Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America 0691227454, 9780691227450

Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America 9780691227450, 0691011990

Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane,

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Placing Blame: A Theory of the Criminal Law [Illustrated] 0199599491, 9780199599493

This is a collection of essays written by Moore which form a thorough examination of the theory of criminal responsibili

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Reflections of the Law in Literature 9781512819380

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of

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The Shifting Allocation of Authority in International Law: Considering Sovereignty, Supremacy and Subsidiarity 9781472564382, 9781841137971

International law is fragmented and complex, and at the same time increasingly capable of shaping reality in areas as di

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The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty in Comparative and Transnational Law 9781509911257, 9781509911288, 9781509911264

The principle of legal certainty is of fundamental importance for law and society: it has been vital in stabilising norm

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Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era 9781108657730

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Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era 9781108488709, 1108488706

Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive

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The Greening of Literary Scholarship : Literature, Theory, and the Environment

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The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation 9780231897358

Looks at the history of the theories of taxation by studying taxes on agricultural land, real estate taxes, and mortgage

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The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America 9780674056428

A new constitutional world burst into American life in the mid-twentieth century. For the first time, the national const

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