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What's Legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights
ISBN: PB: 9783035802436, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the othe...
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Union by Law Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226679907, ISBN: HB: 9780226679877, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethni...
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£84,00
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Wasting a Crisis Why Securities Regulation Fails
ISBN: PB: 9780226420998, ISBN: HB: 9780226236513, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables
The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 – the main regul...
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American Supreme Court Sixth Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226296890, ISBN: HB: 9780226296753, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court. As in prior editions, McCloskey's orig...
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Illinois Justice The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens
ISBN: PB: 9780226350103, ISBN: HB: 9780226502434, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and '70s. In "Illinois Justice", Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice's...
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£33,00
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Future of Healthcare Reform in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226254951, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing, 9 tables
In the years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or, colloquially, Obamacare), most of the discussion about it has been political. But as the politics fade and the law's many complex provisions take effect, a m...
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£48,00
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Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash
ISBN: PB: 9780300205824, ISBN: HB: 9780300153149, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 21.1x14.7 cm
Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach t...
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Freedom to Harm The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
ISBN: HB: 9780300141245, Yale University Press, April 2013
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
How much economic freedom is a good thing? This comprehensive look at America's succession of "laissez-faire revivals" shows how anti-regulatory business crusades harm public safety and economic performance with a look at the Gilded Age, from the lat...
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Creating the Administrative Constitution The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law
ISBN: PB: 9780300180022, Yale University Press, June 2012
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Contrary to conventional understandings, Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning of the republic Congress d...
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£44,00
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