wyszukanych pozycji: 159
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. |
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522,22 zł |
Studies in Law, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9780762307920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Includes articles that illuminate some of the work in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
Includes articles that illuminate some of the work in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
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961,99 zł |
Studies in Law, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9780762308606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars. Their work spans the social sciences, humanities, and law and examines new perspectives on legal relationships and events, punishment as a literary and philosophical issue, and custom and experience in law and society. The articles published here illuminate some of the exciting work being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars....
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927,21 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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173,32 zł |
Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics
ISBN: 9781107595835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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217,74 zł |
Law in the Liberal Arts
ISBN: 9780801442698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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373,46 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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522,27 zł |
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
ISBN: 9780762312726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work covers several social science disciplines as well as law. Some of the articles published in this issue examine the interactions of law and "vulnerable" populations. Here research illustrates the complex ways law can be used by those groups as well as the impact of law on their lives. Other articles focus on indigenous groups and particular legal controversies in which they are involved. Taken together they exemplify the exciting and innovative work...
This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work covers...
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513,19 zł |
Legal Intermediation: A Processual Approach to Law and Economic Activity
ISBN: 9781838678609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society examines a broad range of European case studies to consider the crucial role played by intermediaries, such as companies and lawyers, in the legal system.
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society examines a broad range of European case studies to consider the crucial role played by inte...
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425,83 zł |
Special Issue: Law Firms, Legal Culture and Legal Practice: Law Firms, Legal Culture, and Legal Practice
ISBN: 9780857243577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Large law firms have become a dominant feature of the legal landscape in the United States and elsewhere. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines the situation of large law firms. The articles collected here address the following questions: How has the large law firm altered, or adapted to, the ideals/ideology of the legal profession? How do law firms function as organizations? What happens to firms when they globalize their practices? What is the situation of scholarship on large law firms? Has the firm been incorporated into boarder interdisciplinary configurations?...
Large law firms have become a dominant feature of the legal landscape in the United States and elsewhere. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and...
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502,27 zł |
Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution
ISBN: 9781503633537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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57,00 zł |
Civility, Legality, and Justice in America
ISBN: 9781107063716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Throughout American history, the discourse of civility has proven quite resilient, and concern for a perceived lack of civility has ebbed and flowed in recognizable patterns. Today we are in another era in which political leaders and commentators bemoan a crisis of incivility and warn of civility's demise. Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice charts the uses of civility in American legal and political discourse. How important is civility as a legal and political virtue? How does it fare when it is juxtaposed with the claim that it masks injustice? Who advocates civility and to what...
Throughout American history, the discourse of civility has proven quite resilient, and concern for a perceived lack of civility has ebbed and flowed i...
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325,71 zł |
Speech and Silence in American Law
ISBN: 9781107627031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech and silence, locating them in particular circumstances and contexts and asking how context matters in facilitating speech or demanding silence. To understand speech and silence we have to inquire into their social life and examine the occasions and practices that call them forth and that give them meaning. Among the questions addressed in this book are: who is authorized to speak? And what are the conditions that should be attached to the speaking...
Rather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech an...
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243,66 zł |
Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Accomodation and Its Limits
ISBN: 9781107692442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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217,74 zł |
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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310,97 zł |
Studies in Law, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9781848550902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This forty-fifth volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society brings together the work of scholars from several disciplines, work which usefully illuminates central questions surrounding the operation of law and legal systems. Their work offers new perspectives on sentencing and punishment, lawyering for the public good, and the meaning of legal doctrine. The articles published here exemplify the exciting and innovative work now being done in interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
This forty-fifth volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society brings together the work of scholars from several disciplines, work which usefully il...
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469,51 zł |
Special Issue: Law and the Imagining of Difference
ISBN: 9781787560314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume focusses on Law and the Imagining of Difference with each chapter examining how law responds to the claims of difference, how and when it recognizes difference and accommodates it, as well as when and why such recognition and accommodation is resisted. Topics covered include disability, same-sex marriage and gender equality.
This volume focusses on Law and the Imagining of Difference with each chapter examining how law responds to the claims of difference, how and when it ...
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431,29 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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811,30 zł |
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
ISBN: 9781780526225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" contains an international and interdisciplinary array of legal scholarship. Presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, this work illuminates the law's response to its social context as well as the way law shapes that context. It shows how legal scholars contribute to public debate about contemporary issues as well as how they articulate the nature of rights and the limits of law.
This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" contains an international and interdisciplinary array of legal scholarship. Presenting diverse ...
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540,49 zł |
Special Issue: Social Movements/Legal Possibilities
ISBN: 9780857248251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Social movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity. This issue of "Studies in Law, Politics and Society" examines the legal life of social movements and their impact on law. The articles collected here take up social movements in several different nations, including France, South Africa and Canada, asking us to consider the way context is reflected in movement activities.
Social movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity. This issue of "Studies in Law, Politics and Society...
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529,57 zł |