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  • In Search of the Ethical Lawyer

    Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession

    Edición de Adam Dodek, Alice Woolley ...
    Series series Law and Society
    What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public?In this equally inspiring and troubling book, leading Canadian legal academics and practising lawyers draw on real ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Firefighters

    Their Lives in Their Own Words

    de Dennis Smith ...
    An unforgettable journey through the daily lives of the brave men and women who have made saving lives their profession.Dennis Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82, traveled across the country talking to dozens of America’s firefighters to put together this powerful collection of their own descriptions of their most dramatic and intense experiences on the job. Their stories, compiled here, ... Leer más

    Antes $9.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

  • Reflections on Judging

    de Richard A. Posner ...
    For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law. ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD

  • Lawyers and Fidelity to Law

    de W. Bradley Wendel ...
    Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as an ordinary person. But in the view of most critics these arguments fail to turn wrongs into rights. ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction

    de Beth Gaze, Belinda Smith ...
    Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction explores four decades of anti-discrimination laws in Australia. Beth Gaze and Belinda Smith argue that effective laws protecting against and deterring discrimination are vital for a fair future, and emphasise the theoretical and social contexts that underpin this area of the law. The text is divided into three sections: the first ... Leer más

    $108.99 USD

  • Creating Legal Worlds

    Story and Style in a Culture of Argument

    de Greig Henderson ...
    A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal argument.Through careful analyses of notable cases from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Greig Henderson analyses how the rhetoric of ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Sweatshops at Sea

    Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present

    de Leon Fink ...
    As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world’s first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon Fink examines the evolution of laws and labor relations governing ordinary seamen over the past two ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Manifest Madness

    Mental Incapacity in the Criminal Law

    de Arlie Loughnan ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Whether it is a question of the age below which a child cannot be held liable for their actions, or the attribution of responsibility to defendants with mental illnesses, ... Leer más

    $136.99 USD

  • Down with Traitors

    Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China

    de Yun Xia ...
    Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931–1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, “traitors to the Han Chinese”). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating the power struggle between Nationalists and Communists. Yun Xia examines the leaders of collaborationist ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Then Comes Marriage

    United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA

    de Roberta Kaplan ...
    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill ClintonRenowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years—enduring society’s ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Federal Judges Revealed

    de William Domnarski ...
    The power and influence of the federal judiciary has been widely discussed and understood. And while there have been a fair number of institutional studies-studies of individual district courts or courts of appeal--there have been very few studies of the judiciary that emphasize the judges themselves. Federal Judges Revealed considers approximately one hundred oral histories of Article Three ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Forging Rivals

    Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism

    de Reuel Schiller ...
    Series series Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of economic egalitarianism while simultaneously embracing ethnic, racial, and religious pluralism. But by the mid-1970s, postwar liberalism was in a shambles: while its commitment to pluralism remained, its economic policies had ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD