Hardcover Publisher: Zondervan (1996

This volume presents an analysis of sentencing decision making. The author uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark to address the influence of legal and extra-legal factors in generating sentencing decisions. The work investigates how court decision-making is organized to allow the sentencing decision-making to be open to more than its formal legal framework, while at the same time keeping the sentencing within the boundaries of law and legal validity. The author adopts the theory of law's operational closure, developed by Niklas Luhmann. The theory captures the close and subtle interactions between law's need for validity and for contextual openness in every legal operation - including court decision-making.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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British Library

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Westminster : printed for and sold by O. Payne, 1736. viii,[4],532p.,plates ; 4°

This hot, topical compendium of searing commentaries on the George W. Bush presidency is unsurpassed in its blunt, in-your-face critique of "the worst administration in U.S. history."