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Civil Rights(2019) WEST, ROBIN L. (GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON DC)The book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society. We are all entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality educVezava: Mehka53,22 € -
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: Mehka51,59 € -
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: Trda64,07 € -
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: Trda55,64 € -
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: Trda70,47 € -
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: Mehka21,02 € -
Casino and Society in Britain(2022) MURPHY, SEAMUS (UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM)This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War. This book will be of interest to historians, criminologists, regulators,Vezava: Mehka75,24 € -
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: Trda82,25 € -
Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia(2022)This book presents a comprehensive history of law and religion in the Nordic context. The collection will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History and Law and Religion.Vezava: Mehka73,49 € -
Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts(2017)Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts explores the administration of justice during Islam’s founding period, 632–1250 CE. Inspired by the scholarship of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, ten scholars of Islamic law draw on diverse sources including historicVezava: Trda63,60 € -
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 €
