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Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic
Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic
by Ella Shohat
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Constitutional Referendums: A Theory of Republican Deliberation
Constitutional Referendums: A Theory of Republican Deliberation
by Stephen Tierney
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The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the settlement of constitutional questions, even in countries with little or no tradition of direct... (read more)

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The Law of Security and Title-based Financing
The Law of Security and Title-based Financing
by Hugh Beale
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Personal property security is an important subject in commercial practice, as it is the key to much of the law of banking and sale. This second edition has been fully updated and expanded to cover all important issues and changes within this highly... (read more)

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Legal Stagings: The Visualization, Medialization and Ritualization of Law in Language, Literature, Media, Art and Architecture
Legal Stagings: The Visualization, Medialization and Ritualization of Law in Language, Literature, Media, Art and Architecture
by Kjell A (edt) Modeer
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As contemporary culture becomes increasingly visual, new challenges and requirements arise for institutions that have historically been text-based. One of the most important institutions facing this challenge is that of law. A collection of articles... (read more)

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Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings
Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings
by Steven W Bender
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Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders, a refuge from the law. In turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the American dream:... (read more)

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Commencement of Insolvency Proceedings
Commencement of Insolvency Proceedings
by Dennis (edt) Faber
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This is the first volume in the new Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law Series. The series will provide a comparative analysis of all important aspects of insolvency proceedings and domestic insolvency laws in the main economically... (read more)

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Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave ACT (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave ACT (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
by Catherine R. Albiston
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How do Family and Medical Leave Act rights operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of these rights to recreate inequality. Workplace rules and norms... (read more)

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Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law
Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law
by Jane Mcadam
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Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines... (read more)

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A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition
by Marie C. Malaro
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Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and... (read more)

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A Quantitative Approach to Commercial Damages: Applying Statistics to the Measurement of Lost Profits
A Quantitative Approach to Commercial Damages: Applying Statistics to the Measurement of Lost Profits
by Mark G. Filler
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A step-by-step approach to estimating and computing business interruption losses Accurately estimating damages in business interruption cases is a make- or-break formula for companies who need to be compensated for their loss of income. Make a mistake... (read more)

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Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients Through Bad News and Other Legal Realities
Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients Through Bad News and Other Legal Realities
by Marjorie Corman Aaron
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Lawyers know that client counseling can be the most challenging part of legal practice. Clients question and often resist the complexities and uncertainties inherent in law and legal process. Honest advice from the lawyer can make a client doubt his or... (read more)

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The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland
The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland
by Brice Dickson
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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... (read more)

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Writing to Win: The Legal Writer
Writing to Win: The Legal Writer
by Steven D. Stark
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From a master teacher and writer, a fully revised and updated edition of the results-oriented approach to legal writing that is clear, that persuades--and that WINS. More than almost any profession, the law has a deserved reputation for opaque, jargon... (read more)

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Felony Murder (Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law)
Felony Murder (Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law)
by Guyora Binder
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The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law. Legal scholars almost unanimously condemn it as irrational, concluding that it imposes punishment without fault and presumes guilt without proof. Despite... (read more)

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Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law
Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law
by Antonio Cassese
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Realizing Utopia is a collection of essays by a group of innovative international jurists. Its contributors reflect on some of the major legal problems facing the international community and analyse the inconsistencies or inadequacies of current law... (read more)

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A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections
by Marie C. Malaro
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Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and... (read more)

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Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory
Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory
by Rumee Ahmed
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In the critical period when Islamic law first developed, a new breed of jurists developed a genre of legal theory treatises to explore how the fundamental moral teachings of Islam might operate as a legal system. Seemingly rhetorical and formulaic, these... (read more)

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Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights
Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights
by Erika (edt) De Wet
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This book takes an inductive approach to the question of whether there is a hierarchy in international law, with human rights obligations trumping other duties. It assesses the extent to which such a hierarchy can be said to exist through an analysis of... (read more)

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Individual Criminal Responsibility in International Law
Individual Criminal Responsibility in International Law
by Elies Van Sliedregt
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This book examines the concept of individual criminal responsibility for serious violations of international law, i.e. aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Such crimes are rarely committed by single individuals. Rather... (read more)

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Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast
Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast
by Andrew E. Kersten
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Clarence Darrow is best remembered as the defense attorney in some of the most famous (and infamous) cases in American legal history. With his brilliant closing argument that saved the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb from the gallows and his impassioned... (read more)

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