Legal Theory & Systems

A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system--especially its judges.When Christie Blatchfo...

Product Description Accessible and engaging throughout, this introductory text examines politics from a Canadian, comparative, and international perspe...

The Concept of Law is the most important and original work of legal philosophy written this century. First published in 1961, it is considered the masterpi...

The Best Text Currently Available. -- Gary W. Potter, Eastern Kentucky University Criminal Justice: Mainstream And Crosscurrents Uses A Distinctive Crosscur...

The Closing Arguments From Ten Noteworthy Cases—“lawyers And Nonlawyers Will Enjoy The Passion And Eloquence Of These Counselors; Practitioners Of Law W...

Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Midd...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designe...

In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening as...

A seamless integration of the best-selling conceptual text and casebook Based on O’Neil, Fields, and Share’s market-leading textbook and casebook, Case...

Introduction to the Philosophy of Law: Readings and Cases employs a combination of case-based and theory-based materials to show novices in the field how th...

Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have been obsessed with the socialist nation ninety miles south of Florida, an obsession f...

This textbook offers a fresh approach to the study of comparative politics and public policy. Instead of concentrating on why countries differ, Learning Fro...

Unabridged private reflections of the Emperor of Rome, on how one is to exist in a world of chaos. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and in the most accepted ...

The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around a key question: Should rights to clean air, w...

Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico,...

The book examines one of the most debated issues in current international law: to what extent the international legal system has constitutional features co...

Why do countries have different institutions and forms of government? Why do some social revolutions succeed and endure while others fail? Why are some soci...

Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter In A Turbulent World Offers A Novel Perspective On British Elections, Focusing On The Role Of Electoral Shocks In The C...

Judith N. Shklar. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 127-138) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics & Government

'contract As Promise' Is A Study Of The Foundations And Structure Of Contract Law. It Has Both Theoretical And Pedagogic Purposes. It Moves From Trust To Pr...

Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, a...