting Power in the European Union

Institutional Design and Voting Power in the European...

Author: Karol Zyczkowski ,  Marek A. Cichocki
ISBN: 9780754677543
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Presents insights on how voting power should be allocated between EU member states, and what the policy consequences...  Read More >>

Legal Theory and the Social Sciences: Volume II

Legal Theory and the Social Sciences: Volume II

Author: MaksymilianDel Mar ,  Michael Giudice
ISBN: 9780754628897
Format: Hardback
$546.00

Discusses various aspects of the relationship of legal theory and the social sciences: methodological disputes and...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law

Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan...

Author: Paul Raffield (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781841139210
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Through an examination of six plays, this book presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the...  Read More >>

Between Consenting Peoples: Political Community and the Meaning of Consent

Between Consenting Peoples: Political Community and...

Author: Jeremy Webber ,  Colin M. Macleod
ISBN: 9780774818834
Format: Hardback
$225.11

This book examines how consent might be understood as the foundation of legal and political community, especially...  Read More >>

Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds

Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds

Author: Greg Lastowka
ISBN: 9780300141207
Format: Hardback
$72.60

Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world. In places like World of Warcraft,...  Read More >>

Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People

Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People...

Author: Lynn Stout
ISBN: 9780691139951
Format: Hardback
$47.99

Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments...  Read More >>

Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan

Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy...

Author: John Hagan
ISBN: 9780691148380
Format: Hardback
$79.07

How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar...  Read More >>

When Governments Break the Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration

When Governments Break the Law: The Rule of Law and...

Author: Austin Sarat ,  Nasser Hussain
ISBN: 9780814739853
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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