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Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed

The Great Depression was as much the result of poor business decisions by a small number of bankers as today's crisis. So meet the neurotic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, the xenophobic Emile Moreau of the Banque de France, the arrogant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank and the dynamic Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, authors of the financial mayhem of 1929. The book was the 2009 winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

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The Rule of Law
Tom Bingham

The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilisations has recently become even more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? Britain's former senior law lord shows that the rule of law is not an arid legal doctrine but is the foundation of a fair and just society, a guarantee of responsible government and a vital component of economic growth and global co-operation.

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The Old Devil
Donald McRae

Legendary trial lawyer Clarence Darrow's oratory and skill at reading the mood of juries turned seemingly unwinnable cases his way. Donald McRae revisits the three greatest trials which secured his near-mythical reputation and brought to public attention issues which still resonate: sex and murder, religion and science, racism, and the media and the law.

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Justice in Robes
Ronald Dworkin

The question of whether a judge's moral convictions should influence his judgments provokes very different answers from lawyers, sociologists, philosophers, politicians and judges themselves. Ronald Dworkin tracks the interwoven semantic, jurisprudential and doctrinal dimensions of the sovereign importance of moral principle in legal and constitutional interpretation, as well as tackling rival theories to his own.

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The End of Human Rights
Costas Douzinas

Despite the introduction of the Human Rights Act, our age has witnessed more violations of human rights than any previous, less enlightened one. Costas Douzinas examines the birth of human rights in the 18th century through the eternal human struggle to resist domination and oppression, before contrasting the liberal approaches of Hobbes, Locke and Kant with the classical critiques of Burke, Hegel and Marx.

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