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  • The Concept of Cultural Genocide

    An International Law Perspective

    by Elisa Novic ...
    Series series Cultural Heritage Law and Policy
    Cultural genocide is the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements that make one group of people distinct from another.Cultural genocide remains a recurrent topic, appearing not only in the form of wide-ranging claims about the commission of cultural genocide in diverse contexts but also in the legal sphere, as exemplified by the discussions before the ... Read more

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  • The Run of His Life

    The People v. O. J. Simpson

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie BrittonThe definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year ... Read more

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  • The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities

    Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of theLaw That Make Us AllUnsuspecting Criminals

    by Nathan Belofsky ...
    You're probably breaking the law right now-and don't even know it.Did you know...? Naples, Italy, enforces laws for what constitutes real pizza, and "pizza police" visit restaurants to crack down on unlawful pies?? In West Virginia it is a crime to display or possess a red or black flag?? It is illegal to sell stuffed articles depicting female breasts within a thousand feet of any county highway ... Read more

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  • Law 101

    Everything You Need to Know About American Law, Fourth Edition

    by Jay Feinman ...
    In each of the first three editions of the bestselling Law 101, Jay Feinman gave readers an upbeat and vivid examination of the American legal system. Since the third edition was published in 2010, much has happened: several key Supreme Court cases have been decided, we've seen sensational criminal trials, and the legal system has had to account for the latest developments in Internet law. This ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Right Wrong Man

    John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial

    by Lawrence Douglas ...
    **Now the subject of the Netflix documentary The Devil Next DoorThe incredible story of the most convoluted legal odyssey involving Nazi war crimes**In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Chasing Gideon

    The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice

    by Karen Houppert ...
    The Washington Post reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the nation's crisis of indigent defense—"a hugely important book" ( New York Law Journal).A Nieman Report's Top Ten Investigative Journalism Books of 2013First published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed all criminal defendants the right to legal counsel, ... Read more

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  • The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law

    by Kevin Jon Heller ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs). The judgments the NMTs produced have played a critical role in the development of international criminal law, particularly in terms of how courts currently understand war crimes, ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Manifest Madness

    Mental Incapacity in the Criminal Law

    by Arlie Loughnan ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Whether it is a question of the age below which a child cannot be held liable for their actions, or the attribution of responsibility to defendants with mental illnesses, ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice

    Spain's Pact of Forgetting

    by Roldan Jimeno ...
    Series series Transitional Justice
    In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain, this book analyses the country's transition, from the antecedents from 1936 up to the present, within ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI

    1483-1558

    by Sir John Baker ...
    Series series The Oxford History of the Laws of England Series isbn 0-19-961352-4
    This volume covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual changes, which profoundly affected the law and its workings. It first considers constitutional developments, and addresses the question of whether there was a rule of law under king Henry VIII. In a period of supposed despotism, and enhanced parliamentary power, protection of liberty was increasing and ... Read more

    $334.79 USD

  • Justice, Mercy, and Caprice

    Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland

    by Ian O'Donnell ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Justice, Mercy, and Caprice is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the gradual emergence of a more humane Irish state. It is a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to men and women sentenced to death between the end of the civil war in 1923 and the abolition of capital punishment in 1990. Frequently, the decision to deflect the law from its course was an attempt to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Kafka's Indictment of Modern Law

    by Douglas E. Litowitz ...
    The legal system is often denounced as “Kafkaesque”—but what does this really mean? This is the question Douglas E. Litowitz tackles in his critical reading of Franz Kafka’s writings about the law.Going far beyond Kafka’s most familiar works—such as The Trial—Litowitz assembles a broad array of works that he refers to as “Kafka’s legal fiction”—consisting of published and unpublished works that ... Read more

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