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Essential Guide to Intellectual Property
ISBN: PB: 9780300214420, Yale University Press, July 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
This engaging and accessible study looks at the origins, evolution, purpose, and limitations of intellectual property. Detailing how intellectual property affects industry, politics, cultural expression, and medical research, Aram Sinnreich takes a m...
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£17,99
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Evidence of the Law Proving Legal Claims
ISBN: HB: 9780226432052, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
How does one prove the law? If your neighbor breaks your window, the law regulates how you can show your claim to be true or false; but how do you prove that in breaking your window your neighbor has broken the law? American jurisprudence devotes an...
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£41,50
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Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom
ISBN: HB: 9780226413730, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table
Sometimes the outcome of a lawsuit depends upon sensations known only to the person who experiences them, such as the buzzing sound heard by a plaintiff who suffers from tinnitus after an accident. Lawyers, litigants, and expert witnesses are now see...
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£36,00
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Engines of Truth Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom
ISBN: HB: 9780300125665, Yale University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad...
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£65,00
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Electronic Silk Road How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce
ISBN: HB: 9780300154597, Yale University Press, August 2013
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today's electronic Silk Roads ferry information acros...
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£23,00
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Everyday Law on the Street City Governance in an Age of Diversity
ISBN: PB: 9780226921907, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm
Toronto prides itself on being "the world's most diverse city", and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, lim...
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£24,00
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Electing Judges The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy
ISBN: PB: 9780226291086, ISBN: HB: 9780226291079, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 1 halftone, 15 line illus.
In "Electing Judges", leading judicial politics scholar James L. Gibson responds tothe growing chorus of critics who fear that the politics of running for office undermine judicial independence and even the rule of law. While many people have opinion...
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£26,00
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£73,50
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Ethics of Interrogation
ISBN: PB: 9780226761626, ISBN: HB: 9780226761619, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm
The act of interrogation, and debate over its use, pervade our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media,...
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£52,00
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Expert Witness in Islamic Courts Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law
ISBN: HB: 9780226749334, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm
Islam's tense relationship with modernity is one of the most crucial issues of our time. Within Islamic legal systems, with their traditional preference for eyewitness testimony, this struggle has played a significant role in attitudes toward expert...
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£51,00
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Ensuring Corporate Misconduct How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation
ISBN: HB: 9780226035154, University of Chicago Press, January 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line illus.
Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illega...
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£47,00
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