Presents the legal specifications and regulations of same-sex marriage in the United States, including state-by-state legislation, federal tax implications, and tips on divorce, child custody, and estate planning.
Does their authority undermine the orthodox accounts of the nature of legal systems? Drawing on examples from Roman law to the present day, this book offers the first comparative analysis of non-legislative codifications.
In this book, legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists join in an attempt to develop and refine a structural theory of law.
46 Nussbaum, Carolyn G. and Christopher M. Mason. “Who Decides: The Court or the Arbitrator?” American Bar Association Business Law Section. March 2014 (listing circumstances where arbitrators decide arbitrability) ...
Making Law Matter presents the first book-length treatment of an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful defender of citizen rights in environmental ...
Hart & Sacks' The Legal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application of Law provides detailed information on the making and application of law.
This is a philosophical but non-technical analysis of the very idea of a rule.
This book present a structure for understanding and exploring the semiotic character of law and law systems.
An underlying concern is to explore to what extent and under what terms will the family endure in the future as a basic unit of social management and control. This book is part of the Oñati International Series in Law and Society.
There are a few quasi-official histories written about the FBI: see Don Whitehead, The FBI Story (New York: Random House, 1956); Harry and Banoro Overstreet, The FBI in Our Open Society (New York: Norton, 1969).
Instead, making law work in actual practice, and in any society, is a matter of degree.