Author: Anderson, Terence / Schum, David / Twining, William Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This extensively revised second edition is a rigorous introduction to the construction and criticism of arguments about questions of fact, and to the marshalling and evaluation of evidence at all stag...
Author: Minow, Martha Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and betwee...
Author: Minow, Martha Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and betwee...
Author: Stout, Lynn Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal th...
Author: Martel, James R. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to...
Author: Martel, James R. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to...
Author: Weisbrod, Carol Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throug...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most modern states turn swiftly to law in an emergency. The global response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States was no exception, and the wave of legislative responses is well-docume...
Author: Miller, William Ian Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Analysing the law of the talion - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - William Ian Miller presents an original meditation on the concept of 'pay back'. Miller's unique theory of justice offers red...
Author: Summers, Robert S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses three major questions about law and legal systems: (1) What are the defining and organizing forms of legal institutions, legal rules, interpretive methodologies, and other legal ph...
Author: Richards, David A. J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why, from Reagan to George Bush, have fundamentalists in religion and in law (originalists) exercised such political power and influence in the United States? Why has the Republican Party forged an id...
Author: Twining,William Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores how globalisation influences the understanding of law. Adopting a broad concept of law and a global perspective, it critically reviews mainstream Western traditions of academic law ...
Author: Goldman,David B. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What can 'globalisation' teach us about law in the Western tradition? This important new work seeks to explore that question by analysing key ideas and events in the Western legal tradition, including...
Author: Sheppard,Stephen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so. It revives the idea of ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Against expectations that the turn away from state socialism would likewise initiate a turn away from Marxist thought, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Marxism and its reassessment b...
Author: de Ville, Jacques Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality?presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida's approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida's texts, Jacques de Vill...
Author: de Ville, Jacques Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality?presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida's approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida's texts, Jacques de Vill...
Author: Baum, Lawrence Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences impo...
Author: Baum, Lawrence Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences impo...
Author: Den Otter, Ronald C. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Americans cannot live with judicial review, but they cannot live without it. There is something characteristically American about turning the most divisive political questions - like freedom of religi...
Author: Anderson, James / Bernstein, David / Gray, Cheryl Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Judicial Systems in Transition Economies looks at the experience of countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as they reform their...
Author: Ratnapala, Suri Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jurisprudence is about the nature of law and justice. It embraces studies and theories from a range of disciplines such as history, sociology, political science, philosophy, psychology and even econom...
Author: Constable, Marianne Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native America...
Author: Delaney, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It focuses on the politics and pragmatics of nature talk as expr...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthrop...
Author: Rosenfeld, Michel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Cold War ideological battle with universal aspirations has given way to a clash of cultures as the world concurrently moves toward globalization of economies and communications and balkanization t...
Author: Valverde, Mariana Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of c...
Author: Valverde, Mariana Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of c...
Author: Weinreb, Lloyd L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Legal Reason describes and explains the process of analogical reasoning, which is the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view, urged by Edward Levi, Cass Sunstein, Ric...
Author: Sarat, Austin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty"--commuted the ca...
Author: Sarat, Austin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty"--commuted the ca...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The migration of constitutional ideas across jurisdictions is rapidly emerging as one of the central features of contemporary constitutional practice. The increasing use of comparative jurisprudence i...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years there has been tremendous growth of interest in the connections between law and philosophy, but the diversity of approaches that claim to be working at the intersection of philosophy a...
Author: Tamanaha, Brian Z. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The rule of law is the most important political ideal today, yet there is much confusion about what it means and how it works. This book explores the history, politics, and theory surrounding the rule...
Author: Marmor, Andrei Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries...
Author: Reiff, Mark R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is the first comprehensive study of the meaning and measure of enforceability. While we have long debated what restraints should govern the conduct of our social life, we have paid relative...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a critical re-evaluation of three fundamental and interlocking themes in American democracy: the relationship between race and politics, the performance and reform of election systems...
Author: Fletcher, George P. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice.We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of war a...
Author: Fletcher, George P. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice.We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of war a...
Author: Sarat, Austin Publisher: JAI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Studies in Law, Politics and Society continues the tradition of annually publishing interdisciplinary research on law with a critical focus that was begun in Research in Law and Sociology and carried ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty-two original essays by an international group of expert scholars exa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originalism is a force to be reckoned with in constitutional interpretation. At one time a monolithic theory of constitutional interpretation, contemporary originalism has developed into a sophisticat...
Description: Justice systems increasingly rely on expert evidence. We are therefore obliged to justify the courts' ability to assess this evidence, especially when the courts must resolve disagreements between exp...
Author: Thomas, E. W. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the absence of a sound conception of the judicial role, judges at present can be said to be 'muddling along'. They disown the declaratory theory of law but continue to behave and think as if it had...
Author: Duxbury,Neil Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Neil Duxbury examines how precedents constrain legal decision-makers and how legal decision-makers relax and avoid those constraints. There is no single principle or theory which explains the authorit...
Author: Webber, GrÈgoire C. N. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In matters of rights, constitutions tend to avoid settling controversies. With few exceptions, rights are formulated in open-ended language, seeking consensus on an abstraction without purporting to r...
