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  • - Studies in Law and Social Science
     
    2 005,-

    Written with legal scholars and social scientists in mind, this volume caters to those who have an interest in working on empirical and policy related problems. In other words, to those who are employers of science but remain sceptical of its power.

  • - How God's Grace Makes Us Just
    av Timothy Keller
    127,-

    Bestselling author of THE REASON FOR GOD Timothy Keller returns with his most provocative and illuminating message yet.

  • - Narrative as Law
    av Wendy A Adams
    573 - 1 994,-

    Drawing upon theories of critical legal pluralism and psychological theories of narrative identity, this book argues for an understanding of popular culture as legal authority, unmediated by translation into state law.

  • - Studies in Law and Social Science
     
    609,-

  • - On the Governance of Law
     
    701,-

    Offering an anthropological perspective, this book explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal pluralism.

  • - A Study in Abolition
    av Bharat Malkani
    573 - 2 189,-

  • - Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean
    av Andrew Novak
    794 - 2 301,-

    Historically the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies, in accordance with English common law. Over the last three decades many former British colonies have reformed their capital punishment regimes to permit judicial sentencing discretion, including consideration of mitigating factors.

  • - International Initiatives and Implications
     
    2 321,-

    Brings together scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. This title considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the abolitionist discourse.

  • - An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society
     
    2 294,-

    Focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal means in a rich variety of socio-political, legal and ecological settings. This book also explores the interrelations between social spaces and physical space.

  • - The Diversity and Deceptiveness of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Conduct
    av Peter Westen
    746 - 2 080,-

    The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them.

  • - Law, Space and Society in Contemporary Israel
    av Issachar Rosen-Zvi
    609 - 1 930,-

    A socio-legal essay on the historical production of political space, based on case studies taken from the multicultural society of modern-day Israel. The text both maps out and seeks to understand the different ways in which the state deals with various social groups through mechanisms of space.

  • - An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law
    av Frances J. Ranney
    701,-

    Dealing with law, classical rhetoric and feminism concurrently, the author considers the effects of beliefs about language on those who attempt to theorize about and use law to accomplish practical and political purposes. He employs Aristotle's terminology to analyze economic and literary schools of thought in the US legal academy.

  • - Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World
    av Franz von Benda-Beckmann & Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
    752,-

    Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which people appropriate, use and create legal forms in mulitiple legal settings.

  • - From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution
    av Michal Alberstein
    691 - 1 873,-

    A differend is a case of conflict between (at least) two parties, that cannot be equitably resolved for lack of a rule of judgement applicable to both arguments. The thesis from which this book develops exposes and reveals the differend between two genres of discourse - pragmatism and law.

  • - The Cross-Cultural Logic of the Global Commons
    av Kathryn Milun
    762 - 2 321,-

    Presents a cultural history of the global commons: those domains, including the atmosphere, the oceans, the radio frequency spectrum, the earth's biodiversity, and its outer space, designated by international law as belonging to no single individual or nation state but rather to all humankind.

  • - Black Muslims' Challenge to American Penology
    av Professor Hamid Reza Kusha
    857 - 2 210,-

    Argues that prisoners converting to Islam seek an alternative form of redemption, one that poses a powerful epistemological as well as ideological challenge to American penology. This study makes an argument for the objective examination of the rehabilitative potentials of faith-based organizations in prisons.

  • - A Legal Anthropological Perspective
    av Gerhard Anders
    981 - 2 474,-

    Presents an anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. This book argues that the two opposites, corruption and law, are inextricably linked - with the possibility of the former already inscribed into the latter. It is suitable for students, researchers and policy-makers working in this area.

  • - Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Age of Catastrophe
    av Christopher Dole, Professor Austin D. Sarat, Dr. Robert Hayashi, m.fl.
    650,-

  • - An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society
     
    637,-

  • - International Initiatives and Implications
     
    785,-

    This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist discourse.

  • - The Law and Politics of Everyday Life
    av Anna-Maria Marshall
    292 - 609,-

    Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' problems with sexual harassment, this book elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in everyday acts of resistance. Following the stages of a dispute, it then examines the way that people use frames to make sense of their experiences.

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