Jurisprudence & General Issues

This volume is a culmination of years of development, and the first to introduce the concepts of superoptimum evaluative and explanatory reasoning....

Legalism deals with the area between political theory and jurisprudence. Its aim is to bridge the intellectual gulf separating jurisprudence from o...

'Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees wi...

Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities ...

Across the country, races for judgeships are becoming more and more politically contested. As a result, several states and cities are now consideri...

One of the quintessential goals of the American Dream is to own land and a home, a place to raise one’s family and prove one’s prosperity. Particul...

An argument for the constitutional responsibility to participate in jury duty It’s easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The ...

The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of peop...

Visual and multimedia digital technologies are transforming the practice of law: how lawyers construct and argue their cases, present evidence to j...

American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human de...

Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni Association Much has been written about women’s rights...

Popular author Steven Lubet brings his signature blend of humor, advocacy, and legal ethics to The Importance of Being Honest, an incisive analysis...

Becoming Biosubjects examines the ways in which the Canadian government, media, courts, and everyday Canadians are making sense of the challenges b...

Roderick A. Macdonald (1948-2014), internationally renowned for his expertise on access to justice, legal pluralism, and the philosophy of law, was...

Many legal theorists and judges agree on one major premise in the field of law and religion: that religion clause jurisprudence is in a state of di...

A gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers. Are mothers truly a danger to their children’s healt...

In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' co...

Inhabited by a diverse population of First Nations peoples, Metis, Scots, Upper and Lower Canadians, and Americans, and dominated by the commercial...

In Pursuit of Right and Justice chronicles the life of the United States District Court's Judge Edward Weinfeld, from his humble Lower East Side or...

Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered...

Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in th...

Inhabited by a diverse population of First Nations peoples, Metis, Scots, Upper and Lower Canadians, and Americans, and dominated by the commercial...

The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of peop...

In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims. In or...

Roderick A. Macdonald (1948-2014), internationally renowned for his expertise on access to justice, legal pluralism, and the philosophy of law, was...

Increasingly linked by regional and global ties, national economies depend more than ever on international investments and trade. Agreements such a...

International law is a fundamentally modern phenomenon. Tracing its roots to nineteenth-century pronouncements on the 'law of nations,' the discipl...

An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another’s equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in ...

While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there have been few efforts to systematically pull together ...

In Law and Class in America, a group of leading legal scholars reflect on the state of the law from the end of the Cold War to the present, grappli...

In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain's most...

Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in th...

Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the...

Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The mate...

Also Serving Time informs readers about the realities of provincial and territorial prison work in Canada. Exploring the nuances of the job, Rosema...

This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—esta...

A thoroughly pragmatic guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) This is a critical FCPA training resource for executives, managers, ...

As the leading legal historian of his generation in Canada and professor at McGill University for over three decades, Blaine Baker (1952–2018) was ...

Als rechtlicher Betreuer muss man vieles wissen. Jennifer Otten stellt Ihnen in diesem Buch die wesentlichen Regelungen in der Beziehung zwischen B...

Ganz gleich ob Sie zum Beispiel Jura oder BWL, Sozial- oder Verwaltungswissenschaften studieren - um das BGB werden Sie kaum herumkommen. Mit diese...

A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World As British and Iberian empire...

Wer GmbH-Geschäftsführer wird, der tut gut daran, sich genau zu informieren, welche Rechten und Pflichten mit dieser Position verbunden sind. Welch...

From the 1890s onwards, social reformers, volunteer lawyers, and politicians increasingly came to see access to affordable or free legal advice as ...

This ground-breaking book challenges the widespread view that sex and homosexuality were unmentionable in the USSR. The Khrushchev and Brezhnev era...