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  • When Should Law Forgive?

    by Martha Minow ...
    “Martha Minow is a voice of moral clarity: a lawyer arguing for forgiveness, a scholar arguing for evidence, a person arguing for compassion.” —Jill Lepore, author of These TruthsIn an age increasingly defined by accusation and resentment, Martha Minow makes an eloquent, deeply-researched argument in favor of strengthening the role of forgiveness in the administration of law. Through three case ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

    Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence

    by Martha Minow ...
    The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • In Brown's Wake

    Legacies of America's Educational Landmark

    by Martha Minow ...
    Series series Law and Current Events Masters
    What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? While it is well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of American schools, the case also inspired social movements for equality in education across all lines of difference, including language, gender, disability, immigration status, socio-economic status, religion, and sexual orientation. Yet more than a half century ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Making All the Difference

    Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law

    by Martha Minow ...
    Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean treating everyone the same, even if such treatment affects some people adversely? Does a state requirement of employee maternity leave serve or ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Breaking the Cycles of Hatred

    Memory, Law, and Repair

    by Martha Minow ...
    Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and between family members differ in so many ways and yet often share this dynamic. In this powerful and timely book Martha Minow and others ask: What explains these cycles and what can break them? What lessons ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Saving the News

    Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech

    by Martha Minow ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    A detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America's media landscape that traces major transformations in media since the printing press and charts a path for reform. In Saving the News, Martha Minow takes stock of the new media landscape. She focuses on the extent to which our constitutional system is to blame for the current parlous state of affairs and on our ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The First Global Prosecutor

    Promise and Constraints

    by Martha Minow, Alex Whiting, C. Cora True-Frost ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave rise to the first permanent Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), with independent powers of investigation and prosecution. Elected in 2003 for a nine-year term as the ICC’s first Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo established policies and practices for when and how to investigate, when to pursue prosecution, and how to obtain the cooperation ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    When Should Law Forgive?

    by Martha Minow ...
    Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    The potential power of forgiveness in an age of resentment.Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but what if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if something like bankruptcy—a fresh start for debtors—were available to people convicted of crimes? Martha Minow explores the complicated intersection of the law ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Saving the News

    Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech

    by Martha Minow ...
    Narrated by Eliza Foss ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 17 min

    In Saving the News, Martha Minow takes stock of the new media landscape. As Minow shows, the First Amendment of the US Constitution assumes the existence and durability of a private industry. Although the First Amendment does not govern the conduct of entirely private enterprises, nothing in the Constitution forecloses government action to regulate concentrated economic power, to require ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Feminist Legal Theory (Second Edition)

    A Primer

    by Nancy Levit, Robert R.M. Verchick, Martha Minow ...
    Series Book 74 - Critical America
    Feminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the law, and it affects issues ranging from child custody to sexual harassment. Since its initial publication in 2006, Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer has received rave reviews. Now, in the completely updated second edition of this outstanding primer, Nancy Levit and Robert R.M. Verchick introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • A Federal Right to Education

    Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy

    by Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott ...
    How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every childThe United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Hiding from Humanity

    Disgust, Shame, and the Law

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD