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Origins of Order Project and System in the American Legal Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780300243413, Yale University Press, January 2020
344 pp., 21x14 cm
Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the...
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£35,00
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Outbreak Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety
ISBN: PB: 9780226611686, ISBN: HB: 9780226611549, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 2 tables
Foodborne illness is a big problem. Wash those chicken breasts, and you're likely to spread Salmonella to your countertops, kitchen towels, and other foods nearby. Even salad greens can become biohazards when toxic strains of E. coli inhabit the wate...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Legal Logic
ISBN: HB: 9780226523903, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
With "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Legal Logic", Frederic R. Kellogg examines the early diaries, reading, and writings of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) to assess his contribution to both legal logic and general logical theory. Thro...
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£34,00
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Origins of Reasonable Doubt Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial
ISBN: PB: 9780300219906, Yale University Press, February 2016
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt". But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book,...
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£25,00
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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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One Law for All? Western Models and Local Practices in (Post-) Imperial Contexts
ISBN: PB: 9783593394930, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2012
300 pp., 22x14 cm
Delving into archival material from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, "One Law for All?" examines the law in imperial and post-imperial contexts across the globe, including Latin America, Russia, Africa, and East Asia. The essays collecte...
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£40,50
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