The Fate of Law

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472023691
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fate of Law by : Austin Sarat

Download or read book The Fate of Law written by Austin Sarat and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For law and legal theory the end of the twentieth century is a time of contradiction; while the newly emerging politics of Eastern Europe seek to establish a new rule of law, voices in this country proclaim the "death of law." For the former, law provides hope for stability and fairness. For the latter, the fundamental values that provide a grounding for legality seem no longer secure or satisfying. The Fate of Law is a collection of five original essays, each of which discusses the problems and prospects of law in the late twentieth century. The essays pay particular attention to the impact of broad intellectual and political movements, especially feminism and postmodernism, on law and legal theory. The Fate of Law investigates what happens under the critical scrutiny of those movements and in an era of growing skepticism about law's central claim to objectivity, neutrality, and reason. It describes the struggles that ensue and the responses that are made. Each of the essays that comprise this books is written in its own style and voice; each makes it own judgments and assessments.

Constitutional Fate

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199878587
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Constitutional Fate by : Philip Bobbitt

Download or read book Constitutional Fate written by Philip Bobbitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984-03-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day.

Lawyers Without Rights

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ISBN 13 : 9781641051996
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Lawyers Without Rights by : Simone Lawig-Winters

Download or read book Lawyers Without Rights written by Simone Lawig-Winters and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyers Without Rights: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Berlin after 1933 is about the rule of law and how one government - the Third Reich in Germany - systematically undermined fair and just law through humiliation, degradation and legislation leading to expulsion of Jewish lawyers and jurists from the legal profession.

The Law and the Dead

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317964349
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis The Law and the Dead by : Heather Conway

Download or read book The Law and the Dead written by Heather Conway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fate of the dead is a compelling and emotive subject, which also raises increasingly complex legal questions. This book focuses on the substantive laws around disposal of the recently deceased and associated issues around their post-mortem fate. It looks primarily at the laws in England and Wales but also offers a comparative approach, drawing heavily on material from other common law jurisdictions including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. The book provides an in-depth, contextual and comparative analysis of the substantive laws and policy issues around corpse disposal, exhumation and the posthumous treatment of the dead, including commemoration. Topics covered include: the legal frameworks around burial, cremation and other disposal methods; the hierarchy of persons who have a legal duty to dispose of the dead and who are entitled to possession of the deceased’s remains; offences against the dead; family burial disputes, and the legal status of burial instructions; the posthumous use of donated bodily material; and the rules around disinterment, and creating an appropriate memorial. A key theme of the book will be to look at the manner in which conflicts involving the dead are becoming increasingly common in secular, multi-cultural societies where the traditional nuclear family model is no longer the norm, and how such legal contests are resolved by courts. As the first comprehensive survey of the laws in this area for decades, this book will be of use to academics, lawyers and judges adjudicating on issues around the fate of the dead, as well as the death industry and funeral service providers.

A Tragic Fate

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ISBN 13 : 9781634257336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (573 download)

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Book Synopsis A Tragic Fate by : Nicholas M. O'Donnell

Download or read book A Tragic Fate written by Nicholas M. O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War Two, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums, foreign nations, and even their own family members. These stories are enduring because they speak to one of the core tragedies of the Nazi era: how a nation at the pinnacle of fine art and culture spawned a legalized culture of theft and plunder. A Tragic Fate is the first book to seriously address the legal and ethical rules that have dictated the results of restitution claims between competing claimants to the same works of art. It provides a history of Art and Culture in German-occupied Europe, an introduction to the most significant collections in Europe to be targeted by the Nazis, and a narrative of the efforts to reclaim looted artwork in the decades following the Holocaust through profiles of some of the art world's most famous and influential restitution cases.

Law in Everyday Life

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472023608
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Law in Everyday Life by : Austin Sarat

Download or read book Law in Everyday Life written by Austin Sarat and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike." --Choice "The subject of law in everyday life is timely in theory and in practice. The essays collected here are stimulating for the very different ways in which they reconfigure the meanings of 'the law' as cultural practice, and 'the everyday' as a cultural domain in which the state expresses a range of interests and engagements. Readers looking for an introduction to this topic will come away from the book with a clear sense of the varied voices and modes of inquiry now involved in sociolegal studies, and what distinguishes them. More experienced readers will appreciate the book's meticulous reconsideration of the instrumentalities, agencies, and constructedness of law." --Carol Greenhouse, Indiana University Contributors include David Engel, Hendrik Hartog, Thomas R. Kearns, David Kennedy, Catharine MacKinnon, George Marcus, Austin Sarat, and Patricia Williams. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, and Chair of the Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College.

The Fate of the Revolution

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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421420031
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fate of the Revolution by : Lorri Glover

Download or read book The Fate of the Revolution written by Lorri Glover and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the 1788 Virginia Ratification Convention explores the Constitutional debates that decided the nation’s fate and still resonate today. In May 1788, elected delegates from every county in Virginia gathered in Richmond where they would either accept or reject the highly controversial United States Constitution. The rest of the country kept an anxious vigil, keenly aware that without Virginia—the young Republic’s largest and most populous state—the Constitution was doomed. In The Fate of the Revolution, Lorri Glover explains why Virginia’s wrangling over ratification led to such heated political debate. Virginians were roughly split in their opinions, as were the delegates they elected. Patrick Henry, for example, the greatest orator of the age, opposed James Madison, the intellectual force behind the Constitution. The two sides were so evenly matched that in the last days of the convention, the savviest political observers still couldn’t predict the outcome. Mining an incredible wealth of sources, including letters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and transcripts, Glover brings these political discussions to life, exploring the constitutional questions that echo across American history.

Empire of Law

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483631
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire of Law by : Kaius Tuori

Download or read book Empire of Law written by Kaius Tuori and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of exiles from Nazi Germany and the creation of the notion of a shared European legal tradition.

Law/Society

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Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 9780761987055
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Law/Society by : John Sutton

Download or read book Law/Society written by John Sutton and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A core text for the Law and Society or Sociology of Law course offered in Sociology, Criminal Justice, Political Science, and Schools of Law. * John Sutton offers an explicitly analytical perspective to the subject - how does law change? What makes law more or less effective in solving social problems? What do lawyers do? * Chapter 1 contrasts normative and sociological perspectives on law, and presents a brief primer on the logic of research and inference as it is applied to law related issues. * Theories of legal change are discussed within a common conceptual framework that highlights the explantory strengths and weaknesses of different arguments. * Discussions of "law in action" are explicitly comparative, applying a consistent model to explain the variable outcomes of civil rights legislation. * Many concrete, in-depth examples throughout the chapters.

Law's Trials

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429750
Total Pages : 861 pages
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Book Synopsis Law's Trials by : Richard L. Abel

Download or read book Law's Trials written by Richard L. Abel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law's Trials analyzes the performance of US courts in upholding the rule of law during the 'war on terror'.

Who Controls the Internet?

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198034806
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Who Controls the Internet? by : Jack Goldsmith

Download or read book Who Controls the Internet? written by Jack Goldsmith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.

The Future of Ideas

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375726446
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis The Future of Ideas by : Lawrence Lessig

Download or read book The Future of Ideas written by Lawrence Lessig and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-10-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress. Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideas is a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore.

The Ages of American Law

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021104X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ages of American Law by : Grant Gilmore

Download or read book The Ages of American Law written by Grant Gilmore and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following its publication in 1974, Grant Gilmore's compact portrait of the development of American law from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century became a classic. In this new edition, the portrait is brought up to date with a new chapter by Philip Bobbitt that surveys the trajectory of American law since the original publication. Bobbitt also provides a Foreword on Gilmore and the celebrated lectures that inspired The Ages of American Law. "Sharp, opinionated, and as pungent as cheddar."—New Republic "This book has the engaging qualities of good table talk among a group of sophisticated and educated friends—given body by broad learning and a keen imagination and spiced with wit."—Willard Hurst

Legal Modernism

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024116
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Legal Modernism by : David Luban

Download or read book Legal Modernism written by David Luban and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the justice of our legal institutions, and even in our very capacity to identify justice. Legal philosopher David Luban argues that we cannot escape the modernist predicament. Accusing contemporary legal theorists of evading rather than confronting the challenge of modernity, he offers important and original objections to pragmatism, traditionalism, and nihilism. He argues that only by weaving together the broken narrative and forgotten voices of history's victims can we come to appreciate the nature of justice in modern society. Calling a trial the embodiment of the law's self-criticism, Luban demonstrates the centrality of narrative by analyzing the trial of Martin Luther King, the Nuremberg trials, and trial scenes in Homer, Hesiod, and Aeschylus. With these examples, Luban explores several of the tensions that motivate much more contemporary legal theory: order versus justice, obedience versus resistance, statism versus communitarianism. ". . . an illuminating account of how contemporary legal theory can be understood as an expression of 'the modernist predicament' by exploring the analogy between modernism in the arts and modernism in law, politics, and philosophy. . . . a valuable critical discussion of modern legal theory." --Choice David Luban is Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland and Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. His other books include Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study.

The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139469177
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice by : Terry K. Aladjem

Download or read book The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice written by Terry K. Aladjem and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account – a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the 'rights of victims' and make pronouncements against 'evil'. Yet for Aladjem this dangerously authoritarian turn has its origins in the tradition of liberal justice itself – in theories of punishment that justify inflicting pain and in the punitive practices that result. Exploring vengeance as the defining problem of our time, Aladjem returns to the theories of Locke, Hegel and Mill. He engages the ancient Greeks, Nietzsche, Paine and Foucault to challenge liberal assumptions about punishment. He interrogates American law, capital punishment and images of justice in the media. He envisions a democratic justice that is better able to contain its vengeance.

The Death Penalty in the Nineties

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472064618
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (646 download)

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Book Synopsis The Death Penalty in the Nineties by : Welsh S. White

Download or read book The Death Penalty in the Nineties written by Welsh S. White and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date examination of legal changes and shifting attitudes surrounding capital punishment

The Law of Nations

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Total Pages : 668 pages
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Book Synopsis The Law of Nations by : Emer de Vattel

Download or read book The Law of Nations written by Emer de Vattel and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: