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  • Regulation by Municipal Licensing

    Series series Heritage
    Municipal licensing serves a variety of regulatory purposes such as consumer protection and public health and safety. The municipal licensing power is delegated from the provincial government, up to the present, municipalities have been restricted to enumerated, specific powers, and the result has been the growth of a disorganized and unwieldy accumulation of bylaws, many of which conflict or are ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • John Paul Stevens and the Constitution

    The Search for Balance

    A good pragmatist's constitutional theory is inseparable from the legal disputes out of which it arises. John Paul Stevens's theory, that of deciding individual cases well instead of applying constitutional principles in the abstract to cases by category, thus lends itself to being studied in its natural, factual habitat—in his own words, case by case. That's what this book does.In Chapter 1 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Visual Language for the World Wide Web

    In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sumerian language systems are presented here as direct cultural links to the visual presentation of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. The book shows how the development of digital screens has caused visual human communication to come full circle from ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Literacy and the Politics of Writing

    With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all 'proper' forms of writing must necessarily progress. This beautifully illustrated book shows that the primary purpose of writing is the ability to store and transmit information, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Understanding Common Law Legislation

    Drafting and Interpretation

    Many countries use and apply the common law. The common law world largely operates through statutes enacted by a country's democratic legislature. These statutes are drafted and interpreted according to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons evolved over centuries by common law judges. In this book, Francis Bennion distills forty years of his prolific writings on statute ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Composition of Herman Melville

    by Rick Mitchell ...
    This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place. The play admits the truth of Walter Benjamin's view of history as 'time filled by the presence of the now'. Parallels between past and present (e.g., racism, domestic abuse, and the plight of the visionary American artist) are clearly ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Harsh Justice

    Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe

    Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading--more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent to prison, and when they are, they serve far shorter terms than their American counterparts. Why is America so comparatively ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions

    The 14 essays that make up this 2003 volume are written by leading international scholars to provide an authoritative survey of the state of comparative legal studies. Representing such varied disciplines as the law, political science, sociology, history and anthropology, the contributors review the intellectual traditions that have evolved within the discipline of comparative legal studies, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Varieties of Capitalism:The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

    The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

    Edited by Peter A. Hall, David Soskice ...
    What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for convergence generated by globalization and technological change? These have long been central questions in comparative political economy. This book provides ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts

    Essex County, 1629-1692

    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals. The author discovers that law gradually replaced religion and communalism as the source of social stability, and he gives a new interpretation to the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe

    The Paradox of Inclusion

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to collectively as the 'socially excluded'. The Europeans maintain that workfare is the best method of bringing the socially excluded back into mainstream ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Judicial Deliberations

    A Comparative Analysis of Transparency and Legitimacy

    Series series Oxford Studies in European Law
    Judicial Deliberations compares how and why the European Court of Justice, the French Cour de cassation and the US Supreme Court offer different approaches for generating judicial accountability and control, judicial debate and deliberation, and ultimately judicial legitimacy. Examining the judicial argumentation of the United States Supreme Court and of the French Cour de cassation, the book ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materials

    Edited by Frieda Mishan ...
    This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving these materials should be correspondingly authentic, by entailing interactions that are ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in New EU Member States

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book, Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe, an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states. The book compares conditions in the new and potential EU Member states to those in the long-standing EU countries. Topics covered include:* A Comparative View of Taxation in the EU and in New Members* Tax ... Read more

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  • American Law in a Global Context

    The Basics

    American Law in a Global Context is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. It covers the law and lawyering tools taught in the first year of law school, explaining the underlying concepts and techniques of the common law used in U.S. legal practice. The ideas central to the development and practice of American law, as well as constitutional law, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Ancient Laws and Modern Problems

    The Balance Between Justice and A Legal System

    by John Sassoon ...
    John Sassoon’s study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used the death penalty surprisingly seldom, and then more because society had been threatened than an ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Law, Culture, and Ritual

    Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context

    by Oscar G Chase ...
    Disputing systems are products of the societies in which they operate—they originate and mutate in response to disputes that are particular to specific social, cultural, and political contexts. Disputing procedures, therefore, are an important medium through which fundamental beliefs, values, and symbols of culture are communicated, preserved, and sometimes altered. In Law, Culture, and Ritual, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Foundations of Private Law

    Property, Tort, Contract, Unjust Enrichment

    by James Gordley ...
    Foundations of Private Law is a treatise on the Western law of property, contract, tort and unjust enrichment in both common law systems and civil law systems. The thesis of the book is that underlying these fields of law are common principles, and that these principles can be used to explain the history and development of these areas. These underlying common principles are matters of common sense ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Interpreting Constitutions

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Jeffrey Goldsworthy ...
    This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Among the interpretive methods discussed are textualism, purposivism, structuralism and originalism. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine

    Series series Studies in Legal History
    One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski examines the legal history of Palestine, showing how law and identity interacted in a complex colonial ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Poverty and Fundamental Rights

    The Justification and Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights

    This book addresses the pressing issue of severe poverty and inequality, and questions why violations of socio-economic rights are treated with less urgency than violations of civil and political rights, such as the right to freedom of speech or to vote? Socio-economic rights have been widely regarded as aspirational goals, rhetorically useful, but having few practical implications for government ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Italian Private Law

    Series series UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law
    Italian Private Law provides an excellent overview and analysis of Italian private law and its transition from the early twentieth century legal tradition to a system based on constitutional values, geared towards European integration.Exploring the eclectic yet systematically solid foundations of Italian private law, which has adapted itself to the ever growing pressure of EU legislation, Alpa and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • In the Common Defense

    National Security Law for Perilous Times

    The United States faces the realistic and indefinite threat of terrorist attack with nuclear weapons. Whether the United States is successful in preventing such an attack will depend on whether we effectively wield the instruments of security. It will also depend on whether we effectively manage national security processes and apply the law in a manner that both enhances security and upholds our ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Judicial Law-Making in Post-Soviet Russia

    A novel and incisive investigation of the role of judicial precedents and customs in Russian law, this book examines the trends in the development of judge-made law in Russian civil law since the demise of the Soviet Union.Exploring the interrelated propositions that a certain creative element is intrinsic to the judicial function in modern legal systems, which are normally shaped by both ... Read more

    $74.99 USD