Just Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Law write by Helena Kennedy. This book was released on 2011-05-31. Just Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. Here she roundly challenges the record of modern governments over the fundamental values of equality, fairness and respect for human dignity. She argues that in the last twenty years we have seen a steady erosion of civil liberties, culminating today in extraordinary legislation, which undermines long established freedoms. Are these moves a crude political response to demands for law and order? Or is the relationship between citizens and the state being covertly reframed and redefined?
Just Silences
Just Silences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Silences write by Marianne Constable. This book was released on 2009-01-10. Just Silences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans violate the preferred or traditional "silence" of the peoples whose religions and languages they aim to "protect" and "preserve"? In Just Silences, Marianne Constable draws on such examples to explore what is at stake in modern law: a potentially new silence as to justice. Grounding her claims about modern law in rhetorical analyses of U.S. law and legal texts and locating those claims within the tradition of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault, Constable asks what we are to make of silences in modern law and justice. She shows how what she calls "sociolegal positivism" is more important than the natural law/positive law distinction for understanding modern law. Modern law is a social and sociological phenomenon, whose instrumental, power-oriented, sometimes violent nature raises serious doubts about the continued possibility of justice. She shows how particular views of language and speech are implicated in such law. But law--like language--has not always been positivist, empirical, or sociological, nor need it be. Constable examines possibilities of silence and proposes an alternative understanding of law--one that emerges in the calling, however silently, of words to justice. Profoundly insightful and fluently written, Just Silences suggests that justice today lies precariously in the silences of modern positive law.
Just Words
Just Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Words write by John M. Conley. This book was released on 2019-05-10. Just Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or “multimodal,” communication in legal settings and law, language, and race.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letter from Birmingham Jail write by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.. This book was released on 2018. Letter from Birmingham Jail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.
UBuntu and the Law
UBuntu and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook UBuntu and the Law write by Nyoko Muvangua. This book was released on 2012. UBuntu and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together the uBuntu jurisprudence of South Africa, as well as the most cutting-edge critical essays about South African jurisprudence on uBuntu. Can indigenous values be rendered compatible with a modern legal system? This book raises some of the most pressing questions in cultural, political, and legal theory.
