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The American Bar Association Legal Guide for Military Families
Diversified Publishing 2013; US$ 14.99The one and only legal guide for servicemembers and their families. The American Bar Association Legal Guide for Military Families is the complete resource for servicemembers, veterans, and their families. This guide will help all servicemembers clarify their legal issues, understand the options, and locate assistance. Topics are presented in... more...
The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 165.00This unique research companion takes a critical approach to a wide variety of theoretical, practical, legal and policy issues surrounding and underpinning the operation of international criminal law as applied by international criminal tribunals. The authors raise issues which are likely to provide the most significant challenges and most promising... more...
Constitutions in the Global Financial Crisis
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95The book includes contributions from prominent experts on Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and the USA providing a critical analysis of the effects of the financial crisis on the constitution. The volumes extensive comparative chapter pins down distinct constitutional reactions towards the financial crisis,... more...
A Plague of Prisons
New Press, The 2013; US$ 18.95When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Ernest Drucker?s A Plague of Prisons takes the same concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS to make the case that our current unprecedented... more...
Repräsentative Demokratie in der Krise?
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 182.00This volume contains presentations and discussions from a conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors held in Kiel on 3-6 October 2012. more...
Erbrecht
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 420.00Already in its 4th edition, this textbook presents the fundamentals as well as specific topics in inheritance law. The new edition considers recent amendments to inheritance law, including the 2010 reform of the inheritance right to a compulsory portion (Pflichtteilsrecht) as well as the German law on living wills. more...
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013; US$ 124.95Studies in Law, Politics, and Society is essential reading for legal scholars with a unique focus on the disciplines of sociology, politics and the humanities. Volume 61 brings together a diverse range of chapters discussing topics such as child abduction, legal framing, law and film, and the Supreme Court. more...
War Powers
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 29.95Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But... more...
Our Bodies, Whose Property?
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 27.95No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of... more...
Policing and the Mentally Ill
CRC Press 2013; US$ 99.95In countries with democratic traditions, police interactions with the mentally ill are usually guided by legislative mandates giving police discretion and possibly resulting in referrals for assistance and treatment. But all too frequently, the outcome of these interactions is far less therapeutic and leads to a cycle of arrests and ultimately incarceration.... more...









