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Marriage Equality From Outlaws to In-Laws
ISBN: HB: 9780300221817, Yale University Press, August 2020
1040 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same?sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, o...
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£35,00
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Bankrupt in America A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226679563, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 8 tables
In 2005, more than two million Americans – six out of every 1,000 people – filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In "Ban...
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£44,00
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Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226400761, ISBN: HB: 9780226400624, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 figures, 4 tables
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don't Sue
ISBN: HB: 9780226305042, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 figures, 1 table
Why do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise you: we don't! For every "Whiplash Charlie" who sees a car accident as a chance to make millions, for every McDonald's customer to pursue a claim over a too-hot cup of...
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£20,00
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Pulled Over How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
ISBN: PB: 9780226113999, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 13 tables
In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the m...
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£24,00
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Reviving Self-Governance in the Workplace Employee Rights and Representation in an Era of Self-Regulation
ISBN: HB: 9780300124507, Yale University Press, February 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This original book seeks to shape current trends toward employer self-regulation into a new paradigm of workplace governance in which workers participate. The decline of collective bargaining and the parallel rise of employment law have left workers...
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£49,00
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