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“becca mcbride”

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  • The Globalization of Adoption

    Individuals, States, and Agencies across Borders

    by Becca McBride ...
    This book expands our understanding of a growing, yet largely unstudied phenomenon: the flow of children across borders through intercountry adoption. What explains the spread of intercountry adoption through the international system over time? McBride investigates the interconnected networks of states, individuals, and adoption agencies that have collaborated to develop the practice of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    by Andrew Pierce ...
    This latest book in Straightforward Guides Series, Guide to Company Law, is a clear and concise guide to all aspects of the law as it affects companies and the formation of companies, with changes in the law up to 2017 covered in depth. The book is intended for the layperson but can also be utilised by the professional or the student. ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Natural Law in Court

    A History of Legal Theory in Practice

    by R. H. Helmholz ...
    The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of God’s creation. Until very recently, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as part of their training, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets into concrete form, building an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. Although much has been written about natural law in theory, ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Exclusion from Public Space

    A Comparative Constitutional Analysis

    by Daniel Moeckli ...
    Series Book 129 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Hardly known twenty years ago, exclusion from public space has today become a standard tool of state intervention. Every year, tens of thousands of homeless individuals, drug addicts, teenagers, protesters and others are banned from parts of public space. The rise of exclusion measures is characteristic of two broader developments that have profoundly transformed public space in recent years: the ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Contesting Economic and Social Rights in Ireland

    Constitution, State and Society, 1848–2016

    by Thomas Murray ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This book presents a political understanding of socio-economic rights by contextualising constitution-makers' and judges' decision-making in terms of Ireland's rich history of people's struggles for justice 'from below' between 1848 and the present. Its theoretical framework incorporates critical legal studies and world-systems analysis. It performs a critical discourse analysis of constitution ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • Rethinking Legal Scholarship

    A Transatlantic Dialogue

    Edited by Rob van Gestel, Hans-W. Micklitz, Edward L. Rubin ...
    Although American scholars sometimes consider European legal scholarship as old-fashioned and inward-looking and Europeans often perceive American legal scholarship as amateur social science, both traditions share a joint challenge. If legal scholarship becomes too much separated from practice, legal scholars will ultimately make themselves superfluous. If legal scholars, on the other hand, cannot ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Civil Liability and Financial Security for Offshore Oil and Gas Activities

    Edited by Michael Faure ...
    Civil Liability and Financial Security for Offshore Oil and Gas Activities provides insights into the liability and compensation regime for offshore-related damage. The book analyses the legal regime in a variety of states (including the US and the UK) as well as the EU regime. In addition, the various compensation mechanisms and amounts available today to compensate offshore-related damage are ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Teaching Law

    Justice, Politics, and the Demands of Professionalism

    by Robin L. West ...
    Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the need to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that law fitfully serves, the political origins of law, and the development of a respectful but critical ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Africa and the ICC

    Perceptions of Justice

    Edited by Abel S. Knottnerus, Eefje de Volder, Kamari M. Clarke ...
    Africa and the ICC: Perceptions of Justice comprises contributions from prominent scholars of different disciplines including international law, political science, cultural anthropology, African history and media studies. This unique collection provides the reader with detailed insights into the interaction between the African Union and the International Criminal Court (ICC), but also looks ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Beyond Legal Reasoning: a Critique of Pure Lawyering

    by Jeffrey Lipshaw ...
    The concept of learning to ‘think like a lawyer’ is one of the cornerstones of legal education in the United States and beyond. In this book, Jeffrey Lipshaw provides a critique of the traditional views of ‘thinking like a lawyer’ or ‘pure lawyering’ aimed at lawyers, law professors, and students who want to understand lawyering beyond the traditional warrior metaphor. Drawing on his extensive ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes

    Edited by Theresa Carpenter, Marion Jansen, Joost Pauwelyn ...
    Twenty-first-century trade agreements increasingly are a source of international law on investment and competition. With chapters contributed by leading practitioners and academics, this volume draws upon investor-state arbitration and competition/antitrust disputes to focus on the application of economics to international trade law and specifically WTO law. Written in an accessible language ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • How to Like Being a Lawyer

    Thriving in BigLaw, SmallLaw & Solopreneurship

    by Heather S Orr ...
    Modern lawyers face an unusual paradox. Studies reveal that lawyers are among the least happy of any profession, if not the least happy. The abundance of lawyer jokes in circulation confirms that the public doesn’t love its lawyers any more than those lawyers love their job. And yet, there are an abundance of aspiring attorneys spending six figures and three years of their lives to get into the ... Read more

    $7.19 USD