This book encourages readers to see the law as a living part of the political, social, economic and cultural life of New Zealand and includes exercises, examples, case studies, essay topics, puzzles, and problem-solving features to get students engaged, as well as a discussion of law beyond the courts, including jurisprudence and dispute resolution.--From back cover.

How should we respond to the fact that law and democracy are under real threat in our world? In Keep Law Alive, James Boyd White warns us that if we are to keep law alive we must understand what law is, and how it works at its best--while at the same time recognizing that it may indeed be lost. The following quote, taken from the Foreword, describes the author's approach: "My idea in this book is to express my sense of what law is like at its best--how it works, what it offers us, and what it requires of us, both as lawyers and as citizens, and what it would mean to lose it. I want to do this at this time in history because, as I say immediately below, I think the law as we know it is subject to serious threats today, threats I elaborate both explicitly and implicitly in the body of the book. The book begins with an immersion in legal thinking of a kind I believe to be of a high and traditional order, and ends with the recognition of another sort of thinking and being which I think may help us live with and respond to the threats I mention. In it I speak from a world--the world of law and democratic government in which I grew up and was educated and led most of my working life--that is now in peril in our country. This world was built upon the imperfect but real assumption that our polity is a constitutional democracy, based upon a fundamentally reliable electoral process, and that, with all its defects--some of them serious indeed--law is an institution that should be treated with utmost respect as an essential and valuable part of our public world." Testimonials "White first illuminates the everyday arts of law--writing criminal statutes, writing opinions about free speech, interpreting constitutional principles of equal protection, interrogating division, harmonizing dissonance--to remind us of the grace and fragility and hospitality of the norms of legal discourse that we ordinarily take for granted."--Linda Ross Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law "Keep Law Alive is offered to readers who are willing to take up the challenge that the title urges. The book thus performs what the Romans called a traditio: a literal handing over of an object to another person with the intention of conveying ownership. The book is an act of cultural transmission, a passing of the torch. What a responsibility--and what a gift!"--Julen Etxabe, Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights "White's work is transformative in its content - for what it asks of law and legal thought; and transformative in its form - for how the wisdom and humanity of White's writing engage the expectations, sensitivities and attunements of the reader. The work does so, at heart, because one trusts his words."--Paul Linden-Retek, School of Law, University at Buffalo "In his recent book Keep Law Alive, White once again offers a vision of law, a vision that is continuous with that he first proposed long ago, but developed and presented with a clarity that comes only with long reflection on a governing idea. And it is, once again, a vision that is also an invitation and a warning. The title Keep Law Alive expresses vividly the urgency White wants us to feel about the task he is summoning American readers to undertake."--Jeff Powell, British Journal of American Legal Studies, Volume 10 Issue 1, Spring 2021

Drawing on the later writings of Martin Heidegger, the book traces the correspondence between the philosopher's concept of technology and Shakespeare's poetics of human and natural productivity in the Sonnets.

A spiritual practice for serious-minded (but busy) people. Everyone needs renewal, even the most committed among us. The spiritual life requires regular practice and a bit of time. Coming Alive: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Renewal offers five brief meditations each week for focused reading, reflection, and prayer. Each entry centers on a passage of scripture or spiritual writing. The meditations are deep, insightful, and beautifully simple, as readers have come to expect from Steve Harper’s writing. This timeless book offers a gently challenging daily habit, which leads to renewal of spirit and mind. Coming Alive features - Brief readings, about 10 minutes per day - Undated readings, so readers can determine their own pattern of practice - Spiritual depth and wisdom from ancient and contemporary sources - Foreword by Brian McLaren From the Foreword: “Steve Harper's new book beautifully focuses in on the real core of the spiritual life: Not dogma, not rules and regulations, not duties or guilt, not pressure or obligation ... but life, life to the full, what I like to call aliveness.” --Brian McLaren

This book reflects and intimate discusses various topics and issues concerning to legal studies and its development in Indonesia and Global perspective. This book is dedicated to all legal practitioners and scholars around the world that have been presented their best works and ideas in the 3rd ICILS International Conference, 2020, held by Faculty of Law Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia in July 2020 by Online Conference System. The 66 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submission. The paper reflects the conference sessions as follow: Law and Technology, Private and Commercial Law, Law and Politics, Public Law, Comparative Law, and other related issues on legal development, including Law Tech and Human Behavior. The 3rd ICILS International Conference 2020 also co-hosted by Jayabaya University, Jakarta and University of Muhammadiyah Malang.