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A distinguished jurist provides insights into the judicial role by asking and answering the question, "What is it that I do when I decide a case?" In this legal classic, Benjamin N. Cardozo - an Associate Supreme Court Justice of the United States from 1932-38 - explains a judge's conscious and unconscious decision-making processes. Cardozo handed down opinions that stressed the necessity for the law to adapt to the realities and needs of contemporary...
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A partir de la sociología de Pierre Bourdieu, este libro analiza las particularidades del discurso jurídico en Colombia para delimitar sus características como campo social. Dicho discurso, emitido principalmente desde las instituciones universitarias, se analiza a lo largo de nueve capítulos en los que se arrojan conclusiones que configuran un estudio profundo sobre la interacción entre sociología y derecho, con el fin de proponer posibles...
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You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism highlights how race and gender create barriers to recruitment, professional development, and advancement to partnership for black women in elite corporate law firms. Utilizing narratives of black female lawyers, this book offers a blend of accessible theory to benefit any reader willing to learn about the underlying challenges that lead to their high attrition rates. Drawing from...
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Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into conversations that introduce the field's dominant themes and most lively disagreements. Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar examples, Calavita...
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First published in 1895, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" is a pivotal work in the field of group psychology written by French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon. Le Bon theorizes that there are several characteristics of crowds as distinguishable from individual behavior. As it states in the preface: "The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows...
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Hacer justicia, desde el punto de vista andino, es restablecer vínculos. Esa es la principal conclusión a la que llegamos al término de nuestro trabajo con estudiantes y docentes de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga.
Esta manera de entender la justicia choca con la concepción legalista que se centra en la imposición de la formalidad de la ley abstracta e impersonal por encima de la búsqueda de la justicia. En la perspectiva...
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Este libro es el resultado de reflexiones intermitentes sobre el conflicto y el proceso de paz en Colombia desde el año 2000 siguiendo la pregunta acerca de la guerra interna como modo de subjetivación, y las correspondientes relaciones sociales basadas en la partición amigo/enemigo. La primera parte describe dos formaciones de saber: la que se ocupa de la violentologia y la que explica la necesidad de una reforma agraria. La segunda parte plantea...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" Robert C. Ellickson is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School. His books include Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes.
Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings,...
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Internándonos en las lecturas sobre el lawfare descubrimos un problema mayor: las condiciones que lo posibilitaron con la instauración de gobiernos de excepción que en la región comenzaron con la presidencia de Mauricio Macri (2015) y la destitución de Dilma Rousseff (2016). Si Argentina y Brasil podían imponer neodemocracias (después de todo hay neoliberalismos, neonazis, neoconservadurismos), era de suponer que esos nuevos emprendimientos...
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En todo el mundo, los pueblos indígenas utilizan el derecho internacional para reclamar su patrimonio, territorio y desarrollo económico. Karen Engle hace un seguimiento de la historia de estas afirmaciones, considerando al prevalencia de determinados marcos legales y sus costos y beneficios para los grupos indígenas. Su vívido relato pone de relieve los dilemas que acompañan a cada estrategis jurídica, así como la permanente elusividad del...
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American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governments.
Arguing that there are structural flaws in the American dream, Troutt...
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Esta obra llevó 7 años de investigación para la tesis MEL-FCPYS-UNCuyo, y tres más para su adecuación a los nuevos paradigmas que intentan dar luz de esperanza a una crisis civilizatoria 2020 sin precedentes. Fue creada como plusvalía de solidaridad (Santos 2009) en la formación de constelaciones de conocimiento y diálogo de saberes, para la reivindicación de la visión biocéntrica política-omta y espiritual-nurum, reconociéndose el sentido...
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This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the history and development of punishment and crime prevention. It explores how the ideas concerning crime and how to deal with it have changed throughout the ages, as well as analyzing the way that we deal with such behavior in modern society. A thought-provoking and insightful volume, "The Punishment and Prevention of Crime" is highly recommended for those with an interest in sociology and the concepts...
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From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in the United States into a social movement acting on behalf of the dispossessed, renouncing violence and the underground economy, and requiring school attendance...
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In Egypt's modern history, reform of personal status laws has often formed an integral part of political, cultural, and religious contestations among different factions of society. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, two significant reforms were introduced in Egyptian personal status laws: women's right to petition for no-fault judicial divorce law (khul') and the new mediation-based family courts. Legal Reform and Gender Justice examines...
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'Uncaste' is the stellar outcome of the Author's 8 years of patient and persistent research on India's Caste System and the mystery of how it survives. The book is stellar not only in the sense of decoding the sustaining mechanism of Caste, but also in constructing a clear pathway to annihilate it. Hence, what begins as a scholarly exposition passionately progresses in issuing a manifesto to perish the Caste System.
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Comment l'Union européenne peut-elle parvenir à mieux informer et communiquer avec ses citoyens ? Quelles sont les initiatives participatives et délibératives qu'elle a promues à ces fins ? Peuvent-elles contribuer à atténuer sa crise de légitimité chronique ? Devraient-elles être institutionnalisées à l'intérieur du processus décisionnel européen? Et si oui, comment procéder ? Autant de questions auxquelles cet ouvrage apporte des...
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Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when businesspeople draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power.
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Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for developmentally disabled people? Does equality mean treating everyone the same, even if such treatment affects some people adversely? Does a state requirement of employee maternity leave serve or violate the commitment to gender equality?
Martha Minow takes...
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Migrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries. Through sociolegal and media analysis of court records, press releases, law enforcement campaigns, film representations, theatre performances, and the law, Annie Isabel Fukushima questions how we understand victimhood, criminality, citizenship, and legality.
Fukushima examines...
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