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Defence of Constitutionalism Or the Czech Question in Post-National Europe
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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£13,99
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Democratic Constitution Experimentalism and Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9780226474502, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Supreme Court is seen today as the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution. Once the Court has spoken, it is the duty of the citizens and their elected officials to abide by its decisions. But the conception of the Supreme Court as the final interpr...
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£34,00
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Defaming the Dead
ISBN: HB: 9780300221541, Yale University Press, May 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased's interests should be protected. This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question – can you libel or slander...
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£25,00
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Democratic Theory of Judgment
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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£26,50
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£79,00
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Dignity of Commerce Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law
ISBN: HB: 9780226415529, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transacti...
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£37,50
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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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£34,00
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Death of the American Trial
ISBN: PB: 9780226081274, ISBN: HB: 9780226081267, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
200 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm
In "The Death of the American Trial", distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture's greatest achievements. As a practice that is adapted f...
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£21,00
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£31,00
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