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A citizen’s guide to the rule of law
In our daily lives, we take the rule of law for granted, often failing to recognize threats to it—until it is too late. This citizen’s guide explains in plain language what the rule of law is, why it matters, and why we have to defend it.
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Alladi memorial lectures 3
Alladi Memorial Lectures, volume 3, is a collection of essays brought out by The Alladi Memorial Trust, comprising fourteen annual lectures delivered between 2001 and 2025
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Constitutional concerns
This book is an attempt to explore the process of ‘deconstitutionalization’ happening in India by looking at certain contemporary topics. The chapters, cumulatively, make out a case for cautious political optimism in the face of challenges.
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Criminal conversations
Storytelling is an essential aspect of any legal case. But what kinds of stories win cases, and why? Criminal Conversations explores sentimentality as both a literary genre and a rhetorical strategy in the novels and courtrooms of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. By focusing ...
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Decolonisation and legal knowledge
The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teachin...
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Environmental law, policy, and economics
This textbook is designed to introduce the reader to important and emerging issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, and economics, and environmental science. It addresses both classical chemical pollutants and greenhouse gases, explains the major environmental law statutes.
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Ethics, law and the business of being human
This book presents a philosophical and legal inquiry into the sort of creatures we are, and so how to live well and behave well, and an indictment of the failure of the Academy to address these foundational questions.
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Free will in civil law
This monograph offers the first comprehensive English-language study of free will as a foundational concept in Ukrainian civil law. Examining its role across property, contract, liability, intellectual property, and inheritance, it shows how free will shapes autonomy, consent, and legal responsib...
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Global contestations of gender rights
Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, this volume addresses the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of...
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Global markets, domestic institutions
Markets for capital, products, and managerial talent are expanding rapidly across national borders, yet domestic laws and practices have never had greater impact on corporate structures and cross-border deals. Investors pursuing high returns and diversification, entrepreneurs seeking capital, and...
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Healthcare antitrust, settlements, and the federal trade commission
This volume of Research in Law and Economics contains articles that address important legal and economic developments in the areas of healthcare, intellectual property and labor settlements, competitive effects, cartel overcharges, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
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Islamic law and civil code
Richard A. Debs analyzes the classical Islamic law of property based on the Shari'ah, traces its historic development in Egypt, and describes its integration as a source of law within the modern format of a civil code. He focuses specifically on Egypt, a country in the Islamic world that drew upo...
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Law and the citizen
This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues around citizenship and law. With chapters on different elements of the relationship between law and citizenship, the volume makes a key contribution to the field and is essential reading for leg...
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Law: from concept to reality
This book addresses the gap in legal scholarship regarding the concept of law. It critiques traditional views that equated law with government mandates, exploring the impact of value shifts on human rights and the necessity of redefining law to ensure it aligns with constitutional principles.
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Legal pluralism in ethiopia
Being a home to more than eighty ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the coexistence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice ...
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Legal protection for traditional knowledge
Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge calls attention to the vital contributions that aboriginal knowledge makes to global development and how the legal systems in place, particularly in India, must change to protect this knowledge.This book is a must-read for researchers in economics, devel...
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Let the people rule
How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the peoplePropelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John Matsusaka reveals in Let the...
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Literary criticisms of law
In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as...
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Looking for law in all the wrong places
For most, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This interdisciplinary collection looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears—geographic regions beyond the law’s reach, everyday practices ungoverned by law, wo...
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New battlefields/old laws
An internationally-recognized authority on constitutional law, national security law, and counterterrorism, William C. Banks believes changing patterns of global conflict are forcing a reexamination of the traditional laws of war. The Hague Rules, the customary laws of war, and the post-1949 law ...
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Nihilism and emancipation
A daring marriage of philosophical theory and practical politics, this collection is the first of Gianni Vattimo's many books to combine his intellectual pursuits with his public and political life. Vattimo is a paradoxical figure, at once a believing Christian and a vociferous critic of the Cath...
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Pillars of prosperity
How nations can promote peace, prosperity, and stability through cohesive political institutions"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about...
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Plurinational afrobolivianity
In Bolivia, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to transform society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and politi...
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Research in law and economics
Presents original research that explores the extent to which the constraints of law explain economic behavior and the role of economics in forming the law. This title proposes three different definitions for market power from an antitrust perspective. It offers an analysis of efforts exerted and ...
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Sociolinguistics and the legal process
Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process is an introduction to language, law and society for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Drawing on a wide range of topics, it explores what sociolinguistic research can tell us about how language works and doesn’t work in the legal process.
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Special issue
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society focuses on law and the liberal state; presenting an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to analysis of law and liberty. The first chapters focus on law's relationship with the American liberal state, while the remaining papers con...
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Special issue cassandra's curse
This special issue of SLPS examines the relationship between law and disasters. The papers come from members of the Collaborative Research Network on the Jurisprudence of Disasters within the Law and Society Association. The volume addresses the 'myths' of contemporary disaster law and policy, su...
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Studies in law, politics and society
The articles in this volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society cover an exciting and diverse range of topics, from immigration and human rights policies to same-sex marriage and capital punishment debates.
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Studies in law, politics, and society
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary collection of scholars to critically examine issues around hatred and the law. With chapters on different elements of the nexus between hatred and law, the volume makes a key contribution to the field and is essential reading for legal scholars.
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Suspect subjects
This book engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptions about the Queer in US law and culture and central constitutional-cultural imaginaries.
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The dark sides of virtue
In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response. Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights, ref...
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The reporter and the law
The Reporter and the Law is an insider's view of how the legal system and the press work together. Lyle Denniston begins from the premise that the law and its institutions are the public's business and that the journalist's responsibility is to appreciate, understand, and evaluate the legal proce...
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The republic of beliefs
A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the lawThe Republic of Beliefs argues that the traditional economic analysis of the law has significant flaws and has failed to answer certain critical questions satisfactorily. Why are good laws drafted but never imp...
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The right wrong man
Now the subject of the Netflix documentary The Devil Next DoorThe incredible story of the most convoluted legal odyssey involving Nazi war crimesIn 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Hol...
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The rise of the conservative legal movement
Starting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of important liberal accomplishments, especially in the law. As a result, conservatives' mobilizing efforts increasingly turned to law schools, professional networks, public interest groups,...
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The role of law in social work practice and administration
The strong nexus between law and social work is beyond dispute: the law informs day-to-day social work practice and administration, and social workers are employed by the courts. Moreover, they work collaboratively with attorneys in legal aid offices, public defenders'offices, and other law enfor...
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The sexual rights of adolescents
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Understanding the rights of nature
This book presents the logic behind giving nature rights and discusses key cases in which this has happened, ranging from constitutional rights of nature in Ecuador to rights for rivers in New Zealand, Colombia, and India. Mihnea Tanasescu offers clear answers to the thorny questions that the int...
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Unwelcome strangers
Is it time for America—a country founded and forged by immigrants—to shut its doors? After decades of liberal policies that welcomed ever greater numbers of immigrants, America is seeing a surge in anti-immigration sentiment. Congressional debates, polls, incidents of violence, and the growing st...
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Why people obey the law
People obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment--this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study. Tyler suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to try to instill fear of punishm...
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Why tolerate religion?
Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protectionsThis provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory—why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious...
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