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Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
ISBN: HB: 9780226658049, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In the 1930s and '40s, Morris Ernst was one of the best-known liberal lawyers in the United States. An eminent attorney and general counsel of the ACLU for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against literary and artistic censorship....
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Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 1
ISBN: HB: 9780226688787, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
632 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 1 halftone
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic nation...
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Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 2
ISBN: HB: 9780226688954, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of bas...
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Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery in the Time of Queen Anne (1702 to 1714)
ISBN: PB: 9780866986410, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, February 2021
736 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book is a part of an ongoing project to publish the early modern manuscript law reports from the Court of Chancery during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). This new edition triples the number of case reports currently in print, making them ac...
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Crime and Justice, Volume 49 Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks
ISBN: PB: 9780226722832, ISBN: HB: 9780226708393, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
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BigLaw Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm
ISBN: PB: 9780226742137, ISBN: HB: 9780226741949, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 figures
The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large fi...
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Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...
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£76,00
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Patent Politics Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226759135, ISBN: HB: 9780226437859, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that patents impact public health, economic inequality, morality – and de...
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Rights of the Defenseless Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America
ISBN: PB: 9780226760605, ISBN: HB: 9780226652016, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
280 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 14 halftones
In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in...
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How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine
ISBN: PB: 9780226726243, ISBN: HB: 9780226726106, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables
Legal doctrine – the creation of doctrinal concepts, arguments, and legal regimes built on the foundation of written law – is the currency of contemporary law. Yet law students, lawyers, and judges often take doctrine for granted, without asking even...
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