Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold 
Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers [PDF ebook] 

In this landmark publication, the world”s leading expert in the legal system of Saudi Arabia explains and documents the uncodified principles of contract, tort, and property that frame the business …

This essential handbook on international arbitration has been updated to include a new chapter on investment treaty arbitration, detailing the kind of investments which are covered by investment trea …

This new book advances a fresh philosophical account of the relationship between the legislature and courts, opposing the common conception of law, in which it is legislatures that primarily create t …

Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Understood as self-legislation, autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition, namely, that their addressees …

Constitutionalising Secession proceeds from the question, ”What, if anything, does the law have to say about a secession crisis?” But rather than approaching secession through the optic of politica …

This book investigates how sustainability informs the universal principles used in domestic and international law. It calls for the acceptance of sustainability as a recognized legal principle which …

William Blackstone”s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited …

This is the first book to explore the canonical narratives, stories, examples, and ideas that legal decisionmakers invoke to explain family law and its governing principles. Jill Elaine Hasday shows …

The book provides a comparative analysis of the law relating to remedies for breach of contract. It examines different remedies such as specific performance and damages, doing so from the viewpoint o …

2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the grant at Runnymede of Magna Carta.The story of how Magna Carta came into being , and has been interpreted since, and its impact on individual rights and consti …