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Constitutional Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300231021, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
Few terms in political theory are as overused, and yet as under-theorized, as constitutional revolution. In this book, Gary Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai argue that the most widely accepted accounts of constitutional transformation, such as those found...
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Congress Overwhelmed The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform
ISBN: PB: 9780226702575, ISBN: HB: 9780226702438, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 line drawings, 43 tables
Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn't have the internal capacity to do what...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Archipelago of Justice Law in France's Early Modern Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300244007, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 14 black&white illus.
This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial su...
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Church State Corporation Construing Religion in US Law
ISBN: PB: 9780226454696, ISBN: HB: 9780226454559, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is "the church," and how is it understood in US law today? In "Church State Corporation", religion...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Alaska Constitution
ISBN: PB: 9781602234109, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2020
100 pp., 16.5x10.7 cm
The Alaska Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamation of statehood on January 3, 1959. The constitution was drafted by fifty-five delegates who convened at the University of Alaska to determine the authority...
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£4,00
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Medical Monopoly Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
ISBN: PB: 9780226710228, ISBN: HB: 9780226108186, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized...
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£26,50
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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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Origins of Order Project and System in the American Legal Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780300243413, Yale University Press, January 2020
344 pp., 21x14 cm
Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the...
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