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21. | | Title: Insight and solidarity: a study in the discourse ethics of Jürgen HabermasAuthor: Rehg, William Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Law | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Discourse ethics represents an exciting new development in neo-Kantian moral theory. William Rehg offers an insightful introduction to its complex theorization by its major proponent, Jürgen Habermas, and demonstrates how discourse ethics allows one to overcome the principal criticisms that have bee . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Inventing the needy: gender and the politics of welfare in HungaryAuthor: Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison) 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | European History | Gender Studies | Law | Social Problems | Political Theory | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Sociology | SociologyPublisher's Description: Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three distinct welfare regimes succeeded one ano . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Jews in the notarial culture: Latinate wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 Author: Burns, Robert Ignatius Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Medieval Studies | Judaism | Jewish Studies | European History | Law | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract lawyer known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's notoriously hasty shorthand. Notarial archives, . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century Author: Lahav, Pnina 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Law | HistoryPublisher's Description: Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundatio . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Justice in South Africa, Author: Sachs, Albie 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | LawSimilar Items | 26. | | Title: Law and the order of culture Author: Post, Robert 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Law | United States History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Postcolonial Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Law and the Order of Culture is an outstanding collection of essays that explores the cultural creation of legal meaning, addressing interpretive processes within the law as well as the social constitution of legal doctrine. Originally published in Representations , these essays are at the center of . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Lawyers in society [computer file]: an overview Author: Abel, Richard L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Law | Sociology | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Among all those who encounter the law in the conduct of their lives or who consider it as a career, few have a solid understanding of the legal profession in America, and fewer still know anything about systems in other parts of the world. Lawyers in Society offers a concise comparative introduction . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Lawyers, lawsuits, and legal rights: the battle over litigation in American society Author: Burke, Thomas Frederick Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | LawPublisher's Description: Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Legal hermeneutics: history, theory, and practice Author: Leyh, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Postcolonial Studies | Law | Language and LinguisticsPublisher's Description: Interpretation of the law is based on assumptions about the nature of texts, language, and the act of interpretation itself. These fourteen new essays trace the origin of these assumptions, examine their philosophical implications, and extend legal interpretation in new and constructive directions. Similar Items | 30. | | Title: The life of the law: anthropological projectsAuthor: Nader, Laura Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | LawPublisher's Description: Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the s . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: The longest night: polemics and perspectives on election 2000 Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Social and Political Thought | LawPublisher's Description: The American presidential election of 2000 was perhaps the most remarkable, and in many ways the most unsettling, that the country has yet experienced. The millennial election raised fundamental questions not only about American democracy, but also about the nation's constitution and about the legit . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: The lustre of our country: the American experience of religious freedomAuthor: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | United States History | Religion | American Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: A New York Times Notable Book This remarkable work offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. In this compellingly written, distinctively personal book, Judge Joh . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: Narrowing the nation's power: the Supreme Court sides with the states Author: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | American Studies | Political TheoryPublisher's Description: Narrowing the Nation's Power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea th . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: A nationality of her own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship Author: Bredbenner, Candice Lewis 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | Law | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and i . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: The New cultural history: essays by Aletta Biersack ... [et al.]Author: Biersack, Aletta Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: LawPublisher's Description: Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a dee . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Oedipus lex: psychoanalysis, history, law Author: Goodrich, Peter 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Law | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and bore . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Outspoken: free speech storiesAuthor: Levinson, Nan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Media Studies | Public Policy | Sociology | Law | Public Policy | Urban Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: With the government granting itself sweeping new surveillance powers, castigating its critics as unpatriotic, and equating differing opinions with abetting "America's enemies," free speech seems an early casualty of the war on terrorism. But as this book brilliantly demonstrates, to sacrifice our fr . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: The prince and the law, 1200-1600: sovereignty and rights in the western legal traditionAuthor: Pennington, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Medieval History | LawPublisher's Description: The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Private lives and public affairs: the causes célèbres of prerevolutionary FranceAuthor: Maza, Sarah C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Law | European History | European Literature | French StudiesPublisher's Description: From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution. Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Public health law: power, duty, restraintAuthor: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Medicine | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Gostin's timely book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the government's inherent responsibility to advance the population's health and well-being, he develops a rich understanding of the government's fundamental powers . . . [more]Similar Items |
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