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Victimology: Victimisation and Victims' Rights

Victimology: Victimisation and Victims' Rights

Author: Lorraine Wolhuter (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ,  Neil Olley (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781845680459
Format: Paperback
$98.00

How should the needs of victims of crime be met by the criminal justice system? This book examines the theoretical...  Read More >>

The New Lawyer: How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law

The New Lawyer: How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice...

Author: Julie Macfarlane
ISBN: 9780774814362
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This provocative, intelligent work looks at the evolving role of lawyers, articulating legal and ethical complexities,...  Read More >>

Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the Law

Defining Harm: Religious Freedom and the Limits of the...

Author: Lori G. Beaman
ISBN: 9780774814300
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Offers a genealogy of religious freedom in a social climate of risk and fear. This book also presents the story...  Read More >>

Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights

Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case,...

Author: Hamar Foster ,  Heather Raven
ISBN: 9780774814041
Format: Paperback
$100.19

In the early 1970s, many questioned whether Aboriginal title existed in Canada and rejected the notion that Aboriginal...  Read More >>

Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change

Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change...

Author: Dorothy E. Chunn ,  Susan Boyd
ISBN: 9780774814126
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Analyzes late 20th-century responses to feminism, and asks: to what extent does the concept of backlash accurately...  Read More >>

Negotiating Responsibility: Law, Murder, and States of Mind

Negotiating Responsibility: Law, Murder, and States...

Author: Kimberley White
ISBN: 9780774812771
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Kimberly White provides an essential point of reference from which to evaluate current criminal law practices and...  Read More >>

Criminal Artefacts: Governing Drugs and Users

Criminal Artefacts: Governing Drugs and Users

Author: Dawn Moore
ISBN: 9780774813877
Format: Paperback
$100.19

By looking curiously on the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why...  Read More >>

Hate on the Net: Extremist Sites, Neo-fascism On-line, Electronic Jihad

Hate on the Net: Extremist Sites, Neo-fascism On-line,...

Author: Antonio Roversi
ISBN: 9780754672142
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Presents an insightful look at the unregulated, anonymous, and easily accessible nature of the Internet and how...  Read More >>

Jacques Lacan on Law

Jacques Lacan on Law

Author: Kirsten Campbell
ISBN: 9781904385479
Format: Paperback
$70.00

Why is the work of Jacques Lacan important to contemporary legal theory? What is a 'Lacanian' legal theory? This...  Read More >>

I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases

I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme...

Author: Mark Tushnet
ISBN: 9780807000366
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The most famous Supreme Court dissents, from Dred Scott to Lawrence v. Texas and beyond  Read More >>

Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court

Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi...

Author: Justin B. Richland
ISBN: 9780226712956
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Explores language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. This work explains how Hopi...  Read More >>

Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court

Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi...

Author: Justin B. Richland
ISBN: 9780226712932
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Like many indigenous legal institutions across North America, the Hopi Tribal Court was created in the image of...  Read More >>

Reclaiming the Nation: Muslim Women and the law in India

Reclaiming the Nation: Muslim Women and the law in India...

Author: Vrinda Narain
ISBN: 9780802092786
Format: Hardback
$115.00

A timely account of the struggle for liberation within a restrictive religious framework, Reclaiming the Nation...  Read More >>

Law and Science, Volumes I and II: Volume I: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements Volume II: Regulation of Property, Practices and Products

Law and Science, Volumes I and II: Volume I: Epistemological,...

Author: Susan S. Silbey ,  Professor Austin D. Sarat
ISBN: 9780754625001
Format: Hardback
$1103.00

Collects articles on science as it enters legal domains, primarily as evidence and legitimation for political authority....  Read More >>

Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities

Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities

Author: Stephen Tomsen ,  Professor Gerald Mars
ISBN: 9780754627401
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Presents contemporary articles that are part of, or related to, the 'new masculinities' approach. This work features...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics and Law

Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics and Law

Author: Geoffrey Hunt ,  Michael Mehta
ISBN: 9781844075836
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Offers a global overview of the state of nanotech and society in Europe, the USA, Japan and Canada, examining the...  Read More >>

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?...

Author: Gerald N. Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780226726717
Format: Paperback
$52.80

"In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald N Rosenberg's...  Read More >>

Talcott Parsons on Law and the Legal System

Talcott Parsons on Law and the Legal System

Author: A. Javier Trevino
ISBN: 9781847184856
Format: Hardback
$116.41

One of the great ironies in contemporary sociology of law is that despite Talcott Parsons's enormously influential...  Read More >>

Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice

Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice

Author: Karl Llewellyn ,  James J. Chriss
ISBN: 9781412807869
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice compiles many of Llewellyn's most important writings  Read More >>

The European Union and the Culture Industries: Regulation and the Public Interest

The European Union and the Culture Industries: Regulation...

Author: David Ward
ISBN: 9780754670186
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Bringing together leading academics in their respective fields, this edited collection examines the European Union's...  Read More >>

Text, Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts

Text, Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts

Author: Mohamed Ramjohn (University of West London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415442947
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Text, Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts has been considerably revised to broaden the focus of the text in...  Read More >>

Text, Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts

Text, Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts

Author: Mohamed Ramjohn (University of West London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415442930
Format: Hardback
$389.00

Text, Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts has been considerably revised to broaden the focus of the text in...  Read More >>

Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism

Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism...

Author: Janet Halley
ISBN: 9780691136325
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. This book argues that sexuality involves...  Read More >>

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?...

Author: Gerald N. Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780226726700
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Contents that it's nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation. The reason? American courts...  Read More >>

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