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Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India

Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional...

Author: Dag-Erik Berg (Høgskolen i Molde, Norway)
ISBN: 9781108489874
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The caste system is central to understanding the politics of inequality and discrimination in India and elsewhere....  Read More >>

Love and Law in Europe

Love and Law in Europe

Author: Hanne Petersen
ISBN: 9781138361829
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1998, this volume aims to draw attention to an ongoing shift in the perception of law, which...  Read More >>

Torture Behind Bars: Role of the Police Force in India

Torture Behind Bars: Role of the Police Force in India...

Author: Joshua N. Aston (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780190120986
Format: Hardback
$62.95

This book critically examines the role and accountability of the police in India and lays emphasis on the human...  Read More >>

Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality

Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with...

Author: Steven J. Barela (Research and Teaching Fellow, Research and Teaching Fellow, Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva) ,  Mark Fallon (Director, Director, ClubFed, LLC)
ISBN: 9780190097523
Format: Hardback
$195.95

This book develops, for the first time, a comprehensive discussion regarding the legality of torture and the efficacy...  Read More >>

Mental Health in Prisons: Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement

Mental Health in Prisons: Critical Perspectives on Treatment...

Author: Alice Mills ,  Kathleen Kendall
ISBN: 9783030405083
Format: Paperback
$147.46

This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine...  Read More >>

Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense

Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of...

Author: Susan Vinocour
ISBN: 9781785905629
Format: Hardback
$43.96

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Vom Vertrag Zum Status: Das Dienstvertragsrecht Der Frankfurter Dienstbriefe Im Alten Reich

Vom Vertrag Zum Status: Das Dienstvertragsrecht Der...

Author: Thomas Pierson
ISBN: 9783465044048
Format: Paperback
$496.32

"The service contract practice of the ""Reichsstadt"" Frankfurt am Main is the subject of this study on the pre-industrial...  Read More >>

Law and Society in China

Law and Society in China

Author: Vai I. Lo
ISBN: 9781785363085
Format: Hardback
$239.50

Examining the interplay between law and society from imperial to present-day China, this synoptic book traces the...  Read More >>

Europe's Other: European Law Between Modernity and Post Modernity

Europe's Other: European Law Between Modernity and Post...

Author: Peter Fitzpatrick ,  James Henry Bergeron
ISBN: 9780367001483
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1998, this volume focuses critically on the European identity of the law of the European Union,...  Read More >>

From Dissonance to Sense: Welfare State Expectations, Privatisation and Private Law

From Dissonance to Sense: Welfare State Expectations,...

Author: Thomas Wilhelmsson ,  Samuli Hurri
ISBN: 9781138340992
Format: Paperback
$96.99

First published in 1999, this book focuses on the new role of private law in late modernity.  Read More >>

The Liberalisation of Public Procurement and its Effects on the Common Market

The Liberalisation of Public Procurement and its Effects...

Author: Christopher Bovis
ISBN: 9781138337978
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1998, Public Procurement in the European Community has been considered as the most-important...  Read More >>

Uses and Consequences of a Criminal Conviction: Going on the Record of an Offender

Uses and Consequences of a Criminal Conviction: Going...

Author: Margaret Fitzgerald O'Reilly
ISBN: 9781349959815
Format: Paperback
$99.00

This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the...  Read More >>

Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes

Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices: The Economic...

Author: Stephen Farrall (Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, University of Derby) ,  Susanne Karstedt (Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, Griffith University)
ISBN: 9780199595037
Format: Hardback
$177.95

This book seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes committed...  Read More >>

Rape and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Rape and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives...

Author: Megan Waples
ISBN: 9781516536191
Format: Paperback
$97.90

Examines the legal history of rape to understand why modern audiences continue to disagree about the nature of the...  Read More >>

Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales

Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of...

Author: Caroline Derry
ISBN: 9783030352998
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage

A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since...

Author: Christina Wolbrecht (University of Notre Dame, Indiana) ,  J. Kevin Corder (Western Michigan University)
ISBN: 9781107187498
Format: Hardback
$194.06

A Century of Votes for Women examines how women voted in the first 100 years of suffrage. Challenging the idea of...  Read More >>

Victors' Justice: From Nuremberg to Baghdad

Victors' Justice: From Nuremberg to Baghdad

Author: Danilo Zolo ,  M W Weir
ISBN: 9781788736633
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Learned Hand's Court

Learned Hand's Court

Author: Marvin Schick
ISBN: 9781421432113
Format: Paperback
$113.00

The Clark papers make possible a clearer understanding of the incessant conflict between Clark and Frank and show...  Read More >>

The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages

The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages

Author: Walter Ullmann
ISBN: 9781421433974
Format: Paperback
$69.99

However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most important medieval institution that laid the groundwork...  Read More >>

Felix Frankfurter: Scholar on the Bench

Felix Frankfurter: Scholar on the Bench

Author: Helen Shirley Thomas
ISBN: 9781421435336
Format: Paperback
$113.00

The main value of the book, though, lies in its presentation of the philosophy of one leading twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Drug-Impaired Driving: Background, Consequences and Safety Issues

Drug-Impaired Driving: Background, Consequences and...

Author: Jan P. Newman
ISBN: 9781536171723
Format: Hardback
$527.82

Everyone knows that driving while under the influence of alcohol is dangerous and unacceptable, and there are methods...  Read More >>

Maternal Sentencing and the Rights of the Child

Maternal Sentencing and the Rights of the Child

Author: Shona Minson
ISBN: 9783030327378
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth...  Read More >>

Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency

Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency

Author: Mireille Hildebrandt ,  Kieron O’Hara
ISBN: 9781788971997
Format: Hardback
$285.00

This ground-breaking and timely book explores how big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms are creating...  Read More >>

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