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Unsound Empire(2021) EVANS, CATHERINE L.A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trialsVezava: Trda96,25 € -
Legal Lessons(2021) ALTEHENGER, JENNIFERLegal Lessons examines how China’s party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period. Archival records, advice manuals, and colorful propaganda materials reveal how official attempts to promote “correct” understandingVezava: Mehka30,96 € -
Suicide of Miss Xi(2021) GOODMAN, BRYNAWhen a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock. Xi Shangzhen became a symbol of the failures of the Chinese Republic as well as the broken promises of citizens’ rights, gender equalVezava: Trda38,44 € -
We the Miners(2022) MCDOWELL, ANDREA G.The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigneVezava: Trda37,37 € -
Reconstructing Contracts(2013) BAIRD, DOUGLAS G.Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver Wendell Holmes’s set of principles, properly understood, continues to provide thVezava: Trda42,28 € -
Victorian Tragedy: The Extraordinary Case of Banks v Goodfellow(2018) FROST, MARTYN'A Victorian Tragedy', for the first time, describes how the landmark court case of Banks v Goodfellow (1870) came about, what happened to the protagonists and how an enlightened judgment provided a practical definition of testamentary capacity that has sVezava: Trda37,43 € -
Mission at Nuremberg(2015) TOWNSEND, TIMThe compelling story of the army chaplain who was sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, raising questions of faith, guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, redemption and the essence of humanity.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Only the Clothes on Her Back(2022) EDWARDS, LAURA F. (CLASS OF 1921 BICENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LAW AND LIBERTY, CLASS OF 1921 BICENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LAW AND LIBERTY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.Vezava: Trda66,51 € -
Jurisprudence of Style(2018) DESAUTELS-STEIN, JUSTIN (UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER)Justin Desautels-Stein focuses on the development of pragmatic liberalism, between 1870 and the present. Using property law, constitutional law, and antitrust law as case studies, he places the intellectual history of liberalism into a contemporary legalVezava: Trda85,75 € -
Against Constitutionalism(2022) LOUGHLIN, PROFESSOR MARTINTracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection of self-government has become a means for subverting popular will. Across the globe, constitutions now displace democratic decision-mVezava: Trda55,64 € -
Pocket Magna Carta(2016)The Latin text of Magna Carta (the 1217 issue of Henry III) is reproduced, together with a modern translation and an introduction which traces the background to the making of the charter and its subsequent revisions through the centuries. It also explainsVezava: Trda10,80 € -
Missing Monuments Murders(2016) STOVE, JUDYA largely hidden story of power, wealth, and allegations of attempts to re-write history in the pursuit of a vast inheritance, linked to Jane Austen's own family.Vezava: Mehka37,43 € -
Defeating Impunity(2021)Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this cVezava: Trda140,45 € -
Ludicrous Laws of Old London(2016) CAWTHORNE, NIGELAn amusing look at all manner of ludicrous laws that used to govern London and in a surprising number of cases, still doVezava: Trda14,01 €
