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  • The History of Law in Europe

    An Introduction

    by Marco de Benito, Bart Wauters ...
    'The rule of law and property rights were the ''secret weapons'' that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and Oceania democratic and prosperous. How did this European legal system come to be? To answer this question, Bart Wauters and Marco de Benito offer us a fresh overview of the history of law in Europe, dealing with both civil and common law, from Roman times through to its ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • Colonial Proximities

    Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

    by Renisa Mawani ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Real and imagined encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations produced racial anxieties that underwrote crossracial contacts in the salmon canneries, the illicit liquor trade, and the (white) slavery scare in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia. Colonial Proximities explores the legal and spatial strategies of rule ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Foundations of Private Law

    Property, Tort, Contract, Unjust Enrichment

    by James Gordley ...
    Foundations of Private Law is a treatise on the Western law of property, contract, tort and unjust enrichment in both common law systems and civil law systems. The thesis of the book is that underlying these fields of law are common principles, and that these principles can be used to explain the history and development of these areas. These underlying common principles are matters of common sense ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Espionage and Secrecy (Routledge Revivals)

    The Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989 of the United Kingdom

    by Rosamund Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This prize-winning book, first published in 1991, provides a detailed legal account of the development of the UK Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989. In particular, the Espionage section (s.1) of this criminal law is analysed carefully, illustrated by leading cases of UK spies prosecuted under this section, particularly during the 1980’s — including MI5 officer Michael Bettaney and Geoffrey Prime who ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • An Historical Introduction to Modern Civil Law

    by Thomas Glyn Watkin ...
    Series series Laws of the Nations Series
    The civil law systems of continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world, including Japan, share a common legal heritage derived from Roman law. However, it is an inheritance which has been modified and adapted over the centuries as a result of contact with Germanic legal concepts, the work of jurists in the mediaeval universities, the growth of the canon law of the western Church, ... Read more

    $135.00 USD

  • Speaking of Language and Law

    Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma

    Edited by Lawrence Solan, Janet Ainsworth, Roger W. Shuy ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers a selection of twelve of Tiersma's most influential publications, divided into five thematic areas ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • Civil Society in China

    The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the "New Reform Era"

    by Karla W. Simon ...
    This is the definitive book on the legal and fiscal framework for civil society organizations (CSOs) in China from earliest times to the present day. Civil Society in China traces the ways in which laws and regulations have shaped civil society over the 5,000 years of China's history and looks at ways in which social and economic history have affected the legal changes that have occurred over the ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • The Roman Law of Obligations

    by Peter Birks ...
    The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law. Discovered in complete manuscript form following his death, the lectures are published here in paperback for the first time. The lectures present a clear conceptual map of the Roman law of obligations, guiding readers through the institutional structure of contract, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Meeting the Enemy

    American Exceptionalism and International Law

    by Natsu Taylor Saito ...
    Series Book 65 - Critical America
    Since its founding, the United States has defined itself as the supreme protector of freedom throughout the world, pointing to its Constitution as the model of law to ensure democracy at home and to protect human rights internationally. Although the United States has consistently emphasized the importance of the international legal system, it has simultaneously distanced itself from many ... Read more

    $28.99 USD