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  • Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
    Monty Lord
    ’A fascinating list of absurdities ... an extraordinary work ... remarkable and praiseworthy ... an extraordinary achievement.’ - Sir Michael Parkinson CBE - Broadcaster, journalist & authorIn the UK, we have some bizarre laws that have littered the statute books of our sceptred isle throughout history. Not all of them have been repealed over the centuries. Some of them made p...
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    25,58 €

  • Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
    Monty Lord
    ’An endlessly fascinating journey through the extraordinary laws that have shaped every aspect of British society from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Impeccably researched and engagingly, often humorously written, it delivers so many jaw-dropping moments that I found it impossible to put down. A truly remarkable book.’ - Tracy Borman - Chief Curator for HM Historic Royal...
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    14,08 €

  • Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
    Monty Lord
    ’An endlessly fascinating journey through the extraordinary laws that have shaped every aspect of British society from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Impeccably researched and engagingly, often humorously written, it delivers so many jaw-dropping moments that I found it impossible to put down. A truly remarkable book.’ - Tracy Borman - Chief Curator for HM Historic Royal...
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    25,69 €

  • Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
    Monty Lord
    ’A curious, comical and highly entertaining read, full of eccentric laws and customs that have led to our rich legal heritage.’ - Lubna Shuja - President of The Law Society of England and WalesIn the UK, we have some bizarre laws that have littered the statute books of our sceptred isle throughout history. Not all of them have been repealed over the centuries. Some of them made...
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    14,08 €

  • Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
    Monty Lord
    ’An endlessly fascinating journey through the extraordinary laws that have shaped every aspect of British society from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Impeccably researched and engagingly, often humorously written, it delivers so many jaw-dropping moments that I found it impossible to put down. A truly remarkable book.’ - Tracy Borman - Chief Curator for HM Historic Royal...
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    19,50 €

  • Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
    Monty Lord
    ’A curious, comical and highly entertaining read, full of eccentric laws and customs that have led to our rich legal heritage.’ - Lubna Shuja - President of The Law Society of England and WalesIn the UK, we have some bizarre laws that have littered the statute books of our sceptred isle throughout history. Not all of them have been repealed over the centuries. Some of them made...
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    19,47 €

  • Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
    Monty Lord
    ’Bizarre Laws and Curious Customs of the UK’ is a fascinating book, well assembled and written by Monty Lord. Most of us have had occasion to come across some ancient ruling that is still in the statute book and find laughable. Many of these were never made law and take their place in the category of myth and legend. Monty Lord not only brings many new strange laws to our notic...
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    19,51 €

  • Bizarre Laws of the UK for Kids
    Monty Lord
    ’They say that ignorance of the law is no defence. So thank goodness for Monty’s book. I had no idea I was running so many risks in terms of how I have been leading my life! Lots of fun to be had here.’ - Sir. Peter Wanless, CB - Chief Executive, NSPCCHave you ever heard a bizarre law and thought, that can’t possibly be true? Is it genuine? Was it ever in existence or just an u...
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    19,66 €

  • Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
    Monty Lord
    ’A fascinating list of absurdities ... an extraordinary work ... remarkable and praiseworthy ... an extraordinary achievement.’ - Sir Michael Parkinson CBE - Broadcaster, journalist & authorIn the UK, we have some bizarre laws that have littered the statute books of our sceptred isle throughout history. Not all of them have been repealed over the centuries. Some of them made p...
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    32,06 €

  • Prison. Parole. Redemption
    Jonah Sanders
    What is the history of prisons in America? Were they made for punishment or rehabilitation? What is the pardon and parole board? How to get parole? What is restorative justice? All of these answers will be answered and more. ...
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    5,48 €

  • Tying the Knot
    Rebecca Probert
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    35,53 €

  • The Oldest Code of Laws in the World [1926]
    Claude Hermann Walter Johns
    Thought to be the earliest code of laws until the translation of the fragmentary Babylonian Code of Ur-Nammu in 1952, the Code of Hammurabi, King of the First Dynasty of Babylon, is the longest, best-organized and best-preserved legal text from the Ancient Near East. Probably issued about 1750 BCE, it has 282 sections. Johns’s unabridged translation of the Code includes a usefu...
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    30,88 €

  • The History of Lloyd’s and of Marine Insurance in Great Britain [1876]
    Frederick Martin
    Martin [1830-1883], the editor of the Statesman’s Year-Book, examines the development of marine insurance in what was then the world’s leading maritime power. He shows that the system developed under Lloyd’s leadership, which drew heavily on commercial, international and admiralty law, enabled Great Britain to become preeminent in maritime affairs and provided the model adopted...
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    66,74 €

  • Being a Nation State in the Twenty-First Century
    Shuki Friedman
    Since the founding of the Zionist movement until today, the question of the relationship between 'Church' and the state remains unresolved. This book is the historical and contemporary story of this conflict. It is impossible to understand the State of Israel properly without reading it. ...
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    186,47 €

  • Colonial Footprint in the Indian Military Legal System Military Law
    Kishore Kumar Khera / U C Jha
    The Army Act (1950), the Air Force Act (1950) and the Navy Act (1957) provide a different legal framework for governing three wings of the Indian Armed Forces. These laws are derived primarily from the military laws promulgated by the British to govern the Native Indian Army and specifically after the Great Rebellion in 1857, its provisions were made more severe to serve the pu...
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    48,54 €

  • May It Please the Campus
    Patricia E. Salkin
    This book documents the exponential increase in the number of lawyers tapped to serve as college and university presidents and explores the reasons behind this trend. Many different pathways lawyers have taken to the presidency are discussed. ...
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    30,06 €

  • Leaders, Legends, & Legacies
    Jackson Kelly PLLC
    A bicentennial history of Jackson Kelly PLLC. Proudly ranking among the oldest law firms in the United States-by one measure, the sixth oldest in the country-this book tells the firm’s history, spotlights its rich culture, and assembles in one place the tales, challenges, and triumphs marking the past 200 years. ...
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    14,89 €

  • Re-Reading Beccaria
    This book considers the way that Cesare Beccaria’s slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not centuries, after its publication. For those who turn to Beccaria’s work today, the encounter is shaped by that knowledge. Appreciative of his book’s dual nature as historical document and repository of ideas, the contrib...
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    147,31 €

  • Colonial Footprint in the Indian Military Legal System Military Law
    Kishore Kumar Khera / U C Jha
    The Army Act (1950), the Air Force Act (1950) and the Navy Act (1957) provide a different legal framework for governing three wings of the Indian Armed Forces. These laws are derived primarily from the military laws promulgated by the British to govern the Native Indian Army and specifically after the Great Rebellion in 1857, its provisions were made more severe to serve the pu...
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    57,18 €

  • Freedom of speech, 1500-1850
    This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression. ...
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    44,17 €

  • Published Works of Bro. David Ellison-Bey
    Bro. Jeffery Ellison
    Published with assistance from BePublished.org in October 2022, PUBLISHED WORKS OF BRO. DAVID ELLISON-BEY compiled by Bro. Jeffery Ellison is the Georgia resident’s debut literary work. Inspired solely by the calling to re-release his brother’s two books to fulfill one of Brother David’s final wishes, Brother Jeffery also takes time to share intimate photos of the life and fina...
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    67,91 €

  • Before Borders
    Stephanie Degooyer
    An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of feudal allegiance and integrate new subjects into their nations. At the same time, writers of prose fiction were attempting to...
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    44,84 €

  • The Crucible of Public Policy
    Bruce W. Dearstyne
    Relates the dramatic role of New York courts in shaping public policy on key reform legislation in the progressive era. ...
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    28,25 €

  • Up Against the Law
    Luca Falciola
    As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America’s most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative profession, and formulated a corrosive critique of...
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    140,72 €

  • Up Against the Law
    Luca Falciola
    As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America’s most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative profession, and formulated a corrosive critique of...
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    41,41 €

  • Case Dismissed
    Covette J Hamilton
    Charles James Durham was born into a Black family during the Great Depression, a time when businesses were forced to shut down, leaving thousands of people without jobs. Families struggled to keep a roof over their heads, and food on their tables. Black families suffered the most. The Durham family found themselves moving from place to place just to survive, due to the lack of ...
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    22,25 €

  • Timothy B. Dyk
    Timothy B Dyk / Timothy B. Dyk
    An account of what it was like to practice and adjudicate law in modern America, detailing shifts within the legal profession, both private and public, in the United States since the 1960s. ...
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    57,42 €

  • At the Altar of the Appellate Gods
    Lisa Sarnoff Gochman
    Have you ever wondered what it’s like to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States?In this poignant and compelling memoir, Lisa Sarnoff Gochman captures the terror, wonder, and joy of preparing for and arguing a landmark criminal case before the nine justices of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. At the Altar of the Appellate Gods traces the arc of a violent, rac...
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    21,37 €

  • Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine
    John Quigley
    When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis. ...
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    180,33 €

  • Proving Pregnancy
    Felicity M. Turner
    Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women—Black and white, enslaved and free—gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals. In the first half of the nineteenth century, community-based female knowledge played a crucial role in prosecutions f...
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    127,04 €


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