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  • A History of Canadian Legal Thought

    Collected Essays

    by R.C.B. Risk ...
    This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority on the history of Canadian legal thought.Frank Scott, Bora Laskin, W.P.M. Kennedy, John Willis and Edward Blake are among the better ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

    by Kali Nicole Gross ...
    Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial--which spanned several months--were featured in the ... Read more

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  • Code Wars

    10 Years of P2P Software Litigation

    by Rebecca Giblin ...
    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 History of Law in Europe

    An Introduction

    by Marco de Benito, Bart Wauters ...
    'The rule of law and property rights were the ''secret weapons'' that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and Oceania democratic and prosperous. How did this European legal system come to be? To answer this question, Bart Wauters and Marco de Benito offer us a fresh overview of the history of law in Europe, dealing with both civil and common law, from Roman times through to its ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law

    Edited by Dinah Shelton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive and original overview of one of the fundamental topics within international law. It contains substantial new essays by more than forty leading experts in the field, giving students, scholars, and practitioners a complete overview of the issues that inform research, as well as a 'map' of the debates that animate the ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction

    by Beth Gaze, Belinda Smith ...
    Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction explores four decades of anti-discrimination laws in Australia. Beth Gaze and Belinda Smith argue that effective laws protecting against and deterring discrimination are vital for a fair future, and emphasise the theoretical and social contexts that underpin this area of the law. The text is divided into three sections: the first ... Read more

    $108.29 USD

  • Unfit for Democracy

    The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics

    by Stephen E Gottlieb ...
    Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few consider the role of constitutional law in America's survival. In Unfit for Democracy, Stephen Gottlieb argues that constitutional law without a focus on the future of ... Read more

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  • Courts and Trials

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Martin L. Friedland ...
    Series series Heritage
    The judicial system occupies an important place in society, yet it has been one of the least studied of Canadian institutions. Traditionally, examination and criticism of the trial process have been left to lawyers and members of the legal profession. In this volume nine non-lawyers scrutinize its operation in Canada from the perspectives of several academic disciplines.Reginald Allen, a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700

    Micro-Studies in the History of Crime

    Edited by Professor David Nash, Anne-Marie Kilday ...
    CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history. A selection of in-depth narrative micro-studies are featured to illustrate specific issues associated with the theme of crime and the law in historical context. The methodology used unpacks the wider historiographical and ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Only One Place of Redress

    African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal

    by David E. Bernstein, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power. Both intentionally and incidentally, claims Bernstein, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Law of Nations and Britain’s Quest for Naval Security

    International Law and Arms Control, 1898–1914

    by Scott Andrew Keefer ...
    Series series History (R0)
    As the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles approaches, this book presents the pre-1914 precursors to the interwar naval arms treaties arising from the peace of 1919, providing a fresh perspective on arms control efforts through an interdisciplinary approach. Interweaving historical investigation with legal analysis, Scott Keefer traces the British role in the development of naval arms control, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ancient Roman Solutions to Modern Legal Issues, The Example of Patent Law

    by Anna Mancini ...
    Our Law and its philosophy have been conceived for an economic world where the main source of wealth was material. Although this world no longer exists, its laws are still alive and slow down the development of modern economies. Patent law strikingly shows this fact. Invented mainly during the industrial revolution in order to protect tangible inventions, it could not be applied to the new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD