Law and Justice

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Maxims of Equity
A Juridical Critique of the Ethics of Chancery Law
This monograph on British Equity law (wills, probate, trust funds and land law), discusses the philosophical underpinnings of the ‘Maxims of Equity’ – twenty or so guiding principles which attempt to ameliorate the rigor of the common law and to…

Michael Levenstein Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Murdering Justice
Police Killings of Dissidents in Canada
This book shatters the comforting story that Canada is a gentle nation of “peace, order, and good government.

Jeff Shantz Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
National Integration and Contested Autonomy
The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
The post-Cold War era has witnessed a resurgence of conflictive ethnic and secessionist politics that has placed the taken-for-granted primacy of unitary, sovereign nation-states into question.

Luciano Baracco and Contributors Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
No Greater Threat
America After September 11 and the Rise of a National Security State
No Greater Threat: America After September 11, and the Rise of a National Security State examines the prospect that America (with the Congress and the Executive Branch in the lead) may be transforming itself into a national security culture.

C. William Michaels Price range: $33.00 through $49.00 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Occupation and Insurgency:
A Selective Examination of The Hague and Geneva Conventions
In Occupation and Insurgency , a military history professor examines the complex relationship between occupation policies, international law, and the insurgencies that arise when those policies fail.

Colin D. Heaton Price range: $24.95 through $34.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Organizational Reaction to Social Deviance: The Military Case
This study in criminology, sociology, and the US Military explores changes in the meaning and production of deviant populations in American military settings since 1941.

Robert J. Stevenson Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Panic in the Senate
The Fight Over the Second Bank of the United States and the American Presidency
Just as many people today question the role of the Fed, Andrew Jackson opposed the central bank of the United States, vehemently arguing that the Bank gave privilege and unfair advantage to the elite few at the expense of the public.

Michael Trapani Price range: $21.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Plato’s Dreams Realized: Surveillance and Citizen Rights
From the KGB to the FBI
American democracy is still a model admired around the world, but many Americans and new arrivals alike are shocked by the extent to which the American security apparatus violates the Constitution.

Alexander V. Avakov Price range: $13.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Prophets without Honor
A Requiem for Moral Patriotism
“Radical priests” laid it on the line, challenging government, corporations and the Church. Some were jailed; some were killed. Personal accounts tell why they had to do it – and why governments and the Church fought so hard to stop them.

Michael Palecek Price range: $23.95 through $30.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Race, Ethnicity and Crime
Melting pot or tossed salad? The U.S. criminal justice system may prove to be fueling intolerance rather than enabling society to accommodate racial and ethnic differences.

Dianne Williams Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance
While policies like SB 1070, Arizona’s now infamous immigration legislation, have raised issues of racial profiling and policing practices, there have been few detailed analyses of broader practices of racialization and racism at borders more extensively.

Jeff Shantz Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Religious Overreach at the Supreme Court
Religion is increasingly being allowed to shape judicial decisions in America’s highest court.

Scott Rutledge Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Restorative Justice
Prison as Hell or a Chance for Redemption
Part an explication of the idea of restorative justice and part the traumatic personal story of a young woman unfortunate enough to fall into the claws of the current US penal system, the book demonstrates through both logic and emotion that we, as…

Jennifer Furio Price range: $19.95 through $26.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Rules of Engagement?
A Social Anatomy of an American War Crime ' Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq
Coalition and Iraqi troops raided an insurgent training camp southwest of Tikrit as part of Operation Iron Triangle May 9-11, 2006.

Stjepan G. Mestrovic Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Sacred, Mundane, Profane
A Constitutional Perspective
The Constitution of the United States provides an excellent study of the uncertain boundaries between political and religious life. Its authors, as they grappled with political architecture, grappled unavoidably also with spiritual ambiguity.

Scott Rutledge Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Scotbom: Evidence and the Lockerbie Investigation
Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988. This tragedy killed 270 people including 189 Americans and changed the way the world looked at terrorism.

Richard A. Marquise Price range: $21.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page