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    • The Supreme Court in American Society serves as a powerful reminder of how important the Court has been to American life, how central a role it has played in interpreting the rule of law against a constantly evolving social order, and how much it has mirrored the controversies, debates, and political struggles of American History.
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    • The rural village of nineteenth century Europe was caught in a conflict between its traditional local culture and its integration into new state institutions and modern social structures. Local practices were turned into crimes; the social meaning of crime within the village culture was redefined by the introduction of bourgeois penal law and psychiatry. The language of the intruding agencies…
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    • Provide[s] a good overview of the history of the formation and ongoing work of the World Court, and addresses the underlying need for institutions like it and its more recent international criminal successors. I would recommend it for any law school library. -- Charlotte Bynum, Tulane University Law Library ― International Journal Of Legal Information Howard Meyer obviously believes that the…
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    • The book is an attempt to evaluate the reception of Continental philosophy (phenomenology,hermeneutics, deconstruction, etc.) within mainstream jurisprudence. The book claims that the reduction of philosophy to social theory can only be accomplished by impoverishing the impetus of philosophical thinking and, consequently, by transforming critique into criticism, and the philosophy of law into legal theory. The response developed in this…
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    • Higher Education institutions around the world are facing a situation of diminishing resources and increasing state inference. How have law schools reacted to this? Is there an increasing movement towards the training of professional lawyers, or is the liberal law degree alive and well? What are the pedagogic concerns of law teachers in this new environment? This volume brings together…
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    • This is the latest book from law and technology guru Richard Susskind, author of the best-selling The Future of Law. It brings together in one volume eleven significant essays on the application of IT to legal practice and the administration of justice, including Susskind's very latest thinking on key topics like knowledge management and the impact of electronic commerce.
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    • In this searing indictment of current administration policy, Charles Tiefer, a distinguished scholar of national legal affairs and former solicitor of the House of Representatives, argues that President George W. Bush methodically manipulates the law to promote right-wing causes. The beneficiaries of these machinations range from frontline pro-weapon and anti-women's rights groups to major industries that profit from lax environmental…
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    • Addresses questions relating to restructuring of the youth justice system in the UK, looking at core issues in the politics of youth justice, social class, gendered constructions on offending adolescent females, the over-representation of black children and young people in the justice system, and crime prevention and diversion strategies. Other subjects include management of juvenile remands, family group counseling, community…
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