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Legal history
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 16.99
€ 15.58