Perspectives on Law

The emerging commercial application of nanotechnology involves devices, processes, and materials that are manipulated at the atomic and molecular level. This first-of-its-kind resource identifies and describes the legal and policy initiatives aimed at encouraging or restricting nanotech research and... More

This timely book provides an easy-to-understand overview of how the Internet has emerged as an important setting for business, and how doing business on the Internet is regulated by the courts, as well as state and federal government. It offers a clear and better understanding of complex legal conce... More

This new text will encourage students to develop a deeper understanding of the context and the current workings of the criminal justice system. Part One offers a clear, accessible and comprehensive review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, the history of justice... More

This second edition aims to explore and define the emerging component of Juvenile Justice in the United States and the special challenges facing juvenile justice in the 1990s.Bartollas and Miller focus on the control, correction and treatment of both juvenile offenders and delinquents. The book desc... More

In 1307, the Templars in France were arrested by King Philip IV's officials in the name of the Inquisition, their property seized and the men charged with serious heresies, including the denial of Christ, homosexuality, and idol worship. Confessions, extracted under torture, were brought before roya... More

"Constituting an archaeology of certain modes of colonialist knowledge, "A Rule of Property for Bengal" is most important for its patient elaboration of how modes of knowledge, developed to account for European civil society, are modified in their intersection with the political exigencies of the co... More

The Law of Evidence has traditionally been perceived as a dry, highly technical, and mysterious subject. This book argues that problems of evidence in law are closely related to the handling of evidence in other kinds of practical decision-making and other academic disciplines, that it is closely re... More

After an overview, the book presents career opportunities on the police force and in police administration at the local, county, and state levels and in the FBI. Other careers include county coroner, crime scene investigator, forensic anthropologist, crime lab scientist, judge, probation or parole o... More

This book provides the first fully annotated discussion of the ethical universe surrounding state mandated and private legal disputes involving the custody and best interest of children. It surveys thousands of court cases, statutes, state bar ethics codes, Attorney General opinions, and model codes... More

The human world is changing. Old social structures are being overwhelmed by forces of social transformation which are sweeping across political and cultural frontiers. A social animal is becoming the social species. The animal that lives in packs and herds (family, corporation, nation, state) is bec... More

that obscure and perpetuate women's disadvantages.... More

"This excellent book is the first major comparative exploration of inheritance law as it pertains to the social sciences that I know of. Marked throughout by the author's erudition on the subject, its analysis is framed in sociological terms, but the main chapters can be read without any knowledge o... More

"This is one of the nation's most distinguished law professors considering the work of one of its most important Supreme Court justices, and doing so with subtlety, intelligence, creativity, and flashes of mischief and wit. Frank Michelman boasts an engaging, unpretentious prose style, putting paid ... More

Legal Reason describes and explains the process of analogical reasoning, which is the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view, urged by Edward Levi, Cass Sunstein, Richard Posner and others, which regards analogical reasoning as logically flawed or as a defective for... More

"Justice at Nuremberg" traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial held in 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian emigre psychiatrist Leo Alexander. His investigations helped the United States to prosecute twenty German doctors and three administrators for war crimes and crimes against hum... More

Unlike other works in philosophy of law, which focus on the nature of law in the abstract, this comprehensive anthology presents law as a "process," part and parcel of a system of government and defined constitutional procedures. Using the U.S. legal system as a model, it establishes the basis of la... More

In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel's notion of property and Lacan's idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessi... More

For the first time, the facts behind the scorching of Big Tobacco are woven into a single investigative narrative. Written in the fast-paced, riveting style by a reporting team positioned from the beginning inside the frame with key players from all sides of the legal battleground, this book lets re... More