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  • The Guantánamo Lawyers

    Inside a Prison Outside the Law

    Edited by Mark P. Denbeaux, Jonathan Hafetz ...
    Read free excerpts from the book at http://www.theguantanamolawyers.com and explore the complete archive of narratives at http://dlib.nyu.edu/guantanamoFollowing the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These men, ranging from teenage boys to men in their eig... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Guantánamo Lawyers

    Inside a Prison Outside the Law

    by Jonathan Hafetz ...
    The stories of Guantánamo detainees, silenced and imprisoned without trial, as told by their lawyersFollowing the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These men, ranging from teenage boys to men in their eighties from over forty different countries, were detained for years without charges, trial, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Root and Branch

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  • The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities

    Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of theLaw That Make Us AllUnsuspecting Criminals

    by Nathan Belofsky ...
    You're probably breaking the law right now-and don't even know it.Did you know...? Naples, Italy, enforces laws for what constitutes real pizza, and "pizza police" visit restaurants to crack down on unlawful pies?? In West Virginia it is a crime to display or possess a red or black flag?? It is illegal to sell stuffed articles depicting female breasts within a thousand feet of any county highway ... Read more

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  • The American Supreme Court

    by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The sixth edition of the classic and concise account of the US Supreme Court, its history, and its place in American politics.For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court.As in prior editions, McCloskey's original text remains ... Read more

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  • The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook

    by Laurence Ginnell ...
    An exploration of the early Irish laws that defined everyday life in Medieval Ireland, as well as analysis of their history, influences, and development prior to the supplantation of English common law.First published in 1894, The Brehon Laws is Laurence Ginnell’s handbook for the history of the Irish legal system. Opening with the history of Saxon law and detailing the first written legal ... Read more

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  • The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland

    by Brice Dickson ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968. Brice Dickson studies the effectiveness of the Convention in protecting human rights in a society wracked by terrorism and deep political conflict, detailing the numerous applications lodged at Strasbourg relating to the conflict and ... Read more

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  • Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction

    by Beth Gaze, Belinda Smith ...
    Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction explores four decades of anti-discrimination laws in Australia. Beth Gaze and Belinda Smith argue that effective laws protecting against and deterring discrimination are vital for a fair future, and emphasise the theoretical and social contexts that underpin this area of the law. The text is divided into three sections: the first ... Read more

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  • Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice

    Spain's Pact of Forgetting

    by Roldan Jimeno ...
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    Edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the ... Read more

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  • Kafka's Indictment of Modern Law

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