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  • Revenge versus Legality

    Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib

    by Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney, James Guimond ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a variety of narratives from the eras of Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and the Contemporary period, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Ghost Breaker (Unabridged)

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    by Charles Goddard ...
    Narrated by Noel Scott, Lela Rivera, Katherine Maynard, Martin Malick ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 11 min

    The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a screenplay and would later be made a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. ... Read more

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  • The Law of the Land

    The Evolution of Our Legal System

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    National Book Award Finalist: "A learned, thoughtful, witty legal history for the layman" ( The New Yorker).What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America's legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment? In The Law of the Land, Charles Rembar examines these and many other topics, illustrating the surprisingly ... Read more

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  • Code Wars

    10 Years of P2P Software Litigation

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    Code Wars recounts the legal and technological history of the first decade of the P2P file sharing era, focusing on the innovative and anarchic ways in which P2P technologies evolved in response to decisions reached by courts with regard to their predecessors.With reference to US, UK, Canadian and Australian secondary liability regimes, this insightful book develops a compelling new theory to ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Roman Law in European History

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    This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Peter Stein's masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe. Roman Law in European History is unparalleled in lucidity and authority, and should prove of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law

    Edited by David Johnston ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law. The essays, newly commissioned for this volume, cover the sources of evidence for classical Roman law, the elements of private law, as well as criminal and public law, and the second life of Roman law in Byzantium, in civil and canon law, and in political discourse from AD 1100 to the present. Roman law nowadays is studied in ... Read more

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  • Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900

    Legal Thought before Modernism

    by Kunal M. Parker ...
    Series series Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing other than a species of politics. Thus viewed, the activity of unelected, common law judges appears to be an ... Read more

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  • Law and Legal Process

    Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History

    Edited by Matthew Dyson, David Ibbetson ...
    This collection of papers from the Twentieth British Legal History Conference explores the relationship between substantive law and the way in which it actually worked. Instead of looking at what the courts said they were doing, it is concerned more with the reality of what was happening. To that end, the authors use a wide range of sources, from court records to merchants' diaries and lawyers' ... Read more

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  • Transnational Sustainability Laws

    by Phillip Paiement ...
    Series series Global Law Series
    Transnational standards related to the environmental and social sustainability of production processes are becoming commonplace governance tools in the global economy. This book demonstrates how sustainability standards serve two fundamentally different functions: coordination and regulation. Standards can coordinate like-minded businesses in an industry by demarcating common sustainability ... Read more

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  • Law and Power in the Making of the Roman Commonwealth

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