Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of Americas foremost legal historiansKermit Hall and Melvin Urofskyprovide a compact and highly readable updating of one of the most memorable decisions in the Supreme Courts canon.
In his first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Polio: An American Story, renowned historian David Oshinsky takes a new and closer look at the Supreme Courts controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment-in the landmark case of Furman v.
A Financial Times Book to Read in 2022Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation's President.
Les révolutions technologiques et les constantes innovations bouleversent les modèles économiques existants, et privent les décideurs des repères, instruments et outils dont ils disposaient traditionnellement.
En France, le souvenir de la bataille de Valmy, couplé à l’instauration d’une conscription maintenue jusqu’en 1996, fonde l’attachement indéfectible du citoyen au caractère essentiellement public des forces de sécurité de la Nation.
As computational power, the volume of available data, IT systems' autonomy, and the human-like capabilities of machines increase, robots and AI systems have substantial and growing implications for the law and raise a host of challenges to current legal doctrines.
This book covers how Liberal institutions - constitutional democracy, economic markets, liberal courts, free trade, international human rights - around the world are under assault by the political right and we are witnessing the emergence of post-liberal institutions.
This book examines the diversity of enforcement titles in cross-border debt collection, focusing on the types, structure, contents and effects of enforcement titles.
This comparative philosophy of law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to the Islamic legal tradition based on 'juridical categories', a concept that facilitates comprehension and understanding of juridical phenomena.
Originellement conçu pour régler pacifiquement les conflits au sein des sociétés, le droit a trouvé dans la vie internationale un nouveau champ d’application, phénomène qui s’est accéléré et complexifié au cours des xxe et xxie siècles.
Chacun d’entre nous le constate dans sa vie privée, professionnelle ou dans l’espace public, une tendance à la bureaucratisation de nos vies est en cours.
This book serves as a comprehensive study of and provides rich insight into non-market economy treatment, including its past, present, and estimated future practices and implications.
This book covers how Liberal institutions - constitutional democracy, economic markets, liberal courts, free trade, international human rights - around the world are under assault by the political right and we are witnessing the emergence of post-liberal institutions.
This comparative philosophy of law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to the Islamic legal tradition based on 'juridical categories', a concept that facilitates comprehension and understanding of juridical phenomena.
Articulé autour de la liberté et illustré par les controverses sociétales qui ont marqué les dernières trois décennies de la vie politique française, cet essai constitue une plaidoirie pour la libre disposition de soi et toutes les libertés qui en découlent : liberté procréative, liberté sexuelle, liberté religieuse, liberté d’expression, liberté vestimentaire… Du Pacte civil de solidarité à l’interdiction de la burqa, du changement de sexe à l’état civil au mariage pour tous, de la pénalisation des clients des prostituées au maintien de la prohibition du suicide assisté en passant par la pornographie, la gestation pour autrui ou encore le blasphème, ces débats ont mis en évidence la difficulté de notre société à assumer le principe politique qui l’a pourtant fondée, à savoir que l’État n’est légitime à intervenir que pour empêcher qu’un tort soit causé à autrui.
Ce livre souligne l’œuvre novatrice et déterminante du Groupement européen des magistrats pour la médiation (GEMME) pour implanter la médiation en France et en Europe.
Although she came to be known as merely that girl with the dirty books, Dollree Mapp was a poor but proud black woman who defied a predominantly white police force by challenging the legality of its search-and-seizure methods.
Silver Gavel Award, Honorable MentionIn the Chicago suburb of Skokie, one out of every six Jewish citizens in the late 1970s was a survivoror was directly related to a survivorof the Holocaust.
Although she came to be known as merely that girl with the dirty books, Dollree Mapp was a poor but proud black woman who defied a predominantly white police force by challenging the legality of its search-and-seizure methods.
Silver Gavel Award, Honorable MentionIn the Chicago suburb of Skokie, one out of every six Jewish citizens in the late 1970s was a survivoror was directly related to a survivorof the Holocaust.
Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous Englishwoman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist.
In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension or -adjustment laws to help farmers and homeowners keep their properties.
This report analyzes how to untangle and simplify the complex product-specific rules of origin (PSRO) in free trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific and explores how technology can cut red tape and reduce inefficiencies impacting trade.
