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The Law Code of Manu by Patrick Olivelle
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Manu was seated, when the great seers came up to him: "Please, Lord, tell us the Laws of all the social classes, as well as of those born in between..."' The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India... -
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns
$64.45Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America,... -
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things by Sir William Blackstone
RRP: $49.71$42.86Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of... -
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book III: Of Private Wrongs by Sir William Blackstone
RRP: $49.71$42.86Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of... -
The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial by Lawrence Douglas 9780691178257
RRP: $35.08$27.42In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975,... -
Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age by Allen D. Boyer 9780804776592
RRP: $50.68$43.76Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the first judge to strike down a law, gave us modern common law by turning medieval common law inside-out. Through his resisting strong-minded kings, he bore witness for judicial independence. Coke is the earliest judge still... -
Law and Society in England 1750-1950 by Rebecca Probert
RRP: $87.73$79.48Law and Society in England 1750-1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between... -
A History of American Law by Lawrence M. Friedman 9780190070892
$79.05Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the... -
Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution & the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law by Ellis Sandoz 9780865977099
RRP: $17.45$14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977099Author Ellis SandozFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 644g -
The Madman and the Churchrobber: Law and Conflict in Early Modern England by Jason Peacey 9780192897138
RRP: $78.96$72.70This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations of two families from the mid-sixteenth century to the... -
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher 9780195145885
$46.51Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, this masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure-the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned decision in history." On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney... -
The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975 by Peter Charles Hoffer
RRP: $46.80$44.91The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hold... -
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book IV: Of Public Wrongs by Sir William Blackstone
RRP: $49.71$42.86Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of... -
Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries by Shyamkrishna Balganesh
RRP: $234.00$210.58Wesley Hohfeld is known the world over as the legal theorist who famously developed a taxonomy of legal concepts. His contributions to legal thinking have stood the test of time, remaining relevant nearly a century after they were first published. Yet,... -
The Law and the Constitution by Sir Ivor Jennings
RRP: $48.65$43.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014507310Author Sir Ivor JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? by Mark A. Graber 9780190919719
RRP: $72.13$67.82Is the world facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracy? There is a genuine debate about the meaning of the various political events that have, for many scholars and observers, generated a feeling of deep foreboding about... -
Tying the Knot by Rebecca Probert
RRP: $44.83$44.56The Marriage Act 1836 established the foundations of modern marriage law, allowing couples to marry in register offices and non-Anglican places of worship for the first time. Rebecca Probert draws on an exceptionally wide range of primary sources to... -
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by Albie Sachs
RRP: $60.43$52.20From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation and eventually blown up by a car bomb which cost him his right arm and... -
To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment by Robert J. Cottrol 9780700635719
RRP: $115.05$93.31In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction to... -
Criminals and Enemies by Austin Sarat 9781625343932
RRP: $46.70$38.01Key binaries like public/private and speech/conduct are mainstays of the liberal legal system. However, the pairing of criminal/enemy has received little scholarly attention by comparison. Bringing together a group of distinguished and disciplinarily... -
Canadian State Trials, Volume V: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990 by Barry Wright 9781487546038
$123.34The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period 1939 to 1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars shed light on experiences during the Second World War and its... -
Faith, Force, and Reason: An Armchair History of the Rule of Law by David Beatty 9781487540821
$67.08Faith, Force, and Reason follows the evolution of the rule of law from its birth in the marshes of Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago to its battle against apartheid in South Africa in the last twenty-five years. It is recounted through the voices of... -
Controversies in the Common Law: Tracing the Contributions of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin by Vanessa Gruben 9781487540722
$98.18Beverley McLachlin was the first woman to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Joining the Court while it was establishing its approach to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, McLachlin aided the court in weathering the public... -
Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s by Luca Falciola 9781469670287
RRP: $212.55$172.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469670287Author Luca FalciolaFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina Press -
Trial of Saddam Hussein by Abdul Haq al-Ani 9780932863584
RRP: $35.08$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863584Author Abdul Haq al-AniFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary M. Cronin 9780809334728
RRP: $81.80$68.89Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable... -
John Rawls: Volume 10 by Catherine Audard 9780773532373
$51.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773532373Author Catherine AudardFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University... -
Russia's Legal Fictions by Harriet Murav 9780472108794
$174.19Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and... -
The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education by Black Issues in Higher Education 9780471649267
$33.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471649267Author Black Issues in Higher EducationFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing... -
The Goldmark Case: An American Libel Trial by William L. Dwyer 9780295994864
RRP: $50.68$45.36In 1962 John Goldmark, cattle rancher, Harvard Law School graduate, and distinguished three-term state legislator for a lightly populated area in north central Washington, was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for reelection. He and his wife, Sally, had... -
The Trial in American Life by Robert A. Ferguson 9780226243252
$68.89In a bravura performance that ranges from Aaron Burr to O. J. Simpson, Robert A. Ferguson traces the legal meaning and cultural implications of prominent American trials across the history of the nation. His interdisciplinary investigation carries him... -
Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution by Frank Pommersheim 9780195373066
RRP: $238.88$203.15Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of the ways that Indian tribal sovereignty is recognized within the Constitution and as it has been interpreted and misinterpreted through legal analysis and practice over the intervening decades. Built on a... -
The History of Nebraska Law by Alan G. Gless 9780821417874
$108.26In the aftermath of the Civil War, legislators in the Nebraska Territory grappled with the responsibility of forming a state government as well as with the larger issues of reconstructing the Union, protecting civil rights, and redefining federal-state... -
Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence by Thomas Kuehn 9780472112449
$192.08As far back as Jacob Burckhardt, illegitimate children have been considered advantaged, insofar as they lacked family obligations. Celebrated Renaissance figures such as Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, and da Vinci were born illegitimately. Of course,... -
The Last Waltz of the Law of Nations: A Translation of The 1803 Edition of The Institutions of Natural Law and the Law of Nations by Joseph-Mathias Gerard de Rayneval 9780198725138
$216.29This work is a translation of de Raynevals 1803 classic The Institutions of Natural Law and the Law of Nations. Having been translated into Spanish shortly after its appearance, The Institutions was the reference point of international law for much of... -
Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish: The Arkansas Supreme Court, 1836-1874 by J. W. Looney 9781682260043
RRP: $136.50$116.16During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in the new state of Arkansas developed amid huge social change. While the legislature could, and did, determine what issues were considered of importance to the populace, the Arkansas Supreme Court... -
Law's Mistakes by Austin Sarat 9781625341938
RRP: $46.70$38.01From false convictions to botched executions, from erroneous admission of evidence in a criminal trial to misunderstandings that arise in the process of creating contracts, law is awash in mistakes. These mistakes can be unintentional deviations from... -
The Federal Court of Canada: A History, 1875-1992 by Ian Bushnell 9781487587246
RRP: $79.95$72.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487587246Author Ian BushnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Body Legal in Barbarian Law by Lisi Oliver 9781487547707
RRP: $60.45$55.09The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs,... -
The History of Michigan Law by Paul Finkelman 9780821416617
$108.13The History of Michigan Law offers the first serious survey of Michigan's rich legal past. Michigan legislators have played a leading role in developing modern civil rights law, protecting the environment, and assuring the right to counsel for those...