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Taking Back the Constitution Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law
ISBN: HB: 9780300245981, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments in light of permanent and immutable constitutional meanings, and social, moral, and yes, political ideas have always played into Supreme Court justices' impressions of how they think a c...
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To Save the Country A Lost Treatise on Martial Law
ISBN: HB: 9780300222548, Yale University Press, September 2019
344 pp., 21x14 cm, 4 black&white illus.
The last work of Abraham Lincoln's law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost – until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber's manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important...
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Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash
ISBN: PB: 9780300205824, ISBN: HB: 9780300153149, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 21.1x14.7 cm
Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach t...
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Toward a Just World The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice
ISBN: PB: 9780226102368, ISBN: HB: 9780226409481, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"'Toward a Just World' is an insightful and thoughtful history. The first half of the twentieth century and the heroic efforts of those who sought international justice during that time will be much better understood and appreciated thanks to this fa...
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£37,50
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Three and a Half Minute Transaction Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design
ISBN: HB: 9780226924380, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 7 line illus.
Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu...
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£33,00
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This Is Not Civil Rights Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
ISBN: PB: 9780226494043, ISBN: HB: 9780226494036, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone
Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century...
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£73,50
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Tragedy of Child Care in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300172119, ISBN: HB: 9780300122336, Yale University Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm
Why the United States has failed to establish a comprehensive high-quality child care programme is the question at the centre of this book. Edward Zigler has been intimately involved in this issue since the 1970s, and here he presents a firsthand his...
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Theory of Rules
ISBN: HB: 9780226487953, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
168 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
Karl N. Llewellyn was one of the founders and major figures of legal realism, and his many keen insights have a central place in American law and legal understanding. Key to Llewellyn's thinking was his conception of rules, put forward in his numerou...
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