Slavery and the Death Penalty

Bharat Malkani

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country's history of slavery and racial vi... Lees meer

Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Offering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structur... Lees meer

Hegemonic Individualism and Subversive Stories in Capital Mitigation

Ross Kleinstuber

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Capital punishment policies in the USA are almost always justified by an individualistic belief in either rational choice or dispositional attribution... Lees meer

Corruption and the Secret of Law

Gerhard Anders

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• This volume presents an anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. The authors argue that the two opposites, c... Lees meer

Confronting Sexual Harassment

Anna-Maria Marshall

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates... Lees meer

Religion, Education and the State

Mark Strasser

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• In the context of education, Church and State issues are of growing importance and appear to be increasingly divisive.The study focuses on the situati... Lees meer

The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty

Andrew Novak

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies. Over the last three decades, ... Lees meer

Dirty Assets

Colin King, Clive Walker

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Adopting a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book focuses on the emerging and innovative aspects of attempts to target the accumulated... Lees meer

The Integrity of the Judge

Jonathan Soeharno

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• There is no consensus among legal scholars on the meaning of judicial integrity, nor has legal scholarship yet seen a well-articulated discussion abou... Lees meer

Spatializing Law

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society focuses on law and its location, exploring how spaces are constructed on the terrestr... Lees meer

Islam in American Prisons

Hamid Reza Kusha

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American... Lees meer

Pragmatism and Law

Michal Alberstein

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Pragmatism and Law provides a textual reading of the American legal discourse, as it unfolds through various genres of pragmatism, which evolve and tr... Lees meer

Land Expropriation in Israel

Yifat Holzman-Gazit

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• This book studies the Israeli case law of land expropriation against the social characteristics, political realities and ideologies of Israel. It conc... Lees meer

Most Deserving of Death?

Kenneth Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• The role of capital punishment in America has been criticised by those for and against the death penalty, by the judiciary, academics, the media and b... Lees meer

Slavery and the Death Penalty

Bharat Malkani

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country's history of slavery and racial vi... Lees meer

Islam in American Prisons

Hamid Reza Kusha

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American... Lees meer

The Political Uncommons

Kathryn Milun

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• This book presents a cultural history of the global commons, connecting the logic of legal institutions governing global commons to colonial doctrines... Lees meer

The Right to Life and the Value of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the ri... Lees meer

Showing Remorse

Richard Weisman

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Whether or not wrongdoers show remorse and how they show remorse are matters that attract great interest both in law and in popular culture. In capita... Lees meer

Spatializing Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Exploring the interrelations between social spaces and boundaries and physical space, Spatializing Law examines how spaces are constructed on the terr... Lees meer

From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws

Shaheen Sardar Ali, Anne Griffiths

• Paperback | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• This book approaches law as a process embedded in the transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between... Lees meer

Land Expropriation in Israel

Yifat Holzman-Gazit

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Historically, Israel's Supreme Court has failed to limit the state's powers of expropriation and to protect private property. This book argues that th... Lees meer

Pragmatism and Law

Michal Alberstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• Pragmatism and Law provides a textual reading of the American legal discourse, as it unfolds through various genres of pragmatism, which evolve and tr... Lees meer

The Logic of Consent

Peter Westen

• Hardcover | Engels | Law, Justice and Power
• The Logic of Consent analyzes the varied nature of consent arguments in criminal law and examines the confusions that commonly arise from the failure ... Lees meer