Law
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Public Family, The: Exploring Its Role In Democratic Societies [Paperback]
David J. Herring (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780822958277
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Those concerned with investigating the political functions of the family far too often identify only one: the production of \u201cgood democratic citizens.\u201d As a result, public discussion of family law and policy has been confined to a narrow... .... Learn More -
The Institutes of Roman Law [Hardback]
Rudolph Sohm (Author)
£176.00ISBN: 9781593330064
Published by : Gorgias Press
This is an indispensable reference to Roman Law, with an introductory essay by Erwin Grueber of Balliol College, Oxford. Sohm presents a systematic and historical exposition of Roman private law, introducing a new element into the legal studies of... .... Learn More -
Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts [Paperback]
Susan Gluck Mezey (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780822957171
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Focusing on a class action lawsuit against the Illinois child welfare system (B. H. v. Johnson), Pitiful Plaintiffs examines the role of the federal courts in the child welfare policymaking process and the extent to which litigation can achieve th... .... Learn More -
Scrambling for Protection: The New Media and the First Amendment [Paperback]
Patrick Garry (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780822955825
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
In our age of media revolutions, Patrick M. Garry offers guidelines for constitutionally redefining the press, and maintains that the First Amendment press clause must broaden the scope of its freedoms to include the communication activities of a ... .... Learn More -
Debating Divorce: Moral Conflict in Ireland [Hardback]
Michele Dillon (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813118222
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Chartered in 1780, Transylvania University played a significant role as an educational pioneer in the developing trans-Allegheny West and served as its first institution of higher education. Strategically located in the growing city of Lexington, ... .... Learn More -
Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics [Paperback]
Bron Raymond Taylor (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780822954538
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Bron Taylor unites theoretical and applied social science to analyze a salient contemporary moral and political problem. Three decades after the passage of civil rights laws, criteria for hiring and promotion to redress past discrimination and the... .... Learn More -
Administrative Law: Its Growth, Procedure, and Significance [Paperback]
Roscoe Pound (Author)
£21.50ISBN: 9780822983521
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Roscoe Pound (1870-1964) taught at Harvard from 1910 until 1947, serving as dean of the Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He is acknowledged as the founder of sociological jurisprudence—an interdisciplinary approach to legal concepts in which ... .... Learn More
