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Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon
This collection of essays honours the work of Sir Gerald Gordon CBE QC LLD (1929-). In modern times few, if any, individuals can have been as important to a single country's criminal law as Sir Gerald has been to the criminal law of Scotland. His monumental work The Criminal Law of Scotland (1967) is the foundation of modern Scottish criminal law and is recognised internationally as a major contribution to academic work on the subject. Elsewhere, he has made significant contributions as an academic, judge and as a member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Reflecting the academic rigour and practical application of Sir Gerald's work, this volume includes essays on criminal law theory, substantive law and evidence and procedure by practitioners and academics within and outside of Scotland, including contributions from England, Ireland and the USA.
Elusive Truth
A collection of work by four photographers who documented the life of Japanese Americans living in relocation camps during World War II, along with historical background on this episode of American history, and information on each artist.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
A young man stows away aboard a whaling ship, seeking adventure on the open seas, but the voyage soon descends into chaos and horror. Faced with mutiny, a gruesome shipwreck, and starvation, he and his companions fight for survival in a vast and unforgiving ocean. Their journey grows ever stranger as they encounter ghostly landscapes, cryptic civilizations, and horrors that defy imagination—culminating in a chilling descent into the unknown. Published in 1838, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is Edgar Allan Poe’s only completed novel. Combining elements of sea adventure, Gothic horror, and psychological tension, this dark and enigmatic tale profoundly influenced writers like Jules Vern...
Fateful Ties
Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America’s future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China’s importance to their own national destiny. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America’s long and varied preoccupation with China. China has held a special place in the American imagination from colonial times, when Jamestown settlers pursued a passage to the Pacific and Asia. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans plied a profitable trade in Chinese wares, soug...
Exploring the Law of Succession
This volume explores key issues in the law of succession from a variety of perspectives: national, historical and comparative.
What the Best Law Teachers Do
This pioneering book is the first to identify the methods, strategies, and personal traits of law professors whose students achieve exceptional learning. Modeling good behavior through clear, exacting standards and meticulous preparation, these instructors know that little things also count--starting on time, learning names, responding to emails.
The Miner's Canary
Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier an...
Criminal Defences and Pleas in Bar of Trial
This vitally important new title provides criminal practitioners and others involved in Scots criminal law with an in-depth narrative guide to the law of criminal defences in Scotland. The comprehensive coverage considers defences in the widest sense, examining not only those which form part of substantive criminal law but also procedural matters such as pleas in bar of trial, abuse of process, delay, entrapment and prejudicial publicity. Drawing on theoretical and comparative material where appropriate, Criminal Defences provides a more detailed treatment of this area than any other existing work and is unique in the quality and scope of its coverage. This title covers all recent changes and developments relating to defences and offers direction on areas where the law is still developing and unclear.
