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The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde Vs. John Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry, 1895
ISBN: 9780007158058 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's mostexplosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie"Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquessof Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Clubaddressed to "Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite." WithBosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess forlibel. He not only lost but he was tried twice for "grossindecency" and sent to prison with two years' hard labor.With this publication of the uncensored trial transcripts, readers can for the first time in more than a century hearWilde at his most articulate and brilliant. The Real Trialof Oscar... Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's mostexplosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie"Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquessof Queen... |
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Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court
ISBN: 9780143035275 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Closed Chambers was first published, it was met with a firestorm of controversy as well as a shower of praise for being the first book to break the code of silence about the inner workings of this country s most powerful court. In this eloquent, trailblazing account, with a new chapter covering Bush v. Gore, Guantanamo, and other recent controversial court decisions, Edward Lazarus, who served as a clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun, presents a searing indictment of a court at war with itself and often in neglect of its constitutional duties. Combining memoir, history, and legal...
When Closed Chambers was first published, it was met with a firestorm of controversy as well as a shower of praise for being the first book to ...
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74,57 zł |
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Essays on the Making of the Constitution, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780195049022 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Historians have engaged in a prolonged debate, that perhaps defies resolution, over the making of the Constitution. Were the framers enlightened, disinterested statesmen seeking to rescue a nation then drifting dangerously toward anarchy? Were they conspiratorial representatives of a rising financial and industrial capitalism? Was the Constitution primarily an economic or a political document? This collection of essays, by such renowned scholars as Charles Beard, Andrew C. McLaughlin, and John P. Roche, addresses the myriad questions that surround the creation of the principal document of the...
Historians have engaged in a prolonged debate, that perhaps defies resolution, over the making of the Constitution. Were the framers enlightened, disi...
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367,32 zł |
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Origins of the Federal Judiciary : Essays on the Judiciary Act of 1789
ISBN: 9780195067217 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Judiciary Act of 1789 established a federal court system, an experiment that became one of the outstanding features of American democracy. Yet little has been written about the origins of the Act. This volume of essays analyzes the Act from political and legal perspectives while enhancing our understanding of the history of the judiciary and its role in the constitutional interpretation.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 established a federal court system, an experiment that became one of the outstanding features of American democracy. Yet lit...
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950,87 zł |
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American Legal Realism
ISBN: 9780195071238 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the most influential movement in American legal history, and one which remains more than fifty years later the subject of lively debate, this collection of readings, written largely between 1900 and 1940, includes works from prominent writers on the subject that have never before been generally available. Introduced and edited by noted scholars in the field, the anthology includes such contributors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Thayer, Roscoe Pound, John Chipman Gray, Wesley Hohfeld, Karl Llewellyn, Arthur Corbin, Nathan Issacs, Robert Hale, Harold...
A comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the most influential movement in American legal history, and one which remains more than fifty years later the...
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292,98 zł |
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Lawyers and Citizens : The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France
ISBN: 9780195076707 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. David Bell's new book traces the development of the French legal profession between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution, showing how lawyers influenced, and were influenced by, the period's passionate political and religious conflicts. Bell analyzes how these key "middling" figures in French society were transformed from the institutional technicians of absolute monarchy into the self-appointed "voices of public opinion," and leaders of opposition political journalism. He describes the birth of an independent legal profession in the late seventeenth century, its alienation from...
David Bell's new book traces the development of the French legal profession between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution, showing how lawy...
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893,69 zł |
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The American Indian in Western Legal Thought : The Discourses of Conquest
ISBN: 9780195080025 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Exploring the history of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, Williams here traces the development of the themes that justified and impelled Spanish, English, and American conquests of the New World.
Exploring the history of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, Williams here traces t...
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356,17 zł |
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The Unpublished Opinions of the Rehnquist Court
ISBN: 9780195093322 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the last twenty years, the veil of secrecy surrounding the workings of the United States Supreme Court has been lifted. Justice Thurgood Marshall's controversial decision to make his papers available to the public ushered in a new era of openness about the operation of the Court--but not without criticism from Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. The Unpublished Opinions of the Rehnquist Court provides a behind-the- scenes look at the Supreme Court, showing how changes between the drafts and the Justices' final opinions have created substantial differences in the outcome of the...
In the last twenty years, the veil of secrecy surrounding the workings of the United States Supreme Court has been lifted. Justice Thurgood Marshall's...
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893,69 zł |
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Transitional Justice
ISBN: 9780195100648 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At the century's end, societies all over the world are throwing off the yoke of authoritarian rule and beginning to build democracies. At any such time of radical change, the question arises: should a society punish its ancien regime or let bygones be bygones? Transitional Justice takes this question to a new level with an interdisciplinary approach that challenges the very terms of the contemporary debate. Ruti Teitel explores the recurring dilemma of how regimes should respond to evil rule, arguing against the prevailing view favoring punishment, yet contending that the law nevertheless...
At the century's end, societies all over the world are throwing off the yoke of authoritarian rule and beginning to build democracies. At any such tim...
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510,56 zł |
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Rethinking the New Deal Court : The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution
ISBN: 9780195115321 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process and commerce clause doctrine. In this view, the impetus for such a dramatic reversal was provided by external political pressures manifested in FDR's landslide victory in the 1936 election, and by the subsequent Court-packing crisis. Author Barry Cushman, by contrast, discounts the...
Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New...
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1008,05 zł |
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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought : Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937
ISBN: 9780195118544 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines the ideology of elite lawyers and judges from the Gilded Age through the New Deal. Between 1866 and 1937, a coherent outlook shaped the way the American bar understood the sources of law, the role of the courts, and the relationship between law and the larger society. William M. Wiecek explores this outlook--often called "legal orthodoxy" or "classical legal thought"--which assumed that law was apolitical, determinate, objective, and neutral. American classical legal thought was forged in the heat of the social crises that punctuated the late nineteenth century. Fearing...
This book examines the ideology of elite lawyers and judges from the Gilded Age through the New Deal. Between 1866 and 1937, a coherent outlook shaped...
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1036,64 zł |
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Rethinking the New Deal Court : The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution
ISBN: 9780195120431 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process and commerce clause doctrine. In the conventional view, the impetus for such a dramatic reversal was provided by external political pressures manifested in FDR's landslide victory in the 1936 election, and by the subsequent Court-packing crisis. Author Barry Cushman, by contrast, discounts the role that political pressure played in securing this...
This book challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abando...
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125,21 zł |
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The Life of the Law: The People and Cases That Have Shaped Our Society, from King Alfred to Rodney King
ISBN: 9780195122398 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Law is intended to apply to common life and should be comprehensible to ordinary folk, but increasingly, it is not. The meaning of the law is becoming inaccessible, not only to the public but to the bar itself. In The Life of the Law, Alfred H. Knight outlines how some of the main contours of American law came to be as he recounts twenty-one stories beginning with Alfred the Great in the late ninth century and ending with the Rodney King trials in 1993.
Knight gives us a veritable "biography" of our legal tradition by focusing on the key individuals, and the pivotal cases that have helped... Law is intended to apply to common life and should be comprehensible to ordinary folk, but increasingly, it is not. The meaning of the law is becoming...
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207,44 zł |
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The Burger Court : Counter-Revolution or Confirmation?
ISBN: 9780195122596 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Warren E. Burger served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1969 to 1987, an often tumultuous period in which the Court wrestled with several compelling constitutional issues. United States v. Nixon set the stage for the resignation of a President; Roe v. Wade created a nationwide debate that is as divisive today as ever before; Lemon v. Kurtzman attempted to enunciate a clear standard for vexing church-state issues; and the "Pentagon Papers" case was a landmark freedom-of-the-press decision. An impressive collection of writings by legal scholars and...
Warren E. Burger served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1969 to 1987, an often tumultuous period in which the Court wrestled with several c...
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950,87 zł |
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Shades of Freedom : Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
ISBN: 9780195122886 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham is perhaps best known as an authority on racism in America: not the least important achievement of his long career has been In the Matter of Color, the first volume in a monumental history...
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential M...
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236,03 zł |
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Foreordained Failure : The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom
ISBN: 9780195132489 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ever since the Supreme Court began enforcing the First Amendment's religion clauses in the 1940s, courts and scholars have tried to distill the meaning of those clauses into a useable principle of religious freedom. In this highly original work, Smith criticizes the main positions in the debate and explains their misconceptions. He argues that efforts to find a principle of religious freedom in the "original meaning" are fruitless because the clauses were purely jurisdictional in nature: they were meant to place authority over questions of religion with the states, and nothing more....
Ever since the Supreme Court began enforcing the First Amendment's religion clauses in the 1940s, courts and scholars have tried to distill the meanin...
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390,47 zł |
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The ius commune in England : Four Studies
ISBN: 9780195141900 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study addresses the ius commune's relation to and influence on English law. Helmholz aims to fill in some of the gaps in scholarship on the common legal past of Western law, the history of the Roman and canon laws, the history of the ecclesiastical courts, parallels between the ius commune and English common law, and English church history.
This study addresses the ius commune's relation to and influence on English law. Helmholz aims to fill in some of the gaps in scholarship on the commo...
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893,69 zł |
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Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia
ISBN: 9780195144796 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated with twins in a tavern in Northampton County, Virginia. Orthwood died soon after giving birth; one of the twins, Jasper, survived. Orthwood's illegitimate pregnancy sparked four related cases that came before the Northampton magistrates -- who coincidentally held court in the same tavern -- between 1664 and 1686. These interrelated cases and the decisions rendered in them are notable for the ways in which the Virginia colonists modified English common law traditions and began to create their own, as well as what they reveal about...
In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated with twins in a tavern in Northampton County, Virginia. Orthwood died soon after giving...
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178,62 zł |
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The Dred Scott Case : Its Significance in American Law and Politics
ISBN: 9780195145885 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned decision in history." On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott, a slave who maintained he had been emancipated as a result of having lived with his master in the free state of Illinois and in federal territory where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise. The decision did much more than resolve the fate of an elderly black...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case...
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163,97 zł |
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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought : Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937
ISBN: 9780195147131 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines the ideology of elite lawyers and judges from the Gilded Age through the New Deal. Between 1866 and 1937, a coherent outlook shaped the way the American bar understood the sources of law, the role of the courts, and the relationship between law and the larger society. William M. Wiecek explores this outlook--often called "legal orthodoxy" or "classical legal thought"--which assumed that law was apolitical, determinate, objective, and neutral. American classical legal thought was forged in the heat of the social crises that punctuated the late nineteenth century....
This book examines the ideology of elite lawyers and judges from the Gilded Age through the New Deal. Between 1866 and 1937, a coherent outlook shaped...
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292,98 zł |
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