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Civil justice has been undergoing a massive transformation. There have been big changes in the management of judicial business; the Human Rights Act 1988 has had a pervasive impact; the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 has effected many changes - notably,...

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A behind-the-scenes examination of the special court dedicated to claims that vaccines have caused harm The so-called vaccine court is a small special court in the United States Court of Federal Claims that handles controversial claims that a vaccine...

Drawing on extensive research from Australia, this book examines the experiences of sexual offence victims who submit a victim impact statement. Victim impact statements are used in sentencing to outline the harm caused to victims. There has been little...

In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to Oliver W. Holmes to Warren E. Burger, with a new chapter...

Vagueness leads to indeterminacies in the application of the law in many cases. This book responds to the challenges that those indeterminacies pose to a theory of law and adjudication. The book puts controversies in legal theory in a new light, using...

In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal...

This open access book provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary access to justice in England and Wales.Legal aid lawyers provide a critical function in supporting individuals to address a range of problems. These are problems that commonly...

This book brings together an international group of experts to present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and courts. With contributors from the UK, Germany, Italy, Norway, Cyprus, Israel, Canada and the USA, this volume explores some...

In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807000366Author Mark TushnetFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

In response to the weaknesses of international tribunals and domestic courts in the prosecution of crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, a new generation of "internationalized" criminal courts has been established. This book...

In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high...

Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In...

A lucid, lively, and definitive one-volume history of the USA's highest court. Schwartz ranges from the earliest history of court dress to history's most important cases in this illuminating examination.About the AuthorBernard Schwartz is Chapman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of School Library Journal Best Books of the Year - Adult 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780307594884Author Sonia SotomayorFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A...

The laws of AEthelbert of Kent (ca. 600), Hlohere and Eadric (685x686), and Wihtred (695), are the earliest laws from Anglo-Saxon England, and the first Germanic laws written in the vernacular. They are of unique importance as the only extant early...

The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision making is a perennially divisive subject among scholars of law and American politics. The debate rages over both empirical and normative aspects of the issue: To what extent are the Supreme Court,...

Judging and Emotion investigates how judicial officers understand, experience, display, manage and deploy emotions in their everyday work, in light of their fundamental commitment to impartiality.Judging and Emotion challenges the conventional assumption...

This pioneering book explores the intersections of law and culture at the International Criminal Court (ICC), offering insights into how notions of culture affect the Court's legal foundations, functioning and legitimacy, both in theory and in practice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984323Author Sandra Day O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956470154Author Elizabeth WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Redwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Redwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Why is legal prose so hard to read? One reason is obvious: Legal writers rarely think about their audience. When legal writers account for the preferences and expectations of their readers, legal writing can be sublime. Lucid. Easy to navigate and simple...

In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large. Born in northern Ontario to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Laskin became a prominent human rights activist, university professor, and labour arbitrator before...

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Federalism - including its meanings and limits - remains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law. To fully understand its importance, we must turn to a landmark decision nearly two centuries old. M'Culloch v. Maryland (1819) is widely...

This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan response to the varied legal questions of the past century. Canvassing the Court's jurisprudential history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462361850Author Daley BirkettFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Eleven International PublishingPublisher Eleven International PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543813715Author Erwin ChemerinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1184Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher Aspen PublishingWeight(grams) 1678gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035869411Author Bertie AngammanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The chief mandate of the criminal justice system is not to prosecute the guilty but to safeguard the innocent from wrongful convictions; with this startling assertion, legal scholar George Thomas launches his critique of the U.S. system and its emphasis...

Any court watcher knows that the Supreme Court of Canada delivers some of its major constitutional judgments in a "By the Court" format. The abandonment of the common law tradition of attributing decisions to individual judges in favour of an anonymous...

Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Addressing current controversies – including the invocation of the federal Emergencies...

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Emphasizes the role history and historical narratives play in constitutional adjudication. Uitz provocatively draws attention to the often-tense relationship between the constitution and historical precedence highlighting the interpretive and normative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757000430Author Robert W. SchachnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552211878Author Francois LarocqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Irwin Law IncPublisher Irwin Law IncWeight(grams) 512g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552210291Author Allan MansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Irwin Law IncPublisher Irwin Law IncWeight(grams) 580gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 151mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552210925Author Jamie CasselsFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Irwin Law IncPublisher Irwin Law IncWeight(grams) 705g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788176295123Author N. M. BilalFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Deep & Deep PublicationsPublisher Deep & Deep Publications