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Remaking Domestic Intelligence by Richard A. Posner
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817946814Author Richard A. PosnerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S... -
The Problems of Jurisprudence by Richard A. Posner 9780674708761
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56In this book, one of our country's most distinguished scholar-judges shares with us his vision of the law. For the past two thousand years, the philosophy of law has been dominated by two rival... -
Overcoming Law by Richard A. Posner 9780674649262
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.35Legal theory must become more factual and empirical and less conceptual and polemical, Richard Posner argues in this wide-ranging new book. The topics covered include the structure and behavior of... -
How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.18A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide... -
Aging and Old Age by Richard A. Posner
Booksplease Price: £26.68Are the elderly posing a threat to America's political system with their enormous clout? Are they stretching resources to the breaking point with their growing demands for care? Economist and legal... -
The Economics of Justice by Richard A. Posner 9780674235267
Booksplease Price: £40.88Richard A. Posner is probably the leading scholar in the rapidly growing field of the economics of law; he is also an extremely lucid writer. In this book, he applies economic theory to four areas of... -
Reflections on Judging by Richard A. Posner 9780674725089
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £33.62Presents the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. The author calls for legal realism - gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion... -
Law and Literature: Third Edition by Richard A. Posner
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.35Hailed in its first edition as an "outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished" (New York Times), Law and Literature has handily lived up to the Washington Post's... -
Posner Thoughts: Annotated by Richard a Posner 9780991116348
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991116348Author Richard a PosnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Inter AliasPublisher Inter... -
Frontiers of Legal Theory by Richard A. Posner 9780674013605
Booksplease Price: £35.10The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies-the application of the social sciences and the humanities to law in the hope... -
Antitrust Law, Second Edition by Richard A Posner
Booksplease Price: £31.37When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then... -
Catastrophe: Risk and Response by Richard A. Posner 9780195306477
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.70Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox... -
The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses by Richard A. Posner
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. Skewering the politicization of the... -
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy by Richard A. Posner 9780674062191
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.57Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies... -
Economic Foundations of Private Law Richard A. Posner 9781843760719
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £41.09This paperback reader brings together some seminal papers on law and economics, with special emphasis on the foundational contributions to the economics of property, contracts and torts. The growing... -
Antitrust Law, Second Edition Richard A. Posner 9780226675763
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.85When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard A. Posner's exposition and defence of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then... -
Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary by Richard A. Posner 9780674286030
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £33.18Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges-at the risk... -
A Guide to America's Sex Laws by Richard A. Posner 9780226675640
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Sex, although considered by many in our culture the quintessential private activity, is blanketed by a large number and variety of laws. This text presents a concise compendium of the America's sex... -
A Guide to America's Sex Laws by Richard A. Posner 9780226675657
Booksplease Price: £23.87A Guide to America's Sex Laws is the first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws. It summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity, revealing gaps, anachronisms, anomalies,... -
Law and Legal Theory in England and America by Richard A. Posner 9780198264712
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £66.22Richard Posner is famous throughout the legal world for his pioneering and controversial espousal of the belief that the study of law cannot be divorced from the study of economics. Here, in this... -
A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression by Richard A. Posner 9780674060395
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £24.89The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that... -
Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform by Richard A. Posner 9780742551275
Booksplease Price: £18.18Ever since the publication in 2004 of the 9/11 Commission Report, the U.S. intelligence community has been in the throes of a convulsive movement for reform. In Preventing Surprise Attacks (2005),... -
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment and Trial of President Clinton by Richard A. Posner 9780674003910
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.37President Bill Clinton's year of crisis, which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998, engendered a host of important questions of criminal and constitutional... -
Ill Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud and Kindred Puzzles of the Law by Leo Katz
Booksplease Price: £26.68In Ill-Gotten Gains, Leo Katz describes the underlying principles that not only guide the law but also moral decisions. Mixing wit with insight, anecdotes with analysis, Katz uncovers what is really... -
Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism by Gary S. Becker
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.78On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize - winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal... -
Cost-benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic and Philosophical Perspectives by Matthew D. Adler 9780226007632
Booksplease Price: £18.16Cost-benefit analysis is a widely used governmental evaluation tool, though academics remain skeptical. This volume gathers prominent contributors from law, economics, and philosophy for discussion... -
Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism by Gary S. Becker 9780226041018
Booksplease Price: £27.92On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize - winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal... -
Efficiency Instead of Justice? by Klaus Mathis 9781402097973
Booksplease Price: £90.56Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems... -
Efficiency Instead of Justice?: Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law by Klaus Mathis 9789048182039
Booksplease Price: £91.52Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems... -
Criminal Justice: Nomos XXVII by Ronald Pennock
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £76.92This, the twenty-seventh volume in the annual series of publications by the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, features a number of distinguised contributors addressing the topic of... -
Cognition and Economics by Elisabeth Krecke 9780762313785
RRP: £120.99Booksplease Price: £100.90The cognitive sciences, having emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, are recently experiencing a spectacular renewal which cannot leave unaffected any discipline that deals with human... -
The Vote: Bush, Gore and the Supreme Court by Cass R. Sunstein
Booksplease Price: £23.87Though George W. Bush took office in January, the nation is still recovering from the prolonged and complex process by which he was elected. The Florida electoral controversy and the subsequent... -
Patterns of American Jurisprudence by Neil Duxbury 9780198264910
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £44.92This unique study offers a comprehensive analysis of American jurisprudence from its emergence in the later stages of the nineteenth century through to the present day. The author argues that it is a... -
Policy and Pragmatism in the Conflict of Laws by Michael J. Whincop 9781138703346
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This title was first published in 2001. After languishing for decades in the domains of rigid doctrinalism and confusing theory, the conflict of laws is increasingly being recognized as an important... -
Policy and Pragmatism in the Conflict of Laws by Michael J. Whincop 9781138703315
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £73.69This title was first published in 2001. After languishing for decades in the domains of rigid doctrinalism and confusing theory, the conflict of laws is increasingly being recognized as an important... -
Markets, Morals, and the Law by Jules L. Coleman 9780199253609
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £70.95This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms... -
The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions by David M. Dorsen 9781107184107
Booksplease Price: £32.42Antonin Scalia was one of the most important, outspoken, and controversial Justices in the past century. His endorsements of originalism, which requires deciding cases as they would have been decided... -
Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions Bradin Cormack 9780226924939
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an... -
The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking About the Law by Ward Farnsworth
Booksplease Price: £25.93There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than... -
The Myth of Rights: The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional Rights by Ashutosh Bhagwat 9780199897742
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.41What 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,...