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Mammals

Law

Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights

Bradshaw Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...

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What's Legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights

Mattutat Liza, Nigro Roberto, Schiel Nadine, Stubenrauch Heiko

ISBN: PB: 9783035802436, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the othe...

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Islam

Law

What is the Sharia?

Dupret Baudouin

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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Wasting a Crisis Why Securities Regulation Fails

Mahoney Paul G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420998, ISBN: HB: 9780226236513, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 – the main regul...

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Law

General

Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

Edelman Lauren B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226400761, ISBN: HB: 9780226400624, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 figures, 4 tables

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more...

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Why the Law Is So Perverse

Katz Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226005812, ISBN: HB: 9780226426037, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm

Conundrums, puzzles, and perversities: these are Leo Katz's stock-in-trade, and in "Why the Law Is So Perverse", he focuses on four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand explanation....

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Why X Matters

Why the Constitution Matters

Tushnet Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300150377, Yale University Press, October 2011
208 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

<p>In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but b...

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