wyszukanych pozycji: 312
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Law in the Liberal Arts
ISBN: 9780801489051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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132,18 |
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Special Issue: Social Movements/Legal Possibilities
ISBN: 9780857248251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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500,03 |
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Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings
ISBN: 9780817356903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society. Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of US law during moments of political change and explore what we can learn about law by examining its role and its use in times of transition. Whether by an abrupt shift in regime or an orderly progression from one government to the next, political change often calls into question the stability...Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, a... |
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112,60 |
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Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780472084715 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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146,69 |
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Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution
ISBN: 9781503633537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,36 |
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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
ISBN: 9781787148123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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: marriage equality and the demise of civil unions; the LGBTQ community in the 1980s; the landscape of choice regarding reproductive rights and vaccine refusal; the rights of unvaccinated children; a socio-legal framework for understanding the...
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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427,85 |
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GovOps with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot
ISBN: 9798868817953 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In an era of tightening budgets and rising citizen expectations, government agencies must modernize or risk obsolescence. This book provides a comprehensive, hands on roadmap for public sector leaders, architects, and developers to harness Microsoft Power Platform's low code and AI capabilities with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, AI Builder, Copilot, and Dataverse. This book lays out the case for low code modernization, demonstrates how to assess organizational readiness, and introduces governance and CoE best practices. Readers will walk away with repeatable... In an era of tightening budgets and rising citizen expectations, government agencies must modernize or risk obsolescence. This book provides a comp... |
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228,65 |
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Law and Lies: Deception and Truth-Telling in the American Legal System
ISBN: 9781107108783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Law has a strangely complicated relationship to deception. Though it sometimes takes a hard line on behalf of truth the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, competing values often cause law to look the other way. How and why is lying alternately accepted, condemned, or prosecuted? What are the government's interests in allowing or disallowing lying? Law and Lies is the first book to thematically address the role of lying in the American legal system. Undercover police agents are permitted to lie in the name of catching criminals, and government officials are permitted to lie in...
Law has a strangely complicated relationship to deception. Though it sometimes takes a hard line on behalf of truth the truth, the whole truth, and no...
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625,93 |
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From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America
ISBN: 9780814740224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment. In a bold attempt to tackle the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, Ogletree and Sarat headline an interdisciplinary cast of experts in reflecting on this disturbing issue. Insightful... Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of ... |
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146,88 |
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Special Issue: The Beautiful Prison
ISBN: 9781783509676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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505,19 |
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The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice
ISBN: 9780804752299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The study of cause lawyering has grown dramatically and is now an important field of research in socio-legal studies and in research on the legal profession. The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice adds to that growing body of research by examining the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions. The book describes the constraints to cause lawyering and the particulars that shape what cause lawyers do and what cause lawyering can be, while also...
The study of cause lawyering has grown dramatically and is now an important field of research in socio-legal studies and in research on the legal prof...
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171,42 |
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After Imprisonment: Special Issue
ISBN: 9781787692701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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407,23 |
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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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469,10 |
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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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510,34 |
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Blkwell Comp Law and Society
ISBN: 9780631228967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 49
ISBN: 9781849506151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Trials are well known as paradigmatic legal events. Some attract wide attention; others mostly escape notice. Indeed in the United States trials have recently become rare, with some scholars bemoaning the death of the trial. This issue of "Studies in Law, Politics and Society" contains, along with two general interest articles, a symposium on the past, present, and future of the trial. It brings together the work of leading scholars to think about the nature, utility, and limits of trials. This work takes stock of the field, charts its progress, and points the way for its future development.
Trials are well known as paradigmatic legal events. Some attract wide attention; others mostly escape notice. Indeed in the United States trials have ...
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422,70 |
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Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities
ISBN: 9780195113204 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such deeds of individual commitment and personal belief justly executed, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least) supposed to adhere? What can we learn from such lawyers about the relationship between law and politics?
Cause Lawyering is a wise and varied collection of responses to these questions, featuring a number of distinguished legal scholars concerned with anti-poverty lawyers, lawyers who work against capital punishment,... Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such deeds of individual commitment and personal belief j...
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433,18 |
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Cultural Expertise and Socio-Legal Studies: Special Issue
ISBN: 9781787695160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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386,61 |
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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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760,35 |
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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. 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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204,11 |