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Point made

how to write like the nation's top advocates

With Point Made, legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion or brief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell a persuasive ...

America walks into a Bar

a spirited history of taverns and saloons, speakeasies and grog shops

When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted ...

Europe and the governance of global finance

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a central actor in financial governance. Hardly any corner of European financial markets remains untouched by EU rules, and key regulatory competences have been shifted from national authorities to supranational ones. At the same time, the global context ...

The Right and the Welfare State

The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal governments. These parties have been assumed to be nothing but the welfare-sceptical flip-side of the Left, but the book presents a new theory arguing that the conventional wisdom is wrong ...

Contract Law in Russia

The book explains Russian contract law in a form understandable to lawyers qualified in other countries, especially common law countries. The introduction gives a concise overview of the Russian legal system in general and contract law in particular as well as a brief insight into ...

Nationalism and private Law in Europe

While the internationalisation of society has stimulated the emergence of common legal frameworks to coordinate transnational social relations, private law itself is firmly rooted in national law. European integration processes have altered this state of affairs to a limited degree with a few, albeit groundbreaking ...

The Constitution of Israel

a contextual analysis

This book presents the main features of the Israeli constitutional system and a topical discussion of Israel's basic laws. It focuses on constitutional history and the peculiar decision to frame a constitution 'by stages'. Following its British heritage and the lack of a formal ...

An introduction to comparative Law theory and method

This short book on comparative law theory and method is designed primarily for postgraduate research students whose work involves comparison between legal systems. It is, accordingly, a book on research methods, although it will also be of relevance to all students (undergraduate and postgraduate) taking ...

Perpetrators and accessories in international Criminal Law

individual modes of responsibility for collective crimes

International criminal law lacks a coherent account of individual responsibility. This failure is due to the inability of international tribunals to capture the distinctive nature of individual responsibility for crimes that are collective by their very nature. Specifically, they have misunderstood the nature of the ...

The method and culture of comparative Law

essays in honour of Mark Van Hoecke

Awareness of the need to deepen the method and methodology of legal research is only recent. The same is true for comparative law, by nature a more adventurous branch of legal research, which is often something researchers simply do whenever they look at foreign legal ...

Abuse of EU Law and regulation of the internal market

How can the concept of abuse of European Union law - which can be defined as undesirable choice of law artificially made by a private citizen - generate so much disagreement among equally intelligent individuals? Seeking to transcend the classical debate between its supporters and adversaries, the ...

The legal theory of Carl Schmitt

The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt provides a detailed analysis of Schmitt's institutional theory of law, mainly developed in the books published between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. By reading Schmitt's overall work through the lens of ...

The experience of tragic judgment

Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual world ...

Justice as improvisation

the Law of the extempore

Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular 'other'. The same can be said ...

Amnesties, accountability, and Human Rights

For the last thirty years, documented human rights violations have been met with an unprecedented rise in demands for accountability. This trend challenges the use of amnesties which typically foreclose opportunities for criminal prosecutions that some argue are crucial to transitional justice. Recent developments have ...

Environmental democracy and Law

Environmental democracy has several roots and reasons, also theoretical foundations, which must be taken as a starting point of research. One interpretation of environmental democracy could be that it is a visualization of the procedural rights, one of the best options to make environmental rights ...

Fondata sulla cultura

arte, scienza e Costituzione

La società non è la somma di rapporti bilaterali concreti, tra persone che si conoscono reciprocamente. È un insieme di rapporti astratti di persone che si riconoscono come appartenenti a una medesima cerchia umana, senza che gli uni nemmeno sappiano chi sono gli altri. Come ...

Introducción a los mercados de futuros y opciones

El reconocido libro Introducción a los mercados de futuros y opciones presenta una visión general, accesible y amigable sobre el tema, ya que no requiere utilizar cálculo. Al presentar una amplia variedad de ejemplos numéricos y de situaciones de la vida real, el texto guía ...

Luis Vañó Martínez

proyecto natural de Jaén

Dentro del Proyecto Natural de Jaén que impulsa el Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria de la Universidad de Jaén, Luis Vañó (1929) recibe y documenta este singular galardón. Luis Vañó, hombre de arraigo jienense, entre Baeza y Canena, licenciado en Ciencias Económicas y Derecho, Master of ...

El desafío social de nuestro tiempo

En este volumen se recogen las conferencias “Las Condiciones Fundamentales de la Vida Social”, “Los Fantasmas del Antiguo Testamento en el Nacionalismo” y “Las Capacidades de las Naciones”, ofrecidas en Dornach entre el 6 y el 8 de diciembre de 1918. “No es tan fácil ...