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How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine
ISBN: PB: 9780226726243, ISBN: HB: 9780226726106, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables
Legal doctrine – the creation of doctrinal concepts, arguments, and legal regimes built on the foundation of written law – is the currency of contemporary law. Yet law students, lawyers, and judges often take doctrine for granted, without asking even...
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£24,00
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Essential Guide to Intellectual Property
ISBN: PB: 9780300214420, Yale University Press, July 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
This engaging and accessible study looks at the origins, evolution, purpose, and limitations of intellectual property. Detailing how intellectual property affects industry, politics, cultural expression, and medical research, Aram Sinnreich takes a m...
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Speaking for the Dying Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care
ISBN: PB: 9780226615745, ISBN: HB: 9780226615608, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 13 tables
Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions – literally – will therefore be made by someone el...
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£68,00
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Justice Scalia Rhetoric and the Rule of Law
ISBN: PB: 9780226601823, ISBN: HB: 9780226601656, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings
Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the "new originalist" interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of...
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£79,00
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Sit-Ins Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226522449, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers...
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Nature of Legal Interpretation What Jurists Can Learn about Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy
ISBN: HB: 9780226445021, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless – we are all experts on our native tongues. Despite this, issues of language and meaning have long flummoxed the...
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Difficult Transition The Nepal Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789385932052, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its neighborhood. A "Difficult Transition" shows that, in addit...
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Grasping Hand "Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain
ISBN: PB: 9780226422169, ISBN: HB: 9780226256603, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 10 tables
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for "pu...
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Engines of Truth Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom
ISBN: HB: 9780300125665, Yale University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad...
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