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Minorities and Law in Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024635835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2017
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic Across the whole of modern Czech history – from 1918, through World War II, and into the postwar years – ethnic and minority issues have been of the utmost prominence. Moreover, Czechoslova...
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£19,00
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Supreme Court Review 2016
ISBN: HB: 9780226490847, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions".The Supreme Court Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Su...
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£56,50
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Crime and Justice, Volume 46 Reinventing American Criminal Justice
ISBN: HB: 9780226489407, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Justice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice" is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy...
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£67,50
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Search for Justice The Sri Lanka Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789385932069, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm
At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In "The Search for Justice", a collection of writers an...
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£34,00
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Democratic Constitution Experimentalism and Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9780226474502, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Supreme Court is seen today as the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution. Once the Court has spoken, it is the duty of the citizens and their elected officials to abide by its decisions. But the conception of the Supreme Court as the final interpr...
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£34,00
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Law Book 250 Milestones in the History of Law (New Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9781454927877, GMC Group, Sterling, August 2017
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 we...
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£30,00
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Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers
ISBN: HB: 9780300191158, Yale University Press, July 2017
352 pp., 21x14 cm
The first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, pa...
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£65,00
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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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£35,00
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Rights on Trial How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780226466859, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 7 line drawings, 10 tables
Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading "KKK" in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves su...
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£22,50
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Legalizing Plural Marriage The Next Frontier in Family Law
ISBN: PB: 9781611688351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other "poly" groups. In...
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£32,00
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