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30 produkter
Transformative Justice
Israeli Identity on Trial
Häftad, 2004
526 kr
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Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance …
Among the Lowest of the Dead
The Culture of Capital Punishment
Häftad, 2006
458 kr
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Thorough and unbiased, Among the Lowest of the Dead is a gripping narrative that provides an unprecedented journalistic look into the actual workings of the capital punishment system. "Has all the tension of the best true crime stories . . . This is journalism at its best." --Library Journal"A …
Suing the Gun Industry
A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts
Häftad, 2006
352 kr
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"Mass tort litigation against the gun industry, with its practical weaknesses, successes, and goals, provides the framework for this collection of thoughtful essays by leading social scientists, lawyers, and academics. . . . These informed analyses reveal the complexities that make the debate so …
Jurisprudence of Emergency
Colonialism and the Rule of Law
Häftad, 2019
395 kr
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The Jurisprudence of Emergency examines British rule in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, tracing tensions between the ideology of liberty and government by law used to justify the colonizing power's insistence on a regime of conquest. Nasser Hussain argues that the …
Bad Boys
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
Häftad, 2020
297 kr
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Black males are disproportionately "in trouble" and suspended from the nation’s school systems. This is as true now as it was when Ann Arnett Ferguson’s now classic Bad Boys was first published. Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students in order …
Sacred Violence
Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
Av Paul W. Kahn
Häftad, 2008
323 kr
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In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to …
First Global Prosecutor
Promise and Constraints
Av Martha Minow, C. Cora True-Frost m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
519 kr
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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 …
Curating Community
Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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In Curating Community: Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political, Stacy Douglas challenges the centrality of sovereignty in our political and juridical imaginations. Creatively bringing together constitutional, political, and aesthetic theory, Douglas argues that museums and …
Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law
Unfinished Business
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
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The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law explores the challenge posed by the Holocaust to legal and political thought by examining issues raised by the restitution class action suits brought against Swiss banks and German corporations before American federal courts in the 1990s. Although the suits …
Archiving Sovereignty
Law, History, Violence
Häftad, 2018
297 kr
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Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the fabulous tales that provide an alibi for archaic sovereign acts that persist in the present. The United …
Making Endless War
The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law
Häftad, 2023
457 kr
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Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together …
Biblical Judgments
New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible
Häftad, 2024
443 kr
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Biblical Judgments invites readers to consider today's timeless dilemmas of law and government, social justice, and human rights, through the perspective of a text that has helped shape western society: the Hebrew Bible. By focusing on biblical narratives and literature rather than on traditional …
Before Before
A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone
Av Betsy Small
Häftad, 2025
263 kr
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2025 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Political and Social Sciences2026 Nautilus Silver Book Award in World Cultures' Transformational Growth & DevelopmentSierra Leone is often sensationalized as a place of extreme violence and suffering—of blood diamonds, child soldiers, war amputations, and Ebola and …
Narrative, Violence, and the Law
The Essays of Robert Cover
Av Martha Minow, Michael Ryan m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
562 kr
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"Bob Cover was and remains the dominant voice of his generation among legal scholars. These essays, each one magnificent in itself, are, when taken together, even more important. The wisdom they impart is forever." --Guido Calabresi, Dean and Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University "Robert Cover …
Punishing Schools
Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education
Av William (Bill) Thomas Lyons, Julie Drew
Häftad, 2006
372 kr
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In a society increasingly dominated by zero-tolerance thinking, Punishing Schools argues that our educational system has become both the subject of legislative punishment and an instrument for the punishment of children. William Lyons and Julie Drew analyze the connections between state sanctions …
Lives of Lawyers Revisited
Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice
Häftad, 2007
352 kr
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The past two decades have seen profound changes in the legal profession. Lives of Lawyers Revisited extends Michael Kelly’s work in the original Lives of Lawyers, offering unique insights into the nature of these changes, examined through stories of five extraordinarily varied law practices. By …
Punishment and Political Order
Häftad, 2007
297 kr
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Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order …
Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law
Unfinished Business
Inbunden, 2017
1230 kr
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The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law explores the challenge posed by the Holocaust to legal and political thought by examining issues raised by the restitution class action suits brought against Swiss banks and German corporations before American federal courts in the 1990s. Although the suits …
Making Endless War
The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law
Inbunden, 2023
1159 kr
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Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together …
Biblical Judgments
New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible
Inbunden, 2024
1126 kr
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Biblical Judgments invites readers to consider today's timeless dilemmas of law and government, social justice, and human rights, through the perspective of a text that has helped shape western society: the Hebrew Bible. By focusing on biblical narratives and literature rather than on traditional …
Before Before
A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone
Av Betsy Small
Inbunden, 2025
988 kr
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2025 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Political and Social Sciences2026 Nautilus Silver Book Award in World Cultures' Transformational Growth & DevelopmentSierra Leone is often sensationalized as a place of extreme violence and suffering—of blood diamonds, child soldiers, war amputations, and Ebola and …
Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law
Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control
Av John Gilliom
Häftad, 1996
297 kr
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Employee drug testing is an invasive and controversial new social control policy that burst into the American work place during the war on drugs of the 1980s. Workers, judges, and politicians divided over whether it was an unnecessary and unconstitutional program of surveillance or an effective and …
Legal Modernism
Av David Luban
Häftad, 1997
422 kr
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Modernism in legal theory is no different from modernism in the arts: both respond to a cultural crisis, a sense that institutions and traditions have lost their validity. Some doubt the importance of the rule of law, others question the objectivity of legal reasoning. We have lost confidence in …
Law Stories
Häftad, 1998
352 kr
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"War stories" is the phrase used by academic lawyers to disparage the ways practicing lawyers talk about their experiences. Gary Bellow and Martha Minow in Law Stories have gathered a group of stories that explore the actual experiences of clients and lawyers in concrete legal contexts.The essays …
Strangers to the Law
Gay People on Trial
Av Lisa Melinda Keen, Suzanne Beth Goldberg
Häftad, 2000
352 kr
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In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting any law or policy that protected a person with a homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation from discrimination. This amendment was immediately …
Politics of Community Policing
Rearranging the Power to Punish
Av William (Bill) Thomas Lyons
Häftad, 2002
383 kr
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In this in-depth examination of community policing in Seattle, William T. Lyons, Jr. explores the complex issues associated with the establishment and operation of community policing, an increasingly popular method for organizing law enforcement in this country. Stories about community policing …
Butterfly, the Bride
Essays on Law, Narrative, and the Family
Häftad, 2004
311 kr
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Carol Weisbrod uses a variety of stories to raise important questions about how society, through law, defines relationships in the family. Beginning with a story most familiar from the opera Madame Butterfly, Weisbrod addresses issues such as marriage, divorce, parent-child relations and abuses, …
Laws of the Postcolonial
Av Eve Darian-Smith, Peter Fitzpatrick
Inbunden, 1999
1360 kr
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Although postcolonialism is now the main mode in which the West's relation to the "other" is critically explored, and although law has been at the forefront of that very relation, a thorough engagement between law and postcolonialism has not been pursued, in part because this would drastically …
Jurisprudence of Emergency
Colonialism and the Rule of Law
Inbunden, 2003
1301 kr
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Ever-more-frequent calls for the establishment of a rule of law in the developing world have been oddly paralleled by the increasing use of "exceptional" measures to deal with political crises. To untangle this apparent contradiction, The Jurisprudence of Emergency analyzes the historical uses of a …
Keeping Hold of Justice
Encounters between Law and Colonialism
Av Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1088 kr
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Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive …
