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Treat Me Right : Essays in Medical Law and Ethics
ISBN: 9780198255581 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Controversial and amusing, this collection of Kennedy's writings illuminates the rights, duties, and liabilities of doctors as well as other aspects of medical law and ethics.
Controversial and amusing, this collection of Kennedy's writings illuminates the rights, duties, and liabilities of doctors as well as other aspects o...
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465,99 zł |
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Law and Sociology
ISBN: 9780199282548 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Law and Sociology contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and sociology. In common with earlier volumes in the Current Legal Issues series, it seeks both a theoretical and methodological focus. The volume includes amongst other topics, a sociology of jurisprudence, an examination of the social dynamics of regulatory interactions, and a consideration of the place of legal culture in the sociology of law.
Law and Sociology contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and sociology. In common with earlier volume...
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1239,95 zł |
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The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law
ISBN: 9780312331191 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Big-ticket litigation is becoming a way of life in this country. But something new is afoot-something typified by the $246 billion tobacco settlement, and by other courtroom assaults against companies producing guns, cars, breast implants, asbestos, lead paint, and more. Each massive class-action suit seeks to invent new law, to ban, tax, or regulate something that elected lawmakers had chosen to leave alone. And each time the new attack process works as intended, the new litigation elite reaps billions in fees-which they invest in fresh rounds of suits, as well as political... Big-ticket litigation is becoming a way of life in this country. But something new is afoot-something typified by the $246 billion tobacco settleme... |
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115,67 zł |
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Inside and Outside the Law
ISBN: 9780415129299 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Inside and Outside the Law analyses the relationship between the law, the state and its citizens. Drawing on general theories and specific case-studies, it examines the diverse ways in which people in different cultural and historical settings have experienced the ambiguities of law. Its theme develops to engage with current debates concerning the status of rules and codification in social life and to the revival of interest in moralities.
With chapters that encompass countries such as Peru, Mozambique, Spain, Iran, the US and Britain this book has a strong global perspective. Inside and Outside the Law analyses the relationship between the law, the state and its citizens. Drawing on general theories and specific ca...
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194,19 zł |
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Law and Globalization from Below : Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality
ISBN: 9780521607353 / Angielski / Miękka / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Written by leading scholars, these case studies represent an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. They combine empirical research with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined are the role of law and politics in the World Social Forum; the struggle on the anti-sweeping movement for the protection of international labor rights; and the challenge to neoliberal globalization and liberal human rights raised by grassroots movements in India and indigenous peoples around the world.
Written by leading scholars, these case studies represent an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social ju...
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332,37 zł |
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Law and Globalization from Below : Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality
ISBN: 9780521845403 / Angielski / Twarda / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Written by leading scholars, these case studies represent an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. They combine empirical research with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined are the role of law and politics in the World Social Forum; the struggle on the anti-sweeping movement for the protection of international labor rights; and the challenge to neoliberal globalization and liberal human rights raised by grassroots movements in India and indigenous peoples around the world.
Written by leading scholars, these case studies represent an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social ju...
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663,74 zł |
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent : A True-Life Legal Drama
ISBN: 9780595434480 / Angielski / Miękka / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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78,77 zł |
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Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice
ISBN: 9780691048451 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Law punishes violence, yet law depends on violence. In this book, a group of leading interdisciplinary legal scholars seeks to map the inexorable but unstable relationship of law to violence. What does it mean to talk about the violence of law? Do high incarceration rates and increased reliance on capital punishment indicate that U.S. law is growing more violent at a time when violence is being restrained in other legal systems? How is the violence of law represented in popular culture and does this affect law's actual legitimacy? Does violence express or distort the essence of law? Does... Law punishes violence, yet law depends on violence. In this book, a group of leading interdisciplinary legal scholars seeks to map the inexorable b... |
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173,91 zł |
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The Canon of American Legal Thought
ISBN: 9780691120003 / Angielski / Miękka / 936 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. These are the articles that have made these authors--from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to Ronald Coase, from Ronald Dworkin to Catherine MacKinnon--among the most recognized names in American legal history. These authors proposed answers to the classic question: "What does it mean to think like a... This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a cours... |
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255,26 zł |
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Regulating Lives : Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
ISBN: 9780774808873 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Regulating Lives looks at the roles of the state, society, the individual, and the law in the regulation of public and private life. In nine original essays, the authors apply the concepts of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality, as developed by influential social theorists such as Stanley Cohen, Michel Foucault, and Philip Corrigan, to the specific conditions that prevailed in early British Columbia. Along a span of nearly a century and a half ? and across a diversity of topics including intermarriage, mental disorder, prohibition, incest, children's aid, venereal... Regulating Lives looks at the roles of the state, society, the individual, and the law in the regulation of public and private life. In nine... |
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130,92 zł |
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The Passions of Law
ISBN: 9780814713068 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The Passions of Law is the first anthology to treat the role that emotions play, don't play, and ought to play in the practice and conception of law and justice. Lying at the intersection of law, psychology, and philosophy, this emergent field of law scholarship raises some of the most profound and interesting questions at the heart of jurisprudence. For example, what role do emotions ranging from disgust to compassion play in the decision-making processes of judges, lawyers, juries, and clients? What emotions belong in which legal contexts? Is there a hierarchy of emotions, and, if... The Passions of Law is the first anthology to treat the role that emotions play, don't play, and ought to play in the practice and conceptio... |
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125,28 zł |
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Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law
ISBN: 9780814716724 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in animated debates on what influence, if any, the former should have on the latter. Many of these discussions are dominated by the legal perspective, which views religion as a threat to the law; it is rare to hear how various religions in America view American law, even though most religions have distinct views on law. In Faith and Law, legal scholars from sixteen different religious traditions contend that religious discourse... The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in anim... |
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517,59 zł |
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Faith and Law : How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law
ISBN: 9780814716731 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in animated debates on what influence, if any, the former should have on the latter. Many of these discussions are dominated by the legal perspective, which views religion as a threat to the law; it is rare to hear how various religions in America view American law, even though most religions have distinct views on law. In Faith and Law, legal scholars from sixteen different religious traditions contend that religious discourse has an... The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in anim... |
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153,55 zł |
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Legality and Legitimacy
ISBN: 9780822331742 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment political thought and liberal political practice remain as shocking and significant today as when they first appeared in Weimar Germany. Unavailable in English until now, "Legality and Legitimacy" was composed in 1932, in the midst of the crisis that would lead to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and only a matter of months before Schmitt's collaboration with the Nazis. In this important work, Schmitt questions the political viability of liberal...
Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment pol...
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113,98 zł |
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A Pensioner's Lament: Public Pension Dealings in New Jersey
ISBN: 9781410721549 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A Pensioner's Lament" takes readers behind the "seen," exposing pension-abuse and fraud made possible by bureaucratic incompetence. The author's five-year unsuccessful pursuit of simple justice challenges the TPAF's simplistic interpretation of its own regulations. (Legal Reference)
"A Pensioner's Lament" takes readers behind the "seen," exposing pension-abuse and fraud made possible by bureaucratic incompetence. The author's five...
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108,01 zł |
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Raped by the State : Fractured Justice - Legal Abuse
ISBN: 9781414050058 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,07 zł |
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Law Unbound!: A Richard Delgado Reader
ISBN: 9781594512483 / Angielski / Miękka / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement and one of the earliest scholars to address the harms of hate speech. With excerpts from his classic law review articles, conversations with his famous alter ego Rodrigo Crenshaw, and comments on the vicissitudes of academic life, this book spans topics such as hate speech, affirmative action, the war on terror, the endangered status of black men, and the place of Latino/as in the civil rights equation.
This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement and one o...
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253,23 zł |
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The Brennan Legacy
ISBN: 9781862874190 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book commemorates the achievements of Sir Gerard Brennan AC KBE in the field of administrative justice.
This book commemorates the achievements of Sir Gerard Brennan AC KBE in the field of administrative justice.
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537,65 zł |
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The Rule of Law
ISBN: 9781862874596 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The rule of law is acknowledged worldwide as central to good governance. Yet there appears a huge gap between theory and practice, the acknowledgement no more than lip service. Where are the gaps? What are the problems? What is meant by the rule of law?
The rule of law is acknowledged worldwide as central to good governance. Yet there appears a huge gap between theory and practice, the acknowledgement...
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537,65 zł |
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Intellectual Property and Information Law, Essays in Honour of Herman Cohen Jehoram
ISBN: 9789041197023 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This significant new work honours the tremendous achievements of Professor Herman Cohen Jehoram in the field of intellectual property law. Herman Cohen Jehoram put the Netherlands on the intellectual property law map through his organizational and academic work for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Association Litteraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI), and the European Commission. He has also served as the voice of Dutch copyright law abroad and has been described as the founding father of the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Information Law. This collection...
This significant new work honours the tremendous achievements of Professor Herman Cohen Jehoram in the field of intellectual property law. Herman Cohe...
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1446,33 zł |