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The Myth of Rights: The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional Rights by Ashutosh Bhagwat 9780199897742
Booksplease Price: £49.62What is a constitutional right? If asked, most Americans would say that it is an entitlement to act as one pleases - i.e., that rights protect autonomy. That understanding, however, is wrong; it is,... -
The Myth of Rights: The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional Rights by Ashutosh Bhagwat 9780195377781
Booksplease Price: £66.03What is a constitutional right? If asked, most Americans would say that it is an entitlement to act as one pleases - i.e., that rights protect autonomy. That understanding, however, is wrong; it is,... -
Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era by David M. Dorsen
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive... -
What Caused the Financial Crisis by Jeffrey Friedman 9780812221183
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that... -
The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture by Morris Dickstein
Booksplease Price: £40.11Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after... -
Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law by Steven Shavell 9780674011557
RRP: £90.95Booksplease Price: £73.72What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute... -
Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex by Linda Hirshman 9780195134209
Booksplease Price: £18.30Men and women have always bargained for sex. In Hard Bargains, philosopher-lawyer Linda Hirshman and legal historian Jane Larson provide the first complete analysis ofpower in heterosexual... -
The Unpredictable Constitution by Norman Dorsen 9780814719480
Booksplease Price: £90.87The Unpredictable Constitution brings together a distinguished group of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judges, who are some of our most prominent legal scholars, to discuss an... -
Terrorism and the Constitution: The Post-9/11 Cases by H. L. Pohlman 9780742560413
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book contributes to the ongoing national debate on civil liberties during the war on terrorism by providing easy access to relevant documents from major post-9/11 cases. The book's goal is to... -
Trials Without Truth: Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to Do to Rebuild It by William T. Pizzi 9780814766507
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Uncovers a major deficiency of U.S. criminal justice-a trial system that prioritizes winning over truth Reginald Denny. O. J. Simpson. Colin Ferguson. Louise Woodward: all names that have cast a... -
The Economics of Copyright: Developments in Research and Analysis by Wendy J. Gordon 9781843762638
Booksplease Price: £111.10Presenting a selection of innovative research contributions written by some of the best-known academics in the field, The Economics of Copyright covers issues that are at the forefront of the... -
Dred Scott and the Dangers of a Political Court by Ethan Greenberg 9780739137598
Booksplease Price: £51.20The Dred Scott decision of 1857 is widely (and correctly) regarded as the very worst in the long history of the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision held that no African American could ever be a U.S... -
Economic Analysis of Accident Law by Steven Shavell 9780674024175
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £33.25"[This] is certainly a masterpiece."-Thomas S. Ulen, Journal of Economic Literature"The strength of Shavell's book is its lucid, structured development and explication of the economic model. It... -
Law and Bioethics: Intersections Along the Mortal Coil by George P. Smith II
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24George P. Smith, II is a leading figure in the world of medical law and ethics. During his long career he has addressed some of the most important issues in bioethics and has contributed much... -
Distributive Justice and the New Medicine by George P. Smith II 9781849800624
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.47Is the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of biomedical technologies - known as the 'New Medicine' - desirable? George P. Smith asks this fundamental question while also... -
The Secret Circuit: The Little-Known Court Where the Rules of the Information Age Unfold by Bruce D. Abramson 9780742552814
Booksplease Price: £51.50Imagine a high impact, low profile, nonpartisan government institution located across the street from the White House. Imagine that it plays a central role in shaping our technology industries, in... -
No Magic Wand: The Idealization of Science in Law by David S. Caudill 9780742550230
Booksplease Price: £38.41Since 1993, Supreme Court precedent has asked judges to serve as gatekeepers to their expert witnesses, admitting only reliable scientific testimony. Lacking a strong background in science, however,... -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon: Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law by Allen Mendenhall 9781611487930
Booksplease Price: £44.31This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes's literary style mimics and enacts two... -
The Politics of Judicial Independence: Courts, Politics, and the Public by Bruce Peabody 9780801897726
Booksplease Price: £31.88The judiciary in the United States has been subject in recent years to increasingly vocal, aggressive criticism by media members, activists, and public officials at the federal, state, and local... -
The Politics of Judicial Independence: Courts, Politics, and the Public by Bruce Peabody 9780801897719
Booksplease Price: £56.03The judiciary in the United States has been subject in recent years to increasingly vocal, aggressive criticism by media members, activists, and public officials at the federal, state, and local... -
Originalism as Faith by Eric J. Segall
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Originalism as Faith presents a comprehensive history of the originalism debates. It shows how the doctrine is rarely used by the Supreme Court, but is employed by academics, pundits and judges to... -
Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes by Professor Roger E. Backhouse 9780674057753
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26The Great Recession of 2008 restored John Maynard Keynes to prominence. After decades when the Keynesian revolution seemed to have been forgotten, the great British theorist was suddenly everywhere... -
Under Cover of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity by James R. Hackney
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence. In this authoritative intellectual... -
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Under Cover of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity by James R. Hackney 9780822339816 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £14.99For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence. In this authoritative intellectual... -
Law and Judicial Duty by Philip Hamburger 9780674031319
RRP: £62.95Booksplease Price: £52.00Philip Hamburger's Law and Judicial Duty traces the early history of what is today called "judicial review." Working from previously unexplored evidence, Hamburger questions the very concept of... -
Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice by Axel Gosseries 9780230007093
Booksplease Price: £46.28Fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars address the question 'Can intellectual property rights be fair?' What differentiates intellectual from real property? Should libertarians or... -
Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice by Axel Gosseries 9780230285026
Booksplease Price: £46.74Fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars address the question 'Can intellectual property rights be fair?' What differentiates intellectual from real property? Should libertarians or... -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon: Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law by Allen Mendenhall 9781611487916
Booksplease Price: £76.51This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes's literary style mimics and enacts two... -
A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern 9780691127682
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing... -
Seduction by Contract: Law, Economics, and Psychology in Consumer Markets by Oren Bar-Gill 9780199663378
Booksplease Price: £35.32Consumers routinely enter into long-term contracts with providers of goods and services - from credit cards, mortgages, cell phones, insurance, TV, and internet services to household appliances,... -
Seduction by Contract: Law, Economics, and Psychology in Consumer Markets by Oren Bar-Gill 9780199663361
Booksplease Price: £95.20Consumers routinely enter into long-term contracts with providers of goods and services - from credit cards, mortgages, cell phones, insurance, TV, and internet services to household appliances,... -
Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law by Richard Hyland 9780199843480
Booksplease Price: £72.56Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law is the first broad-based study of the law governing the giving and revocation of gifts ever attempted. Gift-giving is everywhere governed by social and customary... -
The Death Penalty: An American History by Stuart Banner 9780674010833
Booksplease Price: £29.51The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane and barbaric act. But the... -
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice by William J. Stuntz
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.85The rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent... -
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan 9780691146836 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £2.55Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy...