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Cooking Up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification

Cooking Up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails,...

Author: Sean Parson
ISBN: 9781526148025
Format: Paperback
$45.99

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. This book treats...  Read More >>

Law in Popular Belief: Myth and Reality

Law in Popular Belief: Myth and Reality

Author: Anthony Amatrudo ,  Regina Rauxloh
ISBN: 9781526125064
Format: Paperback
$45.99

This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality...  Read More >>

The Secret Magistrate

The Secret Magistrate

Author: Anonymous
ISBN: 9781838099008
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A year in the life of an inner-city magistrate - shining a light on their hitherto arcane world, the cases they...  Read More >>

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

Author: Austin Sarat (Amherst College, USA)
ISBN: 9781839822971
Format: Hardback
$155.00

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines how law understands the past. Topics covered...  Read More >>

Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work

Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for...

Author: Andrea S. Kramer ,  Alton B. Harris
ISBN: 9781529317299
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A tactical guide to navigating gender bias in the workplace through attuned gender communication.  Read More >>

N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the...

Author: Jody David Armour ,  Melina Abdullah
ISBN: 9781940660684
Format: Paperback
$32.99

""A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING AND DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION."" -Chesa Boudin, District...  Read More >>

Justice Matters: Essays from the pandemic

Justice Matters: Essays from the pandemic

Author: Sue James
ISBN: 9781913648053
Format: Paperback
$38.81

Justice Matters is a collection of essays which together tell a powerful story of the impact of COVID-19, the responses...  Read More >>

Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule, and Politics

Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule, and Politics

Author: Matilda Arvidsson ,  Leila Brannstrom
ISBN: 9781474454971
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Recent social and political developments, including the presidential elections in the United States, antidemocratic...  Read More >>

Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exposing the Culture of Victim-Blaming

Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exposing the Culture...

Author: Dr Jessica Taylor
ISBN: 9781472135483
Format: Hardback
$49.99

An exploration of the many reasons why we blame women for male violence committed against them.  Read More >>

Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism

Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools...

Author: Elizabeth Mertz (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin) ,  William K. Ford (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, The John Marshall Law School)
ISBN: 9780197537367
Format: Paperback
$69.95

In coordinated papers that are grounded in empirical research, the volume contributors use careful linguistic analysis...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Competition Law in New Zealand

The Evolution of Competition Law in New Zealand

Author: Rex Ahdar (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Otago)
ISBN: 9780198855606
Format: Hardback
$233.95

As a compact, liberal, industrialized democracy, 1980s New Zealand proved a useful place to try out the latest fads...  Read More >>

Empirical Legal Research: A Primer

Empirical Legal Research: A Primer

Author: Kees van den Bos
ISBN: 9781789907223
Format: Paperback
$79.75

"""This exciting textbook introduces the basic tenets and methodologies of empirical legal research. Explaining...  Read More >>

Reading Max Weber's Sociology of Law

Reading Max Weber's Sociology of Law

Author: Hubert Treiber (Professor Emeritus of Administrative Sciences, Professor Emeritus of Administrative Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover)
ISBN: 9780198837329
Format: Hardback
$195.95

Max Weber's Sociology of Law evaluates the conditions in which modern legal systems were developed. Using recent...  Read More >>

Empirical Legal Research: A Primer

Empirical Legal Research: A Primer

Author: Kees van den Bos
ISBN: 9781789907209
Format: Hardback
$256.50

"""This exciting textbook introduces the basic tenets and methodologies of empirical legal research. Explaining...  Read More >>

Fiktionen Im Recht

Fiktionen Im Recht

Author: Kristin Y Albrecht
ISBN: 9783848776276
Format: Paperback
$340.56

Als syphilis of the law (Bentham) und Krucken (Jhering) verdammt, wird seit uber 2000 Jahren immer wieder die...  Read More >>

Gender Law and Policy

Gender Law and Policy

Author: Katharine T Bartlett ,  Deborah L Rhode
ISBN: 9781543813739
Format: Paperback
$490.91

"""Undergraduate text on gender issues within the law""--"  Read More >>

The Criminalisation of Fantasy Material: Law and Sexually Explicit Representations of Fictional Children

The Criminalisation of Fantasy Material: Law and Sexually...

Author: Hadeel Al-Alosi
ISBN: 9780367589004
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the criminalisation of sexually explicit material that depicts or describes characters who appear...  Read More >>

Applied Family Law in Islamic Courts: Shari’a Courts in Gaza

Applied Family Law in Islamic Courts: Shari’a Courts...

Author: Nahda Shehada
ISBN: 9780367591847
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book investigates the implementation of family law by sharia courts in Gaza. Drawing on empirical research,...  Read More >>

A Global Casebook of Sexual Homicide

A Global Casebook of Sexual Homicide

Author: Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan
ISBN: 9789811388613
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book comprehensively discusses 13 infamous cases of serial and non-serial sexual homicide committed around...  Read More >>

The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v Corbett and the Invention of Legal Sex

The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning: Corbett v Corbett and...

Author: Christopher Hutton
ISBN: 9783030202736
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The case raises fundamental questions concerning law in its historical and intellectual context, in particular relating...  Read More >>

Information Exchange and EU Law Enforcement

Information Exchange and EU Law Enforcement

Author: Anna Fiodorova
ISBN: 9780367590390
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Written by an author who has worked as a police officer, Home Affairs counsellor and academic, this book presents...  Read More >>

The International Criminal Court and Peace Processes in Africa: Judicialising Peace

The International Criminal Court and Peace Processes...

Author: Line Gissel (Roskilde University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780367593353
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Offers an interpretive account of how peace negotiators and mediators in peace processes in Uganda and Kenya sought...  Read More >>

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