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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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Crime and Justice, Volume 45 Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780226440804, ISBN: HB: 9780226440774, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives" is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julia...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bilingual Courtroom Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226329161, ISBN: HB: 9780226329338, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 line drawings, 14 tables
Susan Berk-Seligson's groundbreaking book draws on more than one hundred hours of audio recordings of Spanish/English court proceedings in federal, state, and municipal courts – along with a number of psycholinguistic experiments involving mock juror...
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