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Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BG; HBJK; HBLW; LAT; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226350103
- ISBN
- 9780226350103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.32
€ 25.99
€ 21.32
Paperback. A little over a century ago, there was no such thing as international justice, and until recently, the idea of permanent international courts and formal war crimes tribunals would have been almost unthinkable. This title tells the story of the long struggle to craft the concept of international justice that we have today. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JPS; LAZ; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226102368
- ISBN
- 9780226102368
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.05
€ 33.99
€ 27.05
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
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Jagiellonian University Press Poland
- Condition
- New
- Number of pages
- 236
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9788323336273
- ISBN
- 9788323336273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.45
€ 50.99
€ 36.45
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
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
Paperback. This book brings together a selection of law suits brought by peers and members of the house of commons in the royal common law and equity courts at Westminster between 1377 and 1512, relating to themes such as parliamentary elections, the payment of parliamentary wages, and the evolution of the parliamentary privilege of freedom from arrest. Editor(s): Kleineke, Hannes. Series: Parliamentary History Book Series. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLH; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405180139
- ISBN
- 9781405180139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.11
€ 40.11
Paperback. Thomas Duppa who was Black Rod from 1683-1694 compiled The Commonplace Book for his own use. It sheds vital light not only on how the Lords was managed, and the daily routines, but also on the personalities of the period. Series: Parliamentary History Book Series. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; HBJD1; JPH; JPP; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 6. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119085997
- ISBN
- 9781119085997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
Paperback. In preparing the long-awaited second edition of his well-liked text, Kent Newmyer consulted the best and most relevant of the recent scholarship on the antebellum Court, prompting him to revise important points in the story of the Court's evolution. Series: American History S. Num Pages: 192 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JP; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 134 x 11. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harlan Davidson
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780882952413
- ISBN
- 9780882952413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.13
€ 31.13
Hardcover. Provides knowledge about the judicial history of the early republic by recounting the development of courts, laws, and legal theory in New Hampshire. This title chronicles the struggle by which lawyers and torchbearers of strong, centralized government sought to bring standards of competence to New Hampshire. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEH; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804514
- ISBN
- 9780875804514
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Condition: New
€ 57.95
€ 57.95
Paperback. First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Num Pages: 206 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; LAZ; LNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Royal Historical Society
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861933389
- ISBN
- 9780861933389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.01
€ 33.99
€ 33.01
Hardback. Fragile Settlements compares the historical processes through which British colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 672 pages, 14 photographs, 3 maps, 2 charts, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774830881
- ISBN
- 9780774830881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Paperback. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land - not with weapons, but with legal arguments. This work tells the story of Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the 1960s. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 1KBB; HBJH; JPVH1; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152448
- ISBN
- 9780691152448
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court, she knew that she had found her mailbox. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; HBLW; LAQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143484
- ISBN
- 9780691143484
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight were sentenced to death. This book explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and become a lens for perceptions of race and class. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140476
- ISBN
- 9780691140476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. Offering an analysis of the Supreme Court's most important task - shaping the law, this book analyzes the Court's interpretation or treatment of the precedents it has set in the past. It shows that while precedent can operate as a constraint on the justices' decisions, it also represents an opportunity to foster preferred societal outcomes. Num Pages: 184 pages, 14 line illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136332
- ISBN
- 9780691136332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. John Compton shows how evangelicals, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments of the twentieth century. Their early-1800s crusade to destroy property that made immorality possible challenged founding-era legal protections of slavery, lotteries, and liquor sales and opened the door to progressivism. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HRAM2; JPHC; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674726796
- ISBN
- 9780674726796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.97€ 52.81
€ 56.97
€ 52.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: JPHC; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 33. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416925
- ISBN
- 9780674416925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.92
€ 31.99
€ 26.92
Paperback. In the 1960s and 1970s, analogies between sex discrimination and racial injustice became potent weapons in the battle for women s rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri s "Reasoning from Race" is the first history of this key strategy and its consequences for American law. Num Pages: 382 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; LAQG; LAZ; LNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674284302
- ISBN
- 9780674284302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.06
€ 36.99
€ 31.06
Paperback. The danger of deportation hangs over the head of every non-citizen in the United States. This title presents the history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. It shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LNDA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674046221
- ISBN
- 9780674046221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.03
€ 34.99
€ 30.03
Paperback. Offers a provocative account of the history of American civil rights law. Covering the lost challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, this title shows how Brown only partially fulfilled the promise of civil rights. Num Pages: 384 pages, 9 halftones, 1 line. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; LAZ; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674034693
- ISBN
- 9780674034693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.06
€ 36.99
€ 31.06