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A comprehensive and accessible guide to the academic and practical skills needed in the study of law, including essential techniques for legal research, reasoning, writing, advocacy, negotiation, interviewing and advising. Also features an extensive section on career development.Author: Lisa Cherkassky, Julia Cressey, Christopher GaleISBN-10:...

Author: Us Department of Health and Human ServicISBN-10: 0160614066ISBN-13: 9780160614064Publisher: Claitor's Pub DivisionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1998Pages: 332Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 10.51h x 8.55w x 0.74d

This fast-paced, inspiring and original work proposes that, if religions fade, then secular law provides a much more comprehensive moral regime to govern our lives. Backed by potent and haunting images, it argues that the rule of law is the one universal framework that...

Fathali M. Moghaddam explores how psychological factors influence the presence, potential development, or absence of democracy. Recommendations are given for promoting the psychological processes that foster democracy. Where democracy thrives, it seems far and away the best system of governance. Yet, relatively few countries...

Makers of Many Things, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book...

JIM has had a 40 years career in the law. During that period, he worked as an outdoor clerk for Weightman's, a small legal firm in Liverpool, at the end of the 1970s and moved to London in the early 1980s. He worked in-house...

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si' in an era of climate crises.Author: Frank PasqualeISBN-10: 1316649962ISBN-13: 9781316649961Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2022Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Tort law is a core element of every law degree in England and Wales. Unlocking Torts will ensure you grasp the main concepts with ease. This book explains in detailed, yet straightforward, terms: Negligence and negligence related torts including occupiers' liability and employers' liability;...

In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.Author: Matthew NanesISBN-10: 1108969682ISBN-13: 9781108969680Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2022Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Although racism has plagued the American justice system since the nation's colonial beginnings, private White Americans are taking matters into their own hands. From racist 911 calls and hoaxes to grassroots voter suppression and vigilante 'self-defense, ' concerted efforts are made every day by...

Although racism has plagued the American justice system since the nation's colonial beginnings, private White Americans are taking matters into their own hands. From racist 911 calls and hoaxes to grassroots voter suppression and vigilante 'self-defense, ' concerted efforts are made every day by...

Analyzes the efforts to forge a progressive and 'authentic' Israeli law that would express Jewish identity.Author: Nir KedarISBN-10: 1108735789ISBN-13: 9781108735780Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

Provides compelling examples of engaged legal scholarship addressing issues of entrenched poverty and underdevelopment in American urban cores.Author: Peter EnrichISBN-10: 1108713149ISBN-13: 9781108713146Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2022Pages: 261Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.Author: Michael KarayanniISBN-10: 1108707173ISBN-13: 9781108707176Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2022Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Malcolm Feeley's classic scholarship on courts, criminal justice, legal reform, and the legal complex, examined by law and society scholars.Author: Rosann GreenspanISBN-10: 110840197XISBN-13: 9781108401975Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2022Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d

The disputes that arise between host states and investors in the energy sector put a high number of valuable and vital projects in the countries at risk. Investment treaty arbitration mechanisms, as the traditional remedy, have provided a solution to these problems for decades....

Americans often think about constitutional law in terms of high-profile decisions by the Supreme Court - decisions that divide the justices by ideology, not law. This focus often leads to the erroneous conclusion that constitutional law arguments are, and can only be, political in...

Throughout the past century many legal historians have concerned themselves with the adoption of foreign law as it supplements or replaces local law. The question asked is: In what ways did Roman & Canon law lay the groundwork for common European law? Notarius publicus...

English for Law - English language practice for lawyers is intended for law students and legal practitioners who need to master English as used in legal environment. - Offers extensive lexical practice in Legal English - Incorporates many authentic legal contexts, texts and cases...

The United Nations Security Council has, since 1945, formed the core of an international security regime devoted to maintaining or restoring international peace and security. During and since the Cold War, the world has seen a progressive reduction in inter-state warfare, an evolution in...

Over the years Robert Alexy has developed a systemic approach to legal theory, an approach whose dimensions include discourse theory, principles theory, and a non-positivist conception of law. Principles theory is found at the very core of Alexy's system. Constitutional rights, he argues, are...

Over the past three decades, the make-up of the market value of Standard & Poor 500 companies has changed dramatically. While intangible assets amounted to less than one-third of company value in the mid-1980s, this has almost tripled to four-fifths on average today. A...

This study outlines the landmark "We Are Ohio" labor coalition. In 2011, Ohio Governor John Kasich and his Republican-controlled legislature passed the radical Senate Bill 5 designed to impede the labor movement, particularly targeting unionized professors. Collective Bargaining and the Battle for Ohio is...

God's Word revealed to the Holy Prophet Muhammad(sa)-the Holy Quran-proclaims that Jesus as did not die on the cross. In corroboration of this Quranic revelation, the Promised Messiah(as), Hazrat [His Holiness] Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, proposed the revolutionary theory that Jesus(as) died in India. This...

In the United States, the right of both citizens and non-citizens to file civil lawsuits is one of the most cherished rights available to ordinary people. Saving The World One Case at a Time by former federal and New York state prosecutor Kenneth Foard...

In the United States, the right of both citizens and non-citizens to file civil lawsuits is one of the most cherished rights available to ordinary people. Saving The World One Case at a Time by former federal and New York state prosecutor Kenneth Foard...

Safeguard your family's future by taking action now!The single most important thing you can do to safeguard your family's future is to wrap up the loose ends of your life. These unfinished strands of your life can pertain to life's most intimate details and...

For the first time, former federal prosecutor, David Nissen, reveals the true story behind the Pentagon Paper Trial. A United States District Court judge, obsessed with obtaining higher public office was assigned to preside over the criminal trial. The judge was convinced that any...

The U.S. Department of State, through its Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), provides foreign assistance and supports capacity building for criminal justice systems and police organizations in approximately 90 countries around the world. It has a mandate to strengthen fragile...

The history of the U.S. criminal justice system is marked by racial inequality and sustained by present day policy. Large racial and ethnic disparities exist across the several stages of criminal legal processing, including in arrests, pre-trial detention, and sentencing and incarceration, among others,...

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the immediate and likely longer-term consequences of Brexit for the UK's competition law regime and includes the competition and subsidy control provisions of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. It has been written to be of...

Changing Legal and Civic Culture in an Illiberal Democracy is a unique empirical study on recent developments in legal and civic consciousness in Hungary. Drawing its methodology from social psychology, this book illuminates a shift in legal consciousness during the time in which Orbán's...

The Enlightened Shareholder Value principle and Corporate Social Responsibility are areas of increasing academic and research interest. However, discussions on the ESV principle in relation to CSR are very limited. This book provides a critical analysis of the impact of the concept of ESV,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The US Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) provides assistance and supports capacity building for criminal justice systems and police organizations in approximately 90 countries. In order to support and inform that work, this report explores high-level corruption and...

The LSAT (Law School Admission Test) has the reputation of being one of the hardest entrance exams given; it is a reputation well earned. We have compiled some of the hardest LSAT logic puzzle games, including 13 official LSAT games that tormented aspiring lawyers...

Author: Ken HudnallISBN-10: 193395194XISBN-13: 9781933951942Publisher: Omega PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2017Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Security is a key topic of our time. But how do we understand it? Do law and religion take different views of it? In this fifth volume in the Law and Religion in Africa series, radicalisation, terrorism, blasphemy, hate speech, religious freedom and just...

Today, in the face of massive social change and contested moral and religious claims, things couldn't be more different. Questions about religious liberty, and how, and if, it should be better protected are at the forefront of public debate. Forgotten Freedom No More: Protecting...

Author: Charles W. BaconISBN-10: 1893122867ISBN-13: 9781893122864Publisher: Beard BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.57h x 5.57w x 1.07d

Birth-based citizenship is widely considered to be the most secure claim to political belonging. Despite the general belief that liberal democracies are formed through consent, in fact, most people are members of a political community by virtue of the circumstances of their birth. In...

The law is an ass, said Dickens. If he had seen some of what we have collected here he would be more convinced than ever that his assertion was true. From the sheer comedy of parking elephants, not shooting buffalo and definitely not having...

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2019 in the subject Law - Media, Multimedia Law, Copyright, grade: 70 points, distinction, University of Salford (College of Business and Law), language: English, abstract: The study analyses the relevant IPR (patent, copyright, database right, trade secret) for technical...

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Public Law / Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, grade: 85%, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, course: American Law, language: English, abstract: A change has been happening to the nature of an...

Vitiligo is an age old problem. It is considered as a stigma even in our developed society. In this study homeopathic medicines showed promising results in the treatment of vitiligo cases. Among 200 patients attended at Ramakrishna Mission Charitable Dispensary, Belur Math outpatient department,...

Disputes in the oil and gas industry can range from quantity and quality disputes, jurisdiction disputes, disputes involving equipment, gas contracts, oil trading contracts, subcontracting and a host of them. In the oil and gas industry, you tend to find different contractors from different...

Financial globalization has given an impetus to the development and innovation in financial products. However, at the same time, it has complicated banking regulations and its consequent risk management mechanisms. The GFC and consequent Basel III have accentuated the importance of operational risk management...

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: Masters Degree, London School of Economics (Social Policy), course: Illegal Drugs and Their Control: Theory, Policy and Practice, language: English, abstract: Harm reduction refers to policies, strategies and...

In this first comprehensive study of Plato's conception of justice, apprehension of human dignity plays a crucial role for understanding an individual in relation to law and state. Plato's philosophy turns out to provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian...

The volume collects essays discussing the concept of personhood in law from the perspective of the revolutionary advancements in the contemporary science and technology. It offers an overview of what becomes the most important challenge for legal orders today - the evolving concept of...