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Who owns the sky? the struggle to control airspace from the Wright brothers on / by Banner, Stuart, 1963-

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Levirate marriage and the family in ancient Judaism by Weisberg, Dvora E.

Table of Contents: “…The institution of levirate -- Levirate from the Hebrew Bible through the Mishnah -- Mapping the family -- Brothers -- From wife to widow and back again -- Paternity and continuity -- Conclusion.…”
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Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism by Weisberg, Dvora E.

Table of Contents: “…The institution of levirate -- Levirate from the Hebrew Bible through the Mishnah -- Mapping the family -- Brothers -- From wife to widow and back again -- Paternity and continuity -- Conclusion.…”
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Race, religion, and law in colonial India trials of an interracial family / by Mallampalli, Chandra, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Embodying 'Dora-hood': the brothers and their business; 3. A crisis of trust: sedition and the sale of arms in Kurnool; 4. …”
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The blackstone of military law Colonel William Winthrop / by Kastenberg, Joshua E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A privileged lineage -- From youth to Yale : the making of a legal mind -- Bostonian lawyer with stirrings of abolitionism -- Frontier lawyer in the Minnesota Territory -- The Winthrop brothers go to war -- A sharpshooter on the Peninsula Campaign -- From Second Manassas to Fredericksburg : "I had some pretty close escapes" -- Civil War judge advocate -- Professionalizing a "Constitutional Army" in a time of uncertainty : 1865-1895 -- Professionalizing the practice of military law : Winthrop's influence cemented -- Marriage and field service under the command of John M. …”
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Property rights, indigenous people and the developing world issues from aboriginal entitlement to intellectual ownership rights / by Lea, David, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Aboriginal entitlement and conservative theory -- Individual autonomy, group self-determination and the assimilation of indigenous cultures -- Shareholder wealth maximization, multinational corporations and the developing world -- Tully and de Soto on uniformity and diversity -- Customary land tenure and communal holdings -- Custom as law -- Papua New Guinea and the legal methods for maintaining customary land tenure -- Customary land tenure in Fiji : a questionable colonial legacy -- The expansion and restructuring of intellectual property and its implications for the developing world -- The myth of free markets : intellectual property the IT industry, and market freedom in the global arena -- From the Wright Brothers to Microsoft : issues in the moral grounding of intellectual property rights -- A delicate balance : the right to health care, IP rights in pharmaceuticals and TRIPS compliance -- Rights and genetic material in agriculture and human research : two forms of biopiracy?…”
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The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law by Martinez, Jenny S.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter One: International Law, Slavery and the Idea of International Human Rights -- Chapter Two: British Abolitionism and Diplomacy, 1807-1817 -- Chapter Three: The United States and the Slave Trade: 1776-1824 -- Chapter Four: The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Chapter Five:Am I Not a Man and a Brother? -- Chapter Six: Hostis Humanis Generis: Enemies of Mankind -- Chapter Seven: The Final Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Chapter Eight: A Bridge to the Future: Links Between the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Modern International Human Rights Movement -- Chapter Nine: International Human Rights Law and International Courts: Rethinking their Origins and Future.…”
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