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Generous Justice
How God's Grace Makes Us Just
Häftad, 2012
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
121 kr
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It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the greatest hindrances to doing justice. Isn't it full of regressive views? Didn't it condone slavery? Why look to the Bible for guidance on how to have a more just society? But Keller sees it another way. In GENEROUS JUSTICE, …
Popular Culture and Legal Pluralism
Narrative as Law
Häftad, 2020
634 kr
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Drawing upon theories of critical legal pluralism and psychological theories of narrative identity, this book argues for an understanding of popular culture as legal authority, unmediated by translation into state law. In narrating our identities, we draw upon collective cultural narratives, and …
Slavery and the Death Penalty
A Study in Abolition
Häftad, 2021
710 kr
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It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country’s history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices’ respective abolitionist movements. The book explains how …
Renascent Pragmatism
Studies in Law and Social Science
Inbunden, 2003
2504 kr
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Pragmatism is experiencing a resurgence in law, philosophy and social science, with pragmatists seeking a consistent, comprehensive and productive understanding of social life. In its four sections Renascent Pragmatism aids the reinvigoration of pragmatism as an important intellectual tradition and …
Pragmatism and Law
From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution
Inbunden, 2002
2303 kr
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Pragmatism and Law provides a textual reading of the American legal discourse, as it unfolds through various genres of pragmatism, which evolve and transform during the twentieth century. The historical narrative, which the book weaves, traces the transformation of the pragmatic idea from the …
Taking Space Seriously
Law, Space and Society in Contemporary Israel
Inbunden, 2004
2303 kr
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This perceptive study investigates the different ways in which the state deals with various social groups through the mechanisms of space. By means of case studies involving three social groups within Israel's multicultural society - the Sephardim, the Bedouin-Arab minority and the ultra-Orthodox …
Mobile People, Mobile Law
Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World
Av Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Inbunden, 2005
2303 kr
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Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which people appropriate, use and create legal forms in multiple legal settings. It provides …
Logic of Consent
The Diversity and Deceptiveness of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Conduct
Av Peter Westen
Inbunden, 2004
2303 kr
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The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them. Peter Westen skillfully argues that the conceptual aspect accounts for a significant …
Law, Culture and Society
Legal Ideas in the Mirror of Social Theory
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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This book presents a distinctive approach to the study of law in society, focusing on the sociological interpretation of legal ideas. It surveys the development of connections between legal studies and social theory and locates its approach in relation to sociolegal studies on the one hand and …
Confronting Sexual Harassment
The Law and Politics of Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2005
701 kr
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Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in everyday acts of resistance - what the author calls the legal consciousness of injustice. The framework …
Aristotle's Ethics and Legal Rhetoric
An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law
Inbunden, 2005
2303 kr
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Taking the novel position of dealing with law, classical rhetoric and feminism concurrently, this book considers the effects of beliefs about language on those who attempt to theorize about and use law to accomplish practical and political purposes. The author employs Aristotle's terminology to …
Political Uncommons
The Cross-Cultural Logic of the Global Commons
Inbunden, 2011
2303 kr
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In The Political Uncommons, Kathryn Milun presents a cultural history of the global commons: those domains, including the atmosphere, the oceans, the radio frequency spectrum, the earth's biodiversity, and its outer space, designated by international law as belonging to no single individual or …
Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling
On the Governance of Law
Av Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Inbunden, 2009
2303 kr
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Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal pluralism. The authors argue that there has been a …
Spatializing Law
An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society
Av Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Inbunden, 2009
2303 kr
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Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal means in a rich variety of socio-political, legal and ecological settings. The contributors explore …
Against the Death Penalty
International Initiatives and Implications
Av Jon Yorke
Inbunden, 2008
2303 kr
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This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist …
Corruption and the Secret of Law
A Legal Anthropological Perspective
Av Gerhard Anders, Monique Nuitjen
Häftad, 2009
1115 kr
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This volume presents an anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. The authors argue that the two opposites, corruption and law, are inextricably linked - with the possibility of the former already inscribed into the latter. Taking a critical stance towards …
Law, Society and Corruption
Lessons from the Central Asian Context
Av Rustamjon Urinboyev, Måns Svensson
Häftad, 2025
647 kr
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This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes.This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency …
Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling
On the Governance of Law
Av Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
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Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal pluralism. The authors argue that there has been a …
Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty
Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean
Av Andrew Novak
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
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Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies. Over the last three decades, however, many former British colonies have reformed their capital punishment regimes to permit judicial sentencing discretion, including …
Aristotle's Ethics and Legal Rhetoric
An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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Taking the novel position of dealing with law, classical rhetoric and feminism concurrently, this book considers the effects of beliefs about language on those who attempt to theorize about and use law to accomplish practical and political purposes. The author employs Aristotle's terminology to …
Confronting Sexual Harassment
The Law and Politics of Everyday Life
Häftad, 2016
340 kr
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Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in everyday acts of resistance - what the author calls the legal consciousness of injustice. The framework …
Against the Death Penalty
International Initiatives and Implications
Av Jon Yorke
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
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This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist …
Pragmatism and Law
From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution
Häftad, 2016
781 kr
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Pragmatism and Law provides a textual reading of the American legal discourse, as it unfolds through various genres of pragmatism, which evolve and transform during the twentieth century. The historical narrative, which the book weaves, traces the transformation of the pragmatic idea from the …
Taking Space Seriously
Law, Space and Society in Contemporary Israel
Häftad, 2017
688 kr
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This perceptive study investigates the different ways in which the state deals with various social groups through the mechanisms of space. By means of case studies involving three social groups within Israel's multicultural society - the Sephardim, the Bedouin-Arab minority and the ultra-Orthodox …
Islam in American Prisons
Black Muslims' Challenge to American Penology
Häftad, 2016
907 kr
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The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American state and federal penitentiaries. This growth poses a powerful challenge to American penal philosophy, structured on the ideal of rehabilitating …
Logic of Consent
The Diversity and Deceptiveness of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Conduct
Av Peter Westen
Häftad, 2016
834 kr
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The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure of legislatures, courts and commentators to understand them. Peter Westen skillfully argues that the conceptual aspect accounts for a significant …
Renascent Pragmatism
Studies in Law and Social Science
Häftad, 2017
747 kr
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Pragmatism is experiencing a resurgence in law, philosophy and social science, with pragmatists seeking a consistent, comprehensive and productive understanding of social life. In its four sections Renascent Pragmatism aids the reinvigoration of pragmatism as an important intellectual tradition and …
Spatializing Law
An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society
Av Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Häftad, 2016
728 kr
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Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestrial and marine surface of the earth with legal means in a rich variety of socio-political, legal and ecological settings. The contributors explore …
Mobile People, Mobile Law
Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World
Av Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Häftad, 2016
834 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which people appropriate, use and create legal forms in multiple legal settings. It provides …
Political Uncommons
The Cross-Cultural Logic of the Global Commons
Häftad, 2018
754 kr
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In The Political Uncommons, Kathryn Milun presents a cultural history of the global commons: those domains, including the atmosphere, the oceans, the radio frequency spectrum, the earth's biodiversity, and its outer space, designated by international law as belonging to no single individual or …
