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Engines of Truth Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom
ISBN: HB: 9780300125665, Yale University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad...
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£65,00
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Ordinary Meaning A Theory of the Most Fundamental Principle of Legal Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9780226304854, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 17 tables
Consider this court case: a defendant has traded a gun for drugs, and there is a criminal sentencing provision that stipulates an enhanced punishment if the defendant "uses" a firearm "during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime". Buying the d...
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£56,00
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Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
ISBN: PB: 9780226324630, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is administrative law unlawful? This is a central question in contemporary law and politics, and it has become all the more important with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain li...
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£24,50
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Czech Law in Historical Contexts
ISBN: PB: 9788024628608, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The legal system of the present-day Czech Republic cannot be understood without sufficient knowledge of its historical roots and evolution. Kuklik traces the development of Czech law from...
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£22,50
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Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court 250 Milestones in the History of Law
ISBN: HB: 9781454901686, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2015
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching, and often-controversial cases, laws, and trials that have profoundly changed our world – for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents as w...
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£25,00
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Imperial from the Beginning The Constitution of the Original Executive
ISBN: HB: 9780300194562, Yale University Press, September 2015
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Eminent scholar Saikrishna Prakash offers the first truly comprehensive study of the original American presidency. Drawing from a vast range of sources both well known and obscure, this volume reconstructs the powers and duties of the nation's chief...
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£35,00
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Crime and Justice, Volume 44 A Review of Research
ISBN: HB: 9780226337579, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Volume 44 of "Crime and Justice" is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who need to know about the latest advances in knowledge concerning crime, its causes, and its control. Contents: include Robert D. Crutchfield on the...
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£67,50
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Future of Healthcare Reform in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226254951, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing, 9 tables
In the years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or, colloquially, Obamacare), most of the discussion about it has been political. But as the politics fade and the law's many complex provisions take effect, a m...
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£48,00
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Second-Best Justice The Virtues of Japanese Private Law
ISBN: HB: 9780226281995, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 55 tables
It's long been known that Japanese file fewer lawsuits per capita than Americans do. Yet explanations for the difference have tended to be partial and unconvincing, ranging from circular arguments about Japanese culture to suggestions that the slow-m...
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£40,00
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Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 22
ISBN: HB: 9780226166667, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
316 pp., 23x15 cm
"Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging and contributions employ explicit o...
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£45,00
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