wyszukanych pozycji: 189
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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. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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489,48 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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116,54 |
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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9781848550902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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778,47 |
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Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities
ISBN: 9781107614321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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203,54 |
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After Imprisonment: Special Issue
ISBN: 9781787692701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
403,91 |
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Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments: How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power
ISBN: 9781107155503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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484,92 |
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Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies
ISBN: 9780472089031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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107,13 |
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Law and the Humanities: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781107415362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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303,05 |
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Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law
ISBN: 9780804754057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Trauma and Memory explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open up new approaches to trauma from a healing perspective. The book's specific focus is doubly unique: first, because of its interest in the tension between collective and individual trauma (in trauma as socially constructed and related to identities of ethnicity, nationality, gender, and class); and second, because of its interest in the legal and medical professions (in their construction of trauma, their ways of treating it, their failures, and...
Trauma and Memory explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open u...
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306,04 |
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Race, Law, and Culture
ISBN: 9780195106220 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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388,28 |
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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
ISBN: 9781838670597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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383,46 |
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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
ISBN: 9781839822971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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398,80 |
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Special Issue: Problematizing Prostitution: Critical Research and Scholarship
ISBN: 9781786350404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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449,94 |
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Law and Literature Reconsidered: Special Issue
ISBN: 9780762314829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Once hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question is whether the law and literature enterprise has lived up to its initial promise. This is a contemporary study of law and literature. It includes contributions by an international group of leading scholars.
Once hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question is whether the law and literat...
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424,37 |
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Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture
ISBN: 9781316609019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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153,57 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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758,25 |
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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
ISBN: 9781787143449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, articles examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. Topics covered include: an analysis of Charles Reznikoff's autobiography and its implications for residential lease law; a classification of condominium crime; an historical and developmental account of judicial activism; a reconceptualization of the legal approach...
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary le...
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465,28 |
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When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition
ISBN: 9780691102610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Is capital punishment just? Does it deter people from murder? What is the risk that we will execute innocent people? These are the usual questions at the heart of the increasingly heated debate about capital punishment in America. In this bold and impassioned book, Austin Sarat seeks to change the terms of that debate. Capital punishment must be stopped, Sarat argues, because it undermines our democratic society. Sarat unflinchingly exposes us to the realities of state killing. He examines its foundations in ideas about revenge and retribution. He takes us inside the courtroom... Is capital punishment just? Does it deter people from murder? What is the risk that we will execute innocent people? These are the usual questions ... |
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184,60 |
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Civility, Legality, and Justice in America
ISBN: 9781107675599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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144,74 |
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States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die
ISBN: 9780521876278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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300,84 |