Author: Dylan Schaffer
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: novel, wrongs, right
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1582345708
ISBN-13: 9781582345703
Dylan Schaffer’s sequel to Misdemeanor Man is a mind-bending whodunit about small crime, big crime, and the Barry Manilow-loving lawyer caught in the middle.
Author: Stan Thoma
Publisher: Heliographica Pre
Keywords: wrongs, human
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 193303727X
ISBN-13: 9781933037271
When Mitchell Dove is murdered and dismembered, his vicious killing tears open far-too-recent wounds and sends a shock wave throughout Black communities across the United States struggling to find their place. Professor of law Phil Dennison agrees to defend the white man on trial for killing Dove, who was the first African American CEO of the world’s largest oil company a promising and rising star in the corporate world. Trying to save the murderer John Robert Holloway, Professor Dennison finds himself the focus of national attention and stuck between the law and his community. Even D
Author: Tom Shakespeare
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: wrongs, rights, disability
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-10-16
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 041534719X
ISBN-13: 9780415347198
Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that the social model theory has reached a dead end. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarizations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people identity
Author: Jules L. Coleman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keywords: wrongs, risks
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2002-11
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199253617
ISBN-13: 9780199253616
This classic work is concerned with the conflict between the goals of justice and economic efficiency in the allocation of risk, especially risk pertaining to safety.
Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: wrongs, rights, justice
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-12-26
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 0691129673
ISBN-13: 9780691129679
Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account. Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as grounded in rights with an exploration of the
Author: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: woman, wrongs, maria
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2006-01-20
List price: $9.90
ISBN-10: 1846374596
ISBN-13: 9781846374593
In this book Mary Wollstonecraft pursues in fiction the themes set forth by her in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792). It exposes the legal and social injustices faced by all women, dramatizing the extent to which a married woman under English law was her husband’s property.
Author: Francis Hilliard
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Keywords: volume, wrongs, private, torts, law
Number of Pages: 2
Published: 2006-03-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1584775416
ISBN-13: 9781584775416
Hilliard, Francis. The Law of Torts, or Private Wrongs. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1859. Two volumes. xxxviii, 540; xxxvii, 719 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-541-6. ISBN-10: 1-58477-541-6. Cloth. $195.* Reprint of the first edition. This was the first English-language treatise on the subject. As the Dictionary of American Biography points out, it marked the "beginning of a revolution in legal thought" because it was the first to approach torts as a distinct legal category. Before Hilliard, "practical text-writers...regarded such wrongs as too di
