Discusses the rights and protections extended to minors by the law, the treatment of minors in court, and the responsibility of minors to uphold the law, with many examples of actual and hypothetical cases.
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In a series of richly detailed case studies, the book weaves together scholarship on law and social movements, feminist theory, policy formation and implementation, and criminal justice to show how the innovative legal strategies employed ...
Edward went out quickly, not looking back. Out in the courtroom Edward saw a lawyer he used to know. He waited while the man finished talking to his client, one of the prisoners in coveralls sitting in the jury box.
Where was liberty between public law and private conscience? Clarissa's conscience came up against the legalistic materialism of the Harlowes, and so she fell an easy prey to Lovelace. She was reluctant to invoke the law to prosecute ...
Up Against the Law: Animal Rights & the 1986 Public Order Act
The Prohibition on the Use of Force in Contemporary International Law Olivier Corten ... AJ Billingsey and C Michaelsen, International Law and the Use of Force A Documentary and Reference Guide (Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2010) 200.
See generally Mayhew and Reiss 1969. 18. Shamir 1996, 233. 19. Shamir 1996, 235. 20. Pound 1906. 21. Shamir 1996. 22. Simon 1988; Giddens 1990. Even the most banal activity, such as drinking water from a faucet in one's home, ...
In this new edition, Helvarg finds that George W. Bush has opened wide the doors of his administration to these same individuals and industries who are now getting rich off the looting of our public lands.
How the Law Works is essential reading for anyone approaching law for the first time, or for anyone who is interested in an engaging introduction to the subject’s bigger picture.