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Software Rights How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America
ISBN: HB: 9780300228397, Yale University Press, January 2020
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.
This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Diaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and...
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£27,50
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Just Words Law, Language, and Power (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226484365, ISBN: HB: 9780226484228, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling th...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Free Speech on Campus
ISBN: PB: 9780300240016, ISBN: HB: 9780300226560, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14 cm
Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning envir...
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£11,99
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£22,50
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Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History
ISBN: PB: 9780300118537, Yale University Press, July 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm
The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians. An attorney arguing a case today may need to cite cases that are decades or even centuries old, and historians studying political or cultur...
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£32,50
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Future of Law and Economics Essays in Reform and Recollection
ISBN: PB: 9780300230529, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm
In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite,...
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£20,00
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Biggest Damned Hat Tales from Alaska's Territorial Lawyers and Judges
ISBN: PB: 9781602233171, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
220 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters – prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, the...
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£19,00
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Closing the Courthouse Door How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
ISBN: HB: 9780300211580, Yale University Press, March 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend tho...
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£25,00
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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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Reason in Law Ninth Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226328188, ISBN: HB: 9780226328041, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Over the nearly four decades it has been in print, "Reason in Law" has established itself as the place to start for understanding legal reasoning, a critical component of the rule of law. This ninth edition brings the book's analyses and examples up...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Cloaking of Power Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism
ISBN: PB: 9780226100609, ISBN: HB: 9780226094823, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How did the US judiciary become so powerful – powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? In "The Cloaking of Power",...
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£26,00
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£42,00
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