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  • Film and the Law

    The Cinema of Justice

    by Mr Steve Greenfield, Dr Guy Osborn, Peter Robson ...
    Described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'founding text', this text is a second, heavily revised and improved edition of the original Film and the Law (Cavendish Publishing, 2001). The book is distinctive in a number of ways: it is unique as a sustained book-length exposition on law and film by law scholars; it is distinctive within law and film ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • 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. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Reflections on Judging

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law

    by Henrique Carvalho ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
    This book presents a theoretical examination of the rise and expansion of preventive criminal offences that has gained momentum in Anglo-American criminal justice since the late-twentieth century. It shows how recent transformations in criminal law and justice are intrinsically related to and embedded in the way liberal society and liberal law have been imagined, developed and conditioned by their ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Property and Justice

    by J. W. Harris ...
    When philosophers put forward claims for or against 'property', it is often unclear whether they are talking about the same thing that lawyers mean by 'property'. Likewise, when lawyers appeal to 'justice' in interpreting or criticizing legal rules we do not know if they have in mind something that philosophers would recognize as 'justice'. Bridging the gulf between juristic writing on property ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Project of Positivism in International Law

    by Mónica García-Salmones Rovira ...
    Series series The History And Theory Of International Law
    International legal positivism has been crucial to the development of international law since the nineteenth century. It is often seen as the basis of mainstream or traditional international legal thought. The Project of Positivism in International Law addresses this theory in the long-standing tradition of critical intellectual histories of international law. It provides a nuanced analysis of the ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

  • 'Integration through Law' Revisited

    The Making of the European Polity

    Edited by Daniel Augenstein ...
    Over the last twenty years, processes of pluralization, differentiation and trans-nationalization in the European Union have arguably challenged the centrality of law to European integration. Yet these developments also present opportunities to investigate new understandings of law triggered by European integration. The contributors to this book revisit one of the first academic projects to ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Refugee Law and Practice in Japan

    by Osamu Arakaki ...
    Series series Law and Migration
    This volume examines the development of refugee law and policy in Japan. The book discusses systemic weaknesses and compares the evolution of law in other states to highlight problems in Japan's refugee determination system. Ultimately, the book calls for Japan to reform failing systems and take innovative action towards refugee protection. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Law and Art

    Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics

    Edited by Oren Ben-Dor ...
    In engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a legal theory concerned to address how theoretical abstractions and concrete oppressions overlook singularity and spontaneity. Indeed, the exercise of the legal role and the scholarly understanding of legal ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Law and Language

    Current Legal Issues Volume 15

    Edited by Michael Freeman, Fiona Smith ...
    Series series Current Legal Issues
    Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, ... Read more

    $113.39 USD

  • Reading Modern Law

    Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations

    Edited by Ruth Buchanan, Stewart Motha, Sundhya Pahuja ...
    Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been pre-figured by an order of rules. The key question this dynamic of law raises is how legal forms might be deployed to confront and disrupt ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • EU Criminal Justice and the Challenges of Diversity

    Legal Cultures in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

    Edited by Renaud Colson, Stewart Field ...
    EU Criminal Justice and the Challenges of Diversity examines how questions of cultural difference between Member States' legal traditions are being constructed, addressed, and resolved in the development of the European Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice. The volume brings together leading socio-legal scholars and criminal justice professors from eight European countries and combines ... Read more

    $38.59 USD