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Closing the Courthouse Door How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

Chemerinsky Erwin

ISBN: HB: 9780300211580, Yale University Press, March 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend tho...

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Democratic Theory of Judgment

Zerilli Linda M. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226397986, ISBN: HB: 9780226397849, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criter...

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Evidence of the Law Proving Legal Claims

Lawson Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780226432052, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How does one prove the law? If your neighbor breaks your window, the law regulates how you can show your claim to be true or false; but how do you prove that in breaking your window your neighbor has broken the law? American jurisprudence devotes an...

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Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom

Feigenson Neal

ISBN: HB: 9780226413730, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table

Sometimes the outcome of a lawsuit depends upon sensations known only to the person who experiences them, such as the buzzing sound heard by a plaintiff who suffers from tinnitus after an accident. Lawyers, litigants, and expert witnesses are now see...

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Law Beyond the State Pasts and Futures

Hofmann Rainer, Kadelbach Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593506500, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Law beyond the State" brings together contributions by renowned experts on international and European Union law to celebrate the centennial of Goethe?Universitat Frankfurt. The essays explore Frankfurt's contribution to the development of internatio...

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Anthropology

Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa

Diawara Mamadou, Roschenthaler Ute

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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Dignity of Commerce Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law

Oman Nathan B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226415529, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transacti...

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Issues in Law and Economics

Winter Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780226249629, ISBN: HB: 9780226249599, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With "Issues in Law and Eco...

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Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy

Lake Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300214222, Yale University Press, January 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women –...

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Wasting a Crisis Why Securities Regulation Fails

Mahoney Paul G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420998, ISBN: HB: 9780226236513, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 – the main regul...

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