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Echoes of My Soul

Echoes of My Soul

Author: Robert K Tanenbaum
ISBN: 9781504090582
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"From the New York Times-bestselling author, a thrilling true crime story of grisly murder, police corruption, and...  Read More >>

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Niall O’Flaherty ,  Robin Mills
ISBN: 9781526166777
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious...  Read More >>

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection:...

Author: Linda Myrsiades
ISBN: 9780820366241
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart Mill Shaped US Free Speech Protections

The Supreme Court and the Philosopher: How John Stuart...

Author: Eric T. Kasper ,  Troy A. Kozma
ISBN: 9781501774515
Format: Hardback
$118.67

"""English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over...  Read More >>

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection:...

Author: Linda Myrsiades
ISBN: 9780820366265
Format: Hardback
$303.47

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Wage Rage for Equal Pay: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle

Wage Rage for Equal Pay: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle...

Author: Jocelynne A. Scutt
ISBN: 9783031421778
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book ​makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia,...  Read More >>

Chinese Rule of Law Path and Cultivation of Foreign-Related Rule of Law Talents

Chinese Rule of Law Path and Cultivation of Foreign-Related...

Author: Xiaobo Dong ,  Jie Guo
ISBN: 9789819723126
Format: Hardback
$475.17

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A Modern Legal History of Treasure

A Modern Legal History of Treasure

Author: N.M. Dawson
ISBN: 9783031128356
Format: Paperback
$448.77

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Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance of a Penal Classic

Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance...

Author: Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Shachar Eldar (Ono Academic College, Israel)
ISBN: 9781509959174
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Cesare Beccaria’s slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades,...  Read More >>

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in...

Author: Lee B. Wilson (Clemson University, South Carolina)
ISBN: 9781108817899
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond...  Read More >>

Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer from 1685 to 1714

Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer from 1685...

Author: W. H. Bryson
ISBN: 9780866986465
Format: Hardback
$330.00

A new addition to an ongoing project to publish the early-modern Exchequer manuscript law reports. This edition...  Read More >>

Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England

Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval...

Author: Sara M. Butler
ISBN: 9781009065726
Format: Paperback
$69.84

In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to peine forte et dure...  Read More >>

The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit

The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its...

Author: Randy E. Barnett ,  Evan D. Bernick
ISBN: 9780674295537
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting and adoption of the Fourteenth...  Read More >>

The Significant Lawyer: The Pursuit of Purpose and Professionalism

The Significant Lawyer: The Pursuit of Purpose and Professionalism...

Author: William S. Duffey, Jr.
ISBN: 9780881468205
Format: Hardback
$46.20

With more than forty years in practice, including fourteen years on the federal bench, and informed by hundreds...  Read More >>

Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A Sociopragmatic Approach to Courtroom Discourse

Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A Sociopragmatic...

Author: Claudia Claridge (University of Augsburg) ,  Ewa Jonsson (Mid Sweden University)
ISBN: 9781108428668
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Drawing on a rich bank of data from the Old Bailey Corpus, this groundbreaking book provides the first full study...  Read More >>

The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 3: From the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to the Island of Malta

The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 3: From the Highlands of...

Author: Samuel White
ISBN: 9789004512559
Format: Hardback
$454.08

How international is international humanitarian law? This book attempts to answer that question. It offers a culture-by-culture...  Read More >>

Law’s Artifice: A Poetics of Legal Fictions

Law’s Artifice: A Poetics of Legal Fictions

Author: Simon Stern (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781509957583
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book is the first comprehensive history and analysis of legal fictions in the common law. It examines their...  Read More >>

Declaration of Peace for Indigenous Australians and Nature: A Legal Pluralist Approach to First Laws and Earth Laws

Declaration of Peace for Indigenous Australians and...

Author: Anne Poelina ,  Donna Bagnall
ISBN: 9789819993260
Format: Hardback
$422.37

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Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice

Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives...

Author: Chaya T. Halberstam (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, King's University College, University of Western Ontario)
ISBN: 9780198865148
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity is the first book to examine what early Jewish courtroom narratives can tell us...  Read More >>

Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law

Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association...

Author: Sharon Thompson (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781509962532
Format: Paperback
$86.99

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women’s Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family...  Read More >>

Celebrating the First Fifty Years of Southern Illinois University School of Law

Celebrating the First Fifty Years of Southern Illinois...

Author: Frank G. Houdek ,  Camille Davidson
ISBN: 9780809370122
Format: Hardback
$51.70

Featuring more than one hundred photographs, complete indexed lists of full-time faculty members and deans, and...  Read More >>

Litigating Judicial Selection

Litigating Judicial Selection

Author: Herbert M. Kritzer (University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781009425445
Format: Hardback
$245.81

The first examination of judicial selection litigation in the United States and beyond. Analyzes over 2,000 cases...  Read More >>

History of Law in Albania: Bibliography of Legal Research

History of Law in Albania: Bibliography of Legal Research...

Author: Argita Malltezi ,  Armela Kromiçi
ISBN: 9783205220084
Format: Hardback
$198.00

A one-of-a-kind bibliography on the history of legal research and developments in Albanian territories throughout...  Read More >>

Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation

Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional...

Author: Jack M. Balkin
ISBN: 9780300272222
Format: Paperback
$51.95

From one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional...  Read More >>

The Right to Privacy in Texas: From Common Law Origins to 21st Century Protections

The Right to Privacy in Texas: From Common Law Origins...

Author: John C. Domino
ISBN: 9781666933116
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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