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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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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Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780472084715 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and philosophical legal scholarship to bridge the gap between these two genres--a gap that has divorced abstract and normative treatments of rights from an understanding of their particular social and cultural contexts.
Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives shows that the meaning and extent of rights has been dramatically... The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The ...
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145,49 |
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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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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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Who Deserves to Die?: Constructing the Executable Subject
ISBN: 9781558498839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Analyzes the cultural, philosophical, and legal grounds for capital punishment in the contemporary United States
Analyzes the cultural, philosophical, and legal grounds for capital punishment in the contemporary United States
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140,83 |
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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9781784415686 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "The articles in this volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society cover an exciting and diverse range of topics relating to law's relationship with and impact on society. Two articles cover immigration, but from very different perspectives. One examines the legal-cultural attitude of immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel while the other investigates US Immigration Policy and the notion of 'child saving'. Other articles cover the institutional dynamics of same-sex marriage debates in America; the anti-strip mining movement in central Appalachia; an analysis of the death penalty...
"The articles in this volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society cover an exciting and diverse range of topics relating to law's relationship wit...
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475,50 |
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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 |
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Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives
ISBN: 9781107634275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an...
Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of...
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203,54 |
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Law and Society Reconsidered: Special Issue
ISBN: 9780762314607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of interdisciplinary research. It contains articles by scholars from political science, sociology, and law. These articles examine the legal treatment of 'suspect' populations, the work of legal actors, and the works of various legal devices. 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 book contains contributions from law and society scholars from political science, anthropology, sociology, and...
This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a diverse array of interdisciplinary research. It contains articles by scholars from p...
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455,05 |
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Special Issue: Social Movements/Legal Possibilities
ISBN: 9780857248251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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495,96 |
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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9781780520803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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465,28 |
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Teaching Law and Literature
ISBN: 9781603290937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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165,17 |
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Special Issue: Cultural Expert Witnessing
ISBN: 9781787437647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters explore expert witnessing in asylum cases. Topics include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense.
In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters explore expert witnessing in asylum cases. Topics include: judicial ethnoce...
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377,37 |
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Special Issue: Thinking and Rethinking Intellectual Property
ISBN: 9781784418823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society focuses on the issue of copyright. The papers contain critical analysis and investigation into existing copyright law and provide insight for policymakers and commentators. The papers contain a range of analyses on issues of copyright. Highlights of the volume include the an examination of three difference aspects of the 1976 Copyright Act, focusing on fair use, statutory damage and formalities; an interesting analysis of the distinction between authentic and 'inauthentic' drawing on the examples of authenticated artwork and...
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society focuses on the issue of copyright. The papers contain critical analysis and investigation ...
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475,50 |
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Blkwell Comp Law and Society
ISBN: 9780631228967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions. Authors represent various theoretical, methodological, and political commitments, creating the first truly global overview of the field.
The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two origina...
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904,84 |