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Impeachment A Handbook (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300238266, Yale University Press, October 2018
184 pp., 21x14 cm
Originally published at the height of the Watergate crisis and reissued in 1998, two months before the second impeachment of a U.S. president, Charles Black's "Impeachment" became the premier guide to the subject of presidential impeachment. Now thor...
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International Bankruptcy The Challenge of Insolvency in a Global Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780226531977, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
With the growth of international business and the rise of companies with subsidiaries around the world, the question of where a company should file bankruptcy proceedings has become increasingly complicated. Today, most businesses are likely to have...
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£56,00
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Inventing American Exceptionalism The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877
ISBN: PB: 9780300222258, ISBN: HB: 9780300198072, Yale University Press, March 2017
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
A highly engaging account of the developments-not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural – that gave rise to Americans' distinctively lawyer – driven legal culture When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial...
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£39,00
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£70,00
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Issues in Law and Economics
ISBN: PB: 9780226249629, ISBN: HB: 9780226249599, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With "Issues in Law and Eco...
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£20,50
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£68,00
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Invitation to Law and Society An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226296586, ISBN: HB: 9780226296449, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutio...
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£12,00
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£33,50
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Illinois Justice The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens
ISBN: PB: 9780226350103, ISBN: HB: 9780226502434, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and '70s. In "Illinois Justice", Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice's...
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£16,00
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£33,00
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Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
ISBN: PB: 9780226324630, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is administrative law unlawful? This is a central question in contemporary law and politics, and it has become all the more important with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain li...
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£24,50
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Imperial from the Beginning The Constitution of the Original Executive
ISBN: HB: 9780300194562, Yale University Press, September 2015
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Eminent scholar Saikrishna Prakash offers the first truly comprehensive study of the original American presidency. Drawing from a vast range of sources both well known and obscure, this volume reconstructs the powers and duties of the nation's chief...
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£35,00
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Introduction to Legal Reasoning
ISBN: PB: 9780226089720, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Originally published in 1949, "An Introduction to Legal Reasoning" is widely acknowledged as a classic text. As its opening sentence states, "This is an attempt to describe generally the process of legal reasoning in the field of case law and in the...
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£13,00
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Interpreting in Legal Settings
ISBN: PB: 9781563685507, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 tables, 7 figures
The work of interpreters in legal settings, whether they are spoken or signed language interpreters, is filled with enormous complexity and challenges. This engrossing volume presents six, data-based studies from both signed and spoken language inte...
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£60,00
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