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Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance

Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western...

Author: Melanie Heath
ISBN: 9781503634251
Format: Paperback
$52.80

A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an ""Other"" In...  Read More >>

The Myth of the Community Fix: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Punishment

The Myth of the Community Fix: Inequality and the Politics...

Author: Sarah D. Cate (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, St. Louis University)
ISBN: 9780197674284
Format: Hardback
$194.95

"A detailed examination of the limitations and pitfalls of pursuing the community-based reform movement in the American...  Read More >>

Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance

Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western...

Author: Melanie Heath
ISBN: 9781503627604
Format: Hardback
$178.25

A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an ""Other"" In...  Read More >>

Merchant Ships' Seaworthiness: Law and Practice

Merchant Ships' Seaworthiness: Law and Practice

Author: Xiankai Zhan ,  Pengfei Zhang
ISBN: 9781032247380
Format: Hardback
$389.00

The seaworthiness of merchant ships plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of life and property and the prevention...  Read More >>

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

Author: Marieke Bigg
ISBN: 9781399713368
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research - and how to change it  Read More >>

Prejudice and Pride: Discrimination against gay people in modern Britain

Prejudice and Pride: Discrimination against gay people...

Author: Bruce Galloway
ISBN: 9781032404042
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1983, Prejudice and Pride chronicles legal and social discrimination against gay people living...  Read More >>

China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property: Implications for Global Distributive Justice

China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property:...

Author: Wenting Cheng
ISBN: 9783031243691
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book analyses how China has engaged in global IP governance and the implications of its engagement for global...  Read More >>

The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics

The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics...

Author: Noam Tirosh ,  Anna Reading
ISBN: 9781800738577
Format: Hardback
$230.29

The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we...  Read More >>

Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan: The María Luz Incident and the Dawn of Modernity

Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan: The María...

Author: Giorgio Fabio Colombo (Full Professor of Comparative Law)
ISBN: 9781032249025
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the María Luz incident from a legal perspective. While historians...  Read More >>

State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya

State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State...

Author: Egor Lazarev (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781009245951
Format: Hardback
$194.06

How does the state impose the rules that regulate everyday life? This book explores state-building as lawfare –...  Read More >>

The European Social Charter: A Commentary: Volume 2, Preamble, Part I and Part II (Articles 1 to 10)

The European Social Charter: A Commentary: Volume 2,...

Author: The Academic Network on the European ,  Carole Nivard
ISBN: 9789004434059
Format: Hardback
$438.24

This authoritative Commentary drafted by scholars of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social...  Read More >>

Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law

Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the...

Author: Gerald J. Postema (Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9780190645342
Format: Hardback
$254.00

The rule of law, once widely embraced and emulated, now faces serious threats to its viability. To get our bearings...  Read More >>

Unlocking Constitutional and Administrative Law

Unlocking Constitutional and Administrative Law

Author: Mark Ryan (University of Coventry, UK) ,  Steve Foster (University of Coventry, UK)
ISBN: 9781032200781
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This textbook provides an indispensable foundation in this core law curriculum subject, ensuring that you grasp...  Read More >>

Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature

Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of...

Author: Peter Leman
ISBN: 9781802078060
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear...  Read More >>

Justice After Stonewall: LGBT Life Between Challenge and Change

Justice After Stonewall: LGBT Life Between Challenge...

Author: Paul Behrens ,  Sean Becker
ISBN: 9781032260525
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Justice After Stonewall is an interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and progress experienced by the LGBT community...  Read More >>

Brexit and Energy Law: Implications and Opportunities

Brexit and Energy Law: Implications and Opportunities...

Author: Ana Stanič ,  Silke Goldberg
ISBN: 9781032414898
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Gender, Power and Restorative Justice: A Feminist Critique

Gender, Power and Restorative Justice: A Feminist Critique...

Author: Jodie Hodgson
ISBN: 9783030908294
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy

Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our...

Author: Lee C. Bollinger (President, President, Columbia University) ,  Geoffrey R. Stone (Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780197621097
Format: Paperback
$58.95

"A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of ""bad"" speech on the internet within the American...  Read More >>

Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives

Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers...

Author: Dr Jacqueline Kinghan
ISBN: 9781509950089
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and...  Read More >>

Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution

Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books...

Author: Robert F Barsky (Vanderbilt University)
ISBN: 9781509943142
Format: Paperback
$74.99

In this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

Author: Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez (Université Paris Nanterre) ,  Ruth Rubio-Marín (Universidad de Sevilla)
ISBN: 9781108713306
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the various ways in which law...  Read More >>

Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific: Who Speaks for Land?

Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific: Who Speaks...

Author: Rebecca Monson (Australian National University, Canberra)
ISBN: 9781108844802
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Through close engagement with Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson outlines how land disputes are multiscalar and entangled...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law

Author: Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez (Université Paris Nanterre) ,  Ruth Rubio-Marín (Universidad de Sevilla)
ISBN: 9781108499248
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the various ways in which law...  Read More >>

Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World

Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South:...

Author: George B. Radics ,  Pablo Ciocchini
ISBN: 9783031179174
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores how the law and the institutions of the criminal justice system expose minorities to different...  Read More >>

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