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  • Translating the Social World for Law

    Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism

    Edited by Elizabeth Mertz, William K. Ford, Gregory Matoesian ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of “translation” as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of English or Swahili, so that some form of translation may still be needed even between two people who ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Multimodal Conduct in the Law

    Language, Gesture and Materiality in Legal Interaction

    by Gregory Matoesian, Kristin Enola Gilbert ...
    Series Book 32 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    The study of language and law has seen explosive growth in the past twenty-five years. Research on police interrogations, trial examination, jury deliberation, plea bargains, same sex marriage, to name a few, has shown the central role of written and oral forms of language in the construction of legal meaning. However, there is another side of language that has rarely been analyzed in legal ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    by Chester Porter ...
    How the law can let us down'The presumption of innocence is the keystone of liberty. Yet it is constantly under attack and is liable to be whittled away, particularly in times of crisis. It is for all thinking citizens to ensure that the presumption of innocence is a reality.'It is the foundation of Western legal systems that an accused person is presumed innocent until their crime is conclusively ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Legal Interpretation

    Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts

    by Kent Greenawalt ...
    In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. But what sorts of questions must one seek to answer in interpreting law and what approach should one take in each case? Whose interpretations should be prioritized? Why would one be drawn to one strategy ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Conceptions in the Code

    How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times

    by Stefan Larsson ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological change, displaying both conceptual path-dependence as well as what is called non-legislative ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Causation and Responsibility

    An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics

    by Michael S. Moore ...
    The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the connection between the concept of causation used in attributing responsibility and the accounts of causal relations offered in the philosophy of science and metaphysics? How much of what we call causal ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Law as if Earth Really Mattered

    The Wild Law Judgment Project

    Edited by Nicole Rogers, Michelle Maloney ...
    Series series Law, Justice and Ecology
    This book is a collection of judgments drawn from the innovative Wild Law Judgment Project. In participating in the Wild Law Judgment Project, which was inspired by various feminist judgment projects, contributors have creatively reinterpreted judicial decisions from an Earth-centred point of view by rewriting existing judgments, or creating fictional judgments, as wild law. Authors have ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Telford Georges: A Legal Odyssey

    by Albert Fiadjoe, Gilbert Kodilinye, Joyce Cole Georges ...
    This book begins by tracing the life story of Telford Georges from the childhood years in Dominica, through the years of practice in Trinidad, followed by the Tanzania and Zimbabwe years, and culminating in The Bahamas period. Transcribed conversations with Telford are included, in which he gives the reader many fascinating insights into the judicial thought processes, and expresses his views on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings

    A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Edited by Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski, Gianluca Pontrandolfo ...
    Series series Law, Language and Communication
    This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the centrality of phraseological patterns in language and provided researchers with new ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Law and Language

    Effective Symbols of Community

    by Harold J. Berman, Tibor Várady ...
    Completed in 1964, Harold J. Berman's long-lost tract shows how properly negotiated, translated and formalised legal language is essential to fostering peace and understanding within local and international communities. Exemplifying interdisciplinary and comparative legal scholarship long before they were fashionable, it is a fascinating prequel to Berman's monumental Law and Revolution series. It ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction

    by Marco Wan ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which five novels were interpreted in the courtroom: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Paul Bonnetain’s Charlot s’amuse, Henry ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Kelsen in the Grenada Court: Essays on Revolutionary Legality

    by Simeon C.R. Mcintosh ...
    Historically, revolution has been one of the principal means of founding a new state. But can this new state have any moral legitimacy, born as it is out of violence? That is the critical question for legal theorists. The late Hans Kelsen, arguably one of the leading legal theorists and philosophers of the twentieth century, in his Pure Theory of Law, articulated this theory of revolutionary ... Read more

    $21.95 USD