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  • Elites, Power Struggles, and the Law

    How Courts Support Diffuse Interests

    by Shai Dothan ...
    This book challenges Mancur Olson's famous observation that concentrated interests inevitably dominate diffuse ones in democracies by presenting an alternative view that strong, independent courts can effectively protect the rights of diffuse interests against powerful, concentrated groups.Drawing on diverse examples from national and international courts, this book demonstrates how judicial ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Law as a Science

    by Shai Dothan ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to investigate what methods of interpretation and understanding of the law are useful for legal scholarship. The main idea is that legal scholarship needs to regularly make assumptions about the content of the law and about human behavior to better understand legal doctrine. For example, law and economics scholars often assume that people are rational or that the law ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Law and the Meaning of Life

    by Shai Dothan ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Law is composed of a series of norms and institutions that are designed to regulate human conduct. Many have tried to define the purpose of the law by analyzing the connection between law and politics or between law and morality. However, these perspectives are bound to be limited because they ignore the existence of law as a separate and distinct system of principles. Because this system of ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Reputation and Judicial Tactics

    A Theory of National and International Courts

    by Shai Dothan ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
    This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power. Courts often cannot enforce their judgments and must rely on reputational sanctions to ensure compliance. One way to do this is for courts to improve their reputation for generating compliance with their judgments. When the court's reputation is increased, ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • International Judicial Review

    When Should International Courts Intervene?

    by Shai Dothan ...
    Series series Studies on International Courts and Tribunals
    This book is motivated by a question: when should international courts intervene in domestic affairs? To answer this question thoroughly, the book is broken down into a series of separate inquiries: when is intervention legitimate? When can international courts identify good legal solutions? When will intervention initiate useful processes? When will it lead to good outcomes? These inquiries are ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Permanent Investment Courts

    The European Experiment

    Edited by Güneş Ünüvar, Joanna Lam, Shai Dothan ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This special issue focuses on the opportunities and challenges connected with investment courts. The creation of permanent investment courts was first proposed several decades ago, but it has only recently become likely that these proposals will be implemented. In particular, the European Commission has pushed for a court-like mechanism to resolve investment disputes in various recent trade and ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

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    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • How Judges Think

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • On Human Rights

    by James Griffin ...
    What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of the foundations of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Rights from Wrongs

    A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights

    by Alan M. Dershowitz ...
    This is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are "natural"-if, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, it is "self-evident that all men are endowed . . . with certain inalienable rights"-where do these rights come from? Does natural law really exist outside the formal structure of humanly enacted law? On the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Versions of Academic Freedom

    From Professionalism to Revolution

    by Stanley Fish ...
    Series series The Rice University Campbell Lectures
    The author and New York Times columnist sheds light on the intersection of academia and politics with this look at the debate surrounding academic freedom.Depending on who's talking, academic freedom is an essential bulwark of democracy, an absurd fig leaf disguising liberal agendas, or, most often, some in-between muddle that both exaggerates its own importance and misunderstands its actual ... Read more

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