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Save 1% Locarno Diplomacy
Jon JacobsonCurrent price €72.99Original price €73.99The Locarno Conference of 1925 and the five treaties concluded there have been seen as the turning point of the interwar years, i.e., Germany's acc...
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Save 2% Building the Judiciary
Justin CroweCurrent price €55.99Original price €56.99How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance? How did the Supreme Court move f...
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Sale Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts
Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies€46.99This book presents an in-depth exploration of the administration of justice during Islam’s founding period, 632–1250 CE. Inspired by the scholarshi...
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Sale Feminist Legal History
New York University Press€34.99Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities ...
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Save 1% Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages
Arvind ThomasCurrent price €71.99Original price €72.99It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet’s words and the lawyer’s world really so far ...
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Save 2% Bluecoated Terror
Jeffrey S. AdlerCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States. Too often, scholars and pundits arg...
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Save 1% Bluecoated Terror
Jeffrey S. AdlerCurrent price €83.99Original price €84.99A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States. Too often, scholars and pundits arg...
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Sale Vice Patrol
Anna Lvovsky€39.99In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor inv...
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Save 1% Vice Patrol
Anna LvovskyCurrent price €103.99Original price €104.99In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor inv...
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Save 6% Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries
Alison A. ChapmanCurrent price €29.99Original price €31.99John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows...
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Sale Law’s Abnegation
Adrian Vermeule€47.99Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the ad...
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Sale Government by Mourning
Atsuko Hirai€51.99From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the Tokugawa shogunate enacted and enforced myriad laws and ordinances to control nearly ...
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Save 1% Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation
Amsterdam University PressCurrent price €129.99Original price €130.99This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under Germa...
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Sale Hate Crimes in Cyberspace
Danielle Keats Citron€32.50Most Internet users are familiar with trolling—aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site’s comments. Less familia...
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Sale King’s Peace
Lisa Ford€39.99How the imposition of Crown rule across the British Empire during the Age of Revolution corroded the rights of British subjects and laid the founda...
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Sale Border Law
Deborah A. Rosen€56.99The First Seminole War of 1816–1818 played a critical role in shaping how the United States demarcated its spatial and legal boundaries during the ...
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Sale Second Creation
Jonathan Gienapp€38.99A stunning revision of our founding document’s evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago...
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Sale Beyond Freedom’s Reach
Adam Rothman€44.99Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. St...
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Sale August Trials
Andrew Kornbluth€49.99The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning ...
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Sale Inferno
Robert A. Ferguson€33.99An Open Letters Monthly Best Nonfiction Book of the YearAmerica’s criminal justice system is broken. The United States punishes at a higher per cap...
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Sale Collapse of American Criminal Justice
William J. Stuntz€27.50The rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of...
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Sale We the Miners
Andrea G. McDowell€43.99A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearA surprising account of frontier law that challenges the image of the Wild West. In the absence of s...
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Sale We Make Each Other Beautiful
Yxta Maya Murray€128.99We Make Each Other Beautiful focuses on woman of color and queer of color artists and artist collectives who engage in direct political action as a...
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