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Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
Richard A. Posner
Hardcover - $75.95
Making a significant contribution to the theory of democracy, this reference maintains that the advantage of democracy is not that it is the rule of the wise or the good, but that it enables stability and orderly succession in government and limits t ...
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
Richard A. Posner
Paperback - $46.95
Making a significant contribution to the theory of democracy, this reference maintains that the advantage of democracy is not that it is the rule of the wise or the good, but that it enables stability and orderly succession in government and limits t ...
The Problems of Jurisprudence
Richard A. Posner
Paperback - $50.95
In this book, one of our country's most distinguished scholar judges shares with us his vision of the law. For the past thousand years, the philosophy of law has been dominated by two rival doctrines. One contends that the law is more than politics a ...
Ruling Russia : Law, Crime, and Justice in a Changing Society
William Alex Pridemore
Paperback - $75.95
Law, Society, and Economy : Centenary Essays for the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995
Richard Rawlings
Hardcover - $369.95
This volume of centenary essays explores a number of related themes that differentiate and characterize the approach of the London School of Economics--that law is one of the social sciences and should be studied in context as a social phenomenon. Fa ...
Resurrection
David Remnick
Paperback - $27.95
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick chronicles the new Russia that emerged from the ash heap of the Soviet Union. From the siege of Parliament to the farcically tilted elections of 1996, from the rubble of Grozny to the grandiose wealth and n ...
A Matter of Interpretation : Federal Courts & the Law
Antonin Scalia
Paperback - $32.95
In a witty and trenchant essay, Justice Scalia urges judges to resist the temptation to use legislative intention and legislative history, admonishing them instead to focus on the text of the case itself. Includes responses by Gordon Wood, Laurence T ...
Recovering Self-Evident Truths : Catholic Perspectives on American Law
Michael A. Scaperlanda
Paperback - $86.95
This Book presents an engaging collection of essays exploring "catholic" and "Catholic" perspectives on American law--catholic in their claims of universal truths, and Catholic in their grounding in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. What em ...
Justification Defenses and Just Convictions
Robert F. Schopp
Hardcover - $210.95
This major study advances an interpretation of criminal justification defenses that views them as an integral component of the structure of the criminal law. The book extends the traditional scope of the legal and philosophical discussion of justific ...