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  • The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

    Family Law

    by Brian Bix ...
    Series series Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
    A book about family law is necessarily a book both about family life and the role law can and should take in regulating family life. Individually and together, these are vast topics. American family law is ever-changing and affects every facet of our lives. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Family Law provides a critical introduction to the enduring topics in the field, including not only an ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Law and Morality

    by Brian Bix ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Second Series)
    This volume collects many of the key essays exploring the possible relationships between the concepts of law and morality, a central concern of contemporary philosophizing about law. It is organized around five conceptual issues: classical natural law theory; legal positivism's separability thesis; Ronald Dworkin's constructive interpretivism; inclusive legal positivism's assertion that there can ... Read more

    $370.00 USD

  • Rights: Concepts and Contexts

    by Horacio Spector ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Rights
    Rights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most prominent contemporary theorists in moral, legal, and political philosophy, including Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, Jeremy Waldron, Morton Horwitz, Stephen Darwall, Margaret Gilbert, David Lyons, and Aharon Barak. With approaches ranging from the political to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
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  • The Last Resort

    A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa

    by Douglas Rogers ...
    Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit.Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country’s long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future ... Read more

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  • Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

    A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

    by Kali Nicole Gross ...
    Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial--which spanned several months--were featured in the ... Read more

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  • A Secret History of Torture

    by Ian Cobain ...
    The official line is clear: the United Kingdom does not "participate in, solicit, encourage or condone" torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to their national security, the gloves always come off.Drawing on previously unseen official documents and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize–winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks ... Read more

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  • Child Custody, Visitation and Support in Illinois

    by Linda ConnelLinda Connel ...
    With divorce rates on the rise, more and more parents are facing difficult custody situations involving their children. From parents having difficulty seeing their children on a regular basis, being denied visitation by the other parent, or not receiving enough or any monetary support, parents increasingly find themselves drawn into court to argue these issues. This book was written to inform ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945–1952

    Allied War Crimes Prosecutions

    by Yuma Totani ...
    This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that the Allied powers held against the Japanese in the aftermath of World War II. More than 2,240 trials against some 5,700 suspected war criminals were carried out at 51 separate locations across the Asia Pacific region. This book analyzes fourteen high-profile American, Australian, British, and Philippine trials, including the two ... Read more

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  • The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins

    Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots

    by Brenda Stevenson ...
    Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from ... Read more

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  • Law and the Modern Mind

    Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture

    by Susanna L. Blumenthal ...
    In postrevolutionary America, the autonomous individual was both the linchpin of a young nation and a threat to the founders’ vision of ordered liberty. Conceiving of self-government as a psychological as well as a political project, jurists built a republic of laws upon the Enlightenment science of the mind with the aim of producing a responsible citizenry. Susanna Blumenthal probes the ... Read more

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  • Yale Law Journal: Volume 123, Number 2 - November 2013

    by Yale Law Journal ...
    The November issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 2nd of Volume 123, academic year 2013-2014) features articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include:• Article, "Leviathan and Interpretive Revolution: The Administrative State, the Judiciary, and the Rise of Legislative History, 1890-1950," by Nicholas R. Parrillo• Essay, "Reconsidering Citizens United as a ... Read more

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