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Paperback. Designed to fill the need for an accessible introduction to Marbury and the topic of judicial review, this book presents the unique transcript of a reenactment of the argument of Marbury v. Madison, argued by constitutional scholars before a bench of federal judges. Following the transcript are essays on the case and its significance today. Editor(s): Tushnet, Mark. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804752275
ISBN
9780804752275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make examines the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Scheingold, Stuart A. Num Pages: 504 pages, 6 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: LAQ; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 789.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804752282
ISBN
9780804752282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.90

Paperback. The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make examines the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Scheingold, Stuart A. Num Pages: 504 pages, 6 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: LAQ; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 667.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804752299
ISBN
9780804752299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.46

Hardback. As the first comprehensive effort to view the modern class action through the lenses of American constitutional and political theory, this book contends that the procedural device needs to be substantially modified to prevent it from violating key constitutional and democratic precepts. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; LNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804752749
ISBN
9780804752749
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.96

Paperback. As the first comprehensive effort to view the modern class action through the lenses of American constitutional and political theory, this book contends that the procedural device needs to be substantially modified to prevent it from violating key constitutional and democratic precepts. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; LNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804752756
ISBN
9780804752756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.64

Paperback. Comparing law to the American practice of common courtesy, this book explains how our courts not only survive under conditions of suspected hypocrisy, but actually depend on these conditions to function. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: LNAA1; LNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 407. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804753128
ISBN
9780804753128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.82

Paperback. This volume seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political activists with whom cause lawyers work and whom they seek to serve. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Scheingold, Stuart A. Num Pages: 360 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804753616
ISBN
9780804753616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.17

Paperback. Addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses. Editor(s): Venkatesh, Sudhir; Kassimir, Ronald. Num Pages: 384 pages, 4 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSP1; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804754743
ISBN
9780804754743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

paperback. This book identifies a principle distinguishing justified from unjustified applications of the felony murder doctrine and shows how felony murder law should be reformed in light of that principle. Series: Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804755368
ISBN
9780804755368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.17

Hardback. Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs offers a provocative argument in favor of a new defense in criminal law that acknowledges and weighs a victim's behavior in determining a defendant's liability. Series: Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JKV; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804755382
ISBN
9780804755382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.57

Hardback. Law and the Sacred explores questions about the foundational role of the sacred in the constitution of law, both historically and theoretically. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha. Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HR; LAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804755757
ISBN
9780804755757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.07

Hardback. This pioneering collection examines tort law as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on the theories and methods of law, sociology, political science, and anthropology and comparative cases across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Editor(s): Engel, David M.; McCann, Michael. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 408 pages, 10 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: LNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804756136
ISBN
9780804756136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.57

Paperback. This pioneering collection examines tort law as a cultural phenomenon, drawing on the theories and methods of law, sociology, political science, and anthropology and comparative cases across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Editor(s): Engel, David; McCann, Michael. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 408 pages, 10 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: LAM; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756143
ISBN
9780804756143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.44

Hardback. A survey and analysis of what Shari'a, or Islamic law, means for Muslims today. Editor(s): Amanat, Abbas; Griffel, Frank. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFM; 3JJP; 3JMC; HPDC; LAB; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756396
ISBN
9780804756396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.40

Paperback. Focusing on U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the area of capital punishment, Dead Certainty examines the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria to validate final decisions. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JKVP; LAB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757461
ISBN
9780804757461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.12

Hardback. This book takes a fresh and thorough look at the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British Parliament, in the critical period from 1811 to 1846. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JH; JPFM; JPQ; LNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757638
ISBN
9780804757638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.30

Hardback. Covers an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful defender of citizen rights in environmental protection, as well as in other areas of public interest such as disability rights, consumer protection, and anticorruption. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 tables, 5 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; LNKJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758239
ISBN
9780804758239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.96

Paperback. Over the years, changes in technology have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. This book states that, sadly, we have failed thus far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. It chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals on how to get out of it. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 tables, 12 figures. BIC Classification: JFCA; KNT; LNCB; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 184 x 19. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758451
ISBN
9780804758451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.08

Paperback. Are war crimes trials impartial, apolitical forums? Has international justice for war crimes become an entrenched aspect of globalization? This title examines the phenomenon of war crimes trials from an unusual, political perspective - that of an "anarchical" international society. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JP; JWXK; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804759717
ISBN
9780804759717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.30

paperback. This is a provocative examination of the current state of academic freedom in the United States and around the world. Editor(s): Gerstmann, Evan; Streb, Matthew J. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JNM; JPVH2; JPWL; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804759809
ISBN
9780804759809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.17

Paperback. The Image of Law is the first book to examine law through the work of Gilles Deleuze, activating his thought within problems of jurisprudence and developing a concept of judgment that acknowledges its inherently creative capacity. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804759854
ISBN
9780804759854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.73

Hardback. This volume examines how the American states have sought to ensure judicial independence and judicial accountability, both over time and in the current era of politicized judicial selection, and proposes mechanisms for doing so. Series: Stanford Studies in Law and Politics. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAC; LNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804760393
ISBN
9780804760393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.96

Paperback. This volume examines how the American states have sought to ensure judicial independence and judicial accountability, both over time and in the current era of politicized judicial selection, and proposes mechanisms for doing so. Series: Stanford Studies in Law and Politics. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: LNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760409
ISBN
9780804760409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.73

Paperback. Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JPVH; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804760942
ISBN
9780804760942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.17

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