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Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture by Sybille Kramer 9781783489763
Booksplease Price: £51.20What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is... -
Critical Directions in Comics Studies by Thomas Giddens 9781496828996
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher... -
Critical Directions in Comics Studies by Thomas Giddens 9781496829009
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher... -
Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory by Val rie Hayaert 9781474487481
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.71Dismembers and remembers the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in a wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of Iustitia Presents an original theory of the blindfold on Justice... -
Political Grammars: The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy by Davide Tarizzo 9781503614680
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In... -
Synesthetic Legalities: Sensory Dimensions of Law and Jurisprudence by Sarah Marusek
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Synesthesia is the phenomenon where sensual perceptions are joined together as a combined experience - that is, the ability to feel color, hear the visual, or even smell emotion. These types of... -
After Law by L de Sutter
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law... -
After Law by L de Sutter 9781509542369
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law... -
Political Grammars: The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy by Davide Tarizzo
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Do we need to be a "people," populus, in order to embrace democracy and live together in peace? If so, what is a populus? Is it by definition a nation? What exactly do we mean by nationality? In... -
Law and Philosophical Theory: Critical Intersections by Thanos Zartaloudis 9781786602657
Booksplease Price: £41.66This important collection explores contemporary legal thought (and thought about the law more generally) in relation to its interdisciplinary critical engagement with philosophy, in particular... -
Stories About Science in Law: Literary and Historical Images of Acquired Expertise by David S. Caudill 9781138261365
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Presenting examples of how literary accounts can provide a supplement to our understanding of science in law, this book challenges the view that law and science are completely different. It focuses... -
Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory Val rie Hayaert 9781474487498
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.86Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory leaves conventional readings of this pivotal figure in European legal history far behind. Hayaert's study brings together an analysis of thousands of images from... -
Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law by Alain Supiot
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15In this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse. He argues that the law is how justice is implemented in secular society, but it... -
Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture by Casey Charles
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Critical Queer Studies examines contemporary films and documentaries that dramatize the intersection of law and queer life, analyzing the effects of legal doctrines-jury selection, unwanted sexual... -
Neglected Policies: Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education by Ira L. Strauber 9780822330417 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £3.60In Neglected Policies, Ira L. Strauber challenges scholars and critics of constitutional jurisprudence to think differently about the Constitution and its interpretation. He argues that important... -
Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship by Mark S. Weiner 9780814793640
Booksplease Price: £90.57Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls... -
Language and Law: A resource book for students Alan Durant 9781138025578
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law: describes the... -
Neglected Policies: Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education by Ira L. Strauber 9780822330417
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In Neglected Policies, Ira L. Strauber challenges scholars and critics of constitutional jurisprudence to think differently about the Constitution and its interpretation. He argues that important... -
Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship by Mark S. Weiner 9780814793657
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £11.79Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls... -
Neglected Policies: Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education by Ira L. Strauber 9780822329459 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.81In Neglected Policies, Ira L. Strauber challenges scholars and critics of constitutional jurisprudence to think differently about the Constitution and its interpretation. He argues that important... -
Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London) 9780745665443
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using... -
Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe by Costas Douzinas 9780745665436
Booksplease Price: £55.99This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using... -
Categories of the Impolitical by Roberto Esposito
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £87.55The notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories, which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely... -
Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond by Joseph S. Jenkins 9781138267138
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates... -
Archiving Sovereignty: Law, History, Violence by Stewart Motha 9780472053865
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.78Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the... -
Poverty Law and Legal Activism: Lives that Slide Out of View by Adam Gearey
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist... -
Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction Marco Wan 9781138606166
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active... -
Archiving Sovereignty: Law, History, Violence by Stewart Motha 9780472073863
Booksplease Price: £74.70Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the... -
Eichmann's Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945 Doron Rabinovici 9780745646824
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79The question of the collaboration of Jews with the Nazi regime during the persecution and extermination of European Jewry is one of the most difficult and sensitive issues surrounding the Holocaust... -
Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought Justin Desautels-Stein 9781107150676
Booksplease Price: £116.90For more than a century, law schools have trained students to 'think like a lawyer'. In these times of legal crisis, both in legal education and in global society, what does that mean for the rest of... -
Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought by Justin Desautels-Stein 9781316605028
Booksplease Price: £39.70For more than a century, law schools have trained students to 'think like a lawyer'. In these times of legal crisis, both in legal education and in global society, what does that mean for the rest of... -
Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts by Marianne Constable
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or... -
Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts by Marianne Constable 9780804774932
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or... -
Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts by Desmond Manderson 9781107158665
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £94.41The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning... -
Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts by Desmond Manderson
Booksplease Price: £32.12The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning... -
The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition by Roger Berkowitz 9780823231911
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88The front pages of our newspapers and the chatter on the blogs bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. Highly paid lawyers mine the law for loopholes to help Fortune 500 corporations legally... -
Ways of Remembering: Volume 1: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India Oishik Sircar 9781316512814
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £101.09Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom-postcolonial India's most litigated and... -
From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect by Greta Olson 9780192856869
Booksplease Price: £86.85From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect argues for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. Traditional methods of Law and Literature are combined with work in critical media studies,... -
Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard by Jill Stauffer
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being heard. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political... -
Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard by Jill Stauffer 9780231171502
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £82.80Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being heard. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political...