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  • Lawyer Barons

    What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America

    by Lester Brickman ...
    This book is a broad and deep inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance. Contingency fees are the way personal injury lawyers finance access to the courts for those wrongfully injured. Although the public senses that lawyers manipulate the justice system to serve their own ends, few are aware of the high ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury

    Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law

    by Michael S Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell, Ben Bycel ...
    The closing arguments from ten noteworthy cases—“lawyers and nonlawyers will enjoy the passion and eloquence of these counselors; practitioners of law will find much to learn from them” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Until now, only the twelve jurors who sat in judgment were able to appreciate these virtuoso performances, where weeks of testimony were boiled down and presented with flair, wit, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Reflections on Judging

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Reason and Imagination

    The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand

    Edited by Constance Jordan ...
    Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court decisions than any other lower court judge in our history. He was the model for all judges who followed him, setting the standard for the bench with a matchless combination of legal brilliance and vast ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Corrective Justice

    by Ernest J. Weinrib ...
    Series series Oxford Legal Philosophy
    Private law governs our most pervasive relationships with other people: the wrongs we do to one another, the property we own and exclude from others' use, the contracts we make and break, and the benefits realized at another's expense that we cannot justly retain. The major rules of private law are well known, but how they are organized, explained, and justified is a matter of fierce debate by ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A History of Australian Tort Law 1901–1945

    England's Obedient Servant?

    by Mark Lunney ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Little attention has been paid to the development of Australian private law throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using the law of tort as an example, Mark Lunney argues that Australian contributions to common law development need to be viewed in the context of the British race patriotism that characterised the intellectual and cultural milieu of Australian legal practitioners. Using ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • International Law and Empire

    Historical Explorations

    Edited by Martti Koskenniemi, Walter Rech, Manuel Jiménez Fonseca ...
    Series series The History and Theory of International Law
    In times in which global governance in its various forms, such as human rights, international trade law, and development projects, is increasingly promoted by transnational economic actors and international institutions that seem to be detached from democratic processes of legitimation, the question of the relationship between international law and empire is as topical as ever. By examining this ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

  • Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism

    Law and the Failure of Revolution

    by Cosmin Cercel ...
    More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them. Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Exemptions

    Necessary, Justified, or Misguided?

    by Kent Greenawalt ...
    Should laws apply equally to everyone, or should some individuals and organizations be granted exemptions because of conflicting religious or moral convictions? In recent years, this question has become intensely controversial in America. The Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage, in particular, has provoked barbed debates about legal exemptions. At the core of these debates lies the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Coercion and Responsibility in Islam

    A Study in Ethics and Law

    by Mairaj U. Syed ...
    Series series Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
    In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action. This is done by assessing four ethical problems: whether the absence of coercion or compulsion is a condition for moral agency; how the law ought to define what is ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Making of the Modern Chinese State

    Cement, Legal Personality and Industry

    by Humphrey Ko ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumstances of cement manufacturing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China serve to illuminate ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Wickedness and Crime

    Laws of Homicide and Malice

    by Penny Crofts ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and sanctions particular models of wickedness. This book illuminates the intimate relationship of crime and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD