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  • How Law Works
    Thomas Hemnes
    This book chronicles developments in legal practice, intellectual property, and privacy law from the dawn of the digital age to today’s world of social media and cloud technologies. Part autobiography, part legal history, and part philosophy of law, the volume explores the nature of legal reasoning, property, privacy, and personal identity. Hemnes weaves these large issues into...
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    81,03 €

  • Ideology and Criminal Law
    Stephen Skinner
    With populist, nationalist and repressive governments on the rise around the world, questioning the impact of politics on the nature and role of law and the state is a pressing concern. If we are to understand the effects of extreme ideologies on the state’s legal dimensions and powers - especially the power to punish and to determine the boundaries of permissible conduct throu...
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    75,18 €

  • The Recovery of Historical Law
    Friedrich Julius Stahl / Ruben Alvarado
    As the world reels from crisis to crisis, the most serious one seems to draw the least attention. And that is the crisis of the Western mind. The seeds of radical subjectivism sown at the time of a previous such crisis, chronicled in Paul Hazard’s Crisis of the European Mind, have now borne fruit, fruit of such stupendous magnitude that they threaten to drag us down into the de...
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    18,57 €

  • Powers Of The President
    Tiano Bey
    Have you ever applied to be The President of the United States of America? For most people the answer is no. It is for this reason the powers of the most highly regarded government official goes without inquiry. Powers of the President is the second installment of The 'Rules of an Empire Series.' This edition is designed to take the reader deeper into the Constitution, bridging...
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    19,85 €

  • The Men of Mobtown
    Adam Malka
    What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system’s liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Malka raises this disturbing possibility through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the influential hub of Baltimore during and after slavery’s final decades. He argues that America’s new professional police forces an...
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    44,28 €

  • People in Spite of History
    Tibor Várady / János Boris
    Three generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg monarchy, then Hungary, then Yugoslavia, then for a while under German occupation, then again part of Yugoslavia and finally Serbia. In the Banat district of the province of Vojvodina, the multiplicity ...
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    108,13 €

  • The Concept of Ordered Liberty and the Common-Law Due-Process Tradition
    Matthew W. Lunder / Matthew WLunder
    In The Concept of Ordered Liberty, a lineage of common-law judges spanning a century and a half protect a precious jewel of legal reasoning from the corrupting influence of partisan ideologies. A recursion to the concept of ordered liberty promises to bridge the deep divide among the Court’s current liberal and conservative factions. ...
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    149,71 €

  • The Legal History of the European Banking Union
    Pedro Gustavo Teixeira
    How was the Banking Union, the most advanced legal and institutional integration in the single market, created? How does European law impact European integration?To answer these questions, this book provides a sweeping account of the evolution of European law. It identifies five integration periods of the single financial market, intertwined with the development of global finan...
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    147,22 €

  • The Business of Conquest
    Nicole D. Legnani / Nicole DLegnani
    The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World, Nicole D. Legnani demonstrates how the financing and partnerships behind early expeditions betray their own...
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    77,59 €

  • Women before the court
    Lindsay R Moore / Lindsay R. Moore
    This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women’s legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the household. ...
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    37,25 €

  • American Gold Digger
    Brian Donovan
    The stereotype of the 'gold digger' has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband. The term entered American vernacular in the 1910s as women began to assert greater power over courtship, marriage, and finances, threatening men’s control of...
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    126,85 €

  • American Gold Digger
    Brian Donovan
    The stereotype of the 'gold digger' has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband. The term entered American vernacular in the 1910s as women began to assert greater power over courtship, marriage, and finances, threatening men’s control of...
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    41,33 €

  • How Law Works
    Thomas Hemnes
    This book chronicles developments in legal practice, intellectual property, and privacy law from the dawn of the digital age to today’s world of social media and cloud technologies. Part autobiography, part legal history, and part philosophy of law, the volume explores the nature of legal reasoning, property, privacy, and personal identity. Hemnes weaves these large issues into...
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    97,34 €

  • Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds
    Gregory J Durston
    In this addition to his Crime History Series, students of English history will have heard how benefit of clergy and the ‘neck verse’ might avoid a hanging, but what of other stratagems such as down-valuing stolen goods, cruentation, chance medley, pious perjury or John at Death (a non-existent culprit blamed by the accused and treated by juries as real); all devices used to mit...
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    76,49 €

  • Eyes of Willie McGee, The
    Alex Heard
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    14,87 €

  • The Trouble with Minna
    Hendrik Hartog
    In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna’s case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman. Hartog marks how the peculiar language mobilized by the debate—ab...
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    31,81 €

  • A History of the Hungarian Constitution
    The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy. Of particular concern was the constitutional text’s explicit claim that it was situated within a reinvigorated Hungarian legal tradition that had allegedly developed over centuries before its violent interruption during World War II by German invaders, and later, ...
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    54,34 €

  • Free Justice
    Sara Mayeux
    Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the 'carceral state,' but also ...
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    126,87 €

  • Free Justice
    Sara Mayeux
    Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the 'carceral state,' but also ...
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    38,02 €

  • Historic Preservation
    Nicholas A. Robinson / Shelby D. Green
    America’s cultural heritage is both rich and richly contested. When New Yorkers won their battle to save Grand Central Terminal, they also won the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding the constitutionality of historic preservation laws, the “Penn Central” case, in 1978. This landmark ruling is the lodestar that guides campaigns, large and small, to preserve cultural heritage...
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    85,20 €

  • Conventional Wisdom
    John R. Vile
    Article V of the Constitution allows two-thirds majorities of both houses of Congress to propose amendments to the document and a three-fourths majority of the states to ratify them. Scholars and frustrated advocates of constitutional change have often criticized this process for being too difficult. Despite this, state legislatures have yet to use the other primary method that...
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    36,87 €

  • Gunslinging justice
    Justin Joyce
    Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States. ...
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    36,87 €

  • Circulating the Code
    Ting Zhang
    Contrary to longtime assumptions about the insular nature of imperial China’s legal system, Circulating the Code demonstrates that in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could afford to buy them. Publishers not only extended circulation of the dynastic code and other legal texts but also enhanced the judicial aut...
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    40,78 €

  • Medieval women and urban justice
    Teresa Phipps
    This is the first in-depth, comparative study of women’s access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of women’s legal status in actions that arose from the complex, messy ties of everyday life. ...
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    157,60 €

  • The Rise and Fall of Natural Law
    Friedrich Julius Stahl / Ruben Alvarado
    Our age is characterized by radical subjectivism. Which is to say: There is no agreement on any absolute standard of value. Indeed, there is no agreement even on truth itself. And as a matter of fact, the very concept of objective, absolute truth has been cast aside in favor of “truths” – your truth, my truth, whoever's truth. The result is the abandonment of the pursuit of...
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    21,64 €

  • Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Aggregate (1861)
    Joseph K. Angell / Joseph KAngell / Samuel Ames
    Reprint of the seventh edition. The first American treatise on the subject, it departed from English models to address the unique characteristics of the American corporation in the years after 1815, an era of unprecedented growth that was encouraged by the courts. It was the standard treatise of its day. In his Legal Bibliography (1847) Marvin says it was "undoubtedly the best ...
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    86,52 €

  • The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians
    Gilad Ben-Nun
    The Fourth Geneva Convention, signed on 12th August 1949, defines necessary humanitarian protections for civilians during armed conflict and occupation. One-hundred-and-ninety-six countries are signatories to the Geneva Conventions, and this particular facet has laid the foundations for all subsequent humanitarian global law.How did the world - against seemingly insurmountable ...
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    160,64 €

  • Renaissance Lawman
    Martin Alan Greenberg
    Renaissance Lawman details the life, education path, and career choices of Eliot Howland Lumbard —an all too forgotten pioneer of the criminal justice field—and how he helped reform and develop the American Criminal Justice system into what we know today. ...
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    55,96 €

  • Renaissance Lawman
    Martin Alan Greenberg
    Renaissance Lawman details the life, education path, and career choices of Eliot Howland Lumbard —an all too forgotten pioneer of the criminal justice field—and how he helped reform and develop the American Criminal Justice system into what we know today. ...
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    100,25 €

  • A Lesser Species of Homicide
    Kerry King
    There has been a dearth of longitudinal attention to the prosecution of ’road traffic deaths’ in Australia and worldwide, surprising given more than 50 million people have died or been killed to date. Globally, the ’road toll’ is estimated at 1.35 million per year. Almost all of those deaths are attributable to some form of human error. A Lesser Species of Homicide examines the...
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    19,27 €


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