Weapons have been a source of political and legal debate for centuries. Aristotle considered the possession of arms a fundamental source of political power and wrote that tyrants mistrust the people and deprive them of their arms. Today ownership of weapons whether ha... Lees meer.
Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across national borders. Law calls communities into being and constitutes the we it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside a border whose cr... Lees meer.
It s been said that the best camera is the one you have with you. These days most of us are fortunate enough to carry a sophisticated pocket-sized camera with us everywhere we go. Yes the iPhone has made each of us a photographer. In this book author photographer... Lees meer.
Drawing on the rich field of performance studies this volume the most recent contribution to the distinguished Amherst Series in Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought offers fresh insights and a provocative mix of multidisciplinary topics and methodologies to explor... Lees meer.
Today ownership of weapons poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume contributors confront urgent questions among them the usefulness of history as a guide in ongoing struggles over gun regulation the changing meaning of the Second Amendment t... Lees meer.
A reevaluation of how rights liberate and constrain human behavior The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand apar... Lees meer.
Law and War explores the cultural historical spatial and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. Historically the term war crime struck some as redundant and others as oxymoron... Lees meer.
We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities to develop and maintain the institutional infrastructure necessary to p... Lees meer.
The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy the relation between secrecy and justice and how we unders... Lees meer.
Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained the procedures employed and what understandings get attached to the act or person. Critiques of law often reveal how arbitrary its cl... Lees meer.
Brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend with loss and its reverberations chan... Lees meer.
Acknowledging that there is much more to building a successful photography business than taking great pictures this manual and DVD set shows how to build and run a thriving boutique baby photography studio. All aspects of the business end of a studio are explained fro... Lees meer.
The essays assembled in How Law Knows provide a sample of the diversity responsiveness and influence that law s knowledge practices have on legal outcomes and the world beyond law. When citizens think about law s ways of knowing and about how legal officials gathe... Lees meer.
The iPhone and its camera is an amazing device for taking photos of the landscape. In addition to being able to take exceptional quality images this camera also has a built-in computer and access to impressive software for converting its images to black and white. Thi... Lees meer.