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  • Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law

    by Kathleen Birrell ...
    Series series Indigenous Peoples and the Law
    Examining contested notions of indigeneity, and the positioning of the Indigenous subject before and beyond the law, this book focuses upon the animation of indigeneities within textual imaginaries, both literary and juridical. Engaging the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin, as well as other continental philosophy and critical legal theory, the book uniquely addresses the troubled ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Blackfoot Redemption

    A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

    by William E. Farr ...
    In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • License to Harass

    Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech

    by Laura Beth Nielsen ...
    Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
    Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First Amendment right to free speech? Or should it be banned?In this elegantly written book, Laura Beth Nielsen ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Aboriginal Tent Embassy

    Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State

    Edited by Gary Foley, Andrew Schaap, Edwina Howell ...
    The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a conservative Australian government. The dramatic scenes in July 1972 when police forcibly removed the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Intimate Partner Violence: A Culturally Competent Approach to Clinical Training and Treatment

    by Bill Johnson II ...
    Spousal violence, or domestic violence as it is commonly referred to, is a social problem that occurs among people of all cultures, religious affiliations, sexual orientations and socioeconomic statuses. Although males and females are both reported as the perpetrators of domestic violence, males are most often the identified client in batterer intervention programs. The etiologies and causes of ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Idea of Private Law

    by Ernest J Weinrib ...
    Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and non-instrumental moral ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Animals, Biopolitics, Law

    Lively Legalities

    Edited by Irus Braverman ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights. Within this discourse, legal rights are extended to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework that has afforded human rights before it. Animals, Biopolitics, Law envisions the possibility of lively legalities that move beyond the humanist ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • On the Right of Exclusion

    Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy

    by Bas Schotel ...
    On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy addresses the current immigration laws and practices of Western states, and argues that if states cannot substantially justify the exclusion of an alien, the latter should be admitted. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • A Jurisprudence of Movement

    Common Law, Walking, Unsettling Place

    by Olivia Barr ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    Law moves, whether we notice or not. Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Despite various ways the spatial turn has been taken up in legal thought, questions of law, movement and its materialities are too often overlooked. This book addresses this ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Compromised Jurisprudence

    by Lisa Strelein ...
    Native title has dramatically altered the law and public policy in Australia. It has had a fundamental impact on social relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and the courts have played a central role in its development, and continue to do so. Compromised Jurisprudence established itself as a well-priced and accessible introduction to the subject of native title. This revised ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Law, Lawyers and Race

    Critical Race Theory from the US to Europe

    by Mathias Möschel ...
    Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars. Law, Lawyers and Race: Critical Race Theory from the United States to Europe endeavours to fill this gap by providing an overview of the definition and consequences of CRT developed in American scholarship and describing its transplantation and application in the continental European ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination

    by Professor Tibebu Teshale ...
    Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in Blyden's powerful black racial nationalism. Blyden was a modernist who called upon African Americans ... Read more

    $17.99 USD