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For the first time in a book, defence counsel, investigators, journalists, and academics pool their knowledge and experience to answer the burning questions. What has happened to the fundamental principles of the sovereign equality of nations and the right of self-determination? Why do international criminal tribunals target Africa? How has international criminal justice affected the lives of citizens throughout the world? What about universal jurisdiction?...
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Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include Until Justice and Peace Embrace.
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...
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A sweeping insider look at the life of William Brennan, champion of free speech and widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century
Before his death, William Brennan granted Stephen Wermiel access to volumes of personal and court materials that are sealed to the public until 2017. These are what Jeffrey Toobin has called "a coveted set of documents" that includes Brennan's case histories-in which he recorded...
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Exploring how justice is delivered at a time of rapid technological transformation, Justice in the Digital State exposes urgent issues surrounding the modernization of courts and tribunals whilst re-examining the effects on technology on established systems. Case studies investigate the rise of crowdfunded judicial reviews, the increasing use of data in justice system design, the digitalisation of tribunals, and the rise of 'agile' methodologies in...
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Justice de classe, justice de race plonge le lecteur dans le quotidien d'une jeune juriste racisée appartenant à la classe moyenne. D'origine modeste, elle a entrepris des études de droit ne supportant plus l'injustice et voyant, outre le fait d'activer son propre ascenseur social, un moyen d'aider son entourage et d'impacter sa génération. Pourtant, elle se trouve aujourd'hui dans une situation qui l'oppose à des détracteurs n'ayant pour seul...
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Justice : Hope for Everyone Everywhere paints a big picture of God's greater story. The author, Adam LiVecchi, highlights the injustices in the world and shows how we can do Justice. The book was written to move God's people from a place of compassion to a place of action. There are more then 2000 Bible verses that have to do with justice and the poor. It is a central theme in both the Old and the New Testament. How we treat the poor is a direct reflection...
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A thought-provoking monograph which provides a systematic and rigorous exposition of a range of social, economic and political views from the vantage point of Islam. Humanity is in a state of confusion and is torn apart by conflicting claims of civilization superiority. In the context of current misunderstanding on the east-west relationship, this comparative study will help to alleviate hostilities.
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Justice, Texas Style in the wild days of the late 1800s and early 1900s was swift, violent and capricious. In many lawless places, the only law was that which was laid down by the most feared law-breaker. Criminals often wandered back and forth between 'lawing' and 'theiving'. Lawmen did the same. Based on real life people and events this book depicts the life and times of one of the most flamboyant of the old time crooks with a badge - Roy Bean....
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An essential guide for Black Americans to understanding the criminal justice system, and why it continues to see Black men as targets and as dollar signs.
Justice While Black is a must-read for every young Black male in America-and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. The book provides practical, straightforward advice on how to deal with specific legal situations: the threat of arrest, being, arrested, being in custody,...
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Can the Old Testament help us in keeping the excesses of capitalism in check? How can a book that goes on about "justice and righteousness," but says "there will always be poor people in the land" and accepts slavery have anything to say to us about social justice? Did kings of Israel draft their subjects-and which subjects-for forced labor? What does it mean when the Psalms say God is coming to judge the world? Is charity justice?-or is justice more...
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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The fast-paced, action-packed sequel to Lawless.
No more teachers. No more crooks!M Freeman thought she had finally found a place where she belonged: the Lawless School, where the children of master criminals trained to become master criminals themselves. She took her studies seriously, never suspecting she was a pawn in a dangerous game.Now she knows the truth: The forces of Lawless are after a weapon that threatens all life on earth. M and her...
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Develop the spiritual discipline of justice with this 4-chapter Bible study guide. It can be used as a standalone Bible study guide for individuals and groups, or as a companion to the Everyday Matters Bible for Women. The articles, discussion questions, and leader guide help women delve deeper into these life enhancing practices.
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This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the country. This book explores her childhood in a career military family; her education; her early work as an attorney; her rise through Georgia's city, county, and state court systems;...
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A tragic incident from the past threatens to derail Rona Parish's latest project Biographer Rona Parish has a new project, contributing a series for the local glossy magazine, Chiltern Life, documenting life-changing experiences from those who have lived through them. When her father suggests she speaks to his friend Frank Hathaway, who was in Iraq during the invasion of Kuwait, Rona decides to pay him a visit. But Frank was also badly injured in...
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John Burton is the only survivor of the brutal attack on him and his friends off the coast of a small island in the Bahamas
Fully recovered from his gunshot wounds, John heads for Miami in hopes of finding the killers of his wife and friends. There, he meets up with an unlikely partner, and the two of them track down the killers.
Bent on revenge, John plans the assassination of each member of the pirate crew.
But after meeting Miranda in Miami,...
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"Aquinas," says Jean Porter, "gets justice right." In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it - and as most people think of it today.
Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas's account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on...
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He refused to fight, until the fight came to him.Perry Wallace lives by the cowboy's code:1- care for your ranch, 2- love your family, and 3- defend justice. But … when the law fails, you have to take justice into your own hands.When the wedding of a close friend falls under attack from unseen assailants, the bride is killed and the groom is crippled for life.Perry and his family barely escape. No one knows who is behind it or why, until the attacks...
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Amid its bustling, diverse fabric, injustice is unfortunately as much a part of the New York City landscape as Times Square, the Empire State Building, and the Statue of Liberty. Such inequities are spotlighted in this collection of sixteen short and thought-provoking stories penned by some of the Sisters in Crime New York/Tri-State chapter's most prolific authors.
Injustice may lurk inside a swanky Manhattan apartment, a high school classroom, a...
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Former bank manager Ronald Dalton never got to watch his three young children grow up. In 1989, he was convicted for a crime that never happened. His wife, Brenda, was later ruled to have choked to death on breakfast cereal, not strangled as a pathologist had initially claimed. Dalton's daughter, Alison, was in kindergarten when he was charged with second-degree murder in 1988. He attended her high school graduation on June 26, 2000, two days after...
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