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“bernd weiler”

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  • Who Owns Knowledge?

    Knowledge and the Law

    by Bernd Weiler, Nico Stehr ...
    Who Owns Knowledge? explores the emerging linkages between the extension of knowledge and the law. It anticipates that the legal system will not only be called upon to adjudicate in matters of creative minds, but will be expected to do so to an ever increasing degree.Linkages between the legal system and knowledge are bound to multiply in modern societies. Ironically, while increasingly relying on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Evidence Matters

    Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law

    by Susan Haack ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study

    by Karl N. Llewellyn ...
    Written generations years ago, but highly relevant today, 'The Bramble Bush' remains one of the books most recommended for students to read when considering law school, just before beginning its study, or early in the first semester. Its first edition began as a collection from a series of introductory lectures given by legal legend Karl Llewellyn to new law students at Columbia University. It ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Conscience

    How Good Laws Make Good People

    by Lynn Stout ...
    How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperityContemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly—few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? A set of naturally occurring moral principles, or simply rules agreed by a particular society? What is a 'right' and what rights should people actually have? Is law really colour ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Law

    by Fernanda Pirie ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the form of legal rules, categories and claims, are placed at the centre of this challenging, yet accessible, introduction. Anthropology of law is presented as a distinctive subject within the broader field of legal anthropology, suggesting new avenues of inquiry for the anthropologist, while also bringing empirical studies ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts

    Uniformity, Diversity, Convergence

    Edited by Helmut Philipp Aust, Georg Nolte ...
    Series series International Law and Domestic Legal Orders
    The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts assesses the growing role of domestic courts in the interpretation of international law. It asks whether and if so to what extent domestic courts make use of the international rules of interpretation set forth in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Given the expectation that rules of international law are to have a uniform ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Ethics and Law

    An Introduction

    by W. Bradley Wendel ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Can someone be a good person yet act in a professional role that may involve deception, procedural trickery, withholding information, and working on behalf of terrible people and institutions? This question is at the heart of legal ethics. Using cases from around the common-law world, W. Bradley Wendel looks at issues including confidentiality, the moral responsibility of lawyers, and truth and ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession

    The Marshall Trilogy Cases

    by George Pappas ...
    Series series Indigenous Peoples and the Law
    The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.S. Supreme Court Rulings written by Chief Justice John Marshall with respect to Native Americans. These cases, Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), collectively known as the Marshall ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Legalism

    Rules and Categories

    Edited by Paul Dresch, Judith Scheele ...
    Series series Legalism
    Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal history are often needlessly set aside. Anthropologists, meanwhile, have treated rules as analytic errors and categories as an imposition by outside powers or by analysts, leaving a very thin notion of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Negotiating State and Non-State Law

    The Challenge of Global and Local Legal Pluralism

    Edited by Michael A. Helfand ...
    Series series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
    Non-state law is playing an increasing role in both public and private ordering. Numerous organizations have emerged alongside the nation-state, each purporting to provide their members with rules and norms to govern their conduct and organize their affairs. The nation-state increasingly finds itself sandwiched, between two broad and contrasting categories of non-state law. The first - law above ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Narrative and Metaphor in the Law

    Edited by Michael Hanne, Robert Weisberg ...
    It has long been recognized that court trials in the common law system, both criminal and civil, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal theory and practice. Interest in the part played by metaphor in the law, including metaphors for the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD