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American Lawyers
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 47.99This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase... more...
Trial Justice
Zed Books 2006; US$ 23.95The International Criminal Court has run into serious problems with its first big case - the situation in northern Uganda. There is no doubt that appalling crimes have occurred here. Joseph Konys Lords Resistance Army have abducted thousands, many of them children, and have systematically tortured, raped, maimed and killed their victims.... more...
Fight Back and Win
HarperCollins US 2006; US$ 12.99The world-renowned civil and equal rights attorney, television personality, and women's rights advocate offers a memoir of hard-fought battles and hard-won lessons, in this testament to a life devoted to the rights of others. more...
The Role of Courts in Transitional Justice
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00Bringing together a group of outstanding judges, scholars and experts with first-hand experience in the field of transitional justice in Latin America and Spain, this book offers an insider?s perspective on the enhanced role of courts in prosecuting serious human rights violations and grave crimes, such as genocide and war crimes, committed in the... more...
The European Court's Political Power
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 39.99Karen Alter's work on the European Court of Justice heralded a new level of sophistication in the political analysis of the controversial institution, through its combination of legal understanding and active engagement with theoretical questions. The European Court's Political Power assembles the most important of Alter's articles written... more...
Treatise on International Criminal Law: Volume 1
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 159.99Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998, international criminal law has rapidly grown in importance. This three-volume Treatise on International Criminal Law presents a foundational, systematic, consistent and comprehensive analysis of international criminal law. Taking into account the scholarly literature,... more...
Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law
Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 24.95Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law provides unique insights into the judicial process and scientific inquiry by examining major decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, civil rights advocacy, and the nature of science itself. more...
Judicial Systems in Transition Economies
World Bank Publications 2005; US$ 19.99Judicial Systems in Transition Economies looks at the experience of countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as they reform their legal and judicial institutions to fit the needs of a market economy. The study shows, rather disturbingly, that less progress has been made in judicial... more...
Commonwealth Caribbean Law and Legal Systems
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 94.95Fully updated and revised to fit in with the new laws and structure in the Commonwealth Caribbean law and legal systems, this new edition examines the institutions, structures and processes of the law in the Commonwealth Caribbean. The author explores: - the court system and the new Caribbean Court of Justice which replaces appeals to the Privy... more...
Counterclaims before the International Court of Justice
Springer 2011; US$ 94.99Counterclaims, the right of a State sued by another State to bring its own counter-suit in the course of the same trial, may offer an opportunity to mitigate the effects of the original suit and help to resolve disputes between States that have more than one aspect. In recent years, counterclaims have been frequently presented at the International... more...









