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Language of Statutes Laws and Their Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9780226767963, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables, 1 halftone
Pulling the rug out from debates about interpretation, "The Language of Statutes" joins together learning from law, linguistics, and cognitive science to illuminate the fundamental issues and problems in this highly contested area. Here, Lawrence M....
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£47,00
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Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 18
ISBN: HB: 9780226767628, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
300 pp., 23x15 cm
"Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad-ranging and the contributions it brings together ap...
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£37,50
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Asian Legal Revivals Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780226144634, ISBN: HB: 9780226144627, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Lega...
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£28,00
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£74,50
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Czech Law between Europeanization and Globalization
ISBN: HB: 9788024617855, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
600 pp., 24.1x17 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 2005 the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic granted to the Charles University Law Faculty funds to research developments in Czech law from the last twenty yea...
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£22,50
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Uncommon Sense Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
ISBN: PB: 9780226041025, ISBN: HB: 9780226041018, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the...
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£13,00
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£25,00
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Failure of Corporate Law Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities
ISBN: PB: 9780226306940, ISBN: HB: 9780226306933, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Failure of Corporate Law" returns corporate law to a system in which the public has a greater say in how firms are governed. Kent Greenfield maintains that the laws controlling firms should be much more protective of the public interest and of t...
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£27,00
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£52,00
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Supreme Court Review 2009
ISBN: HB: 9780226362557, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For forty-nine years, the "Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions. The "Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, one that strives to keep...
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£49,00
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Parchment, Paper, Pixels Law and the Technologies of Communication
ISBN: HB: 9780226803067, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm
Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society – perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empi...
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£34,50
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People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public Special Interests, Government, and Threats to Health, Safety, and the Environment
ISBN: HB: 9780226772028, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.
Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus that it should protect us from such dangers as bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and unsafe toys. And...
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£47,00
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Law's Environment How the Law Shapes the Places We Live
ISBN: HB: 9780300126297, Yale University Press, May 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
In this insightful book, John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Adak Island far off the coast of western Alaska; the Sus...
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£30,00
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