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  • The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law

    Modern administrative law has been the subject of intense and protracted intellectual debate, from legal theorists to such high-profile judicial confirmations as those conducted for Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. On one side, defenders of limited government argue that the growth of the administrative state threatens traditional ideas of private property, freedom of ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract

    Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom.The 1970s was a decade of regulatory triumphalism in North America, marked by a surge in consumer, securities, and ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Mozart 19 Sonatas - Complete

    Piano Solo

    Mozart's piano sonatas range from easy and fun to profound and sensitive. They are indispensable to the student or lover of the piano. This edition, revised by Richard Epstein with a biographical sketch of the composer by Philip Hale. All text is written both in English and Spanish. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Groundwork

    Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    "A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the ForewordCharles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American law and society. A brilliant lawyer and educator, he laid much of the legal foundation for the landmark civil ... Read more

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  • He Calls Me By Lightning

    The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Kirkus ReviewsA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionA Southern Independent Booksellers Association “Spring Pick”This harrowing portrait of the Jim Crow South “proves how much we do not yet know about our history” (New York Times Book Review).Caliph Washington didn’t pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowb... ... Read more

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  • Reconstructing Contracts

    Every legal system must decide how to distinguish between agreements that are enforceable and those that are not. Formal bargains in the marketplace and casual promises in a social setting mark the two extremes, but many hard cases lie between. When gaps are left in a contract, how should courts fill them? What does it mean to say that an agreement is legally enforceable? If someone breaks a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Declarations of Dependence

    The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908

    In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Declarations of Dependence contends that the Civil War redirected, not destroyed, claims of dependence ... Read more

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  • Law and Custom in Korea

    Comparative Legal History

    This book sets forth the evolution of Korea's law and legal system from the Chosǒn dynasty through the colonial and postcolonial modern periods. This is the first book in English that comprehensively studies Korean legal history in comparison with European legal history, with particular emphasis on customary law. Korea's passage to Romano-German civil law under Japanese rule marked a drastic ... Read more

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  • Liberalizing Contracts

    Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History

    Series series Discourses of Law
    In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human practices at which it gestured, most basically that of promise, most broadly the capitalist market order. She does so by placing canonical ... Read more

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  • The Law of Contract 1670–1870

    by Warren Swain ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
    The foundations for modern contract law were laid between 1670 and 1870. Rather than advancing a purely chronological account, this examination of the development of contract law doctrine in England during that time explores key themes in order to better understand the drivers of legal change. These themes include the relationship between lawyers and merchants, the role of equity, the place of ... Read more

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  • Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence

    Text and Tradition

    Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is widely regarded as the most controversial member of the Court.This book is the first comprehensive, reasoned, and sympathetic analysis of how Scalia has decided cases during his entire twenty-year Supreme Court tenure. Ralph ... Read more

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  • Interpreting Constitutions

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Jeffrey Goldsworthy ...
    This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Among the interpretive methods discussed are textualism, purposivism, structuralism and originalism. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD