Legal Theory & Systems

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

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...

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...

First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restat...

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...

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...

This new edition of the seminal 1959 work retains the original analysis of commonsense causal concepts, and includes hundreds of new decisions and a substan...

Since The First Edition Of This Popular Text Was Published In 1984, The Charter Of Rights And Freedoms Has Transformed The Role Of The Courts In Canadian Po...

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...

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...

In conversation with Heinz Dieterich, acclaimed political commentator Chomsky reviews a continent on the brink of a major economic and political crisis. An ...

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...

The ocean levels may not have risen an inch, but the CHANGE in the planet's social, economic, and political CLIMATE is flooding the earth with predictable c...

Canada's number one resource for high school law has been updated for the 21st century, and reflects the latest changes to Canada's laws and legislation, as...

The Definitive Guide to Breastfeeding Your Baby Breastfeeding may be natural, but it may also be more challenging than you expect. Some mothers encounter ...

in the Real World Of Democracy, C. B. Macpherson Examines The Rival Ideas Of Democracy — The Communist, Third World, And Western-liberal Variants — And Th...

Obtaining justice through Japan's civil justice system requires a nuanced understanding of Japanese legal culture, particularly the fundamental differences...

Doubt Is A Habit. You Aren't Born A Doubter. You Learn To Doubt Over Time, After Being Hit With The Injustices And Instability Of This World. In This Book, ...

As in the first edition, Thaman presents a topical approach to the subject, focusing on the roles of public prosecutors, police, victims, and defense attorn...

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...