wyszukanych pozycji: 185
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Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture
ISBN: 9781107155480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
499,40 |
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Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780817356781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media. Imagining Legality argues that images of law suggested by television and film are as numerous as they are various, and that they give rise to a potent and pervasive imaginative life of the law. The media s projections of the legal system remind us not...
Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that pos...
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113,98 |
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Human Dignity
ISBN: 9781803823904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
386,12 |
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The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment
ISBN: 9781108482103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
358,55 |
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Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accomodation and Its Limits
ISBN: 9781107692442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There is an enormous scholarly literature on law's treatment of religion. Most scholars now recognize that although the U.S. Supreme Court has not offered a consistent interpretation of what non-establishment or religious freedom means, as a general matter it can be said that the First Amendment requires that government not give preference to one religion over another or, although this is more controversial, to religion over non-belief. But these rules raise questions that will be addressed in Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Namely, what practices constitute a...
There is an enormous scholarly literature on law's treatment of religion. Most scholars now recognize that although the U.S. Supreme Court has not off...
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207,48 |
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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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494,75 |
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States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die
ISBN: 9780521876278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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306,88 |
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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9781780520803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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474,83 |
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The Punitive Imagination: Law, Justice, and Responsibility
ISBN: 9780817357993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the purposes and meanings of punishment in the United States.
The Punitive Imagination examines some of the critical assumptions that frame America's approach to punishment. It explores questions such as: . What is the place of concern for human dignity in our prevailing ideologies of... From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishmen...
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113,98 |
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Teaching Law and Literature
ISBN: 9781603290937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume provides a resource for teachers interested in learning about the field of law and literature and shows how to bring its insights to bear in their classrooms, both in the liberal arts and in law schools. Essays in the first section, "Theory and History of the Movement," provide a retrospective of the field and look forward to new developments. The second section, "Model Courses," offers readers an array of possibilities for structuring courses that integrate legal issues with the study of literature, from The Canterbury Tales to current prison literature. In "Texts,"... This volume provides a resource for teachers interested in learning about the field of law and literature and shows how to bring its insights to be... |
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158,64 |
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Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases: Fundamental Issues in Law and Society Research: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780810114371 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases, the second volume in the series, asks how law helps to constitute the worlds in which we live everyday, and how law responds to disruptions and disputes that arise in various realms. Leading scholars explore the dichotomy between everyday practices and trouble cases, and the way various kinds of research have addressed that dichotomy, illuminating the pervasive role of law in social life as well as the capacity of law to respond to social conflict.
Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases, the second volume in the series, asks how law helps to constitute the worlds in which we live everyday, and how ...
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148,68 |
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Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society
ISBN: 9781107008434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Merciful Judgments in Contemporary Society: Legal Problems/Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them. Rather than focusing primarily on definitional questions or the longstanding debate about the moral worth and importance of mercy, this book focuses on mercy as a part of, and problem, for law. Whether one starts from a worry about rules and discretion, about the attitudes of citizens and their leaders, or ways to undo the past, merciful judgments challenge and perplex, just as they help to...
Merciful Judgments in Contemporary Society: Legal Problems/Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful ...
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cena:
475,97 |
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Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies
ISBN: 9780472089031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions addressed in Human Rights include: Can national self-determination be reconciled with human rights? Can human rights be advanced without thwarting efforts to develop indigenous legal traditions? How are the forces of modernization associated with...
Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to bot...
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109,33 |
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Law in the Liberal Arts
ISBN: 9780801442698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Should law be left to the lawyers? Is legal education properly understood as technical education? Law in the Liberal Arts answers "no" and suggests that our society is not well served by the current professionalization of legal knowledge. An ideal approach to legal education, in Austin Sarat's view, would open up law and legal knowledge by making them the proper objects of inquiry in the liberal arts. Legal education in the United States is generally located in law schools dedicated to professional training.Sarat believes that this situation impoverishes our ability to see the... Should law be left to the lawyers? Is legal education properly understood as technical education? Law in the Liberal Arts answers "no" and suggests... |
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335,15 |
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Race, Law, and Culture
ISBN: 9780195106220 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When it comes to race and racial issues these are strange times for all Americans. More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to segregation of the races by law, current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty about the place and meaning of race in American culture and the role of law in guaranteeing racial equality. Moreover, all sides in those debates claim to be the true heirs to Brown, even as they disagree vehemently about its meaning. Race, Law and Culture takes the...
When it comes to race and racial issues these are strange times for all Americans. More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education pu...
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396,12 |
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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
ISBN: 9781838670597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
391,34 |
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Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments: How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power
ISBN: 9781316609026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This detailed analysis offers new perspectives on rhetoric and law from distinguished scholars.
This detailed analysis offers new perspectives on rhetoric and law from distinguished scholars.
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cena:
156,60 |
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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society: Special Issue: Revisiting Rights
ISBN: 9781848559301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. With the development of Critical Legal Studies in the 1970s and 80s, rights were subject to extensive critique. This work takes stock of the field, charts its progress and points the way for its future development. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society contains a Special Issue on rights.
Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism. With the development of ...
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427,86 |
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Special Issue: The Discourse of Judging
ISBN: 9781780528700 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society focuses on the discourse of judging and the "language of judging" within many diverse legal scenarios. The volume features chapters specifically on: the "language of rights" within the context of abortion and same-sex marriage cases; discourses within the European Court of Justice; the modern-day place of politics in the US Supreme Court; and discussions on the two-court crisis which lead to the US Constitutional Convention of 1849. The chapters question the complex and conflicting relationship between politics and the law,...
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society focuses on the discourse of judging and the "language of judging" within many diverse lega...
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516,58 |
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Crime and Punishment: Perspectives from the Humanities
ISBN: 9780762312450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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772,92 |