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On Law and Justice

Author : Alf Ross

Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Page : 396 pages

File Size : 40,2 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Jurisprudence

ISBN : 1584774886

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Ross, Alf. On Law and Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. xi, 383 pp. Reprint available December 2004 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-488-6. Cloth. $90. * In this influential and oft-cited study Ross discounted the theories of natural law, positivism and legal realism. In their stead, he proposed the abandonment of "ought-propositions" for the "is-propositions" employed by other empirical sciences, thereby envisioning lawyers that serve merely as "rational technologists." Less bound by tradition, and traditional notions of justice, jurisprudence then becomes "not only a beautiful mental activity per se, but also an instrument which may benefit any lawyer who wants to understand what he is doing and why" (Preface).



Law and Justice around the World

Author : Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 35,98 MB

Release : 2020-02-25

Category : Law

ISBN : 0520971582

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Law and Justice around the World is designed to introduce students to comparative law and justice, including cross-national variations in legal and justice systems as well as global and international justice. The book draws students into critical discussions of justice around the world today by: taking a broad perspective on law and justice rather than limiting its focus to criminal justice systems examining topics of global concern, including governance, elections, environmental regulations, migration and refugee status, family law, and others focusing on a diverse set of global examples, from Europe, North America, East Asia, and especially the global south, and comparing the United States law and justice system to these other nations continuing to cover core topics such as crime, law enforcement, criminal courts, and punishment including chapter goals to define learning outcomes sharing case studies to help students apply concepts to real life issues Instructor resources include discussion questions; suggested readings, films, and web resources; a test bank; and chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides with full-color maps and graphics. By widening the comparative lens to include nations that are often completely ignored in research and teaching, the book paints a more realistic portrait of the different ways in which countries define and pursue justice in a globalized, interconnected world.



Law

Author : Morris L. Cohen

Publisher :

Page : 124 pages

File Size : 48,46 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Art

ISBN :

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Presents 48 colour reproductions of art masterpieces that convey the drama and emotional resonance of the law in diverse settings in time and place. Rendered by some of the world's most revered artists, these works portray the great legends, personalities, and events that have defined the law, and record the progress of civilisation's concepts of justice. Accompanying each high-quality reproduction is an essay that illuminates the social, historical, and philosophical contexts of the work.



Keeping Hold of Justice

Author : Jennifer Balint

Publisher : University of Michigan Press

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 18,4 MB

Release : 2020-02-17

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0472131680

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Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognizing and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. It puts forward that these possibilities can be found through collaborative methodologies and practices, such as those informing this book, that actively bring together different disciplines, peoples, temporalities, laws and ways of knowing. They reveal law not only as a source of colonial harm but also as a potential means of keeping hold of justice.



Law, Justice, and Power

Author : Sinkwan Cheng

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 22,81 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Law

ISBN : 9780804748919

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This volume provides different disciplinary and cultural perspectives on the ethical and political ramifications of the incommensurable yet inextricable relationships among law, justice, and power.



Pillars of Justice

Author : Owen Fiss

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 20,58 MB

Release : 2017-05-08

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0674971868

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The constitutional theorist Owen Fiss explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through a moving account of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. He tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and principles they served.



Law and Social Justice

Author : Joseph Keim Campbell

Publisher : Topics in Contemporary Philoso

Page : 376 pages

File Size : 38,38 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Law

ISBN :

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Leading scholars consider a variety of philosophical issues in law and social justice, from foundational concepts to specific legal problems.



Law, History, and Justice

Author : Annette Weinke

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 529 pages

File Size : 15,6 MB

Release : 2018-12-17

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1805399020

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Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.



Leading Works in Law and Social Justice

Author : Faith Gordon

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 11,1 MB

Release : 2021-03-23

Category : Law

ISBN : 1000367304

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This book assesses the role of social justice in legal scholarship and its potential future development by focusing upon the ‘leading works’ of the discipline. The rise of socio-legal studies over recent decades has led to a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of law, which prioritises placing law into its wider social context. Recognising the role that culture, economics and politics play in the development of law is important in order to fully understand the position and impact of law in society. Innovative and written in an engaging way, this collection includes leading and emerging scholars from across the world. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyse a ‘leading work’, a publication which has for them shed light on the way that law and social justice are interlinked and has influenced their own understanding, scholarship, advocacy, and, in some instances, activism. The book also includes a specially written foreword and afterword, which critically reflect upon the contributions of the 'leading works' to consider the role that social justice has played in law and legal education and the likely future path for social justice in legal scholarship. This book will be an essential resource for all those working in the areas of social justice, socio-legal studies and legal philosophy. It will be of wider interest to the social sciences more generally.



Law and Justice on the Small Screen

Author : Peter Robson

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 488 pages

File Size : 45,41 MB

Release : 2012-08-01

Category : Law

ISBN : 1847319947

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'Law and Justice on the Small Screen' is a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television. In light of the book's innovative taxonomy of the field and its international reach, it will make a novel contribution to the scholarly literature about law and popular culture. Television shows from France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the United States are discussed. The essays are organised into three sections: (1) methodological questions regarding the analysis of law and popular culture on television; (2) a focus on genre studies within television programming (including a subsection on reality television), and (3) content analysis of individual television shows with attention to big-picture jurisprudential questions of law's efficacy and the promise of justice. The book's content is organised to make it appropriate for undergraduate and graduate classes in the following areas: media studies, law and culture, socio-legal studies, comparative law, jurisprudence, the law of lawyering, alternative dispute resolution and criminal law. Individual chapters have been contributed by, among others: Taunya Banks, Paul Bergman, Lief Carter, Christine Corcos, Rebecca Johnson, Stefan Machura, Nancy Marder, Michael McCann, Kimberlianne Podlas and Susan Ross, with an Introduction by Peter Robson and Jessica Silbey.