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  • Speaking of Crime

    The Language of Criminal Justice

    by Lawrence M. Solan, Peter M. Tiersma, Tammy Gales ...
    An essential introduction to the use and misuse of language within the criminal justice system, updated for a new generation.Does everyone understand the Miranda warning? Why do people confess to a crime they did not commit? Can linguistic experts identify who wrote an anonymous threatening letter? Since its first publication, Speaking of Crime has been answering these questions. Introducing major ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law

    Edited by Peter M. Tiersma, Lawrence M. Solan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in which linguistics plays an increasing role and describes the tools and approaches used by linguists and lawyers in this vibrant new field. Through a combination of overview chapters, case studies, and theoretical descriptions, the volume ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Speaking of Language and Law

    Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma

    Edited by Lawrence Solan, Janet Ainsworth, Roger W. Shuy ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers a selection of twelve of Tiersma's most influential publications, divided into five thematic areas ... Read more

    $98.39 CAD

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    Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else

    by Frederick Schauer ...
    Winner of the Scribes Book Award“Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days…This is delightful stuff.”—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal“At a time when the concept of truth itself is in trouble, this lively and accessible account provides vivid and deep analysis of the practices addressing what is reliably true in law, science, history, and ordinary life. The Proof ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Judicial Writing

    A Benchmark for the Bench

    by Chinua Asuzu ...
    To validate their institutional continuance as a branch of government, writes Chinua Asuzu, judges must make sound decisions. They must also articulate and express those decisions efficiently and comprehensibly. This book shows how. This book will help judges, arbitrators, and other decision-writers master the art and science of judicial writing. A most welcome guide, Judicial Writing: A Benchmark ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Legal Persuasion

    A Rhetorical Approach to the Science

    by Linda L. Berger, Kathryn M. Stanchi ...
    Series series Law, Language and Communication
    This book develops a central theme: legal persuasion results from making and breaking mental connections. This concept of making connections inspired the authors to take a rhetorical approach to the science of legal persuasion. That singular approach resulted in the integration of research from cognitive science with classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, and the application of these two ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Aquash's Murder

    Hermeneutical and Post-Modern Legal Analysis in Light of the Murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash

    by Gregg Wager ...
    As the cruel South Dakota winter thawed toward the end of February 1976, a rancher on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation discovered the frostbitten corpse of a Jane Doe at the bottom of a 30-foot cliff, 100 feet from a state highway. An autopsy determined she had died of exposure, while the FBI sent her severed hands to Washington for analysis. Weeks later, a match of fingerprints to feisty American ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts

    by Bryan A. Garner ...
    Good legal writing wins court cases. It its first edition, The Winning Brief proved that the key to writing well is understanding the judicial readership. Now, in a revised and updated version of this modern classic, Bryan A. Garner explains the art of effective writing in 100 concise, practical, and easy-to-use sections. Covering everything from the rules for planning and organizing a brief to ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law

    by Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein, Giovanni Tuzet ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    Philosophy has a strong presence in evidence law and the nature of evidence is a highly debated topic in both general and social epistemology; legal theorists working in the evidence law area draw on different underlying philosophical theories of knowledge, inference and probability. Core evidentiary concepts and principles, such as the presumption of innocence, standards of proof, and others, ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Concept of Law

    by HLA Hart ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time. In this third edition, Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • How Judges Think

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Constitutional Calculus

    The Math of Justice and the Myth of Common Sense

    by Jeff Suzuki ...
    How math can make a more stable democracy: "A breath of fresh air . . . a reaffirmation that mathematics should be used more often to make general public policy." — MAA ReviewsHow should we count the population of the United States? What would happen if we replaced the electoral college with a direct popular vote? What are the consequences of allowing unlimited partisan gerrymandering of ... Read more

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