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  • Liberal Opinions
    William A. Norris / William ANorris
    The life and times of a trailblazing lawyer and judge in American law. Author of the controversial but prescient judicial opinion striking down the ban on gays in the military — two decades before the Supreme Court finally recognized such equal rights — Bill Norris made law and waves on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Yet his legal and civic life before and after, though le...
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    33,86 €

  • Law and Politics at the National Industrial Relations Court 1970-75
    Peter Oldham
    This book gives extraordinary new insights into the legal, political and industrial strife in the UK of the early 1970s, focusing on the National Industrial Relations Court and how its independence came to be injured at a time of national crisis. Constitutional and employment lawyers, and indeed anyone interested in the history of the times, will not want to be without this dee...
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    154,49 €

  • Impeachment in a Global Context
    This book considers the use of impeachment in a global context. Leading scholars and experts give an insight into significant periods in the development of impeachment and its modern comparative use. It presents the definitive text on impeachment for students and scholars in comparative public law, politics, and constitutional studies. ...
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    75,42 €

  • Law and Revolution
    This book explores challenges for law brought about by various disruptive realities, exploring the past as well as the future. Contributions examine the law and revolution in 1918, challenges posed by more gradual political or technological transformations, the effects of globalisation, and challenges posed for law by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
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    75,48 €

  • Hierarchical Structure of the Qing Dynasty
    Junjian Jing / Zou Siyu
    This book analyzes the inferiors in the Qing Dynasty society, offering a comprehensive examination of their place within the feudal hierarchy. In autocratic eras, the distinction between nobility and inferiors was a cornerstone of social order, and the existence of these marginalized communities became a defining feature of the feudal hierarchy system. Drawing on interdisciplin...
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    179,16 €

  • The Evolution of Justice, Equity, and Equality
    This book presents a comprehensive exploration of historical perspectives on justice, equity, and equality, which have been, and still are, considered as the core political values of any balanced political system. ...
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    254,69 €

  • Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 12
    This book is a continuation of the prestigious series investigating current tax policy debates in an historical context. The authors are a mix of senior tax professionals from academia, the judiciary, and practice, with representatives from 9 countries. The chapters fall within 3 basic categories: 1. UK tax, looking at a variety of topics ranging from income tax (introduction a...
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    225,17 €

  • Manning the Law
    Ngaire Naffine
    This is a study of elite English men of English law and the methods they used to retain and justify their power and privilege, through controlling the story of the legal person.It looks at how these men of legal authority thought of themselves and their institution; how they studied and explained law; and how they put themselves in the middle of it, as the standard human in nee...
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    154,33 €

  • Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present
    This collection of essays presents a socio-legal history of epidemics from the medieval period to the present day.Building on previous studies of infectious diseases undertaken by social historians of medicine, this collection explores the histories of epidemics and disease by looking at the legal measures deployed against them.Whilst previous works have considered the mechanis...
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    167,21 €

  • The Commonwealth Corporation
    Roger Davies
    Australia is presented as a free and independent nation. The story is repeated in schools, parliaments, and media. We are told that Federation in 1901 created a sovereign country, that the Constitution protects liberty, and that politicians serve the people. But when you look closely, the picture changes. Behind the symbols lies a corporate structure. Australia is not what it a...
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    14,03 €

  • Liberty by Consent
    Roger Davies
    Every system of rule, whether by kings, parliaments, or agencies, stands on one foundation: consent. Authority does not exist on its own. It must be given life by the people it claims to govern. When that consent is withdrawn, power collapses. This truth is as old as law itself, and yet it is the most forgotten truth in America today.Liberty by Consent is a book about rememberi...
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    14,09 €

  • Commentaries on the Laws of England
    William Blackstone
    In Volume II of *Commentaries on the Laws of England*, Sir William Blackstone explores the rights of property, offering timeless insights into ownership, tenure, and inheritance. His lucid analysis shaped Anglo-American law, making this work indispensable for jurists, historians, and readers seeking the foundations of modern legal thought. ...
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    20,74 €

  • Compilation of Selected Water Pollution, Waste Cleanup, and Water Resources Laws Vol. 2
    Michael S. Twinchek
    Compilation of United States Water Pollution, Waste Cleanup, and Water Resources Laws (5-Volume Series)This comprehensive five-volume series provides a meticulously curated compilation of federal laws pertaining to United States water pollution, waste cleanup, and water resources management. It serves as an essential resource for legal professionals, students, researchers, and ...
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    41,25 €

  • Compilation of Selected Water Pollution, Waste Cleanup, and Water Resources Laws Vol. 3
    Michael S. Twinchek
    Compilation of United States Water Pollution, Waste Cleanup, and Water Resources Laws (5-Volume Series)This comprehensive five-volume series provides a meticulously curated compilation of federal laws pertaining to United States water pollution, waste cleanup, and water resources management. It serves as an essential resource for legal professionals, students, researchers, and ...
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    41,06 €

  • Compilation of Selected Water Pollution, Waste Cleanup, and Water Resources Laws Vol. 4
    Michael S. Twinchek
    Compilation of United States Water Pollution, Waste Cleanup, and Water Resources Laws (5-Volume Series)This comprehensive five-volume series provides a meticulously curated compilation of federal laws pertaining to United States water pollution, waste cleanup, and water resources management. It serves as an essential resource for legal professionals, students, researchers, and ...
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    40,73 €

  • Compilation of Selected Water Pollution, Waste Cleanup, and Water Resources Laws Vol. 5
    Michael S. Twinchek
    Compilation of United States Water Pollution, Waste Cleanup, and Water Resources Laws (5-Volume Series)This comprehensive five-volume series provides a meticulously curated compilation of federal laws pertaining to United States water pollution, waste cleanup, and water resources management. It serves as an essential resource for legal professionals, students, researchers, and ...
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    40,51 €

  • Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean
    Crime, Evidence, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean illustrates the range of questions we can put to archival sources from the early modern Mediterranean, with plentiful insights as to how legal sources can illuminate history from below. ...
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    73,23 €

  • Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean
    Crime, Evidence, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean illustrates the range of questions we can put to archival sources from the early modern Mediterranean, with plentiful insights as to how legal sources can illuminate history from below. ...
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    254,48 €

  • Counting the Cost of Freedom
    Amanda Laury Kleintop
    During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the Confederacy’s defeat, white Southerners demanded federal compensation for the financial value of formerly enslaved people and fought for other policies that would recognize abolition’s costs during Reconstruction. As Amand...
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    126,93 €

  • Counting the Cost of Freedom
    Amanda Laury Kleintop
    During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the Confederacy’s defeat, white Southerners demanded federal compensation for the financial value of formerly enslaved people and fought for other policies that would recognize abolition’s costs during Reconstruction. As Amand...
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    38,07 €

  • Leading Works in the History of the Constitution
    Chris Monaghan
    This collection brings together academic analysis of leading contemporary accounts of the British Constitution with key constitutional documents and sources, while also offering analysis of the leading histories of the Constitution. ...
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    253,99 €

  • Raising the Bar
    Eugene J. O’Neill
    From Ponce de León through 1999: Present: A Judicial History of Indian River County, FloridaThis comprehensive volume offers an in-depth chronicle of the legal and judicial development of Indian River County, Florida, tracing its evolution from the earliest days of European exploration to the modern court system in place today. Beginning with the era of Spanish exploration-incl...
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    31,37 €

  • British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment
    This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA. It explores the history of impeachment and how it developed in British history, the adoption of impeachment within the US Constitution, and impeachment in the 21st century. ...
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    75,66 €

  • Echoes of Judicial Corruption
    Jack W. Henriksen
    From a Modest Upbringing in the Midwest to the Challenge of California Courtrooms: A Lawyer’s Quest for Justice Amidst Judicial Corruption in a High-Stakes Trial Reeking with Judicial Bias.Echoes of Judicial Corruption engages readers by presenting an authentic and gripping depiction of courtroom drama. It sheds light on the convoluted tactics employed by the trial judge to man...
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    19,17 €

  • Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions
    This collection explores prefaces, prologues, paratexts, and other types of framing devices. It offers new ways to consider the significance of framing apparatuses regarding how and why they are created, remembered, forgotten, utilized, and recovered within legal traditions. ...
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    254,31 €

  • Shakespeare Legally Speaking
    Thomas W. Thrash
    Drawing upon his five decades of experience in the legal profession and an abiding love of Shakespeare, United States District Judge Thomas W. Thrash has written this lively and informative book about the law in Shakespeare’s plays.Shakespeare was not a lawyer, but, as Shakespeare: Legally Speaking demonstrates, he knew much about the law, and this is evidenced in his plays. Al...
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    28,19 €

  • Dictatorial Power and States of Exception in the Weimar Republic
    Christopher Adair-Toteff
    This book is an account of the tension between the need for order and the desire for freedom during the tense years of the Weimar Republic. It explains how various groups interpreted Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution and utilized it to reinstate peace and tranquility. ...
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    254,90 €

  • Legal History in the Curriculum
    This collection offers an overview and examples of cutting-edge practice in teaching legal history across the law curriculum, challenging expectations of its place and potential. ...
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    254,54 €

  • The Grand Jury [1906]
    George J. Edwards
    First published in 1906, this historically grounded study of the grand jury from Saxon England to the early 1900s was a standard work among 20th-century American jurists. It remains highly regarded today.Contents:Part I: Its Origin, History and DevelopmentsPart II: Organization and QualificationsPart III: The Oath, Powers and Duties of Grand JurorsPart IV: How the Grand Jury Tr...
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    49,66 €

  • Ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States [1938]
    Everett Somerville Brown
    The Standard Documentary History of the Amendment that Repealed ProhibitionEnacted in 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the production, transport and sale of intoxicating beverages. Its lack of widespread popular support and its role in the development of organized crime led to its repeal in 1933 with the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment.  The only amendment passed t...
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    74,03 €