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Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context

Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural...

Author: Oscar G Chase ,  Jerome S. Bruner
ISBN: 9780814716519
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Ranging from the dispute resolution practices of the Azande, a technologically simple, small-scale African society,...  Read More >>

Medical Law and Moral Rights

Medical Law and Moral Rights

Author: Carl Wellman
ISBN: 9781402037511
Format: Hardback
$446.16

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

Sociology of Law

Sociology of Law

Author: Indra Deva
ISBN: 9780195672367
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Focusing on the sociology of law in India, this volume takes stock of the relationship between the legal system...  Read More >>

Constructive Divorce: Procedural Justice and Sociolegal Reform

Constructive Divorce: Procedural Justice and Sociolegal...

Author: Penelope Eileen Bryan
ISBN: 9781591472797
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Discussing the benefits of improving procedural justice in divorce cases, this book scrutinizes how the family law...  Read More >>

Legal Pluralism in Conflict: Coping with Cultural Diversity in Law

Legal Pluralism in Conflict: Coping with Cultural Diversity...

Author: Prakash Shah (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781904385585
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Offers a theoretical perspective for conceptualising and analysing the relationship between ethnic minority laws...  Read More >>

Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror

Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror

Author: Philip B. Heymann (Harvard Law School) ,  Juliette N. Kayyem
ISBN: 9780262582575
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Offers specific proposals for clear rules of government conduct that will allow us to balance the concerns of national...  Read More >>

The Popular Policeman and Other Cases: Psychological Perspectives on Legal Evidence

The Popular Policeman and Other Cases: Psychological...

Author: W. A. Wagenaar ,  H. F. M. Crombag
ISBN: 9789053567630
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Intended as a textbook, this title is also a supplement to more theoretical works, and a fascinating read for anyone...  Read More >>

The Popular Policeman and Other Cases: Psychological Perspectives on Legal Evidence

The Popular Policeman and Other Cases: Psychological...

Author: Willem Albert Wagenaar ,  Hans Crombag
ISBN: 9789053567708
Format: Hardback
$261.36

This textbook work is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the human mind in the extreme circumstances experienced...  Read More >>

More Than Law and Order: Policing a Changing Society 1945-92

More Than Law and Order: Policing a Changing Society...

Author: Susan Butterworth
ISBN: 9781877276996
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Covers the major change in the New Zealand Police, as they overhauled their management structure repeatedly, struggling...  Read More >>

Crime, Justice and Punishment

Crime, Justice and Punishment

Author: Richard Worth ,  Tracee De Hahn
ISBN: 9780791080764
Format: Hardback
$3009.60

Focuses on popular subjects that are bound to capture the reader's Imagination Provides a window into American culture...  Read More >>

Law in Perspective: Ethics, Society and Critical Thinking

Law in Perspective: Ethics, Society and Critical Thinking...

Author: Michael Head ,  Scott Mann
ISBN: 9780868408347
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Encourages critical, responsible and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and as a social institution....  Read More >>

Ethics, Law and Society: Volume I

Ethics, Law and Society: Volume I

Author: Søren Holm ,  Jennifer Gunning
ISBN: 9780754645832
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This key collection addresses issues arising in biomedical and medical ethics ranging from assisted reproductive...  Read More >>

Good Courts: The Case For Problem-solving Justice

Good Courts: The Case For Problem-solving Justice

Author: Greg Berman ,  John Feinblatt
ISBN: 9781565849730
Format: Hardback
$65.87

An examination of how innovative judges and attorneys are impacting the modern American court system identifies...  Read More >>

The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice

The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency...

Author: Austin Sarat ,  Stuart Scheingold
ISBN: 9780804752299
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice adds to the growing body of research by examining...  Read More >>

The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice

The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency...

Author: Austin Sarat ,  Stuart Scheingold
ISBN: 9780804752282
Format: Hardback
$126.95

The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice adds to the growing body of research by examining...  Read More >>

Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

Author: Sueann Caulfield ,  Sarah C. Chambers
ISBN: 9780822335870
Format: Paperback
$68.51

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Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

Author: Sueann Caulfield ,  Sarah C. Chambers
ISBN: 9780822335757
Format: Hardback
$237.47

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Secrets and Laws

Secrets and Laws

Author: Melanie Williams
ISBN: 9781844720187
Format: Paperback
$92.00

This fascinating book creates simple pathways which energize and illustrate the links between legal theory and legal...  Read More >>

The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System: Qadis, Consuls and Beratlis in the 18th Century

The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System: Qadis,...

Author: Maurits van den Boogert ,  M H Van Den Boogert
ISBN: 9789004140356
Format: Hardback
$512.16

This study sheds new light on the legal position of Westerners and their Ottoman proteges (beratlis) by investigating...  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: 9780774811620
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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

Why Societies Need Dissent

Why Societies Need Dissent

Author: Cass R. Sunstein
ISBN: 9780674017689
Format: Paperback
$55.95

"Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote...  Read More >>

Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society

Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and...

Author: Martha Fineman ,  Terence Dougherty
ISBN: 9780801489419
Format: Paperback
$92.27

""The essays in this volume confront the inroads that economics has made into the legal academy... Law and Economics...  Read More >>

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