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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Legal Logic

Kellogg Frederic R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226523903, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Legal Logic", Frederic R. Kellogg examines the early diaries, reading, and writings of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) to assess his contribution to both legal logic and general logical theory. Thro...

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Law and the Unconscious A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Dailey Anne C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300188837, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

How can psychoanalysis help us understand irrational actions and bad choices? Our legal system relies on the idea that people act reasonably and of their own free will, yet some still commit crimes with a high likelihood of being caught, sign obvious...

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Political Science

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Defence of Constitutionalism Or the Czech Question in Post-National Europe

Priban Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024634234, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomaš Garrigue Masaryk's study "The Czech Question", Czech politics – instead of the nation's historical struggle for s...

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Political Science

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Legislative Style

Bernhard William, Sulkin Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9780226510286, ISBN: HB: 9780226510149, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 26 tables

Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one's district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage wi...

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Political Science

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Constitutional Cliffhangers A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies

Kalt Brian C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234305, Yale University Press, January 2018
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt envisions six such controve...

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Jewish Studies

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Jewish Legal Theories Writings on State, Religion, and Morality

Batnitzky Leora, Brafman Yonatan

ISBN: PB: 9781584657446, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal...

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Biography & Memoires

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Louis D. Brandeis American Prophet

Rosen Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300230710, ISBN: HB: 9780300158670, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness", in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hund...

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Justice and Empathy Toward a Constitutional Ideal

Burt Robert A., Iacobucci Frank, Post Robert C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300224269, Yale University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 21x14 cm

The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic equality. Constitutional scholar Robert A. Burt explores this shift...

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Business & Economics

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Future of Law and Economics Essays in Reform and Recollection

Calabresi Guido

ISBN: PB: 9780300230529, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm

In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite,...

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Criminology

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Crime and Justice, Volume 45 Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives

Tonry Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226440804, ISBN: HB: 9780226440774, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives" is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julia...

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