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Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism
ISBN: 9780822331070 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural identity such as ethnicity, race, or religion has pointed up the urgent need for legal studies to engage cultural critiques. Exploration of legal issues through cultural analyses provides a rich supplement to other approaches including legal realism, law and economics, and law and society. As Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon demonstrate,...
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultu...
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476,07 |
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Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism
ISBN: 9780822331438 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural identity such as ethnicity, race, or religion has pointed up the urgent need for legal studies to engage cultural critiques. Exploration of legal issues through cultural analyses provides a rich supplement to other approaches including legal realism, law and economics, and law and society. As Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon demonstrate,...
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultu...
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155,45 |
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From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
ISBN: 9780822334491 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, "Brown v. Board of Education," the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and legal scholars takes the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of "Brown" to reconsider the history and legacy of that landmark decision. "From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court" juxtaposes oral histories and legal analysis to provide a nuanced look at how men and women understood "Brown" and...
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, "Brown v. Board of Education," the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconst...
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155,45 |
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From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown V. Board of Education and American Democracy
ISBN: 9780822334750 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combines legal and historical analysis to address the implications of "Brown v. Board of Education," showing that the resolution of racial segregation in schools transformed the lives of ordinary citizens in broader ways than has previously been ass
Combines legal and historical analysis to address the implications of "Brown v. Board of Education," showing that the resolution of racial segregation...
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524,64 |
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Creating Home Owner & Condo Association Documents: How to Protect Your Con-Dough
ISBN: 9780979233388 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,73 |
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Condo Board Election Revolt! How Florida's First Condo Ombudsman Became the 500-Pound Gorilla
ISBN: 9780979233395 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The integrity of elections in condominium associations has been seriously compromised. Legislative reforms are required to ensure that condo owners have democratic election procedures in place that are firmly enforced. Valmore Lucier served as Chief Election Monitor under Florida's first Condo Ombudsman, Dr. Virgil Rizzo. His book describes how condo elections should be conducted - and what some boards and their attorneys are willing to do to stay in power. It also details reforms that are needed and why. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how to protect condo owners...
The integrity of elections in condominium associations has been seriously compromised. Legislative reforms are required to ensure that condo owners ha...
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112,73 |
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Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods
ISBN: 9781403960696 / Angielski / Twarda / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original essays addresses a particular set of analytical problems and uses these problems to explore issues of ethnographic technique, research methodology, and the theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic legal studies. Subjects explored include the relationship between legal and feminist scholarship, between law and the media, law and globalization, and the usefulness of a wide variety...
Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of th...
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402,53 |
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Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods
ISBN: 9781403960702 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original essays addresses a particular set of analytical problems and uses these problems to explore issues of ethnographic technique, research methodology, and the theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic legal studies. Subjects explored include the relationship between legal and feminist scholarship, between law and the media, law and globalization, and the usefulness of a wide variety...
Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of th...
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402,53 |
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Speaking Freely: Expression and the Law in the Commonwealth
ISBN: 9781552210338 / Angielski / Miękka / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by one of Canada's foremost media law scholars, this book, a project of The Commonwealth Association for Education in Journalism and Communication (CAEJC), assesses the state of freedom of expression in the Commonwealth through contributions by select legal scholars, jurists, and journalists.
Essays provide an overview of the meaning of freedom of expression from theoretical, historical, and sociological perspectives. Country reports that provide an inventory of existing media laws and administrative practices in several Commonwealth nations complement the essays, and include:... Edited by one of Canada's foremost media law scholars, this book, a project of The Commonwealth Association for Education in Journalism and Communicat...
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238,04 |
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Justice versus Politics in Haiti (2001-2004)
ISBN: 9781581129663 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prosper Avril, former president of Haiti, was imprisoned for 1011 days by the will of one man, another president of this country: Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Prosper Avril is the author of "Le Livre Noir de l'Insecurite" (in English, "The Black Book on Insecurity"), a work that caused President Aristide to arrest him during a book signing in Haiti in 2001. Avril's fight to recover his freedom is the source of his new work: "La Justice face au Pouvoir Politique en Haiti (2001 - 2004)" published after his release from prison. This book is offered now in its English version: "Justice versus Politics...
Prosper Avril, former president of Haiti, was imprisoned for 1011 days by the will of one man, another president of this country: Jean-Bertrand Aristi...
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100,85 |
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Legalizing Gay Marriage: Vermont and the National Debate
ISBN: 9781592130795 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every day seems to bring news of legal challenges to existing marriage laws and the constitutionality of any form of union for same-sex partners. In this timely and accessible book, Michael Mello argues that the public debates and political battles that have divided Vermont and Massachusetts will be repeated across the country as state after state confronts the issue of legalizing gay marriage. Mello examines recent landmark decisions in state and federal high courts granting civil rights protections to homosexuals. In Vermont, the Supreme Court's recommendation that legislators recognize the...
Every day seems to bring news of legal challenges to existing marriage laws and the constitutionality of any form of union for same-sex partners. In t...
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116,54 |
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Civilian Oversight of Policing
ISBN: 9781841130309 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The involvement of police and other security forces in systematic abuses of human rights in many developing and developed countries, has placed the control of police on a number of international agendas. An increasing number of countries are experimenting with different forms of police accountability and many are turning to civilian oversight bodies in an attempt to improve the process.
The involvement of police and other security forces in systematic abuses of human rights in many developing and developed countries, has placed the co...
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613,62 |
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Human Rights and Scots Law
ISBN: 9781841130446 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In June, 1998, the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh convened a conference of academics, judges and distinguished practitioners from the UK and abroad to discuss the implications of the incorporation of the ECHR into Scots law. The contributors considered the impact of the Human Rights Act in light of the new constitutional settlement for Scotland and their experiences of other rights regimes in Europe, the Commonwealth, and the United States. The contributions span the fields of Private, Public, European Community and Comparative law and draw on human rights law and practice in...
In June, 1998, the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh convened a conference of academics, judges and distinguished practitioners from the U...
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485,78 |
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The Development of Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights
ISBN: 9781841132617 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the last thirty years the European Court of Human Rights has been developing, at an expanding pace, positive obligations under the European Convention. This monograph provides a critical analysis of the burgeoning case law concerning positive obligations, a topic which is relatively uncharted in the existing literature. Positive obligations require many different forms of action by member states, ranging from effectively investigating killings through to protecting peaceful demonstrators from violent attacks by their opponents. The contemporary significance of these obligations is...
During the last thirty years the European Court of Human Rights has been developing, at an expanding pace, positive obligations under the European Con...
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The Future of Human Rights in the United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781901362206 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originating from a series of public symposia at Queen Mary and Westfield College, this collection of essays sets out a vision of the future of human rights in the UK. The book seeks to dispel some of the myths about judicial protection of human rights. It examines the practical implications of incorporating the European Convention on human rights into domestic law, assessing the issues confronting the government in enacting a Human Rights Act. It also studies three specific rights: freedom of speech, privacy and freedom of movement, to see how they might develop in the future. The book...
Originating from a series of public symposia at Queen Mary and Westfield College, this collection of essays sets out a vision of the future of human r...
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357,89 |
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Using Human Rights Law in English Courts
ISBN: 9781901362725 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates the scope that already exists for using international human rights law in English courts.
This book demonstrates the scope that already exists for using international human rights law in English courts.
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511,35 |
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Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination
ISBN: 9783110143706 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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679,69 |
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Linguistic Human Rights
ISBN: 9783110148787 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Only a few hundred of the world's 6,000-7,000 languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights. This book describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why, and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights. Linguistic Human Rights introduces a new area, combining sociolinguistics, educational, and...
Only a few hundred of the world's 6,000-7,000 languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of d...
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254,75 |
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Business and Human Rights: A Compilation of Documents
ISBN: 9789004136564 / Angielski / Twarda / 654 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique collection gathers together important instruments dealing with the relationship between business and a range of topics such as labour rights, security issues, environmental protection, anti-corruption, good governance, poverty alleviation and development, which all have important human rights dimensions. The premise for the collection is that business has both the responsibility and the opportunity to respect and support human rights. Selected instruments cover various stages of business involvement with human rights issues, spanning codes of conduct, monitoring, reporting,...
This unique collection gathers together important instruments dealing with the relationship between business and a range of topics such as labour righ...
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1410,78 |
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Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook
ISBN: 9789004137837 / Angielski / Miękka / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the world enters the 21st Century, the challenges in implementing freedom of religion or belief grow more complex and more acute. How can the internationally recognized norms regarding freedom of religion or belief be meaningful for all - women and men, majorities and minorities, established religions and new religious movements, parents and children? How can tolerance, mutual respect and understanding be globally expanded? How does freedom of religion or belief relate to other human rights? Launched by the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief, this deskbook anthology is...
As the world enters the 21st Century, the challenges in implementing freedom of religion or belief grow more complex and more acute. How can the inter...
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402,53 |