wyszukanych pozycji: 160
Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture
ISBN: 9781107155480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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507,73 zł |
The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture
ISBN: 9780195146028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has returned with a vengeance. Today there appears to be a widespread public consensus in favor of capital punishment and considerable political momentum to ensure that those sentenced to death are actually executed. Yet the death penalty remains troubling and controversial for many people. The Killing State: Capital...
Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country ...
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169,80 zł |
Cultural Expertise and Socio-Legal Studies: Special Issue
ISBN: 9781787695160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this special issue, socio-legal scientists with interdisciplinary backgrounds scrutinize the applicability of the notion of cultural expertise in Europe and the rest of the World. Cases include murder, female genital mutilation, earthquake claims, Islamic law, underage marriages, child custody, adoption, land rights, and asylum.
In this special issue, socio-legal scientists with interdisciplinary backgrounds scrutinize the applicability of the notion of cultural expertise in E...
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400,79 zł |
Looking Back at Law's Century: The Security Clearance Hearing
ISBN: 9780801439575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the United States from the Progressive Era's optimism about law and social engineering to current concerns about a hyperlegalistic society, from philosophical idealism to the implementation of democracy, the rule of law, and the idea of human rights throughout the world. At the same time, law maintained its status as the key language of governance in the United States, the most "legal" of all countries, which has succeeded in making its version of the...
This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the Unite...
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385,88 zł |
Studies in Law, Politics and Society: Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Legal Studies - The Next Generation
ISBN: 9781849507509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society brings together research by graduate students from universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. The work of these students was singled out by their teachers and advisors as showing unusual promise and marking out directions for the next generation of interdisciplinary legal scholars. The research collected here is often comparative. It is theoretically informed and rigorous in its methods. Taken together it shows breadth and excellence, and it signals the continuing vibrancy of interdisciplinary legal studies.
This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society brings together research by graduate students from universities in the United States and the Unit...
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491,64 zł |
Special Issue: Problematizing Prostitution: Critical Research and Scholarship
ISBN: 9781786350404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them. They look at the production of knowledge about prostitution and trafficking by institutional stakeholders, and how legal responses to prostitution and trafficking are affected by class, race, ethnicity, and migration. Drawing on data derived from innovative research methods including auto-ethnography, re-calculation of historical data, and participatory methods, the authors challenge us to re-examine...
The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the ...
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470,26 zł |
Law and the Humanities: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781107415362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Law and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the humanities. Contributors come from the United States and abroad in recognition of the global reach of this field. This book is, at one and the same time, a stock taking both of different national traditions and of the various modes and subjects of law and humanities scholarship. It is also an effort to chart future directions for the field. By reviewing and analyzing existing scholarship and providing thematic content and distinctive arguments, it...
Law and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the huma...
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162,42 zł |
Crime and Punishment: Perspectives from the Humanities
ISBN: 9780762312450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume 37 of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a special issue devoted to exploring humanistic perspectives on the subject of punishment. Drawing together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars, it explores the way "deviant" subjects are constructed and made available for punishment, the philosophical context within which decisions about punishment are made, and the inner workings of the penal apparatus. Diverse in their theoretical inspirations and approaches, the articles published here represent a significant advance in our understanding of the complex...
Volume 37 of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a special issue devoted to exploring humanistic perspectives on the subject of punishmen...
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844,13 zł |
States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die
ISBN: 9780521699761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The book brings together scholarship on three different forms of state violence, examining each for what it can tell us about the conditions under which states use violence and the significance of violence to our understanding of states. The contributors to this book demonstrate that states of violence thus have a history and sociology. Yet wherever the state acts violently, the legitimacy of its acts must be engaged with the real facts of war, capital punishment, and the ugly realities of death. This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained...
The book brings together scholarship on three different forms of state violence, examining each for what it can tell us about the conditions under whi...
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182,73 zł |
Special Issue: Who Belongs?: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Constitution of Legality
ISBN: 9781781904312 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The 60th volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society edited by Austin Sarat, is an essential text for legal scholars with a unique focus on the disciplines of sociology, politics and the humanities. This special issue interrogates how law defines identity. It addresses the key themes of immigration and citizenship, and examines the criteria that produces the label of "American." Articles discuss birthright citizenship and immigrant membership in the US, early immigration histories, sovereignty, and citizenship policies with current examples from Europe. Are all those born or naturalized...
The 60th volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society edited by Austin Sarat, is an essential text for legal scholars with a unique focus on the di...
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496,99 zł |
Special Issue: The Beautiful Prison
ISBN: 9781783509676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation into a socially constructive institution. Long-term prisoner Kenneth E. Hartman engages the reader in his struggle to find beauty inside the increasingly bleak and sterile confines of the California Department of Corrections. Chuck Jackson releases his imagination on Houston's notorious Harris...
In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From p...
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523,71 zł |
Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process
ISBN: 9780195063875 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer. In closed-door conversations between lawyers and their clients strategy is planned, tactics are devised, and the emotional climate of the divorce is established. Do lawyers contribute to the pain and emotional difficulty of divorce by escalating demands and encouraging unreasonable behavior? Do they take advantage of clients at a time of emotional difficulty? Can and should clients trust their lawyers to look out for their welfare and advance their long-term interests? Austin Sarat and William L.F....
Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer. In closed-door conversations between lawyers and their clients strate...
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511,36 zł |
After Imprisonment: Special Issue
ISBN: 9781787692701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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422,16 zł |
Studies in Law, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9781780520803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This volume Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains a symposium on indigenous peoples in Latin America. It examines the ways rights are negotiated between those groups and the states in which they live.
This volume Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains a symposium on indigenous peoples in Latin America. It examines the ways rights are negotiat...
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486,30 zł |
Is the Death Penalty Dying?: Special Issue
ISBN: 9780762314676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a unique special issue "Is the Death Penalty Dying?." Drawing together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the status of the death penalty in the United States, its past, and its trajectory for the future. Taken together, the work published in this volume exemplifies the kind exciting and innovative work now being done by legal scholars from different disciplines.This is a special issue examining the death penalty in the US....
This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a unique special issue "Is the Death Penalty Dying?." Drawing together an array of dis...
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787,85 zł |
Constitutional Politics in a Conservative Era: Special Issue
ISBN: 9780762314867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Aims to bring together the work of leading scholars of Constitutionalism, Constitutional law, and politics in the United States to take stock of the field to chart its progress, and point the way for its future development.
Aims to bring together the work of leading scholars of Constitutionalism, Constitutional law, and politics in the United States to take stock of the f...
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443,54 zł |
Human Rights and Legal Judgments: The American Story
ISBN: 9781107198302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Analysis of when, where, and how American law recognizes and responds to claims made in the name of human rights.
Analysis of when, where, and how American law recognizes and responds to claims made in the name of human rights.
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367,06 zł |
Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics
ISBN: 9781107595835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book charts the ambiguous and contested meanings of civil rights in law and culture, confronting important questions about race in contemporary America.
This book charts the ambiguous and contested meanings of civil rights in law and culture, confronting important questions about race in contemporary A...
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131,95 zł |
Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution
ISBN: 9780691133997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty"--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's death row. Critics demonized Ryan. For opponents of capital punishment, however, Ryan became an instant hero whose decision was seen as a signal moment in the "new abolitionist" politics to end killing by the state. In this compelling and timely work, Austin Sarat provides the first book-length work on executive clemency. He turns... On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a r... |
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187,06 zł |
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
ISBN: 9781839822797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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390,10 zł |