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Just Words Law, Language, and Power (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226484365, ISBN: HB: 9780226484228, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling th...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Justice Scalia Rhetoric and the Rule of Law
ISBN: PB: 9780226601823, ISBN: HB: 9780226601656, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings
Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the "new originalist" interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Jewish Legal Theories Writings on State, Religion, and Morality
ISBN: PB: 9781584657446, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal...
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£21,00
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Justice and Empathy Toward a Constitutional Ideal
ISBN: HB: 9780300224269, Yale University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 21x14 cm
The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic equality. Constitutional scholar Robert A. Burt explores this shift...
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£60,00
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Judicial Reputation A Comparative Theory
ISBN: PB: 9780226478708, ISBN: HB: 9780226290591, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 14 tables
Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They m...
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£22,50
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£36,00
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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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Judicial Politics in Polarized Times
ISBN: PB: 9780226182414, ISBN: HB: 9780226182384, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables
When the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, some saw the decision as a textbook example of neutral judicial decision making, noting that a Republican Chief Justice joined the Court's Democratic appointees to uphold most provisions of the A...
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£22,00
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£67,00
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Judicial Power of the Purse How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis
ISBN: PB: 9780226771144, ISBN: HB: 9780226771120, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 16 tables, 10 line illus.
Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war. In this innovative book, Nancy Staudt focuses on the role of federal courts in fiscal matters during warfare and high-cost national defense emergencies...
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£25,00
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£84,00
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