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“john m kang”

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness

    by John M. Kang ...
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has been, and continues to be, praised as America’s greatest judge and he is widely considered to have done more than anyone else to breathe life into the Constitution’s right of free speech, probably the most crucial right for democracy. One indeed finds among professors of constitutional law and federal judges the widespread belief that the scope of the First Amendment ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Jurisprudence

    by Suri Ratnapala ...
    The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Institutions of Law

    An EsSay in Legal Theory

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Law, State, and Practical Reason
    Institutions of Law offers an original account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world. It provides the definitive statement of Sir Neil MacCormick's well-known 'institutional theory of law', defining law as 'institutional normative order' and explaining each of these three terms in depth. It attempts to fulfil the need for a twenty-first century introduction to legal ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine

    by James Gordley ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    This book traces the influence of philosophical ideas on the development of contract law from the post-Roman period through to the nineteenth century, focusing upon the synthesis of Roman law and the moral philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Although primarily a study of the late scholastics this is a book about the history of ideas, and as such will be of great interest to legal ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • The Fragility of Law

    Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

    by David Fraser ...
    The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?

    by Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. ...
    "Great cases like hard cases make bad law" declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. His maxim argues that those cases which ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of their national importance, interest, or other extreme circumstance, make for poor bases upon which to construct a general law. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy

    Edited by Maria Drakopoulou ...
    Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal doctrine, legal concepts and ideas, or critical assessments of the effects that specific areas of law ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • After Roe

    The Lost History of the Abortion Debate

    by Mary Ziegler ...
    Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade that followed. The grassroots activists who shaped the discussion ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Free Exercise of Religion and the United States Constitution

    The Supreme Court’s Challenge

    by Mark P. Strasser ...
    Series series ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
    The United States is extremely diverse religiously and, not infrequently, individuals sincerely contend that they are unable to act in accord with law as a matter of conscience. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the free exercise of religion and the United States Supreme Court has issued many decisions exploring the depth and breadth of those protections. This book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • European Constitutional Language

    by András Jakab ...
    If the task of constitutional theory is to set out a language in which the discourse of constitutional law may be grounded, a question of the utmost importance is how this terminology is created, defined and interpreted. In this groundbreaking new work, András Jakab maps out and analyses the grammar and vocabulary on which the core European traditions of constitutional theory are based. He ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Constitutional Ethos

    Liberal Equality for the Common Good

    by Alexander Tsesis ...
    Judges, courts, and scholars in the United States agree that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, but there is much disagreement about its meaning. So what seems to be incontestable truth is riddled with disagreements about every day questions of decision making on matter such as whether people are entitled to government created programs, what rights are fundamental, the criteria for ... Read more

    $32.39 USD