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Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of...
Philip; Osgoode Society Girard
hardcover. Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history. Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442644106
- ISBN
- 9781442644106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.15
€ 84.15
Paperback. A Century of Constitutional Reform is a detailed study of the introduction, passage and consequences of major constitutional legislation in the United Kingdom. The book covers legislation enacted since the passage of the Parliament Act 1911, with contributions from leading specialists. Editor(s): Norton, Philip. Series: Parliamentary History Book Series. Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; LAZ; LND; LNZL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 5. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444338942
- ISBN
- 9781444338942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.94
€ 35.94
Hardcover. America is run by dead people-leaders from past generations who enacted programmes that churn ahead regardless of waste, irrelevance or new priorities. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; LAZ; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393082821
- ISBN
- 9780393082821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.55
€ 24.99
€ 22.55
Paperback. The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India. Num Pages: 316 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTQ; KCZ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199930364
- ISBN
- 9780199930364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; LAZ; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- revised edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146470
- ISBN
- 9780231146470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
Paperback. Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton resulting in a murder indictment that effectively ended his legal career. This book unveils a cast of characters ensnared by politics and law at the highest levels of government. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; LAZ; LNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700615926
- ISBN
- 9780700615926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.68
€ 41.68
Hardcover. The first full-length account of Scotland's major change from burial to cremation Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBTB; JHBZ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 242 x 35. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Publisher
- John Donald Short Run Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781906566791
- ISBN
- 9781906566791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. Paperback edition. The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law. Discovered in complete manuscript form following his death, the lectures are published here for the first time. Editor(s): Descheemaeker, Eric. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: LAFR; LAZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Open University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198719281
- ISBN
- 9780198719281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.53
€ 77.53
Paperback. How did the US judiciary become so powerful-powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? This title deals with these questions. Num Pages: 349 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 349
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226100609
- ISBN
- 9780226100609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.29
€ 47.29
Hardcover. Offers persuasive research to show that the almost universally accepted narrative of market failure - broadly similar across financial crises - is formulated by political actors hoping to deflect blame from prior policy errors. It shows that lax regulation was not a substantial cause of the financial problems of the Great Depression. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables. BIC Classification: LAZ; LND; LNPD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226236513
- ISBN
- 9780226236513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.95
€ 121.95
Hardback. Series: Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRAX; HRG; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 261 x 36. Weight in Grams: 948.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231179560
- ISBN
- 9780231179560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.02
€ 118.02
Paperback. The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and best-known legal text of ancient India. A seminal Hindu work, it is important for its classic description of the many social institutions which have come to be identified with Indian society. Patrick Olivelle's lucid translation is the first to be based on his critically edited text. Translator(s): Olivelle, Patrick. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555338
- ISBN
- 9780199555338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.79
€ 18.99
€ 16.79
Paperback. Offers a study of the Russian bar (advokatura) that provides a portrait of how, after the USSR's collapse, practising lawyers called advocates began to assume new, self-defined roles as contributors to legal reform and defenders of rights in Russia. It is useful for specialists on Russia, post-communism, human rights, and legal studies. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; LAQ; LAZ; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774811637
- ISBN
- 9780774811637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.04
€ 38.99
€ 36.04
Hardcover. Laszlo Bardossy, the Hungarian prime minister who proclaimed war against the Soviet Union and was later executed as a war criminal, remains a controversial figure. Pal Pritz offers readers a rare, balanced interpretation of his life, along with documents from his postwar trial. Num Pages: 230 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJPG; JWXK; LAZ; LBBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335492
- ISBN
- 9780880335492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Hardback. The constitutional theorist Owen Fiss explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through a moving account of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. He tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and principles they served. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674971868
- ISBN
- 9780674971868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.89
€ 46.99
€ 39.89
Paperback. A group biography of the relationship between FDR and four of his Supreme Court justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, and William O. Douglas, written by one of the most brilliant legal scholars at work today. Num Pages: 528 pages, 8 pages of b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780446699280
- ISBN
- 9780446699280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.93
€ 18.99
€ 17.93
Hardcover. The first English translation of a classic of German tort theory, this book analyses the theoretical foundations of tort law in historical and comparative perspective. Focusing on the tensions in modern German tort law, the book explains the historical development of tortious liability, and argues for a foundational role of outcome responsibility. Translator(s): Steel, Sandy. Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: LAB; LAM; LAZ; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198705055
- ISBN
- 9780198705055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.24
€ 162.24
Hardback. An amusing look at all manner of ludicrous laws that used to govern London and in a surprising number of cases, still do Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; LAZ; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 387 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472137463
- ISBN
- 9781472137463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. A pointed look at why the United States' frequent disregard of international law and institutions is met with high levels of approval by the American public Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPS; LAZ; LBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814771143
- ISBN
- 9780814771143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.60
€ 42.60
Paperback. Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. This book recovers this crucial aspect of American history, tracing the roots of the modern American welfare state. Num Pages: 352 pages, 23 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JPQB; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226923499
- ISBN
- 9780226923499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72