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Why do most people never have sex with close relatives?

The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, and violence.

Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks.

The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal.

The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies.

The Regulatory Craft tackles one of the most pressing public policy issues of our timethe reform of regulatory and enforcement practice.

Do your company and employees have the necessary "e;IQ"e; not only to withstand a crisis but also come through it with strength and confidence?

Originalism is an enormously popular-and equally criticized-theory of constitutional interpretation.

The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law.

Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity.

This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion.

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Central American countries have long defined health as a human right.

The Adversary First Amendment presents a unique and controversial rethinking of modern American democratic theory and free speech.

One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government.

Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation.

Roger Collins deals here with the history of Spain, specifically Christian Spain, in the period from the 6th to the 10th century - from the Visigoths, through the time of the Arab conquests, up to the end of the era of Carolingian dominance across the Pyrenees.

Today, statutes make up the bulk of the relevant law heard in federal courts and arguably represent the most important source of American law.

Not so long ago, being aggressively "e;pro-free speech"e; was as closely associated with American political liberalism as being pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, or pro-gun control.

The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you.

Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to better understand and tackle some of the challenges faced by contemporary international law.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, including analysis of its current trade and innovation strategies.

Health and Safety: Risk Management is the clearest and most comprehensive book on risk management available today.

Maritime autonomous vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to radically alter all uses of maritime space, with technology progressing faster than the law.

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

This 'Practical Guide to Living in the UK' supports new citizens with the information needed to adjust to everyday life in the UK.

The act of interrogation, and the debate over its use, pervades our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news.

The first comprehensive book on rape since Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will and Susan Estrich's Real Rape, this volume probes every aspect of rape law and the discrepancies between ideal law (on the books) and real law (in action).

Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority.

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The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity.

Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution.

Offers a novel solution to technology addiction through legal action to pressure the technology industry to re-design its products.

A "e;brisk and interesting"e; exploration of exposing misconduct in America-from the Revolutionary War era to the Trump years (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker).

The story behind the 1940s Commission on Freedom of the Press-groundbreaking then, timelier than ever now"e;A well-constructed, timely study, clearly relevant to current debates.

A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about.

Gender, family law in the Middle East and North Africa indicating change and stasis in context of the Arab spring.

A provocative analysis of net neutrality and a call to democratize online communicationThis short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a more equitable framework for regulating access to the internet.

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children.

Riley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property.

Though Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court Justice for nearly 25 years and has written close to five hundred opinions, legal scholars and pundits have given him short shrift, often, in fact, dismissing him as a narrow partisan, a silent presence on the bench, an enemy of his race, a tool of Antonin Scalia.

News coverage of law can be a daunting task for any journalist, especially in a time when public interest in media coverage of the courts has greatly intensified.

The passage of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) in 1979 was a watershed moment in the movement to protect cultural objects against looting.

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In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a 'vast hall of mirrors', Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual.