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  • The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law

    by Michael J Saks, Barbara A Spellman ...
    Series Book 1 - Psychology and the Law
    Identifies and evaluates the psychological choices implicit in the rules of evidenceEvidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their ... Read more

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  • The Devil's Advocates

    Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law

    by Michael S Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell ...
    From the authors of the acclaimed Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, and featuring some of the most important cases in criminal law, The Devil's Advocates is the final volume of a must-have trilogy of the best closing arguments in American legal history.Criminal law is considered by many to be the most exciting of the legal specialties, and here the authors turn to the type of dramatic crimes and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Due Process of Law

    by Alfred Denning ...
    Two central themes run through The Due Process of Law. The first is the workings of the various "measures authorised by the law so as to keep the streams of justice pure" - that is to say, contempt of court, judicial inquiries, and powers of arrest and search. The second is the recent development of family law, focusing particularly on Lord Denning's contribution to the law of husband and wife. ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Power of Precedent

    by Michael J. Gerhardt ...
    The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision making is a perennially divisive subject among scholars of law and American politics. The debate rages over both empirical and normative aspects of the issue: To what extent are the Supreme Court, Congress, and the executive branch constrained by precedent? To what extent should they be? Taking up a topic long overdue for comprehensive ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Between Indigenous and Settler Governance

    Edited by Lisa Ford, Tim Rowse ...
    Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Bringing together emerging scholars and leaders in the field of indigenous law and legal history, this collection offers a long-term view of the legal, political and administrative ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Evolution of the Judicial Opinion

    Institutional and Individual Styles

    by William D. Popkin ...
    In this sweeping study of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges' opinions have been presented from the early American Republic to the present. Throughout history, he maintains, judges have presented their opinions within political contexts that involve projecting judicial authority to the external public, yet within a professional legal culture that requires opinions to ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • American Legal History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by G. Edward White ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent legal scholar G. Edward White-author of the ongoing, multi-volume Law in American History-offers a compact overview that sheds ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The World's Richest Indian

    The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune

    by Tanis C. Thorne ...
    The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how control of his fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and an adventuress who kidnapped and married him. Coming into national prominence as a case of Bureau of Indian Affairs mismanagement of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Newsworthy

    The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom

    by Samantha Barbas ...
    In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international media coverage. Public interest eventually died out, and the Hills went back to their ordinary, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism

    Law and the Failure of Revolution

    by Cosmin Cercel ...
    More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them. Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture

    by Bonnie Lander Johnson ...
    In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and that it was also a virtue that governed the construction of different literary genres. Drawing on a range of materials, from prose to theatre, theological controversy to legal trials, and court ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Heart versus Head

    Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Peter Karsten ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, and a jurisprudence of the heart, a humane concern ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD