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The essays in this collection explore the history of the legal treatise in the common law world, and ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve.

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This instructive guide provides an important survey of the many areas of the law that affect the daily operation of the library. Torrans, a practicing lawyer with a vast experience explaining these issues to librarians, presents the relevant law, focuses on key issues, and examines illuminating cases.

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Referencing not only the UK welfare system but also relevant policies and experience in various other states, this book seeks to explain how and why complexity in modern welfare systems has grown, and to consider the role that law can play in the simplification of schemes of welfare.

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This book shows that jurisprudence must acknowledge that the political, the moral, and the legal are located within a continuum of practical reason.

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This expanded new edition of Law in Perspective focuses on a range of powerful critical thinking tools drawn from logic, science, ethics, and political and social theory.

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This volume will begin to answer questions about the practical, day-to-day relationship between law and politics in a number of settings.

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This volume will begin to answer questions about the practical, day-to-day relationship between law and politics in a number of settings.

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This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal profession. It explores how myths are created about the law and how myths are created by the law. -- .

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This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal profession. It explores how myths are created about the law and how myths are created by the law. -- .

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The book includes essays by many of the leading experts writing at the intersection of development, rights and transitional justice studies.

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Written by a former military lawyer, the book will be of interest to military commanders, their staff and legal advisers but also to officials in Foreign and Defence Ministries and non governmental agencies working in conflict situations, as well as staff of international courts and tribunals dealing with war crimes. -- .

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This volume has a single, clear theme: the history and development of law reporting in Britain, from the earliest English reports of the second half of the 13th century to the beginnings of the reporting of planning decisions in the 20th century.

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In this book law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disordered is explored and reflected upon.

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What authority does international law really have for the United States When and to what extent should the United States participate in the international legal system This book provides an insight into these questions. It traces the traditional American wariness of international law to the basic principles of American thought.

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Argues that legal decision making cannot be understood if one counterposes science and technology, on the one hand, to common knowledge and common sense on the other. This book underlines the importance of analyzing dynamically how knowledge formation works. It is intended for students from disciplines including law, sociology, and anthropology.

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This book, written by academics, contains reflective and critical essays on the future of law in the United Kingdom over a wide range of areas.

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