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Publisher not specified, 2019. — 8 p. The use of expert witnesses has become an integral and indispensable aspect of American litigation, and it is often the side with the best expert who wins the day. The use of science in the courtroom to advise judges and juries on technical and scientific issues which bear on the arrival at a just and fair outcome was, and still is, a...
Routledge, 2023. — 547 p. This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself. Police brutality has been a defining controversy of the modern age, brought into focus most readily by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the mass protests that occurred as a result in...
University Alabama Press, 2018. — 208 p. The first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense. The insanity defense is considered one of the most controversial, most misunderstood, and least straightforward subjects in the American legal system. Disorder in the Court: Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense traces the US legal standards for the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 408 p. In 1890, a delegation of African American activists formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization. Over the course of nearly two decades, these activists fought to end disfranchisement and segregation, and to contest racial violence, creating the foundation for the NAACP and the modern...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 320 p. Featured on the front page of the New York Times , Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher...
Routledge, 2016. — 834 p. This book includes every Supreme Court case relevant to elections and political representation from the Court's beginnings to 2001, including the 2001 decision in Cook v. Gralike that limited citizens' rights to instruct Federal representatives. It is a primary document reference book organized topically in sixteen chapters. Every case is included...
Routledge, 2006. — 255 p. This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years, a period during which concern for human rights became a major factor in foreign policy decision-making. Clair Apodaca demonstrates that the history of...
University of Arkansas Press, 2007. — 187 p. A Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged...
Stanford University Press, 2011. — 392 p. Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal reformer, Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized opposition to women lawyers as she tried cases in front of all-male juries, raised five children...
Wayne State University Press, 2010. — 588 p. In a working life that spanned half a century, Ernie Goodman was one of the nation's preeminent defense attorneys for workers and the militant poor. His remarkable career put him at the center of the struggle for social justice in the twentieth century, from the sit-down strikes of the 1930s to the Red Scare of the 1950s to the...
The University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 309 p. The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge’s decades-long tenure on the Chicago police force was marked by racist and barbaric interrogation...
The University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 309 p. The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge’s decades-long tenure on the Chicago police force was marked by racist and barbaric interrogation...
The University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 309 p. The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge’s decades-long tenure on the Chicago police force was marked by racist and barbaric interrogation...
The University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 309 p. The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge’s decades-long tenure on the Chicago police force was marked by racist and barbaric interrogation...
The University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 309 p. The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge’s decades-long tenure on the Chicago police force was marked by racist and barbaric interrogation...
Routledge, 2018. — 200 p. This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence and its effect on the development of national and state policies in key areas of constitutional...
Recorded Books, 2024. — 761 p. An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution. Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the most...
Recorded Books, 2024. — 761 p. An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution. Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the most...
University of North Carolina Press, 1995. — 224 p. In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that surfaced within their own...
Cherry Lake Publishing, 2014. — 32 p. This book relays the factual details of the creation of the U.S. Constitution. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a serving girl at a Pennsylvania boardinghouse, a law clerk in the state of Virginia, and an apprentice printer. The text offers opportunities to compare...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 352 p. The Framers of the American Constitution were substantially influenced by ancient history and classical political theory, as exemplified by their education, the availability of classical readings, and their inculcation in classical republican values. This book explores how the Framing generation deployed classical learning to develop...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 312 p. Colorado’s legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes. Colorado’s legal cannabis program generated a strange scenario in which many politicians, including many who freely invoke the Tenth Amendment, seemed to be attacking the progressive state...
Encounter Books, 2015. — 152 p. In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein provides a lively, scholarly account of how the Obama administration has undermined the Constitution and the rule of law. Lawless documents how President Barack Obama has presided over one constitutional debacle after another—Obamacare; unauthorized wars in the Middle East;...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 198 p. This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences. The authors examine this dynamic by creating a unique measure of opinion clarity and then testing whether the Court writes clearer opinions when it...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 464 p. "Great cases like hard cases make bad law" declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. His maxim argues that those cases which ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of their national importance, interest, or other extreme circumstance, make...
Ohio University Press, 2014. — 343 p. Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage. The History of Indiana Law traces this history through a series of expert articles by identifying the themes that mark the state’s legal development and establish its place...
University of Virginia Press, 2014. — 295 p. For most of their history, the U.S. courts of appeals have toiled in obscurity, well out of the limelight of political controversy. But as the number of appeals has increased dramatically, while the number of cases heard by the Supreme Court has remained the same, the courts of appeals have become the court of last resort for the...
Stanford University Press, 2023. — 290 p. In Supreme Bias, Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of race and gender at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Drawing on their deep knowledge of the confirmation hearings, as well as rich new...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 282 p. American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in its place. Pamela Brandwein unveils a...
Detroit : U.X.L, 2001. — 4 v. (lxxxvii, 1110, clxii p.) : ill. Offers an analysis of Supreme Court cases that tested such issues as freedom of assembly, freedom of press, right to privacy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and sexual harassment.
Detroit : U.X.L, 2001. — 4 v. (lxxxvii, 1110, clxii p.) : ill. Offers an analysis of Supreme Court cases that tested such issues as freedom of assembly, freedom of press, right to privacy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and sexual harassment.
Detroit : U.X.L, 2001. — 4 v. (lxxxvii, 1110, clxii p.) : ill. Offers an analysis of Supreme Court cases that tested such issues as freedom of assembly, freedom of press, right to privacy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and sexual harassment.
Detroit : U.X.L, 2001. — 4 v. (lxxxvii, 1110, clxii p.) : ill. Offers an analysis of Supreme Court cases that tested such issues as freedom of assembly, freedom of press, right to privacy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and sexual harassment.
Lexington Books, 2014. — 197 p. This book describes the process of amending the federal constitution as defined in Article V by means of a convention for proposing amendments. It shows that the constitution can be amended in two ways: either by ratifying an amendment proposed by the Congress or by ratifying an amendment proposed by a convention. Article V requires the Congress...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 328 p. Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans. Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law counters such conventional wisdom...
University of Alabama Press, 2012. — 329 p. "John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court" presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. a Steven P. Brown rescues from...
University of California Press, 2002. — 277 p. Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is a nation not of litigious...
3rd Edition. — West Academic Publishing, 2017. — 318 p. Law School Success in a Nutshell by Ann Burkhart and Robert Stein, 3rd edition, is an invaluable study handbook and guide for every law student. This book answers questions students have as they begin their studies. What is a tort? Hornbook? Should I join a study group? It also explains and gives examples of the best...
3rd Edition. — West Academic Publishing, 2017. — 318 p. Law School Success in a Nutshell by Ann Burkhart and Robert Stein, 3rd edition, is an invaluable study handbook and guide for every law student. This book answers questions students have as they begin their studies. What is a tort? Hornbook? Should I join a study group? It also explains and gives examples of the best...
3rd Edition. — West Academic Publishing, 2017. — 318 p. Law School Success in a Nutshell by Ann Burkhart and Robert Stein, 3rd edition, is an invaluable study handbook and guide for every law student. This book answers questions students have as they begin their studies. What is a tort? Hornbook? Should I join a study group? It also explains and gives examples of the best...
3rd Edition. — West Academic Publishing, 2017. — 318 p. Law School Success in a Nutshell by Ann Burkhart and Robert Stein, 3rd edition, is an invaluable study handbook and guide for every law student. This book answers questions students have as they begin their studies. What is a tort? Hornbook? Should I join a study group? It also explains and gives examples of the best...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 320 р. Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans’ propensity to form voluntary associations—and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth-century Americans were, in Tocqueville’s words, “forever...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 504 p. Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. Every vacancy unleashes a bitter struggle between Republicans and Democrats over nominees; and once the seat is filled, new justices typically vote in predictable ways. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 188 р. When the Democrat-appointed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, she triggered concerns about judicial ethics. But the political concerns were even more serious. The Supreme Court is supposed to be what Alexander Hamilton called "the least dangerous" branch of government, because it...
University of Illinois Press, 2010. — 182 p. Cultural views of femininity exerted a powerful influence on the courtroom arguments used to defend or condemn notable women on trial in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century America. By examining the colorful rhetorical strategies employed by lawyers and reporters of women's trials in newspaper articles, trial...
2nd Edition — ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 400 p. This up-to-date second-edition work will stimulate and clarify readers' thinking on the key issues surrounding guns in the United States - especially on the debate over gun control. • Provides a balanced view of the contemporary gun debate in the United States, explaining the positions of both gun rights proponents and advocates of stricter...
Ninth Edition. — University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 289 p. Over the nearly four decades it has been in print, Reason in Law has established itself as the place to start for understanding legal reasoning, a critical component of the rule of law. This ninth edition brings the book’s analyses and examples up to date, adding new cases while retaining old ones whose lessons remain...
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake and Co. 1906. — 360 p. The subject of Criminal Law as presented herein is simply that of the ordinary text-book, abbreviated somethat on account of the limited space in which to treat so important a subject. While in many instances the student will be impressed with the wisdom of the law, and the subtleness of the safeguards devised to protect the...
Routledge, 2016. — 200 p. Having arriving in the Province of Maine in 1641 with a brief to create both government and law for the fledgling colony, Thomas Gorges later recorded his policy as having ’steared as neere as we could to the course of Ingland’. Over the course of the next century the various colonial administrations all consciously measured their laws against that of...
Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 352 p. A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House. Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its...
Routledge, 1992. — 320 p. It is a fascinating study of politics and governance: how one government affects the other and how both affect public policy. Surveying the historical evolution of the office of the Attorney General, Clayton sees significant recent changes in the role, position, and influence of the person who holds that office. He attributes many of these changes not...
Publish Authority, 2018. — 227 p. Forward to Freedom: the American Constitution and Humanity’s Struggle for Liberty is a fast-paced, informative, and inspiring account of the Constitution and its historical roots. It is a must read for American citizens. Since 1789, Americans have venerated their Constitution. As the oldest written constitution of any nation, it has also been...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 320 p. The Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Constitution covers the Founding of the American Republic and the Framers, the drafting of the Constitution, constitutional debates over ratification, and traces key events, Supreme Court chief justices, amendments, and Supreme Court cases regarding the interpretation of the Constitution...
Albany: H. B. Parsons. 1893. — 1167 p. The prevention of crime. Judicial proceedings for the removal of public officers impeachment. The procceedings in criminal actions prosecuted by indictment. Proceedings in Courts of special sessions and Police Courts. Special proceedings of a criminal nature. General provisions and definitions applicable to this Code.
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2014. — 235 p. Cook analyzes the relationship between Supreme Court decisions and public opinion concerning First Amendment religious liberties. Overall, the Court has issued opinions consistent with public opinion in a majority of its decisions dealing with the First Amendment’s religion clauses, with a level of congruence of almost seventy percent...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. — 335 p. On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down the District of Columbia's stringent gun control laws as a violation of the Second Amendment. Reversing almost seventy years of settled precedent, the high court reinterpreted the meaning of the "right of the people to...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 295 p. In this innovative book, historian Matthew Crow unpacks the legal and political thought of Thomas Jefferson as a tool for thinking about constitutional transformation, settler colonialism, and race and civic identity in the era of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson's practices of reading, writing, and collecting legal history...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 327 p. How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance? How did the Supreme Court move from political irrelevance to political centrality? Building the Judiciary uncovers the causes and consequences of judicial institution-building in the United States from the commencement of...
Regnery Publishing, 2022. — 255 р. The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings. In this...
University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 682 p. The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century traces the development of the Supreme Court from Chief Justice Fuller (1888-1910) to the retirement of Chief Justice Burger (1969-1986). Currie argues that the Court's work in its second century revolved around two issues: the constitutionality of the regulatory and spending...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 398 p. Dagan’s book provides a dynamic and much needed account of the American law of restitution. The book reviews the existing doctrine, including the forthcoming (third) Restatement, using an ethical perspective to expose and examine critically the normative underpinnings of the core categories of restitution. Dagan also discusses some of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 192 p. This book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes in criminal law during that period, tracing shifts in policing, law, the courts, and punishment. She also analyzes the role that popular...
Dover Publications, 2012. — 208 p. Legal drama at its finest, these are the majority decisions from the most influential Supreme Court cases in United States history. Starting with the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison, which laid the foundation for the Supreme Court's current power, these thirteen far-reaching cases include: Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford, 1856; Plessy v....
Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1803. — 158 p. In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: March term 1800. Present, Shippen, Chief Justice. Yeates, Smith, and Brackenridge (1) Justice. In September term laft, a rule was obtained, on behalf of a number of persons, who had associated under the denomination of "The Holland Company" , (2) for the purchase and settlement of lands,...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 297 p. In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state—the sets of rules, legal precedents, and bureaucratic processes that govern the way Americans...
San Francisco: Bancroft - Whitney Co. 1899. — 752 p. Constitutional provisions. Judicial Districts. District Courtts - organization. District Courtts -jurisdiction. Circuits. District Courtts - organization. District Courtts -jurisdiction. Removal of cause from State Court. Sessions of circuit and District Courts. Circuit Courts of appeals. Supreme Court - organization. Supreme...
San Francisco: Bancroft - Whitney Co. 1899. — 788 p. Rules. Rules of the Supreme Court. Order in reference to Appeals from the Court of Claims. Original Rules of the Circuit Court of Appeals. Amended Rules of the several Circuit Courts of Appeals. Eules for the Courts of Equity of the United States. Euies of Practice for the Courts in Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction. Eules...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 252 р. The Supreme Court appointments process is broken, and the timing couldn't be worse--for liberals or conservatives. The Court is just one more solid conservative justice away from an ideological sea change--a hard-right turn on an array of issues that affect every American, from abortion to environmental protection. But neither those...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 298 p. Celebrated accounts of lawless towns that relied on the extra-legal justice of armed citizens and hired gunmen are part of the enduring cultural legacy of the American West. This image of the frontier has been fueled for more than a century by historiansboth amateur and academicand by various popular images. In the twenty-first...
University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 370 p. It’s a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers. Charles R. Epp argues, however, that few Americans would want to return to an era without these legalistic policies, which in the 1970s helped bring...
Routledge, 2021. — 232 p. This volume convincingly lays to rest two held beliefs that have long impeded scholarly analysis of the role of courts and litigation in American politics: 1) that group resort to the courts is a rather recent phenomenon resulting from actions of the Warren Court and the Civil Rights Movement; and 2) that unique and distinctive features of the...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 245 p. Following a vast expansion in the twentieth century, government is beginning to creak at the joints under its enormous weight. The signs are clear: a bloated civil service, low approval ratings for Congress and the President, increasing federal-state conflict, rampant distrust of politicians and government officials, record state...
University of North Carolina Press, 2022. — 250 p. As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 360 p. In this book Harvard law professor Richard H. Fallon, Jr., introduces nonlawyers to the workings of American Constitutional Law. He writes with clarity and vigor about leading constitutional doctrines and issues, including the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the guarantee of equal protection, rights to fair procedures, and...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 217 p. Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 343 p. In the past several decades, there has been a growing chorus of voices contending that the Supreme Court and federal judiciary should stay out of foreign affairs and leave the field to Congress and the president. Challenging this idea, Restoring the Global Judiciary argues instead for a robust judicial role in the conduct of U.S....
Columbia University Press, 2005. — 320 p. In the mid-1960s, amid a pervasive sense that American society was coming apart at the seams, a new issue known as 'law and order' emerged at the forefront of national politics. First introduced by Barry Goldwater in his ill-fated run for president in 1964, it eventually punished Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats and propelled Richard...
New York: Martin B. Brown. 1881. — 232 p. Lodging the complaint. Examination before warrant. The Warrant. History of the examination after arrest. The examination as evidence in the trial, and the detention of the accused pending the hearing. Order and manner of proceeding on examination after arrest. Holding to answer (probable cause). Bail. Commitment. Fugitives from justice....
Lexington Books, 2015. — 318 p. This volume explores the role race and racism played in the Texas redistricting process and the creation and passage of the state’s Voter Identification Law in 2011. The author puts forth research techniques designed to uncover racism and racist intentions even in the face of denials by the public policy decision makers involved. In addition to...
Wolters Kluwer, 2014. — 920 p. This casebook offers a student-friendly, practical approach with carefully designed pedagogical features. Its streamlined approach tracks the chronological order of an election, with significant focus on election administration. The authors have considered carefully how to make this book as student oriented as possible. The case selections reflect...
San Francisco: Bancroft - Whitney Co. 1899. — 1064 p. Form of procedure in Federal Courts of the United States. Including the Official Forms under the Bankruptcy Act, 1898. With notes and special references to ninth edition of Desty s Federal Procedure as revised by M.A. Folsom.
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 172 p. Speaking to today's flourishing conversations on both law, morality, and religion, and the religious foundations of law, politics, and society, Common Law and Natural Law in America is an ambitious four-hundred-year narrative and fresh re-assessment of the varied American interactions of 'common law', the stuff of courtrooms, and...
Routledge, 2021. — 305 p. Native Americans are disproportionately represented as offenders in the U.S. criminal justice system. Routledge Handbook on Native American Justice Issues is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of American Indigenous populations and their contact with justice concerns and the criminal justice system. The volume covers the...
Sacramento: California state printing office. 1922. — 373 p. Decisions of the comissions and courts. Table of cases. Subject index of decision. List of cases not reported.
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 828 p. Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the twenty-first century. In addition to looking closely at timely issues like race...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 735 p. A history of American law in the 20th century. It describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the centre of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programmes ranging from Social Security to the...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 252 p. In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work A History of American Law, Lawrence M. Friedman offers a monumental history of American law in the twentieth century. The first general history of its kind, American Law in the Twentieth Century describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life....
Random House Publishing Group, 2002. — 152 p. Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 425 p. — (Studies in Legal History). Monitoring American Federalism examines some of the nation's most significant controversies in which state legislatures have attempted to be active partners in the process of constitutional decision-making. Christian G. Fritz looks at interposition, which is the practice of states opposing federal...
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854. — 221 p. Roger Williams (1603–1683) was a Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with American Indians, and he was one of the first abolitionists. Williams was expelled by the...
University of California Press, 2019. — 280 p. Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws. Angela S. García compares restrictive and accommodating immigration measures in various cities and states to show that place-based inclusion and exclusion unfold in seemingly...
Routledge/GlassHouse, 2018. — 209 p. Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism. The book argues that we need to think in terms of a much broader inheritance...
University of Georgia Press, 2017. — 224 p. — (Southern Legal Studies). In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gillmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries—between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young—as rigid social orders are upset in ways that drive...
University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 311 p. In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants--one of...
Texas Tech University Press, 2014. — 223 p. Although the United States is a nation founded by immigrants, Alberto R. Gonzales and David N. Strange believe that national immigration policy and enforcement over the past thirty years has been inadequate. This failure by federal leaders has resulted in a widespread introduction of state immigration laws across the country. Gonzales...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 214 p. A community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth-century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly excluded from this developing but sparsely settled colony. Nan Goodman suggests that...
Wisconsin Historical Society, 2013. — 645 p. In 1938, Howard Jay Graham, a deaf law librarian, successfully argued that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment--ratified after the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race--were motivated by abolitionist fervor, debunking the notion of a corporate conspiracy at...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 1284 p. The Torture Papers consists of the so-called “torture memos” and reports that the U.S. government officials wrote to authorize and to document coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. This volume of documents presents for the first time a compilation of materials that prior to publication have...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2007. — 192 p. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Supreme Court justices themselves and their inner circles, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg offers an explosive news-breaking account of one of the most momentous political watersheds in American history. From the series of Republican nominations that proved deeply...
New York University Press, 2001. — 195 p. The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000 presidential election. For five weeks we were transfixed by the legal clashes that enveloped the country from election night to the Gore concession. It was instant history, and will be studied by historians, lawyers, political scientists, media critics and others for years to come....
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 159 p. For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short Introduction, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show readers how the Supreme...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 715 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80305-2 Law stands at the center of modern American life. Since the 1950s, American historians have produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse account of law and legal institutions in American history. But even though our knowledge has increased enormously, few attempts have been made to draw its many parts together...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 841 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80306-9 Law stands at the center of modern American life. Since the 1950s, American historians have produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse account of law and legal institutions in American history. But even though our knowledge has increased enormously, few attempts have been made to draw its many parts together...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 923 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80307-6 Law stands at the center of modern American life. Since the 1950s, American historians have produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse account of law and legal institutions in American history. But even though our knowledge has increased enormously, few attempts have been made to draw its many parts together...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 295 p. A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d'Hauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couple's bitter fight over their son to explore some timebound and timeless features of American legal culture. This eagerly followed trial sparked a national debate over the legal rights and...
University of California Press, 2022. — 375 p. How hundreds of lawyers mobilized to challenge the illegal treatment of prisoners captured in the war on terror and helped force an end to the US government's most odious policies. In The War in Court, sociologist Lisa Hajjar traces the fight against US torture policy by lawyers who brought the "war on terror" into courts. Their...
Independent Institute Press, 2022. — 152 p. Unique and well-researched, this study concentrates on the right to keep and bear arms and analyzes the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment. Examining the history of the recognition of the right of freedmen to keep and bear arms in the period between 1866 and 1876, this comprehensive volume analyzes the...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 478 p. The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain. When the founding generation enshrined the jury in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were not inventing something new, but protecting something old: one of the traditional...
University of Chicago Press, 2004. — 332 p. In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the...
Racehorse Publishing, 2016. — 180 p. Widely considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, The Federalist Papers were intended to persuade New York at-large to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. Authored in parts by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, the documents have been referred to and heavily cited countless times in all aspects of...
Stanford Law Books, 2015. — 182 p. One of the hallmark features of the post–civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the Law, Sora Y. Han argues that colorblindness is...
2nd Edition. — LexisNexis, 2010. — 996 p. Elements of Law, 2nd edition, by Eva H. Hanks, Michael E. Herz & Steven S. Nemerson is a casebook that is ideal for any introduction to law or legal method course. It is designed to develop analytic, interpretive, and advocacy skills that will be helpful to students across the range of substantive courses, while also encouraging...
2nd Edition. — LexisNexis, 2010. — 996 p. Elements of Law, 2nd edition, by Eva H. Hanks, Michael E. Herz & Steven S. Nemerson is a casebook that is ideal for any introduction to law or legal method course. It is designed to develop analytic, interpretive, and advocacy skills that will be helpful to students across the range of substantive courses, while also encouraging...
2nd Edition. — LexisNexis, 2010. — 996 p. Elements of Law, 2nd edition, by Eva H. Hanks, Michael E. Herz & Steven S. Nemerson is a casebook that is ideal for any introduction to law or legal method course. It is designed to develop analytic, interpretive, and advocacy skills that will be helpful to students across the range of substantive courses, while also encouraging...
2nd Edition. — LexisNexis, 2010. — 996 p. Elements of Law, 2nd edition, by Eva H. Hanks, Michael E. Herz & Steven S. Nemerson is a casebook that is ideal for any introduction to law or legal method course. It is designed to develop analytic, interpretive, and advocacy skills that will be helpful to students across the range of substantive courses, while also encouraging...
New York University Press, 1981. — 279 p. A great case makes law not revolution / Bruce H. Mann. The ordeal by law of Thomas Hutchinson / John Phillip Reid. The irrelevance of the declaration / John Phillip Reid. Accounting for change in American legal history / Robert W. Gordon. Revising the conservative tradition / Stephan B. Presser. Losing the world of the Massachusetts...
Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2013. — 117 p. This book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of the key cases that have come to shape the jurisprudence on emergency law in the United States from the Civil War to the War on Terror. The legal questions raised in these cases concern fundamental constitutional issues such as the status of fundamental rights, the role of the...
University Press of Kansas, 2022. — 228 p. Each year the public, media, and government wait in anticipation for the Supreme Court to announce major decisions. These opinions have shaped legal policy in areas as important as healthcare, marriage, abortion, and immigration. It is not surprising that parties and outside individuals and interest groups invest an estimated $25...
Lexington Books, 2010. — 202 p. Under the Color of Law constitutes a full and critical scholarly commentary to the text of five key Bush administration legal memoranda formative of U.S. counterterrorism policy from 2001 to 2009. This volume is dedicated to the idea that these documents are worthy of being read and critically examined in themselves as primary text, precisely...
New York: Printed and published by E. Conrad. 1828. — 160 p. It will be proper, before the reader enters on the examination of thr contents of the subjoined pages, to understand, that in submitting them to public consideration, the writer does not aspire to enter the arena of Theological disputation ; and would not willingly or unnecessarily agitate any question, pertaining...
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021. — 239 p. In No Place for Ethics, Hill argues that contemporary judicial review by the U.S. Supreme Court rests on its mistaken positivist understanding of law—law simply because so ordered—as something separate from ethics. Further, to assert any relation between the two is to contaminate both, either by turning law into an arm of...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 288 р. In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. Although they were not black, Asian Americans generally were not considered white and thus were subject to school...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 144 p. Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of America's most preeminent legal historians, charts the history of civil litigation from the seventeenth century to the present, using key cases pursued by ordinary people to...
Cornell University Press, 2023. — 208 p. In Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights―a theory that demonstrated how the country could end slavery and establish a practical form of justice. This theory, Hoffer demonstrates, had ties to Seward's career as a country lawyer....
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 298 p. The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astronomically high rate, while the legal system left the injured and their loved ones with little recourse. In the 1910s, US states enacted workers' compensation laws, which required employers to pay a portion of the financial costs of...
Kaplan Publishing, 2009. — 208 p. No jurist has left his mark on American law like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A steadfast defender of free speech, Supreme Court Justice Holmes also championed judicial restraint, advocating that a judge's opinions shouldn't prevent him or her from upholding the will of the elected legislative majority. Holmes did more than hand down rulings in...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 374 p. When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an "extremely valuable book." Library Journal praised it as "brilliant" and "convincing." And Eric Foner, in...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 192 p. An exploration of how and why the Constitution's plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals' constitutional rights, while advancing regressive and reactionary barriers to progressive regulation. Just recently, the Supreme Court rejected an argument by plaintiffs that police officers should no longer be protected by the...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1858. — 676 p. On the publication of a volume whose title indicates its connection with questions arising from the existence of negro slavery in the United States, a recollection of the number and variety of the existing works on that subject will suggest the propriety of some prefatory exposition of the author's point of view. Although the...
Lawbook Exchange Ltd, 2000. — 318 p. The social history of law in the United States is defined and explored in this groundbreaking work. Beginning with a general discussion of legal history as a field of study, Hurst goes on to outline the development of the major types of legal authorities, describe public-policy reactions to the physical challenges of society and its...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 375 p. The evolution of the federal prosecutor's role from a pragmatic necessity to a significant political figure. In the United States, federal prosecutors enjoy a degree of power unmatched elsewhere in the world. They are free to investigate and prosecute―or decline to prosecute―criminal cases without significant oversight. And yet, no...
University of Missouri Press, 2021. — 320 p. Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of Harry S. Truman’s presidency is his judicial legacy, with even the finest of Truman biographies neglecting to consider the influence he had on the Supreme Court. Yet, as Rawn James lays out in engaging detail, president Harry Truman successfully molded the high court into a judicial body that...
University of Missouri Press, 2021. — 320 p. Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of Harry S. Truman’s presidency is his judicial legacy, with even the finest of Truman biographies neglecting to consider the influence he had on the Supreme Court. Yet, as Rawn James lays out in engaging detail, president Harry Truman successfully molded the high court into a judicial body that...
Routledge, 2016. — 146 p. The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Using data tracking over 1,100 legislators, 230 committees and 12,000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers, Shannon Jenkins examines how...
Routledge, 2001. — 653 p. This collection of essays looks at over 200 major U.S. Court cases, at both state and federal levels, from the colonial period to the present. Organized thematically, the articles range from 1,000 to 5,000 words and include recent topics such as the Microsoft antitrust case, the O.J. Simpson trials, and the Clinton impeachment. This new edition...
Hart Publishing, 2021. — 304 p. This book explains various areas of private, public and criminal practice in the United States, as well as US legal research, to the audience of practising civil lawyers who may interact with US lawyers. Each chapter is written by a recognised specialist in his or her respective field who has practiced and taught in that field. Further, the first...
Harvard University Press, 2003. — 353 p. Adversarial Legalism - The American Way of Law by Robert A. Kagan is a brilliant and thoughtful account of the way the legal system of the United States works, based on a rich and varied storehouse of research. It is a wonderful piece of work, richly detailed and beautifully written. It is the best, sanest, and most comprehensive...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 325 p. An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history. Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In...
Ashgate, 2014. — 257 p. Since the United States' entry into World War II, the federal judiciary has taken a prominent role in the shaping of the nation's military laws. Yet, a majority of the academic legal community studying the relationship between the Court and the military establishment argues otherwise providing the basis for a further argument that the legal construct of...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 222 p. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered by many to be the most influential American jurist. The voluminous literature devoted to his writings and legal thought, however, is diverse and inconsistent. In this study, Frederic R. Kellogg follows Holmes’s intellectual path from his early writings through his judicial career.He offers a fresh...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 402 p. The modern jurisprudence of civil liberties and civil rights is best understood not as the outgrowth of an applied philosophical project involving the application of principles to facts, but as a developmental product of diverse, institutionalized currents of reformist political thought. This book demonstrates that rights of individuals...
Routledge, 2020. — 534 p. Throughout America's history, lawyers with a crusading zeal have, through their moral stance, intellectual integrity, and sheer brilliance, made use of the law to fight social injustice. In short biographical chapters, the authors tell the stories of ten of these lawyers. Some are well known: Thurgood Marshall; William Kunstler; Louis Brandeis; Morris...
University of North Carolina Press, 1979. — 241 p. — (Studies in Legal History). Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals. The author discovers that law gradually replaced...
Stanford University Press, 1995. — 400 p. The nine chapters in this book focus on the various constitutional problems surrounding the need to provide simultaneously a sufficient degree of union and public authority to guarantee defense and order, and a sufficient degree of individual liberty to satisfy the demands and expectations of private citizens who were wary of the...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 362 p. In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular sovereignty" was not just some...
UNC Press Books, 2014. — 237 p. In a major reinterpretation of American political thought in the revolutionary era, Marc Kruman explores the process of constitution making in each of the thirteen original states and shows that the framers created a distinctively American science of politics well before the end of the Confederation era. Suspicious of all government power, state...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 311 p. Reveals the hidden history of controversial and legally contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. William Kuby examines the experiences of couples in unconventional unions and the legal and cultural backlash generated by a wide array of 'alternative' marriages. These include marriages established through personal...
University of Michigan Press, 2007. — 241 p. Legislative term limits adopted in the 1990s are in effect in fifteen states today. This reform is arguably the most significant institutional change in American government of recent decades. Most of the legislatures in these fifteen states have experienced a complete turnover of their membership; hundreds of experienced lawmakers...
Aspen Publishers, 2009. — xxvii + 1141 p. This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250...
Morgan James Publishing, 2018. — 235 p. The Founders' Revolution enlightens readers about the forgotten history of how the Declaration of Independence came into being and urges readers to return to the principles and the truths found in the Declaration of Independence, showing how the Declaration is still applicable today.
Washington City: Published by Thompson and Homans, 1832. — 349 p. From 1633 to 1831, inclusive, with Appendix: Containing the Proceedings of the Congress of the Confederation and the Laws of Congress from 1800 to 1830 , on the same subject.
Nebraska University Press, 2014. — 182 p. Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court's arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country....
The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. — 340 p. — (Studies in Legal History). This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the...
ABC-CLIO, 2015. — 288 p. This single volume encyclopedia not only provides accessible A–Z entries about the well-known people and events of the Civil Rights Movement but also offers coverage of lesser-known contributors to the movement's overall success and outcomes. This comprehensive work provides both authoritative ready reference and curricular content presented in a lively...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 190 p. The public, journalists, and legislators themselves have often lamented a decline in congressional lawmaking in recent years, often blaming party politics for the lack of legislative output. In Committees and the Decline of Lawmaking in Congress, Jonathan Lewallen examines the decline in lawmaking from a new, committee-centered...
Vintage Books, 2011. — 368 p. The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights...
Vintage Books, 1992. — 368 p. A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery,...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 312 p. In this volume, attorney Robert M. Lichtman provides a comprehensive history of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in "Communist" cases during the McCarthy era. Lichtman shows the Court's vulnerability to public criticism and attacks by the elected branches during periods of political repression. The book describes every...
Nouvelle-Orléans: Benjamin Levi, 1822. — 179 p. Attendu qu'il est de la plus haute importance, dans tout État bien ordonné, que le code des lois pénales, repose sur ce principe " la prévention du crime;'' que tous les délits soient clairement et explicitement définis, en termes généralement intelligibles; que les peines soient proportionnées aux délits que les preuves soient...
Paris : Guillaumin et Co. 1872. — 662 p. J'ai l'honneur de présenter, maintenant, le second des codes que votre loi m'a charge de préparer. La législature qui adopta cette loi savait qu'aucun système pénal ne pouvait être complet sans un code de procédure. Les frais, les retards, l'incertitude dans l'application des meilleures lois, pour la prohibition des crimes, les...
New York University Press, 2004. — 332 p. An examination of how some legal issues are losing cases - but that's okay because advances are still possible. Winners and losers. Success and failure. Victory and defeat. American culture places an extremely high premium on success, and firmly equates it with winning. In politics, sports, business, and the courtroom, we have a passion...
Routledge, 2016. — 236 p. This book explores Puritanism and its continuing influence on U.S. and military law in the Global War on Terror, exploring connections between Puritanism and notions of responsibility in relation to military crimes, superstitious practices within the military, and urges for revenge. Engaging with the work of figures such as Durkheim, Fauconnet and...
Washington, D.C.: The law reporter print. 1888. — 774 p. Some nine or ten years ago, the edition of our Rules of Court being exhausted, I undertook the preparation of another, and, in order to render the work more usefal, a few notes with references to local statutes and decisions were included. Though a crude and feeble effort, it was the first attempt of any sort to furnish even...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 228 p. Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard N. Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach the White House energized conservatives across the nation and caused a transformation in...
Routledge, 1987. — 214 p. This is a collection of 1500 quotes from more than 1000 Supreme Court decisions. These excerpts, dating from the beginning of the Republic, are arranged to include the legislative, judicial, and executive branches; states' rights; due process; free speech; equal rights; and freedom of religion.
St. Paul: West Publishing Company. — 1078 p. Rules of Criminal Procedure. Rules Governing Title 28 section 2254 Cases. Rules Governing Title 28 section 2255 Proceedings. Rules for Trial of Misdemeanors Before U.S. Magistrates. Rules of Evidence. Rules of Appelate Procedure. Rules of Supreme Court of the United States. Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Title 21, Chapter...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 430 p. This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Jerry Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning Congress delegated vast discretion to administrative officials and armed them with extrajudicial adjudicatory, rulemaking, and enforcement authority. The...
Author not specified, Massachusetts: Published by Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries. 2019. — 311 p. The Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries make every effort to provide a current, accurate copy of the rules of court on this site. However, this is not an official source for the rules, and the libraries cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions contained on...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 284 p. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers...
Ohio University Press, 2012. — 272 p. In the antebellum Midwest, Americans looked to the law, and specifically to the jury, to navigate the uncertain terrain of a rapidly changing society. During this formative era of American law, the jury served as the most visible connector between law and society. Through an analysis of the composition of grand and trial juries and an...
Detroit: John F. Eby. 1898. — 730 p. Cases against Circuit Judges, Superior Court Judges, Recorder s Court Judges, Probate Judges, Justice of the Peace, Police Justices and Circuit Court Commissioners, are cross-indexed under those titles; those against Circuit Judges and Probate Judges arranged by counties, and those against Superior and Recorder s Court Judges, by cities.
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 182 p. The US Supreme Court is arguably the most controversial institution in the American political system. Decisions on such 'hot-button' issues as abortion, race equality, the death penalty and gay marriage have sharply divided the Court, politicians and public opinion. Some say that the Justices who sit on the Court are merely...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 521 p. In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, by 1900 contractors in both the North and the South would go on to put more than half a million imprisoned men, women, and youth to hard, sweated toil for private gain. Held captive, stripped of their rights,...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 304 р. In 1941, after decades of struggling to hold on to the remainder of their aboriginal home, the Hualapai Indians finally took their case to the Supreme Courtand won. The Hualapai case was the culminating event in a legal and intellectual revolution that transformed Indian law and ushered in a new way of writing Indian history that provided...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 343 p. Law in the United States, 2nd Edition, is a concise presentation of the salient elements of the American legal system designed mainly for jurists of civil law backgrounds. It focuses on those attributes of American law that are likely to be least familiar to jurists from other legal traditions such as American common law,...
Chicago: T. H. Flood and Company, 1892. — 554 p. The law of mandamus has gradually grown up under the guidance of judicial discretion, which has produced such varying decisions from the numerous courts of last resort, that it is expedient from time to time to collect the law on this subject, both to assist the practicing attorney relative to the application of the writ in new...
Harvard University Press, 2022. — 355 p. The Constitution makes Congress the principal federal lawmaker. But for a variety of reasons, including partisan gridlock, Congress increasingly fails to keep up with the challenges facing our society. Power has inevitably shifted to the executive branch agencies that interpret laws already on the books and to the courts that review the...
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2008. — 308 p. Americans commonly insist that government should not legislate morality. The early American state founders, revolutionaries known for their commitment to liberty, were equally concerned about what kind of morality both should and should not be legislated. In U.S. state constitutions and legislation, they exhibited a commitment to...
Richmond: Sold by Anderson Bros. 1891. - 776 p. The reader has been apprised by the preface to the first volume of this work, of how great a change has occured in its scope and extent, as compared with the original design; and that, as it was printed in instalments, as the health and leisure of the author enabled him to prepare it for the press.
Richmond: Sold by Anderson Bros., 1892. — 1228 p. The reader has been apprised by the preface to the first volume of this work, of how great a change has occured in its scope and extent, as compared with the original design; and that, as it was printed in instalments, as the health and leisure of the author enabled him to prepare it for the press.
University Press of New England, 2015. — 320 p. Trespassing, “a thoughtful, beautifully written addition to environmental and regional literature” (Kirkus Reviews), is a historical survey of the evolution of private ownership of land, concentrating on the various land uses of a 500-acre tract of land over a 350-year period. What began as wild land controlled periodically by...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 230 p. Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day battles against voter suppression laws that were embedded in American history and are still underway across the country. It tells a story of that struggle...
The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. — 592 p. This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 254 p. In Victory of Law, Deak Nabers examines developing ideas about the nature of law as reflected in literary and political writing before, during, and after the American Civil War. Nabers traces the evolution of antislavery thought from its pre-war opposition to the constitutional order of the young nation to its ultimate elevation of...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 225 p. Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over which each institution had jurisdiction and studies the procedures by which each functioned. He examines the tendency after 1800 to...
University of North Carolina Press, 2003. — 468 p. Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New York was the scene of intense struggle between white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant upper and middle classes located primarily in the...
University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 368 p. Political scholars examine the dynamic evolution of laws over time in a volume that “pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US. Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. And while debates over legislative measures can rage for years or even decades before an item is...
University of North Carolina Press, 2000. — 408 p. Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government...
Routledge, 2021. — 200 p. A basic feature of the modern US administrative state taken for granted by legal scholars but neglected by political scientists and historians is its strong judiciality. Formal, or court-like, adjudication was the primary method of first-order agency policy making during the first half of the twentieth century. Even today, most US administrative...
Third Edition. — OpenStax CNX, 2021. — 725 p. American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in...
Routledge, 2019. — 264 p. When we think of judicial activism–the Court's role in making public policy–we often focus on individuals: the Robert Borks or Thurgood Marshalls of the times. In this book, Richard Pacelle explores the institutional judicial activism of the Supreme Court through the dramatic changes in its agenda as it has evolved from 1933 to the present. Once...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 319 p. This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics, and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing other than a species of politics. Thus viewed, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 272 p. This book reconceptualizes the history of U.S. immigration and citizenship law from the colonial period to the beginning of the twenty-first century by joining the histories of immigrants to those of Native Americans, African Americans, women, Asian Americans, Latino/a Americans, and the poor. Kunal Parker argues that during the...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 332 p. Nothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877, supreme courts in former slave states decided approximately 700 lawsuits associated with the struggle for Black freedom and equal...
Springer Netherlands, 2013. — 230 p. This volume presents a variety of both normative and descriptive perspectives on the use of precedent by the United States Supreme Court. It brings together a diverse group of American legal scholars, some of whom have been influenced by the Segal/Spaeth "attitudinal" model and some of whom have not. The group of contributors includes legal...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 220 p. Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacity required to write a valid will. These inheritance disputes...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 223 p. The fundamental importance of the 1787 Constitutional Convention continues to affect contemporary politics. The Constitution defines the structure and limits of the American system of government, and it organizes contemporary debates about policy and legal issues—debates that explicitly invoke the intentions and actions of those...
University of Missouri Press, 2016. — 236 p. Honorable Mention, 2017 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Time-honored verities proved obsolete, and intellectuals in all fields sought ways to make sense of an increasingly...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 504 р. The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789–2020, Expanded Second Edition is a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book on US history—where the Supreme Court appears, if at all, as an interruption here and there—or, in a typical history...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 248 p. Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic. In this major new history of early America, Claire...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 320 p. In this lively historical examination of American federalism, a leading scholar in the field refutes the widely accepted notion that the founding fathers carefully crafted a constitutional balance of power between the states and the federal government. Edward A. Purcell Jr. bases his argument on close analysis of the Constitution’s original...
Chicago: Illinois book exchange.1908. - 611 p. The adoption of the United States Constitution marked the opening of a new era in the World s legal history. Its underlying principle stands as the second great contribution by the Anglo - Saxon race to the progress of political science.
Vintage, 2002. — 336 p. The sixteenth Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Rehnquist’s engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall’s dominance of the Court during the early nineteenth century through the landmark decisions of...
University of Chicago Press, 2008. — 200 p. Arguing with Tradition is the first book to explore language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. Grounded in Justin Richland’s extensive field research on the Hopi Indian Nation of northeastern Arizona—on whose appellate court he now serves as Justice Pro Tempore—this innovative work explains how Hopi...
Routledge, 2009. — 159 p. Immigration is one of the most controversial topics of the decade. Citizens and pundits from across the political spectrum argue for major and disparate changes to American immigration law. Yet few know what American immigration law actually is and how it functions. Everyday Law for Immigrants is an ideal guide for U.S. citizens who want a better...
San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1907. — 1086 p. This Code is an outgrowth of Desty's Federal Procedure, so well known to the professio, and an attempt to amplify and develop the features of that work upon which its long continned popularity has rested. Through the kindness of the publishers all the matter contained in the last edition of Desty was placed at the disposal...
San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1907. — 1018 p. This Code is an outgrowth of Desty's Federal Procedure, so well known to the professio, and an attempt to amplify and develop the features of that work upon which its long continned popularity has rested. Through the kindness of the publishers all the matter contained in the last edition of Desty was placed at the disposal...
San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1907. — 1086 p. This Code is an outgrowth of Desty's Federal Procedure, so well known to the professio, and an attempt to amplify and develop the features of that work upon which its long continned popularity has rested. Through the kindness of the publishers all the matter contained in the last edition of Desty was placed at the disposal...
Routledge, 2018. — 645 p. This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment. It follows the evolution of the criminal justice system chronologically and, when necessary, offers parallels between related criminal justice issues in...
Michigan State University Press, 2007. — 527 p. This volume questions the motives of Supreme Court justices in a landmark case: The Supreme Court's intervention in the presidential election of 2000, and its subsequent decision in favor of George W. Bush, elicited immediate, heated, and widespread debate. Critics argued that the justices used weak legal arguments to overturn the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 267 p. Can affirmative action policies be convincingly justified? And how have they been legitimized over time? In a pluridisciplinary perspective at the intersection of political theory and the sociology of law, Daniel Sabbagh criticizes the two prevailing justifications put forward in favor of affirmative action: the corrective justice argument and...
Hart Publishing, 2009. — 354 p. The first comprehensive collection of legal history documents from the Civil War and Reconstruction, this volume shows the profound legal changes that occurred during the Civil War era and highlights how law, society, and politics inextricably mixed and set American legal development on particular paths that were not predetermined. Editor...
New York University Press, 2010. — 234 p. Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered pitch. While President Obama has repeatedly emphasized his Administration’s commitment to transparency and the rule of law, nowhere has this resolve been so quickly and severely tested than...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 306 p. This book is a comparative study of American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia, supported by observations from six additional states, the book traces the crucial formative moment in the development of an American system of common law in northern and southern courts. The process of legal...
Routledge, 2002. — 280 p. Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed 10 justices to the U.S. Supreme Court - more than any president except Washington - and during his presidency from 1933 to 1945, the Court gained more visibility, underwent greater change, and made more landmark decisions than it had in its previous 150 years of existence. This collection examines FDR's influence on the...
LFB Scholarly, 2012. — 187 p. Since 1980, prosecutors and defense attorneys handling federal terrorism trials have developed politicized strategies and counter strategies unique to terrorism trials, and those strategies have had a significant impact on case outcomes. Moreover, case outcomes were positively impacted by proactive policy changes implemented in the wake of 9/11....
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 219 p. Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should be promoted because it lies at the heart of a core American value: free speech. He contends, however, that the country's major institutions--including the Supreme...
CQ Press, 1997. — 312 p. Despite what your students may have learned in Schoolhouse Rock, the textbook "how-a-bill-becomes-a-law" scenario is a rarity. As evidenced with health care reform legislation, most major measures wind their way through the contemporary Congress in what Barbara Sinclair has dubbed "unorthodox lawmaking." Whatever path a bill takes―whether considered by...
Routledge, 2022. — 260 p. Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined with comparative perspectives – including those of other modern federal democracies – to explore the jigsaw puzzle that is the state of American federal democracy. The USA has a complex political system prone to "divided government", which has become highly polarized...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 232 p. It is no secret that since the 1980s, American workers have lost power vis-a-vis employers through the well-chronicled steep decline in private sector unionization. American workers have also lost power in other ways. Those alleging employment discrimination have fared increasingly poorly in the courts. In recent years, judges have...
SAGE Publications, 2013. — 360 p. In A History of Modern Criminal Justice, authors Joseph Spillane and David Wolcott focus on the modern aspects of the subject, from 1900 to the present. A unique thematic rather than a chronological approach sets this book apart from the competition, with chapters organized around themes such as policing, courts, due process, and prison and...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 216 p. The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 565 p. What would United States Supreme Court opinions look like if key decisions on gender issues were written with a feminist perspective? Feminist Judgments brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite, using feminist reasoning, the most significant US Supreme Court cases on gender from the 1800s to the present day. The...
New York – London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. — 389 p. To us Americans of to-day there has been vouchsafed what is at once a high duty and a high privilege. For we are able to share in the greatest enterprise since Independence-the re-forging of America. Clear and strong athwart the tumult of our present discords sounds the call to national unity. Firm and stanch is the...
ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 320 p. This revised and expanded four-volume encyclopedia is unequaled for both the depth and breadth of its coverage. Some 650 entries address the full range of civil rights and liberties in America from the Colonial Era to the present. In addition to many updates of material from the first edition, the work offers 75 new entries about recent issues and...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 255 p. The recent Boumediene v. Bush decision, which tossed aside the dysfunctional military court system envisioned by the Bush administration and upheld the right of habeas corpus for detainees, promises to throw national security law into chaos, and will also probably lead to the closing of Guantanamo. In this timely and much-needed book,...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 273 p. In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 273 p. In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 273 p. In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 273 p. In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 273 p. In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking...
Melville House, 2015. — 128 p. The complete text of the landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality. The 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell et al. v. Hodges legalized gay marriage across the United States. This edition collects the widely quoted decision by Justice Kennedy, as well as the dissents of Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito. Of tremendous...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 144 p. — (Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law). A study of contempt proceedings in labor injunction cases. Specifically examines 'contempt' in general, the New York legal cases from 1904 to 1932, and legislative steps toward revision.
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 357 p. Starting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of important liberal accomplishments, especially in the law. As a result, conservatives' mobilizing efforts increasingly turned to law schools, professional networks, public interest groups, and the judiciary--areas traditionally controlled...
Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany and Co., 1838. — 346 p. The first settlers of the New - Haven colony , and also of the colony of Connecticut, were emigrants from England. Soon after the arrival of the former, in 1638, finding themselves destitute of any laws as rules of actions to govern their small but intrepid band.
Albany: James B. Lion, State Printer, 1894. — 1132 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive.
Albany: James B. Lion, State Printer, 1894. — 1152 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive.
Albany: James B. Lion, State Printer, 1894. — 1181 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive. The twenty - first Assembly (1738...
Albany: James B. Lion,State Printer.The author of the publication is not specified. 1894. - 1199 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775...
Albany: James B. Lion,State Printer.The author of the publication is not specified. 1894. - 944 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 262 p. Criminal, civil, and grand juries have disappeared from the American legal system. Over time, despite their significant presence in the Constitution, juries have been robbed of their power by the federal government and the states. For example, leveraging harsher criminal penalties, executive officials have forced criminal defendants...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 367 p. The enactment of the Wagner National Labor Relations Act in 1935 gave organized labor what it has regarded ever since as one of its greatest assets: a legislative guarantee of the right of American workers to organize and bargain collectively. Yet while the Wagner Act's guarantees remain substantially unaltered, organized labor in...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 380 p. Despite America’s commitment to civil rights from the earliest days of nationhood, examples of injustices against minorities stain many pages of U.S. history. The battle for racial, ethnic, and gender fairness remains unfinished. This comprehensive book traces the history of legal efforts to achieve civil rights for all Americans, beginning...
Basic Books, 2023. — 352 p. The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow docket,” regularly making decisions that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation, through cryptic late-night rulings...
Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office. 2001. — 1186 p. Cases Adjudjed in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1999 Beginning of Term October 4, 1999, Through February 28, 2000 Table of Cases Reported: Note: All undesignated references herein to the United States Code are to the 1994 edition. Cases reported before page 801 are those decided with opinions of the Court or...
Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office. 2004. — 1155 p. Cases Adjudjed in the Supreme Court at October Term, 2002,March 5 Through May 27, 2003. Table of Cases Reported: Note: All undesignated references herein to the United States Code are to the 2000 edition. Cases reported before page 901 are those decided with opinions of the Court or decisions per curiam. Cases reported...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 290 p. — (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society). Were slaves property or human beings under the law? Antebellum Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable, laws that sheltered the persons embodied by that property - the slaves themselves....
University of Virginia Press, 2004. — 286 p. Women were once excluded everywhere from the legal profession, but by the 1990s the Virginia Supreme Court had three women among its seven justices. This is just one example of how law in Virginia has been transformed over the past century, as it has across the South and throughout the nation. In Blue Laws and Black Codes, Peter...
Encounter Books, 2018. — 192 p. In this book, Peter J. Wallison argues that the administrative agencies of the executive branch have gradually taken over the legislative role of Congress, resulting in what many call the administrative state. The judiciary bears the major responsibility for this development because it has failed to carry out its primary constitutional...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. — 384 p. In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule. With the return of Charles II to the English throne in 1660, the puritan-led...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 254 p. For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category of "American citizenship." Welke draws on that wealth of historical, legal, and theoretical scholarship to offer a new paradigm of liberal selfhood and...
Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1921. — 792 p. This book has been compiled primarily for use in the class room. Therefore its size lias been kept within such a limit that it can all be covered in two recitations a week for half of a school year. As a result, only the more important sections of the Judicial Code have been covered thoroughly, and cases have not been included on...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introduction Series). — ISBN: 978-0-19-976600-0 Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent...
University Press of Kansas, 2019. — 432 p. When the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the law is one politicians oppose, the court is heroically righting a wrong. In our polarized moment of partisan fervor, the Supreme Court’s routine work of judicial review is increasingly viewed through a political lens, decried by one...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 297 p. This book examines the ideology of elite lawyers and judges from the Gilded Age through the New Deal. Between 1866 and 1937, a coherent outlook shaped the way the American bar understood the sources of law, the role of the courts, and the relationship between law and the larger society. William M. Wiecek explores this outlook--often...
St. Louis: The Gilbert book Co. 1891. — 721 p. Part 1. Penal Code. Prior to the adoption of the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, the common law, with a few penal statutes, constituted the criminal law of Texas.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 562 p. This book provides a critical examination of and reflection on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations, arguably the most sweeping proposal for family law reform attempted in the U.S. over the last quarter century. The volume is a collaborativework of individuals from diverse...
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2012. — 241 р. The settlers in early colonial Maryland had to form a new legal system while remaining in-sync with the contemporary laws of England. This book looks at how one group of settlers, women, negotiated their place in society via this new legal system. Drawing on the work of Lois Green Carr and Lorena Walsh, this book begins with an...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 241 p. The bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of...
Albany: W. C. Little and Co. 1880. — 290 p. In this volume the author has sought to deliniate the principles governing the courts in administering relief by the Legal Remedies of Mandamus and Prohibition, Habeas Corpus, Certiorari and Quo Warranto. In the prosecution of this object, his labors have covered a field which has hitherto been but partially explored. It has been his aim...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 192 p. In the first part of the 20th century, a group of law scholars offered engaging, and occasionally disconcerting, views on the role of judges and the relationship between law and politics in the United States. These legal realists borrowed methods from the social sciences to carefully study the law as experienced by lawyers, judges, and...
University of Washington Press, 2011. — 327 p. In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1921. — 652 p. Almost fifty years ago the Law School of Harvard University, in 1872-1883, invited Benjamin R. Curtis who had been a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to deliver a course of lectures before its students on the Jurisdiction, Practice and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of the United States. He began that course...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1921. — 752 p. Almost fifty years ago the Law School of Harvard University, in 1872-1883, invited Benjamin R. Curtis who had been a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to deliver a course of lectures before its students on the Jurisdiction, Practice and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of the United States. He began that course...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1921. — 800 p. Almost fifty years ago the Law School of Harvard University, in 1872-1883, invited Benjamin R. Curtis who had been a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to deliver a course of lectures before its students on the Jurisdiction, Practice and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of the United States. He began that course...
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Особенности формирования конституционного строя США;
Основы конституционного строя США;
Конституционный статус личности;
Политическая система;
Федеральные органы государства;
Учебное пособие для вузов. — М., Л.: Государственное издательство, 1928. — 183 с. — (Политический строй современных государств). Эта книга — вторая в предположенной серии (срв. «Политический строй современных государств. Англия», ГИЗ, 1927). И здесь преследовались те же цели. Соединенные штаты должны были, между прочим, послужить иллюстрацией для того положения, что...
М.: Кучково поле, 2008. — 448 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0015-0 Настоящее исследование посвящено разведке США с позиций государственно- и историко-правового анализа. Выявлены особенности становления и развития системы разведывательных органов Соединенных Штатов, показано их место в государственном механизме Америки. Особое место в книге уделено роли американской разведки в последние...
М.: Прогресс, Универс, 1993. - 766 с. lSSN 5-01-002746-1 В сборник включены, кроме конституций США, штатов Массачусетс и Иллинойс, другие важнейшие нормативные акты, регулирующие деятельность Конгресса, Президента, органов государственного управления, судов, а также касающиеся гражданских прав, избирательной системы, предпринимательской деятельности, охраны окружающей среды....
М.: Прогресс, Универс, 1993. — 766 с. — ISBN: 5-01-002746-1. В сборник включены, кроме конституций США, штатов Массачусетс и Иллинойс, другие важнейшие нормативные акты, регулирующие деятельность Конгресса, Президента, органов государственного управления, судов, а также касающиеся гражданских прав, избирательной системы, предпринимательской деятельности, охраны окружающей...
М.: Прогресс, Универс, 1993. - 766 с. lSSN 5-01-002746-1 В сборник включены, кроме конституций США, штатов Массачусетс и Иллинойс, другие важнейшие нормативные акты, регулирующие деятельность Конгресса, Президента, органов государственного управления, судов, а также касающиеся гражданских прав, избирательной системы, предпринимательской деятельности, охраны окружающей среды....
М.: Прогресс, Универс, 1993. - 766 с. lSSN 5-01-002746-1 В сборник включены, кроме конституций США, штатов Массачусетс и Иллинойс, другие важнейшие нормативные акты, регулирующие деятельность Конгресса, Президента, органов государственного управления, судов, а также касающиеся гражданских прав, избирательной системы, предпринимательской деятельности, охраны окружающей среды....
Монографiя / за ред. i з передмовою I. Б. Усенка. – К.: Логос, 2015. – 406 с. У монографiї аналiзується розвиток iнститутiв держави i права США колонiальної доби (1607–1775 рр.), серед яких особливо важливими є iнститути загальноколонiальної та регiональної полiтичної влади, буржуазної приватної власності на землю, плантацiйного рабовласництва, колонiальної мiлiцiї,...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 282 с. В монографии прослеживается формирование и эволюция института гражданских свобод в конституционном праве США с колониального периода до середины 70-х годов XX в., анализируется развитие доктрины и практики применения основных положений федерального Билля о правах в контексте политических противоречий американской истории.
М.: Наука, 1983. — 282 с. В монографии прослеживается формирование и эволюция института гражданских свобод в конституционном праве США с колониального периода до середины 70-х годов XX в., анализируется развитие доктрины и практики применения основных положений федерального Билля о правах в контексте политических противоречий американской истории.
М.: Городец-издат, 2004. — 104 с. — ISBN 5-9258-0083-4. В монографии рассматривается групповой (классовый) иск — один из основных институтов американского процессуального права. Для преподавателей, аспирантов, студентов, практикующих юристов, а также широкого круга читателей, желающих познакомиться с эффективным средством защиты прав граждан — групповым иском.
М.: Советское законодательство, 1933. — 166 с. В САСШ классовая расправа принимает особенно яркие черты, вуаль буржуазной демократии обнаруживает все большие прорехи, юстиция, полиция и тюрьма обнажают особенно явственно свою службу капиталу, свою продажность и развращенность. Чтобы показать это, достаточно развернуть перед читателем хотя бы официальные документы американской...
М.: Советское законодательство, 1933. — 166 с. В САСШ классовая расправа принимает особенно яркие черты, вуаль буржуазной демократии обнаруживает все большие прорехи, юстиция, полиция и тюрьма обнажают особенно явственно свою службу капиталу, свою продажность и развращенность. Чтобы показать это, достаточно развернуть перед читателем хотя бы официальные документы американской...
М.: Международные отношения, 1967. — 245 с. Книга С. Б. Маринина посвящена организации и деятельности исполнительной власти США — ведущей державы капиталистического мира. Автор рассматривает основные тенденции развития исполнительного аппарата в условиях государственно-монополистического капитализма, анализирует роль президента как главы правительства, его взаимоотношения с...
М.: Международные отношения, 1967. — 245 с. Книга С. Б. Маринина посвящена организации и деятельности исполнительной власти США — ведущей державы капиталистического мира. Автор рассматривает основные тенденции развития исполнительного аппарата в условиях государственно-монополистического капитализма, анализирует роль президента как главы правительства, его взаимоотношения с...
Москва: Мысль, 2019. — 246 с. — (Свобода и Право). — ISBN 978-5-244-01210-1. По мнению автора, одного из ведущих американских адвокатов, специалиста в области международного и иммиграционного права, Америка стала великой страной благодаря своей Конституции и Биллю о правах. Российскому читателю будет интересно и полезно узнать, почему наряду с Конституцией американцам...
М.: Мысль, 2019. — 249 с. — (Свобода и Право). — ISBN 978-5-244-01210-1. По мнению автора, одного из ведущих американских адвокатов, специалиста в области международного и иммиграционного права, Америка стала великой страной благодаря своей Конституции и Биллю о правах. Российскому читателю будет интересно и полезно узнать, почему наряду с Конституцией американцам потребовались...
Монография. - М.: Норма, 2007. - 272 с. Книга посвящена изучению малоисследованной проблемы американского конституционализма — специфики становления социально-экономических прав в США — с помощью историко-правового подхода. Автор проанализировал права американских граждан, закрепленные в федеральном законодательстве в сфере труда и социального обеспечения. Для юристов,...
М.: Норма, 2007. — 272 с.
Книга посвящена изучению малоисследованной проблемы американского конституционализма — специфики становления социально-экономических прав в США — с помощью историко-правового подхода. Автор проанализировал права американских граждан, закрепленные в федеральном законодательстве в сфере труда и социального обеспечения.
Для юристов, историков,...
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В соответствии с законом поцелуй может длиться не более 5 минут.
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Избранные произведения / Общ. ред. и вступ. статья. М. П. Баскина. М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1956. С. 104–225. Исторический очерк конституции и правительства Пенсильвании с момента ее возникновения; в плане рассмотрения различных сторон споров, возникавших время от времени между губернаторами Пенсильвании и ассамблеями. Составлено на основании...
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