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Corporate Contract in Changing Times Is the Law Keeping Up?
ISBN: HB: 9780226599403, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table
Over the past few decades, significant changes have occurred across capital markets. Shareholder activists have become more prominent, institutional investors have begun to wield more power, and intermediaries like investment advisory firms have grea...
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£42,00
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Law and the Unconscious A Psychoanalytic Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9780300188837, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
How can psychoanalysis help us understand irrational actions and bad choices? Our legal system relies on the idea that people act reasonably and of their own free will, yet some still commit crimes with a high likelihood of being caught, sign obvious...
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£37,00
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What is the Sharia?
ISBN: HB: 9781849048170, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the West, "sharia" often calls to mind antiquated laws founded upon gender discrimination and barbaric punishments. In the East, for some it means the ideal standards by which Muslims strive to live; for others, it is the gr...
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Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court From Brandeis to Kagan
ISBN: HB: 9781611682380, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court" examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Gold...
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£28,00
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Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps
States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...
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Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law
ISBN: HB: 9780226301013, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables
When we consider the concept of sexual abuse and harassment, our minds tend to jump either towards adults caught in unhealthy relationships or criminals who take advantage of children. But the millions of maturing teenagers who also deal with sexual...
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Attorney for the Damned Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
ISBN: PB: 9780226136509, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
576 pp., 21.5x14 cm
"Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced. All of Darrow's most celebrated pleas are here – in defense of Leopold and Loeb (1924), of Lieutenant Massie (...
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£21,00
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Asian Legal Revivals Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780226144634, ISBN: HB: 9780226144627, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Lega...
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£74,50
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