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“heather elliott”

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  • Federalism and Social Policy

    Patterns of Redistribution in 11 Democracies

    by Heather Elliott, Scott L. Greer ...
    Federalism and Social Policy focuses on the crucial question: Is a strong and egalitarian welfare state compatible with federalism? In this carefully curated collection, Scott L. Greer, Heather Elliott, and the contributors explore the relationship between decentralization and the welfare state to determine whether or not decentralization has negative consequences for welfare. The contributors ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Transitions

    Legal Change, Legal Meanings

    by Heather Elliott, Professor Akhil Reed Amar, J.D., Professor William L. Andreen, J.D., Professor Jack M. Beermann, J.D., Joshua Alexander Geltzer, Ph.D., Professor David Gray, Professor Paul Horwitz, Professor Daniel H. Joyner, Ph.D., Nina Mendelson, J.D.0, Assistant Professor Meredith M. Render, J.D.1, Professor Ruti Teitel2, Professor Lindsey Ohlsson Worth, J.D.3 ...
    Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of US law during moments of political change and explore what we can learn about law by examining its role and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Endurance of National Constitutions

    by Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton ...
    Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structure for politics. Yet only half live more than nine years. Why is it that some constitutions endure while others do not? In The Endurance of National Constitutions Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton examine the causes of constitutional endurance from an institutional perspective. Supported by an original set of cross-national ... Read more

    $39.39 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

  • Courts in Latin America

    Edited by Gretchen Helmke, Julio Rios-Figueroa ...
    To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia, the authors demonstrate that there is widespread variation in the performance of Latin America's ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations in Domestic Courts

    Edited by August Reinisch ...
    Series series International Law and Domestic Legal Orders
    International organizations are increasingly operating across borders and engaging in legal transactions in virtually all jurisdictions. This makes, familiarity with the applicable law and practice imperative for both international organizations and those who engage in legal relations with them. Furthermore, the issue of whether, how, and to what extent domestic courts take into account decisions ... Read more

    $128.69 USD

  • Principles of French Law

    by John Bell, Sophie Boyron, Simon Whittaker ...
    Principles of French Law offers a comprehensive introduction to French law and the French legal system in terms which a common lawyer can understand. The authors give an explanation of the institutions, rules and techniques that characterize the major branches of French law. The chapters provide the reader with a clear sense of the questions that French lawyers see as important and how they would ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Law and Development and the Global Discourses of Legal Transfers

    Edited by John Gillespie, Pip Nicholson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This volume of essays contributes to the understanding of global law reform by questioning the assumption in law and development theory that laws fail to transfer because of shortcomings in project design and implementation. It brings together leading scholars who demonstrate that a synthesis of law and development, comparative law and regulatory perspectives (disciplines which to date have ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America

    The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile

    by Marcelo Bergman ...
    Few tasks are as crucial for the future of democracy in Latin America—and, indeed, in other underdeveloped areas of the world—as strengthening the rule of law and reforming the system of taxation.In this book, Marcelo Bergman shows how success in getting citizens to pay their taxes is related intimately to the social norms that undergird the rule of law. The threat of legal sanctions is itself ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Gerard V. Bradley ...
    Almost everyone today affirms the importance and merit of religious liberty. But religious liberty is being challenged by new questions (for example, use of the niqab or church adoption services for same-sex couples) and new forces (such as globalization and Islamism). Combined, these make the meaning of religious liberty in the twenty-first century uncertain. This collection of essays by ten of ... Read more

    $104.19 USD

  • Criminal Law and Policy in the European Union

    by Samuli Miettinen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in EU Law
    This book takes stock of the development of EU criminal law from the establishment of the ECSC to the first European Union criminal law directives passed after the Lisbon Treaty. The work considers criminal offences established at EU level, the effects of EU law on national criminalization, the emerging body of EU criminal procedural law, and the increasing recognition of defense rights as EU ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Identity, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice

    Overcoming Intractability in Divided Societies

    by Nevin Aiken ...
    Series series Transitional Justice
    Building upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of recent literature from the fields of transitional justice and conflict transformation, this book introduces a groundbreaking theoretical framework that highlights the critical importance of identity in the relationship between transitional justice and reconciliation in deeply divided societies. Using this framework, Aiken argues that transitional ... Read more

    $77.99 USD