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Chaya T Halberstam
Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity

Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity is the first book to examine what early Jewish courtroom narratives can tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice. Drawing from affect theory and feminist le…

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Amanda Laury Kleintop
Counting the Cost of Freedom

During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South's wealth by nearly 5 percent. After the Confederacy's defeat, white Southerners demande…

lieferbar ab 19.8.2025.

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Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years

"This book focuses on the often forgotten legal landmark' that benefited, or aimed to benefit, women in England and Wales between 1918 and 1938. The book follows campaigns by key women's organisation…

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Wim Decock
Money, Markets, and Merit

This book revisits the legacy of one of the protagonists in the history of economic thought: Leonardus Lessius (1554-1623). In a time marked as much by fierce debates on grace and free will as by doubts a…

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Fara Dabhoiwala
What Is Free Speech?

Fara Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the…

lieferbar ab 5.8.2025.

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Francis R Herrmann, Brownlow M Speer
Foundations of American Criminal Due Process at Trial

Foundations of American Criminal Due Process at Trial anchors American fair trial rights in the geography and chronology of a Western legal tradition that encompasses Rome, medieval Europe, and England.

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Antwain K Hunter
A Precarious Balance

Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians accessed, possessed, and used firearms--both legal and otherwise--and how the state an…

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Jessica Lake
Special Damage

"In 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from 'civilised' society when her neigbor accused her of carrying a bastard child. To silence the ruinous rumours and vindicate her name, Smith sued him f…

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Jessica Lake
Special Damage

"In 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from 'civilised' society when her neigbor accused her of carrying a bastard child. To silence the ruinous rumours and vindicate her name, Smith sued him f…

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Siobhan McDonnell,
My Land, My Life

Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining liv…

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Stuart Banner
The Most Powerful Court in the World

Stuart Banner's The Most Powerful Court in the World is an authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the Founding era to the present. Not merely a history of the Court's opinions and j…

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

This book examines how Chaucer's innovative use of prose inThe Canterbury Tales reflects the complex political anxieties surrounding writing and media in fourteenth-century England.

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Jennifer Aston, Olive Anderson
Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales

Examines the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Acts and their use by married women to reclaim voting rights and rights of testation, inheritance and property ownership.

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Gary Watt
Shakespeare and the Law

Shakespeare and the Law argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law, but with its capacity to generate drama through dispute and playing with rules.

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Gary Watt
Shakespeare and the Law

Shakespeare and the Law argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law, but with its capacity to generate drama through dispute and playing with rules.

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G Edward White
Robert H. Jackson

The first biography in decades of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence: a small-time lawyer--with one year of law school--who joined FDR's administration and became…

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Ruti G Teitel
Presidential Visions of Transitional Justice

Throughout its history, the growing influence and significance of the United States on the world stage coincided with its legacy of human rights violations. However, with each momentous societal shift Ame…

lieferbar ab 22.8.2025.

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Noura Erakat
Justice for Some

Winner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards, sponsored by the Middle East Monitor (MEMO).Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict…

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R B Bernstein
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton: A Very Short Introductionprovides a brief introduction to the life, work, and legacies of Alexander Hamilton. R. B. Bernstein explores Hamilton's role in revolution, politics, law, con…

lieferbar ab 28.8.2025.

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W Keith Regular
Rough & Messy Justice

Rough & Messy Justice unravels a gripping true crime and legal drama set in the Crowsnest Pass of 1920. When three armed men rob a CPR train, their escape turns into a deadly gunfight, leaving officer…

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