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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991043309Author Walter BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 458Imprint Straylight Publishing, LLCPublisher Straylight Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

It is rarely possible to write biographies of lay people who lived in the Middle Ages. While accounts of clerical, royal, and military life are many, the wider populace has remained in relative obscurity. In Clean Hands and Rough Justice: An...

The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself. The concept of the traditional, unified, reified, civilizing idea of...

For law and legal theory the end of the twentieth century is a time of contradiction; while the newly emerging politics of Eastern Europe seek to establish a new rule of law, voices in this country proclaim the "death of law." For the former, law...

Veterinary Law and Practice in Ireland examines current legislation and case law and how it reflects on veterinary practice and its operation. Legal issues such as employment law, contract law, professional negligence and duty of care are examined...

Recently a new battle has emerged between science and religion. The battle has focused on intelligent design (ID) and the numerous legal, philosophical and educational concerns surrounding it. Resolution of these concerns centers on two questions: Is ID...

This book on constructing a legal right to housing in India seeks to achieve three ends: first, examine the costs incurred in translating a moral right into the language of the law; second, unpack the ways in which existing law and policy impact the...

The present work is the only complete translation into English of a Middle Persian text written about 955 A.D. which tells us about the legal problems of Zoroastrians living in Iran under Muslim rule. The form of the book is a series of dogmatic...

Looks at the role of refugees in international relations.Refugees may flee their country, but can they escape the confining, defining logic of all the voices that speak for them? As refugees multiply in our troubled world, more and more scholars,...

The investigation of crime is a core function of An Garda Siochana. As a result, the arrest, detention and questioning of criminal suspects is a routine process in Garda investigations. The legal architecture that permits such questioning is a...

Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Yet for all the...

Law and Practice: Essays on Reform is a new publication from the Law Society of Ireland and Clarus Press and edited by two of Ireland's leading legal minds and commentators, Geoffrey Shannon and Eoin O'Dell. Thirty-four award winning essays, spanning the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231076081Author The American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher...

University courses in environmental economics tend to focus almost exclusively on the role of the state in protecting the environment. However, as these essays show, some less trepid students have discovered that individuals can and do protect the...

A value pack compiled for all Journalism students which maps to NCTJ-accredited coursesBook InformationISBN 9780198818670Author Reader in Journalism James MorrisonPage Count 1208Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University...

In Britain the costs of justice - to taxpayers and litigants - have been rising faster than GDP. For efficiency reasons and to encourage innovation, reform is required and some action is already underway. But reform is complicated because 'justice' is a...

For most of the ninety-three years between 1851, when the California State Legislature faced the problem of what to do with criminals, until 1944, when it finally organized the state's four prisons into one adult penal system, the prisons at San Quentin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615453187Author Richard a NixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Richard a Nixon EsqPublisher Richard a Nixon EsqWeight(grams) 286g

An Introduction to Media Law and Ethics equips future journalists with a fundamental foundation of legal knowledge while underscoring the importance of journalism in preserving a democratic society.During the course of 15 chapters, students learn about...

Consolidated Treaties of International Agreements is the only up-to-date publication available that offers the full-text coverage of all new treaties and international agreements to which the United States is a party. Treaties that have been formally...

In Red Zones, Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, and Celine Bellot examine the court-imposed territorial restrictions and other bail and sentencing conditions that are increasingly issued in the context of criminal proceedings. Drawing on extensive...

Earl Warren and the Warren Court comprises essays written by leading experts from the fields of law, history, and social science on the most important areas of the Warren Court's contributions in American law. In addition, Scheiber includes appraisals of...

Earl Warren and the Warren Court comprises essays written by leading experts from the fields of law, history, and social science on the most important areas of the Warren Court's contributions in American law. In addition, Scheiber includes appraisals of...

The countries of China, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand are brought together for the first time in an integrated and systematic work outlining each country's cultural themes, cultural practices, and...

The contention that the provision of European Directives on functional legal requirements for digital signature validity solves a core problem of electronic commerce can at best be called naive. The catch-phrase 'what holds off line, holds online' may be...

Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses. In response to new problems, changing power structures, changing societal norms and new faces...

This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary 'law and' field. Each chapter is written by an expert in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634635943Author Darlene StarrFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 332g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598047882Author Kathryn Venturators LorioFormat PaperbackPage Count 758Imprint Claitor's Pub DivisionPublisher Claitor's Pub DivisionWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498294089Author Evelyne Fiechter-WidemannFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The year 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the 1867 Constitution Act. Anniversaries like these are often seized upon as opportunities for retrospection. This volume, by contrast, takes a distinctively forward-looking approach...

Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference. Yet the relationship between law and religion...

Commissions of inquiry are a vital and ubiquitous part of the Canadian policy landscape. Established to answer the tough questions, they have been charged with examining almost every aspect of public life. This collection brings together leading...

Strategic A2/AD in Cyberspace focuses on exclusion from cyberspace, or the ability of a state to be cut off entirely from cyberspace. Strategic anti-access and area denial (A2/AD) operations are common in other domains, but, before now, they have not...

The most complete, credible, and authentic business law text available, the Sixteenth Edition of SMITH & ROBERSON'S BUSINESS LAW by Richard A. Mann and Barry S. Roberts continues a long tradition of accuracy, thoroughness, and consistent coverage of the...

Do we believe the law good because it is just, or is it just because we think it is good? This collection of essays addresses the relationship of justice to law through the works of Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and the Islamic thinker al...

Judicial Retirement Laws of the Fifty States and the District of Columbia, the first comprehensive work on the subject, brings together a complete survey of existing judicial retirement laws in all fifty-one jurisdictions. Using appropriate...

Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed when they were seen as lowering the status of humans, furthering our distance from the gods or God and moving us toward the animals...

Since the fall of communism, laissez-faire capitalism has experienced renewed popularity. Flush with victory, the United States has embraced a particularly narrow and single-minded definition of capitalism and aggressively exported it worldwide. The...

A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This remarkable study breaks new ground to describe and analyze how Taiwan's legal system worked at the community level. It will be an important reference for understanding how Taiwan society evolved under late...