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Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World - Paperback

$63.00

by Curtis J. Milhaupt (Author)Recent high-profile corporate scandals-such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan-demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, Law and Capitalism examines such contemporary corporate governance crises in six countries, to shed light on the interaction of legal systems and economic change. This provoc...

$108.00

by Leo Katz (Author)Conundrums, puzzles, and perversities: these are Leo Katz's stock-in-trade, and in Why the Law Is So Perverse, he focuses on four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand explanation. First, legal decisions are essentially made in an either/or fashion-guilty or not guilty, liable or not liable, either it's a contract or it's not-but reality is rarely as clear-cut. Why aren't there any in-between verdicts? Sec...

Legal Secrets: Equality and Efficiency in the Common Law - Paperback

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by Kim Lane Scheppele (Author)Does the seller of a house have to tell the buyer that the water is turned off twelve hours a day? Does the buyer of a great quantity of tobacco have to inform the seller that the military blockade of the local port, which had depressed tobacco sales and lowered prices, is about to end? Courts say yes in the first case, no in the second. How can we understand the difference in judgments? And what does it say about whether the psychiatrist should disclose to his p...

The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice - Paperback

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by Geoff K. Ward (Author)During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal "manufactory of citizens," a parallel structure was enacted: a Jim Crow juvenile justice system that endured across the nation for most of the twentieth century. In The Black Child Savers, the first study of the rise and fall of Ji...

Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity - Paperback

$61.20

by Mariana Valverde (Author)Toronto prides itself on being "the world's most diverse city," and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the political culture itself. In Everyday Law on the Street, Mariana Valverde brings to light the often unexpected ways that the development and implementation of policies shape everyday urb...

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Ethics, Law and Military Operations - Paperback

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by David Whetham (Editor)Public anger at perceived ethical and legal failures in recent wars has reinforced the importance of understanding military ethics. Ethics, Law and Military Operations is one of the first texts to examine both the ethical and the legal considerations of contemporary military conflict. It adopts a practical approach to explore the ways in which legal and normative issues combine to affect the entire spectrum of military operations, from high-intensity conflict to peace...

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by Lisa Cherkassky (Author), Julia Cressey (Author), Christopher Gale (Author)A comprehensive and accessible guide to the academic and practical skills needed in the study of law, including essential techniques for legal research, reasoning, writing, advocacy, negotiation, interviewing and advising. Also features an extensive section on career development.Back JacketA comprehensive guide to the academic and practical skills needed in the study of law, Legal Skills contains a wealth of essenti...

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Law and War: International Law and American History - Hardcover

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by Peter Maguire (Author)In this classic text, Peter Maguire follows America's legal relationship with war, both before and after the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s. Maguire argues that the precedents set by the trials were nothing less than revolutionary, and he traces the development of these new attitudes throughout American history. The text has been revised throughout, with a new preface and postscript discussing the George W. Bush administration's attempt to rewrite the laws of war after...

Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider's Journey - Paperback

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by Robert J. Durán (Author)Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct experience with gangs, Durán completes the first-ever study to follow so many marginalized groups so intensely for so long, revealing their core characteristics, behavior, and...

The Most Fundamental Right: Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act - Paperback

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by Daniel McCool (Editor), Debo P. Adegbile (Contribution by), Edward Blum (Contribution by)Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South. While portions of the Act are permanent, certain provisions were set to expire in 2007. Reauthorization of these provisions passed by a wide margin in the House, and unanimously in the Senate, but the lo...

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by William J. Chambliss (Editor), Marjorie S. Zatz (Editor)" . . . a distinct, broad, but compelling framework for examining a variety of laws and social policies." --Legal Studies Forum" . . . a very rich volume that has something to offer to many different tastes . . . an excellent companion to the main textbook in a large undergraduate law-and-society course." --Contemporary SociologyNo issue has captured the imagination of social scientists and legal scholars more consistently than the cr...

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by Cass R. Sunstein (Author)Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks. Others argue that people should be able to eat and drink whatever they like. Some people are alarmed about climate change and favor aggressive government...

Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer?: Homilies, Witnesses, and Reflections - Paperback

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by Thomas E. Baker (Editor), Timothy W. Floyd (Editor)Law professors Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd asked some of their legal colleagues to respond to this provocative question: "Can a good Christian be a good lawyer?" Here are twenty-one highly personal narratives that answer the question of how each writer tries, sometimes but not always successfully, to be both a good Christian and a good lawyer.How does a lawyer called to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ reconcile his or her faith wi...

Burnout in Probation and Corrections - Hardcover

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by John T. Whitehead (Author)John T. Whitehead analyzes the extent and causes of job burnout in probation officers and correctional officers. Challenging models of burnout that focus on individual-level causes, Whitehead demonstrates that the findings support an organization model of the sources of job burnout -- a finding that has significant implications for managerial policy aimed at reducing burnout. Further, Whitehead shows that while burnout appears to be a serious problem for a sizeabl...

From the Bench to the Witness Stand - Paperback

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by Enrique Vázquez Quintana (Author)When a renowned Puerto Rican surgeon is slapped with a malpractice suit out of nowhere that defies all trustworthy existing scientific knowledge, he must face the absurdity and injustice of all levels of the local courts up to the P.R. Supreme Court, and later advance to Appellate and Supreme Courts of the U.S. He describes his insights into the failures of the system toward common citizens and the backroom deals that define our legal practices: the faulty,...

The Responsible Judge: Readings in Judicial Ethics - Paperback

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by John T. Noonan Jr. (Editor), Kenneth I. Winston (Editor), John T. Noonan Jr. (Other)Society and individual members thereof who approach the court in conscience desire justice. They place their hope not only in the knowledge but also in the morality of the judges. At a time when the values of the judiciary are under intense scrutiny, Noonan and Winston present an extensive, highly informed collection of readings with commentary and explication. They address the concept and role of judge, ...

Courts of Law Not Courts of Justice: Why Justice is Hard to Find in America - Paperback

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by Eric D. Oberer (Author)What if I told you that the American criminal justice system has never been about, is not set up to seek out, and is not equipped to find, justice -- at least "justice" as understood by most? In many ways, it was designed this way by the Founding Fathers based on Benjamin Franklin's vision that "it is better a hundred guilty persons should escape than one innocent person should suffer." Americans are taught that justice means fairness. They expect it from our legal s...

Essentials of Amateur Sports Law: Second Edition - Hardcover

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by Glenn M. Wong (Author)In this thoroughly revised Second Edition, Glenn Wong updates and adds to his already highly successful First Editon. He addresses the significant changes that have come about in amateur sports law and administrative practice over the last several years. These changes impact amateur athletic associations; athletes' rights; administrative procedures; and the liability of sponsoring organizations. Issues of special topicality and importance, including women's sports, dr...

Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954 - Hardcover

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by George H. Hodos (Author)Show Trials combines first-hand knowledge with hitherto unpublished, confidential material, to offer a penetrating and candid account of the Stalinist purges that occurred in Albanian, East German, Bulgarian, and Rumanian purges, as well as in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. George Hodos shows how these trials played a pivotal role in consolidating Soviet domination over the satellite countries during Stalin's lifetime. As an important addition to our understan...

Economic Law and Economic Growth: Antitrust, Regulation, and the American Growth System - Paperback

$63.00

by George E. Garvey (Author), Gerald J. Garvey (Author)This volume provides a practical answer to, among other questions, Whither public law after the Chicago School'? Using perspectives from American history, economic theory, and legal analysis, the Garvey's take an interdisciplinary approach to U.S. public law and policy--antitrust and regulation--and develop the essential unity of the two major fields based on a clearly written summary of pertinent microeconomic principles. They establish...

Peacekeeping: Outspoken Observations by a Field Officer - Hardcover

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by James H. Allan (Author), John a. English (Foreword by)This study argues, based on the author's firsthand experience with five United Nations peacekeeping missions, that classic peacekeepers in the Cold War era could play a limited but nonetheless useful role in international conflict control. However, in the post-Cold War period, some new approaches to peacekeeping and ventures into enforcement have been unsuccessful, and the United Nations has lost much credibility in the art of peacekeep...

Anticompetitive Practices in Japan: Their Impact on the Performance of Foreign Firms - Hardcover

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by Masaaki Kotabe (Author), Kent W. Wheiler (Author)The U.S.-Japan bilateral trade relationship is perhaps the most consequential and the most tumultuous in the world. Government and business leaders devote substantial time and effort to resolving the stream of disputes that arise between the two allies and trading partners. Many of the issues are rooted in the perception that Japan's impressive economic success may be due in some degree to anticompetitive practices through which Japan's dome...

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The Dirty Secrets of Divorce: Or What Your Lawyer Won't Dare Tell You - Paperback

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by Renee E. Mazer (Author) Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.2 x 10.8 x 8.3 IN Publication Date: July 16, 2023

The Lochnercourt, Myth and Reality: Substantive Due Process from the 1890s to the 1930s - Hardcover

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by Michael J. Phillips (Author)Conventional wisdom holds that the Lochner Court illegitimately used the Constitution's due process clauses to strike down Progressive legislation designed to protect the poor and powerless against big business. This book systematically examines all of the U.S. Supreme Court's substantive due process cases from 1897 through 1937 and finds that they do not support long-held beliefs about the Lochner Court. The Court was more Progressive than commonly imagined, st...

Decolonising the Neoliberal University: Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest - Paperback

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by Jaco Barnard-Naude (Editor)Taking the postcolonial - or, more specifically, the post-apartheid - university as its focus, the book focuses on the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony. Author BiographyJaco Barnard-Naudé is Professor of Jurisprudence in the Department of Private Law, University of Cape Town. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: May 31, 2023

Murder Was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic - Paperback

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by Judy E. Gaughan (Author)Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, Murder Was Not a Crime describes a legal system through which families (rather than the government) were given the power to mete out punishment for murder. With implications t...

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Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed - Paperback

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by Alexandra Harmon (Author)In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included arresting non-Indians for minor offenses, and two of those arrests triggered federal litigation that had big implications for Indian tribes' place in the American political system. Tribal governments had long sought to manage affairs in their territories, and their bid...

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by C. E. Brand (Author)Rome was the law-giver for much of the modern world. She was also the greatest military power of antiquity, operating her military organization with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness throughout most of the then-known world. In view of the importance of both the legal and military aspects of the Roman Empire, an account of their combination in a system of disciplinary control for the Roman armies is of considerable significance to historians in both fields-and, in ...

True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories - Paperback

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by Robert E. Hegel (Author)The little-examined genre of legal case narratives is represented in this fascinating volume, the first collection translated into English of criminal cases - most involving homicide - from late imperial China. These true stories of crimes of passion, family conflict, neighborhood feuds, gang violence, and sedition are a treasure trove of information about social relations and legal procedure.Each narrative describes circumstances leading up to a crime and its disco...

The Great Ming Code / Da Ming lu - Paperback

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by Jiang Yonglin (Translator)Imperial China's dynastic legal codes provide a wealth of information for historians, social scientists, and scholars of comparative law and of literary, cultural, and legal history. Until now, only the Tang (618-907 C.E.) and Qing (1644-1911 C.E.) codes have been available in English translation. The present book is the first English translation of The Great Ming Code (Da Ming lu), which reached its final form in 1397. The translation is preceded by an introducto...

Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: The Reception of Western Law - Paperback

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by Tay-Sheng Wang (Author)Taiwan's modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the People's Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895. Japan has gradually adopted Western law during the 19th-century and when it occupied Taiwan--a frontier society composed of Han Chinese settlers--its codes were instituted for the purpose of rapidly assimilating the Taiwanese people into Japanese society.Tay-sheng Wang's comprehensive study lays a solid f...

Historical Justice and Memory - Paperback

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by Klaus Neumann (Editor)Historical Justice and Memory highlights the global movement for historical justice-acknowledging and redressing historic wrongs-as one of the most significant moral and social developments of our times. Such historic wrongs include acts of genocide, slavery, systems of apartheid, the systematic persecution of presumed enemies of the state, colonialism, and the oppression of or discrimination against ethnic or religious minorities. The historical justice movement has ...