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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sean patrick donlan”
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  • Comparative Law

    Mixes, Movements, and Metaphors

    Edited by Sean Patrick Donlan, Jane Mair ...
    Series series Juris Diversitas
    This book discusses a number of important themes in comparative law: legal metaphors and methodology, the movements of legal ideas and institutions and the mixity they produce, and marriage, an area of law in which culture – or clashes of legal and public cultures – may be particularly evident. In a mix of methodological and empirical investigations divided by these themes, the work offers ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Laws and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689-1850

    by Seán Patrick Donlan ...
    While Irish historical writing has long been in thrall to the perceived sectarian character of the legal system, this collection is the first to concentrate attention on the actual relationship that existed between the Irish population and the state under which they lived from the War of the Two Kings (1689-1691) to the Great Famine (1845-1849). Particular attention is paid to an understanding of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Concepts of Law

    Comparative, Jurisprudential, and Social Science Perspectives

    by Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler ...
    Series series Juris Diversitas
    Debates surrounding the concept of law are not new. For a wide variety of reasons and in a wide variety of ways, the meaning of 'law' has long been an important part of Western thought, both within legal scholarship and beyond. The contributors to Concepts of Law are international experts from the fields of comparative law, legal philosophy, and the social sciences. Combining theoretical analyses ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    Henry VIII's True Love

    by Elizabeth Norton ...
    Jane Seymour is often portrayed as meek and mild and as the most successful, but one of the least significant, of Henry VIIIs wives. The real Jane was a very different character, demure and submissive yet with a ruthless streak as Anne Boleyn was being tried for treason, Jane was choosing her wedding dress. From the lowliest origins of any of Henrys wives her rise shows an ambition every bit as ... Read more

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  • Legal Anthropology

    An Introduction

    by James M. Donovan ...
    Legal Anthropology: An Introduction offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural analysis of legal systems. Equal parts review and criticism, James M. Donovan outlines the historical landmarks in the development of the discipline, identifying both strengths and weaknesses of each stage and contribution. Legal Anthropology suggests that future progress can be ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Corporate Tax Law

    Structure, Policy and Practice

    by Peter Harris ...
    Series series Cambridge Tax Law Series
    Many corporate tax systems lack structure. Focusing on structural defects and how they are addressed in practice, this comprehensive and comparative analysis of corporate tax systems uses a conceptual framework to illustrate and analyse the many difficult issues corporations pose. This framework is enhanced by the examination of a large body of legal rules and practical considerations which ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • The Six Wives of Henry VIII

    by David Loades ...
    The story of Henry VIII and his six wives has passed from history into legend taught in the cradle as a cautionary tale and remembered in adulthood as an object lesson in the dangers of marrying into royalty. The true story behind the legend, however, remains obscure to most people, whose knowledge of the affair begins and ends with the aide memoire Divorced, executed, died, divorce, executed, ... Read more

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  • The Federal Idea

    Public Law Between Governance and Political Life

    Edited by Dr Amnon Lev ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    A significant part of the world's population lives under some sort of federal arrangement. And yet, the concepts of federalism and federation remain under-theorised. Federalist theorists have, for the most part, defined their object by opposition to the unitary state. As a result, they have not developed public law theories that capture the specificity of this type of polity.Bringing together ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Heretics and Heroes

    How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

    by Thomas Cahill ...
    Series series The Hinges of History
    The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. • “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” —The Dallas Morning NewsThis was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Judicial Independence in China

    Lessons for Global Rule of Law Promotion

    Edited by Randall Peerenboom ...
    This volume challenges the conventional wisdom about judicial independence in China and its relationship to economic growth, rule of law, human rights protection, and democracy. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach that places China's judicial reforms and the struggle to enhance the professionalism, authority, and independence of the judiciary within a broader comparative and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Prince

    by Niccol� Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Peter Bondanella ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with Machiavelli, and considers the true purpose of The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Legitimate Expectations in the Common Law World

    Edited by Matthew Groves, Greg Weeks ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    The recognition and enforcement of legitimate expectations by courts has been a striking feature of English law since R v North and East Devon Health Authority; ex parte Coughlan [2001] 3 QB 213. Although the substantive form of legitimate expectation adopted in Coughlan was quickly accepted by English courts and received a generally favourable response from public law scholars, the doctrine of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD