Law

This book develops a new framework for analyzing the spatio-temporal workings of law and other forms of governance. Chronotopes of Law argues that studies of law and governance can be reinvigorated by drawing on a bundle of quite heterogenous analytical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781297709289Author Office of the Federal Register (Cfr)Format PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Regulations PressPublisher Regulations PressWeight(grams)...

This compact reference book contains the case articles from the prize-winning Oxford Companion to the United States Supreme Court. This new edition of the Guide will contain more than 450 entries on major Supreme Court cases, including 53 new entries on...

What will happen to American democracy? The nation's past holds vital clues for understanding where we are now and where we are headed. In The Cycles of Constitutional Time, the eminent constitutional theorist Jack Balkin explains how America's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979466182Author Onkar GhateFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Ayn Rand InstitutePublisher Ayn Rand InstituteWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The global nature of crime often requires expert witnesses to work and present their conclusions in courts outside their home jurisdiction with the corresponding need for them to have an understanding of the different structures and systems operating in...

The law of occupation imposes two types of obligations on an army that seizes control of enemy land during armed conflict: obligations to respect and protect the inhabitants and their rights, and an obligation to respect the sovereign rights of the...

In 2006, the United Nations urged Member States to ensure that counter terrorism policies guaranteed respect for human rights and the rule of law. This book demonstrates that, in many cases, counter terrorism policies relating to preventive detention,...

Drawing upon original manuscripts and The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, this collection represents the latest scholarship on Bentham's late and mature thought on constitutional law. The contributions cover a diverse range of major topics, from...

By exploring different approaches to the study of labour law, this book re-evaluates how it is conceived, analysed, and criticized in current legislation and policy. In particular, it assesses whether so-called 'old ways' of thinking about the subject,...

The recognition and allocation of indigenous property rights have long posed complex questions for the imperial powers of the mid-nineteenth century and their modern successors. Recognizing rights of property raises questions about pre-existing...

Food fraudsters be warned! Sophisticated science was at the centre of detecting and prosecuting this new crime of food fraud. The ground-breaking case, a first of its kind, needed new sentencing guidelines for judges, new working arrangements for...

The last twenty years have witnessed an astonishing transformation: the fight against corruption has grown from a handful of local undertakings into a truly global effort. Law occupies a central role in that effort and this timely book assesses the...

Though polygraph has been the mainstay for government and police departments since World War II, it has undergone substantial transformation in recent years. Fundamentals of Polygraph Practice bridges the gap between the outmoded practices and today's...

To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, and particularly patterns of expression, many of which had begun to feel not just settled but exhausted. The...

Can a constitutional democracy commit suicide? Can an illiberal antidemocratic party legitimately obtain power through democratic elections and amend liberalism and democracy out of the constitution entirely? In Weimar Germany, these theoretical...

"One of the most important contributions to the field of contract theory-if not the most important-in the past 25 years." -Stephen A. Smith, McGill UniversityCan we account for contract law on a moral basis that is acceptable from the standpoint of...

The Long Arc of Legality breaks the current deadlock in philosophy of law between legal positivism and natural law by showing that any understanding of law as a matter of authority must account for the interaction of enacted law with fundamental...

HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is one of the most influential works of philosophy of the twentieth century, redefining the field of legal philosophy and introducing generations of students to philosophical reflection on the nature of law. Since its...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Negotiations between the UK and the EU have set out how issues like citizenship, trade, the border, human rights and constitutional questions may be resolved. But the long-term impact of Brexit isn't clear. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789077386200Author Tjitske LingsmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Ipso FactoPublisher Ipso FactoWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 23mm

The U.S. Senator from Oregon who is leading the fight to restore the talking filibuster explains how changing just one rule could save our democracyIf we want to fix what ails America, we have to fix the Senate. And if we want to fix the Senate, we must...

A significant revision of a classroom mainstay for the twenty-first centuryA significant revision of a classroom mainstay for the twenty-first centuryAbout the AuthorRichard Delgado, University Professor of Law at Seattle University, is one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601382016Author Gerald ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atlantic Publishing CoPublisher Atlantic Publishing CoWeight(grams) 356g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780414089723Author Jo Boylan- KempFormat PaperbackImprint Sweet & MaxwellPublisher Sweet & Maxwell Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732704671Author Kenneth ClokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Goodmedia PressPublisher Goodmedia PressWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Winner of the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Georgetown Center on the ConstitutionWhy do self-proclaimed constitutional "originalists" so regularly reach decisions with a politically conservative valence? Do "living constitutionalists" claim a license to...

Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques believably answers the question, How do you know when someone is lying? It also provides a guide for interviewing probable suspects and interrogating likely perpetrators on techniques and tradecraft. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999140154Author Robert J MeindlFormat PaperbackPage Count 694Imprint Sophron EditorPublisher Sophron EditorWeight(grams) 912g

Considering general philosophical and theoretical questions about the nature, purpose and operation of law as a whole, this book introduces students to contemporary debates in jurisprudence and encourages them to think in a theoretical and critical way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841741338Author Kay WheatFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 221mm * 152mm * 18mm

This volume assembles leading scholars to examine how their respective theoretical positions relate to the artifactual nature of law. It offers a complete analysis of what is ontologically entailed by the claim that law - including legal systems, legal...

Whether you're a patent examiner, patent attorney, commercial patent searcher, patent liaison, IP librarian, law professor, or competitive intelligence analyst, you'll find Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques to be just the guide you have been waiting...

The nobile officium gives the supreme courts of Scotland jurisdiction to do something out of the ordinary to prevent oppression or injustice where no other remedy or procedure is available. It may be used in any issue justiciable before the courts. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956285584Author Inside JusticeFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Inside JusticePublisher Inside JusticeWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390714Author Jeffrey ToobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Tom Bingham was among the most influential judges of the twentieth century, having occupied in succession the most senior judicial offices, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord, before retiring in 2008, at which point he devoted...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine...

Commercial Contracts for UK Companies: Formation to Exit helps business owners and directors to recognise key legal and compliance issues at an early stage, enriching the level of discourse between the business and its advisers. It provides an...

Intellectual property law has been interacting with nature for over two centuries. Despite this long history, this relationship has largely been ignored. Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature fills this gap by bringing together scholars from...