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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

Paperback. Editor(s): Kilday, Anne-Marie. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTB; JKV; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 254 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472585288
ISBN
9781472585288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.10

Paperback. A republication of this seminal work from 1941. Written by a German jurist during his time working within the Nazi judicial system of the 1930s, this book addresses the ways in which the Nazi regime changed the legal structures of Germany, providing a detailed analysis that remains relevant to international and public law today. Translator(s): Shills, E. A. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: LAB; LAZ; LB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198716204
ISBN
9780198716204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.94

Paperback. 18th-century Edinburgh owed much to the men who worked in the Court of Session as members of the unique institution known as the College of Justice. This study investigates the important role of College members in the cultural and economic flowering of Scotland as a whole, and Edinburgh in particular. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748694679
ISBN
9780748694679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.05

Paperback. A compelling portrait of the time when freedom of speech and the need to throw off censorship came to the fore, told through its great trials, from Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: BG; LAQ; LAZ; LNFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444799750
ISBN
9781444799750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 758 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; LAQ; LAZ; LN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 169. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
758
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849462730
ISBN
9781849462730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.90

Digital (delivered electronically). The book explores in detail how the role and position of the United States was defined under the Obama presidency and how the conduct of U.S. foreign and security policy between 2009 and 2014 both confirmed and contested a geopolitical vision of world leadership and American exceptionalism that dominates in popular culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100 black and white illustrations, black and white line art. BIC Classification: HB; HDDM; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402293
ISBN
9781474402293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.94
€ 103.50

Hardback. The authors bring their unrivalled interpretative skills to uncover the original meaning of the liberties enshrined in Magna Carta, and to trace their development in later centuries up to the drafting of the Constitution of the United States. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 246 x 18. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849465564
ISBN
9781849465564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.23
€ 70.45

Paperback. When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674659988
ISBN
9780674659988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.82

Hardback. This book surveys the traditional classifications of private law to establish the cognitive techniques used by medieval Italian and French jurists to transform Roman law into the ius commune of Western Europe. Editor(s): Cairns, John W.; du Plessis, Paul. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HBJD; LAFR; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748638970
ISBN
9780748638970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.88
€ 109.07

Paperback. Rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. The author looks to history for the roots of these problems - and solutions. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674725874
ISBN
9780674725874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.96

Paperback. A gripping account of the three infamous trials which forged the enduring legacy of the world's greatest and most controversial defence lawyer. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8pp b-w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; LAZ; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471135354
ISBN
9781471135354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.57

Hardcover. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; JPHL; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1262.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479839902
ISBN
9781479839902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.76

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

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Paperback. Some see the internet as a Wild West where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to ensure verbal attacks in the name of free speech protection. Danielle Keats Citron rejects this view. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; L; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674659902
ISBN
9780674659902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Sutherland, Elaine E.; Davidson, Professor Fraser P.; Little, Gavin F. M.; Goodall, Kay Eileen. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 688.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748696765
ISBN
9780748696765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Cormack, Bradin; Nussbaum, Martha C.; Strier, Richard. Num Pages: 341 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSGS; LAZ; LNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226378565
ISBN
9780226378565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.27

paperback. Deals with a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mozoltuv Barukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year old child. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BTC; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 195 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300181708
ISBN
9780300181708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 552 pages, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; LAQ; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 34. Weight in Grams: 838.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138910676
ISBN
9781138910676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

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
€ 11.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 672 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; LAZ; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1002.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195310184
ISBN
9780195310184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.27

Hardcover. The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of the title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an upstart legal profession whose lower orders developed various ways to line their own pockets and magistrates and clerks who often preferred dealing with those cases which attracted fees. Num Pages: 672 pages, 8 page section. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBLL; JKV; LAZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1176.
Publisher
Waterside Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904380757
ISBN
9781904380757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 64.47

Paperback. Series: Psychology and the Law. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LAZ; LNV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479814183
ISBN
9781479814183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

Paperback. Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for 'gross indecency'. Num Pages: 476 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBK5; LAZ; LNFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 36. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
The Westbourne Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
476
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908906106
ISBN
9781908906106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.58

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