Mirrors of Justice
Title | Mirrors of Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Kamari Maxine Clarke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0521195373 |
Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and emerging scholars to reconsider the relationships between justice, international law, culture, power, and history through case studies of a wide range of justice processes. The book's eighteen authors examine the ambiguities of justice in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Melanesia through critical empirical and historical chapters. The introduction makes an important contribution to our understanding of the multiplicity of justice in the twenty-first century by providing an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that synthesizes the book's chapters with leading-edge literature on human rights, legal pluralism, and international law.
The Mirror of Justice
Title | The Mirror of Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Ziolkowski |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0691187746 |
This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice, the eighteenth-century codification controversy in the works of Kleist, the modern debate between "pure" and "free" law in Kafka's The Trial and other fin-de-siècle works, and the effects of totalitarianism, the theory of universal guilt, and anarchism in the twentieth century. Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, the book locates the works in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. It thereby associates and illuminates these masterpieces from an original point of view and contributes a new dimension to the study of literature and law. In contrast to prevailing adherents of Law-and-Literature, this book professes Literature-and-Law, in which the emphasis is historical rather than theoretical, substantive rather than rhetorical, and literary rather than legal. Instead of adducing the literary work to illustrate debates about modern law, this book consults the history of law as an essential aid to the understanding of the literary text and its conflicts.
The Smoking Mirror
Title | The Smoking Mirror PDF eBook |
Author | David Bowles |
Publisher | Ifwg Publishing |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2016-03-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781925496024 |
Carol and Johnny Garza are 12-year-old twins whose lives in a small Texas town are forever changed by their mother's unexplained disappearance. Shipped off to relatives in Mexico by their grieving father, the twins soon learn that their mother is a nagual, a shapeshifter, and that they have inherited her powers. In order to rescue her, they will have to descend into the Aztec underworld and face the dangers that await them. American Library Association, 2016 Pura Belpre Author Honor winning novel.
The Mirror of Justice
Title | The Mirror of Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Ziolkowski |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780691114705 |
This text addresses a group of influential literary works that reflect momentous crises in the evolution of Western law, including the transition from prelegal to legal society, the Christianization of Germanic customary law, the conflict between customary & Roman law, & the modern rise of skepticism.
The Four Pivots
Title | The Four Pivots PDF eBook |
Author | Shawn A. Ginwright, PhD |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2022-01-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1623175437 |
“Reading this courageous book feels like the beginning of a social and personal awakening...I can’t stop thinking about it.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Atlas of the Heart For readers of Emergent Strategy and Dare to Lead, an activist's roadmap to long-term social justice impact through four simple shifts. We need a fundamental shift in our values--a pivot in how we think, act, work, and connect. Despite what we’ve been told, the most critical mainspring of social change isn’t coalition building or problem analysis. It’s healing: deep, whole, and systemic, inside and out. Here, Shawn Ginwright, PhD, breaks down the common myths of social movements--a set of deeply ingrained beliefs that actually hold us back from healing and achieving sustainable systemic change. He shows us why these frames don’t work, proposing instead four revolutionary pivots for better activism and collective leadership: Awareness: from lens to mirror Connection: from transactional to transformative relationships Vision: from problem-fixing to possibility-creating Presence: from hustle to flow Supplemented with reflections, prompts, cutting-edge research, and the author’s own insights and lived experience as an African American social scientist, professor, and movement builder, The Four Pivots helps us uncover our obstruction points. It shows us how to discover new lenses and boldly assert our need for connection, transformation, trust, wholeness, and healing. It gives us permission to create a better future--to acknowledge that a broken system has been predefining our dreams and limiting what we allow ourselves to imagine, but that it doesn’t have to be that way at all. Are you ready to pivot?
Secret Justice
Title | Secret Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Goldstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Judges |
ISBN | 9781634252775 |
A gripping tale of a Supreme Court justice who must cast the deciding vote in a case that mirrors the justice's own deepest secret as he considers two cases that touch upon a family secret that threatens to expose him to his enemies in the Senate and on the Supreme Court and alter his career forever.
Everyday Justice
Title | Everyday Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Brunnegger |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2019-12-19 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108487211 |
Provides rich ethnographic analysis and offers a critical ethnographic approach to justice.