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Sir Henry James Sumner Maine was an English comparative jurist and historian. His thesis in Ancient Law states that law and society developed "from status to contract". In ancient times people were bound by status to their particular group. In modern times people are...

Author: Richard G. McGeeISBN-10: 1436375282ISBN-13: 9781436375283Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2009Pages: 328Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Author: Kelly DeckerISBN-10: 1436352312ISBN-13: 9781436352314Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2008Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF estate planning Do you know your net worth? Have you organized your assets? Why is this necessary? Who do I wish to receive my assets? What information do I need to document? EXECUTOR'S GUIDE What does it mean to be...

This volume asserts that there was tacit cooperation in the Nazi extermination of the Jewish population of Europe by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War. Although the Allies publicly recognized the Nazi massacre of...

This book documents a systematic investigation into various aspects of policing in the People's Republic of China, including its scholarship, idea, origin, history, education, culture, reform, and theory. It approaches the study of Chinese policing from an indigenous perspective, informed by local empirical data....

Thousands of legal and non-legal words and phrases have been entered into this collection of terms used in court proceedings and other hearings focusing on criminal law and family law. Terms used by law enforcement officers in the course of their investigations are also...

The Universal Law: The Science Of The Heavens is a book written by Ludwig B. Larsen. This book delves into the universal laws that govern the universe and the science behind the workings of the heavens. Larsen explores topics such as the nature of...

This book illustrates the commonly occurring racial issues that are happening to African Americans in work places all across America. This is my personal story of an employment termination from state government, and survial by fighting the system all the way from the hearing...

"The Laws of Arms in England, France & Scotland" remains the only substantive work comparing the laws of arms in the three jurisdictions.Author: Ian De Minvielle-DevauxISBN-10: 1419674250ISBN-13: 9781419674259Publisher: Booksurge PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2007Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d

Using Oldsmobile's own description, "Project 2000," of its failed business strategy to sell what was once America's best-selling car only through large Wal-Mart style auto-malls, Bob Horvath tells his personal story as one of Olds' best salesmen as well as an Olds owner/dealer-operator, who...

The quest to achieve Immortality is a dream of most people. It motivates many to have children, write books, compose music, invent gadgets, accumulate wealth or excel in a mirage of fields. Immortality or simply, to be remembered by future generations, is not easy...

Drawing on his personal experiences in and out of prison, and an uncanny ability to describe the indescribable, John Corley guides the reader on a walking tour of the light and dark sides of the street, accompanied by a demonstrated intimacy with both.Author: John...

This Guide to the Right to Dissent has been developed for the purpose of promoting the rule of law through enhancing knowledge and awareness of international human rights law concerning the rights to participate in public affairs by engaging in public debate, criticism, opposition...

In this second volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams continues his argument against Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and his theories of "collecting all authority into one center." Delving into the Italian republics of the middle...

A graduate of Harvard Law School, the author has practiced corporate and international law in private practice and as general counsel for several transnational companies. He practices independently and as of counsel to a nationally known trade law firm in Dallas, Texas. "I wrote...

As the world wonders what can be done with the leaders of Iran, this report by a leading UN jurist establishes that many of them - including the Supreme Leader - committed an international crime when they approved and carried out a secret massacre...

A PRACTICAL TAKE ON PROTECTING YOUR CLIENTS' ASSETS The only legal treatise on asset protection planning specific to California An in-depth discussion of law, legal theory and the practicalities of implementing asset protection. The book is full of real-world client anecdotes and practical takeaways.Author:...

A Lawyer's Guide to Asset Protection Planning in California is the first and only treatise on asset protection planning specific to California. A desktop reference guide that every attorney in California should have. In-depth coverage of the underlying substantive law and legal doctrines, with...

In the words of award-winning poet Charles Huckelbury: This collection is indeed an elegy, one that, in lush, sensual tones, bids farewell to old terrors through a rare and revealing embrace of the world one encounters. It is also a manual for thoughtful living...

"Callahan, with the subtle grace and artistry of a writer beyond her years, paints a raw and accurate landscape of the criminal justice system in her debut short story, Why the Corrida. By placing the defendant Romero into the bull ring of the jail...

Attorney and Martial Artist Jack Forbes analyzes State law from across the United States of America on the legal limits of self-defense, defense of others and defense of property. Applying the Law to concrete scenarios, Jack puts you face-to-face with assailants, victims and defenders,...

Recent scientific research has confirmed that ancient contemplative principles are capable of changing the physical structure and function of the brain, which reflects the reduced levels of stress, increased productivity and improved health and well-being in those who practice them. The Six-Minute Solution: A...

Volume I of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on school desegregation, obscenity, school prayer, fair trials, sexual privacy, censorship, abortion, affirmative action, book banning, and flag burning.Author: Steve Gilbert, Maureen HarrisonISBN-10: 0962801410ISBN-13: 9780962801419Publisher: Excellent BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2011Pages: 142Format:...

Despite the centralizing tendencies of the American national government in the twentieth century, there have been surprisingly few books defending the federal system. Felix Morley's Freedom and Federalism, which examines the root causes of the problem, was thus a pioneering achievement when it first...

Despite the centralizing tendencies of the American national government in the twentieth century, there have been surprisingly few books defending the federal system. Felix Morley's Freedom and Federalism, which examines the root causes of the problem, was thus a pioneering achievement when it first...

Frank Chodorov profoundly influenced the intellectual development of the post-World War II libertarian/conservative movement. These essays have been assembled for the first time from Chodorov's writings in magazines, newspapers, books, and pamphlets. They sparkle with his individualistic perspective on politics, human rights, socialism, capitalism,...

With The Moral Foundation of Democracy, John H. Hallowell makes a significant argument in favor of the importance of moral values in the orderly functioning of modern democracies. Hallowell argues that developments in recent democratic thought have eroded the very "faith" upon which democracy...

Ralph McInerny is among the most noted Catholic philosophers and authors of our day. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 1955, and since 1978 has been the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies. He also serves as Director of...

Thurman Arnold (1891-1969) was a major iconoclast of American law and a great liberal of the 20th century. In this first biography of Arnold, Spencer Weber Waller traces Arnold's life from his birth in Laramie, Wyoming, and explores how his western upbringing influenced his...

A history of the origins of the 14th Amendment and the the man who helped craft it John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the...

Through an investigation of Cosa Nostra's activities, reveals the role of organized crime in the urban power structure Cosa Nostra. Organized crime. The Mob. Call it what you like, no other crime group has infiltrated labor unions and manipulated legitimate industries like Italian organized...

What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit. Ranging from black...

The Origins of Justice: The Evolution of Morality, Human Rights, and Law presents a view of human origins and nature that is radically different from that of the prevailing Western paradigm. John O'Manique's view shifts the emphasis from a negative characterization, in which humans...

In the late fourteenth century the complex Middle English word "trouthe," which had earlier meant something like "integrity" or "dependability," began to take on its modern sense of "conformity to fact." At the same time, the meaning of its antonym, "tresoun," began to move...

Affirmative action originated as a plan to correct the historical disadvantage of women and people of color-to make the system more fair. Yet, for over twenty years, it has been repeatedly attacked for being unfair to whites, and even un-American. Guinier and Sturm begin...

An insider's account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems rooted in the education reform movement. In March of 2013, 35 educators in the Atlanta Public Schools were charged with racketeering and conspiracy--the same charges used to...

This extremely useful work derives from an examination of more than 3,000 Revolutionary War pension claims and bounty land applications. Part I, "Maryland Revolutionary Pensioners," gives the name of the veteran, his date of birth, rank, name of the group in which he served,...

The Expanding Spaces of Law presents readers with cutting-edge scholarship in legal geography. An invaluable resource for those new to this line of scholarship, the book also pushes the boundaries of legal geography, reinvigorating previous modes of inquiry and investigating new directions. It guides...

The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, here is a collection of thirty-two one-act plays and short dramatic pieces that David Mamet himself considers to be some of the best writing he has ever done. In this single volume are all seven...

Help victims and survivors break the cycle of abuse! Trying to get victims and survivors of domestic abuse to recognize their own victimization can be a frustrating experience. They often become so frightened, isolated, and self-doubting that they make excuses for the abuser. Combining...

Otfried H ffe is one of the foremost political philosophers in Europe today. In this major work, already a classic in continental Europe, he re-examines philosophical discourse on justice - from Classical Greece to the present day. H ffe confronts what he sees as...

This study traces the development of the Soviet Bar through periods of legal nihilism and legal revival to its final integration into the Soviet order at the end of the 1930s--a story of uncertainty and conflict in the Bolshevik ranks over the role of...

The hidden value of settling In a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive...

Can the police strip-search a woman who has been arrested for a minor traffic violation? Can a magazine publish an embarrassing photo of you without your permission? Does your boss have the right to read your email? Can a company monitor its employees' off-the-job...

Many men believe that they can force women to have sex against their will and that it isn't rape--at least, not if the man knows the women and doesn't beat her up or wield a weapon. The law's casual treatment of such rape cases...

This is a book about the interplay of urgent political issues and hotly debated questions of moral philosophy. The controversies it joins are old; but history has given them fresh shape. For example, whether judges should and do make law is now of more...

The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system and in our concept of the individual. But this concept of authorship is modern. Mark Rose traces the formation of...