Tag: Court

Queen of the Court The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CD2V1J2S | 2023 | 15 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 426 MB
Author: Madeleine Blais
Narrator: Moniqua Plante

In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a glamorous worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles tennis titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open, then an unprecedented feat. Yet today one of America’s greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. Queen of the Court places her back on center stage. Given a tennis racket at thirteen, she took to the sport immediately, rising to the top with a powerful, aggressive serve-and-volley style unseen in women’s tennis. A champion at the height of her fame in the late 1930s, she also designed a clothing line and sang as a performer.

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The Court of Reason Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress


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English | ISBN: 3110700700 | 2021 | 885 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The Proceedings present the contributions to the 13th International Kant Congress which was held at the University of Oslo, August 6-9, 2019. The congress, which hosted speakers from more than thirty countries and five continents, was dedicated to the topic of the court of reason. The idea that reason stands before itself as a tribunal characterizes the whole of Kant’s critical project. Without such a court, reason falls into conflict with itself. With such a court in place, however, it may succeed in establishing the possibility and limits of metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, law and science. The idea of reason being its own judge is not only pivotal to a proper understanding of Kant’s philosophy, but can also shed light on the burgeoning fields of meta-philosophy and philosophical methodology. The 2019 Kant Congress put special emphasis on Kant’s methodology, his account of conceptual critique, and the relevance of his ideas to current issues in especially political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Additional sections discussed a wide range of topics in Kant’s philosophy.

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Classic Supreme Court Cases


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English | June 13, 2023 | ISBN: 0143135139 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 0.9 MB
Historic Supreme Court cases that impact modern-day issues of American liberty, in a short, accessible volume as part of the new Penguin Liberty series.

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The Law of Freedom The Supreme Court and Democracy


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108419828 | 345 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Supreme Court has been at the center of great upheavals in American democracy across the last seventy years. From the end of Jim Crow to the rise of wealth-dominated national campaigns, the Court has battled over if democracy is an egalitarian collaboration to serve the good of all citizens, or a competitive struggle by private interests. In The Law of Freedom, Jacob Eisler questions why the Court has the moral authority to shape democracy at all. Analyzing leading cases through the lens of philosophy and social science, Eisler demonstrates how the soul of election law is a battle between two philosophical understandings of democratic freedom and popular self-rule. This remarkable book reveals that the Court’s battle over democracy has shaped how Americans rule themselves, marking election law as the most dramatic judicial intervention in constitutional history.

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Life in the Georgian Court


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English | January 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 9781473845534 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 9.33 MB
This lively history of Europe’s royal families through the 18th and early 19th centuries reveals the decadence and danger of court life.

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The Local Impact of the International Criminal Court From Law to Justice


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009152742 | 342 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
The International Criminal Court seeks to end impunity for the world’s worst crimes, to contribute to their prevention. But what is its impact to date? This book takes an in-depth look at four countries under scrutiny of the ICC: Afghanistan, Colombia, Libya, and Uganda. It puts forward an analytical framework to assess the impact of the ICC on four levels: on the domestic legal systems (systemic effect); on peace negotiations and agreements (transformative effect); on victims (reparative effect); and on the perceptions of affected populations (demonstration effect). It concludes that the ICC is having a normative impact on domestic legal systems and peace agreements, but it has brought little reparative justice for victims, and it does not necessarily correspond with how affected populations view justice priorities. The book concludes that justice for the world’s worst crimes has no ‘universal formula’ that can easily be captured in law by one institution.

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Compliance with Decisions of the International Court of Justice


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English | 2005 | ISBN: 0199276722 | PDF | pages: 363 | 3.5 mb
This book examines the compliance record of states parties to proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial body of the United Nations. It undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the follow-up of the ICJ’s judgments and interim measures from the Court’s creation in 1945 until the present day. ICJ judgments and provisional measures from the Corfu Channel case in the late 1940s to the Arrest Warrant Case decided in 2002 are examined, with particular focus on state practice.

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