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Artistic License The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation

Hudson Hick Darren

ISBN: PB: 9780226460246, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The art scene today is one of appropriation – of remixing, reusing, and recombining the works of other artists. From the musical mash-ups of Girl Talk to the pop-culture borrowings of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, it's clear that the artistic landscap...

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Nature of Legal Interpretation What Jurists Can Learn about Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy

Slocum Brian G.

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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Judicial Reputation A Comparative Theory

Garoupa Nuno, Ginsburg Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226478708, ISBN: HB: 9780226290591, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 14 tables

Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They m...

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Law

Biggest Damned Hat Tales from Alaska's Territorial Lawyers and Judges

Cravez Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9781602233171, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
220 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters – prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, the...

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Jewish Studies

Law

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court From Brandeis to Kagan

Dalin David G.

ISBN: HB: 9781611682380, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court" examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Gold...

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Political Science

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Democratic Theory of Judgment

Zerilli Linda M. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226397986, ISBN: HB: 9780226397849, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criter...

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Law

Evidence of the Law Proving Legal Claims

Lawson Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780226432052, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How does one prove the law? If your neighbor breaks your window, the law regulates how you can show your claim to be true or false; but how do you prove that in breaking your window your neighbor has broken the law? American jurisprudence devotes an...

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Law

Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom

Feigenson Neal

ISBN: HB: 9780226413730, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table

Sometimes the outcome of a lawsuit depends upon sensations known only to the person who experiences them, such as the buzzing sound heard by a plaintiff who suffers from tinnitus after an accident. Lawyers, litigants, and expert witnesses are now see...

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Law

Law Beyond the State Pasts and Futures

Hofmann Rainer, Kadelbach Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593506500, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Law beyond the State" brings together contributions by renowned experts on international and European Union law to celebrate the centennial of Goethe?Universitat Frankfurt. The essays explore Frankfurt's contribution to the development of internatio...

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Law

Anthropology

Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa

Diawara Mamadou, Roschenthaler Ute

ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...

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