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The Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues

The Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal...

Author: Joseph P. Hester
ISBN: 9780786426584
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Helps bring understanding and meaning to the controversies that have arisen in the society over the application...  Read More >>

Punishment and Retribution

Punishment and Retribution

Author: Leo Zaibert ,  Professor Austin D. Sarat
ISBN: 9780754623892
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Punishment is a phenomenon which occurs in many contexts. Discussions of punishment assume punishment is criminal...  Read More >>

Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law

Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law

Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
ISBN: 9780691126258
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be...  Read More >>

Consensus: Combating Gender Based Violence Through Islam, Tradition and Law

Consensus: Combating Gender Based Violence Through Islam,...

Author: Marion Baumgart Dos Santon ,  Marion Baumgart Dos Santos
ISBN: 9789990876727
Format: Paperback
$68.51

"The Muslim Association of Malawi, the GTZ Combating Gender Based Violence Project, the Mangochi Network against...  Read More >>

Governing Risks

Governing Risks

Author: Pat O'Malley ,  Professor Austin D. Sarat
ISBN: 9780754625070
Format: Hardback
$441.00

Contemporary law and government are increasingly focusing on risk. Enterprise, innovation and risk-taking have become...  Read More >>

Defending Rights in Russia: Lawyers, the State, and Legal Reform in the Post-Soviet Era

Defending Rights in Russia: Lawyers, the State, and...

Author: Pamela Jordan
ISBN: 9780774811637
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Offers a study of the Russian bar (advokatura) that provides a portrait of how, after the USSR's collapse, practising...  Read More >>

Role and Image of Law in India: The Tribal Experience

Role and Image of Law in India: The Tribal Experience...

Author: Vasudha Dhagamwar
ISBN: 9780761933946
Format: Hardback
$197.87

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Courts and Judges

Courts and Judges

Author: Lee Epstein ,  Professor Austin D. Sarat
ISBN: 9780754624752
Format: Hardback
$389.00

Covers four substantive concerns - judicial selection and retention, judicial decision making, constraints on judicial...  Read More >>

Gender and Prisons

Gender and Prisons

Author: Dana M. Britton ,  Professor Gerald Mars
ISBN: 9780754625131
Format: Hardback
$347.00

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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: 9780415376471
Format: Hardback
$280.00

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

Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

Author: Reza Banakar ,  Max Travers
ISBN: 9781841136257
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book illustrates how a range of topics can be researched from a socio-legal perspective.  Read More >>

Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities

Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities

Author: Susan G. Drummond
ISBN: 9780774809252
Format: Hardback
$225.11

Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry....  Read More >>

Sexuality, Gender, and the Law

Sexuality, Gender, and the Law

Author: William N. Eskridge ,  Nan Hunter
ISBN: 9781587788048
Format: Paperback
$403.92

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The Trial of Tempel Anneke: Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663

The Trial of Tempel Anneke: Records of a Witchcraft...

Author: Peter A. Morton ,  Barbara Dahms
ISBN: 9781551117065
Format: Paperback
$68.51

"""This is a fascinating and important book."" - Moshe Sluhovsky, California State University, Long Beach"  Read More >>

Audit in a Democracy: The Australian Model of Public Sector Audit and its Application to Emerging Markets

Audit in a Democracy: The Australian Model of Public...

Author: Paul Nicoll
ISBN: 9780754644293
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Exploring the role of public sector audit in emerging democracies and developing countries, this book provides an...  Read More >>

Histoire du droit savant (13e–18e siècle): Doctrines et vulgarisation par incunables

Histoire du droit savant (13e–18e siècle): Doctrines...

Author: Robert Feenstra
ISBN: 9780860789864
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Law and Morality

Law and Morality

Author: KennethEinar Himma ,  Kenneth Einar Himma
ISBN: 9780754625773
Format: Hardback
$504.00

Collects essays exploring the possible relationships between the concepts of law and morality. These essays are...  Read More >>

First Women Lawyers

First Women Lawyers

Author: Maryjane Mossman ,  Mary Jane Mossman
ISBN: 9781280808364
Format: Electronic book text
$432.96

This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity...  Read More >>

Feminist Perspectives on Family Law

Feminist Perspectives on Family Law

Author: MS Alison Diduck ,  Katherine O'Donovan
ISBN: 9786610739035
Format: Electronic book text
$950.40

Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism...  Read More >>

Procedural Justice, Volumes I and II

Procedural Justice, Volumes I and II

Author: Tom R. Tyler ,  Professor Austin D. Sarat
ISBN: 9780754625230
Format: Mixed media product
$315.00

Assembles articles on one of the most important emerging ideas in the social psychology of conflict management -...  Read More >>

Calling for Change

Calling for Change

Author: Sheila McIntyre ,  Elizabeth Sheehy
ISBN: 9781280690402
Format: Undefined
$92.40

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Doing Justice, Doing Gender

Doing Justice, Doing Gender

Author: Susan Ehrlich Martin, PH.D. (Chevy Chase, Maryland) ,  Nancy C Jurik, PH.D.
ISBN: 9781322413662
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations is a highly readable, sociologically...  Read More >>

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Author: Mary L. Boland
ISBN: 9781572485273
Format: Paperback
$50.03

What You Need to Know-and What You Can Do A necessity for every employee's reference shelf.  Read More >>

Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories

Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories...

Author: Michael Belgrave
ISBN: 9781869403201
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This book explores the role of the courts and of various types of commissions in mediating and reinventing historical...  Read More >>

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