Law: Showing 1 to 25 of 222 results sorted by Newest to oldest

Before Before

A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone

By Betsy Small
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Political Science, Human Rights
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reflecting on how building connections with others is necessary for humanity’s survival

When Charlie Met Joan

The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law

By Diane Kiesel
Subjects: Biography, Law, Legal History, History, American History

Exploring the lasting impacts of the Little Tramp’s real-life courtroom drama

The Derecognition of States

By Gëzim Visoka
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Law, International Law

When and why do states lose recognition?

Legal Stories

Narrative-Based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era

By Gregory Steirer
Subjects: Law, Intellectual Property, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature

How copyright law and the practice of narrative-based property development influenced each other before 1978

The "Getting to Yes" Guide for ESL Students and Professionals

Principled Negotiation for Non-Native Speakers of English

By Barrie J Roberts
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL), Business, Business Management and Leadership, College Success, Reference, Law, Law and Society

Guiding non-native speakers of English through the international bestseller’s four-step negotiation method

Biblical Judgments

New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible

By Daphne Barak-Erez
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Jewish Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Analyzes the classical stories of the Hebrew Bible through the lens of modern law

Presidential Accountability in Wartime

President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War

By Stuart Streichler
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political History

Examines how and why holding US presidents accountable for war crimes is an obligatory but impossible task in the American constitutional system

The Fourth Amendment

Original Understandings and Modern Policing

By Michael J. Z. Mannheimer
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Untangling how the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments have influenced U.S. policing

Making Endless War

The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law

Edited by Brian Cuddy & Victor Kattan
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How two conflicts have shaped the relationship between law and war since 1945

Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law, Intellectual Property, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Courting Failure

How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts

By Lynn LoPucki
Subjects: Law

An eye-opening account of the widespread and systematic decay of America's bankruptcy courts

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

By Lisa Melinda Keen & Suzanne Beth Goldberg
Subjects: Law, Sexuality Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Describes the legal challenge to the Colorado anti-gay civil rights initiative

Baby Ninth Amendments

How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters

By Anthony B. Sanders
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Legal History

How states have adapted and used "Baby Ninth" Amendments to protect individual liberties

While Waiting for Rain

Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change

By John Henry Schlegel
Subjects: Law, Legal History, Political Science, Political Economy, Political History

How innovation will save the United States—and Buffalo—from economic decline

Peace, Preference, and Property

Return Migration after Violent Conflict

By Sandra F Joireman
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Human Rights, African Studies

A bottom-up analysis of what displaced people need rather than what states want

The United States and International Law

Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues

By Lucrecia García Iommi & Richard W Maass
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory

Why U.S. support for international law is so inconsistent

Owning Performance | Performing Ownership

Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage

By Jane Wessel
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Law, Intellectual Property, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures

How playwrights, actors, and theater managers vied for control over the performance of popular plays after the passage of England’s first copyright law