Protected Areas and International Environmental Law by Alexander Gillespie
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
This volume seeks to provide the reader with a clear understanding to the way that protected areas are created, listed and managed in international law. In doing so, it provides a complete overview of the primary international and regional conventions in this area, and the decisions and resolutions that ...Show more
Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume 2: Corporate Governance by Sorcha MacLeod (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
This book - one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - focuses on the role of corporations in an increasingly globalised world.Against the backcloth of perceived abuse of corporate power - alleged violations of human rights, degradation of the environment, abuse of labour, ...Show more
Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution by Nicholas Bamforth and Peter Leyland (eds)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
How is the distribution of power between the different levels of the contemporary constitution to be policed? What is the emerging contribution of the courts in regard to EC law, the Human Rights Act 1998 and devolution? What roles should be played by the legislative and judicial bodies at each level? W ...Show more
Administrative Justice in the 21st Century by Michael Harris (ed.); Martin Partington (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
The idea of administrative justice is central to the British system of public law, more embracing than judicial review, or even administrative law itself. It embraces all the mechanisms designed to achieve a proper balance between the exercise of public and quasi-public power and those affected by the e ...Show more
International Law and the Environment by Patricia W. Birnie; Alan Boyle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
This new edition of the respected textbook has been updated to take full account of all the developments in international environmental law since the Rio Conference in 1992. There is a new chapter on international trade law and the environment, as well as new sections on sustainable development, climate ...Show more
Regulating How We Die - The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide by Linda L. Emanuel (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
The Supreme Court has ruled that states may prohibit physician-assisted suicide. Expressing the views of his fellow justices, Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote, "Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician-assisted suicide. Our holding ...Show more
Nobody's Victim: The Fight Against Psychos, Pervs and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
$15.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
An unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists-one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off-and the incredible story of how one lawyer turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our dest ...Show more
The Dwarf Who Moved and Other True Stories from a Life in the Law by Peter Williams
$15.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: good-very good
A memoir in anecdotal form by New Zealand's pre-eminent criminal barrister. In his time as a criminal defence lawyer in the New Zealand courts, Peter Williams QC has seen it all. From the days when abortion, homosexuality and even telling fortunes could see a person hauled before the courts, to sensatio ...Show more
Thirty Pieces of Silver by Anthony Molloy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Crime | Reading Level: very good
A Big New Zealand Law Firm and its Concept of Professional Responsibility Viewed Through Its Works and its Documents
Principles of International Environmental Law by Philippe Sands; Jacqueline Peel; Adriana Fabra (As told to); Ruth MacKenzie (As told to)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
The third edition of this classic textbook offers comprehensive and critical commentary on international environmental law. It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists, key areas of regulation ...Show more
Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation by Ken Gormley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
By October 1973 special prosecutor Archibald Cox was tracing the Watergate cover-up to the Oval Office. President Nixon demanded that he stop. In the "Saturday Night Massacre” two heads of the Justice Department quit before Nixon found a subordinate (Robert Bork) willing to fire Cox. Immediately public ...Show more
The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court by John W. Dean
$14.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
In the fall of 1971, when William Rehnquist was nominated to fill an Associate Justice seat on the Supreme Court, the Senate raised no major objections, and a little-known Assistant Attorney General found himself at the pinnacle of the judiciary. It seemed a straightforward choice of a relatively young, ...Show more