Constitutional

Disagreements on constitutional rights (such as racial and religious discrimination or abortion) are increasingly divisive. From the role of abortion in US presidential elections to debates about the competence creep of EU fundamental rights, the...

Does the upsurge in populism, authoritarianism, and nationalism threaten the future of the rule of law? In this highly topical book, Raymond Wacks explores the philosophical roots of the concept, and its modern, often controversial, interpretation. He...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. What role do procedural rules really...

The eighth edition of The Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides an accessible yet thorough account of the constitutional protection and practical application of rights under the Canadian Charter.Charter rights are in a state of constant evolution, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826521491Author Roger C. HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781964524795Author Thomas A BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Cato InstitutePublisher Cato Institute

This book considers whether Parliament recognises a constitutional right to property.Parliament is supreme: in theory, there is nothing to stop it from passing laws to confiscate property. Nevertheless, MPs often argue that a proposed law would be...

How do you protect rights without a Bill of Rights? Australia does not have a national bill or charter of rights and looks further away than ever from adopting one. But it does have a range of individual elements sourced from common law, statute and the...

This major collection contains selected papers from the third Public Law Conference, an international conference hosted by the University of Melbourne in July 2018. The collection includes contributions by leading academics and senior judges from across...

Money in political campaigns is a subject of endless current interest and enormous consequence for American democracy. Beginning in 1976, in Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court established a framework for public campaign regulation that declared that...

John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of...

In the original euphoria that attended the virtually simultaneous demise of so many dictatorships in the late 1980s and early 90s, there was a widespread belief that problems of 'transition' basically involved shedding a known past, and replacing it with...

A political constitution is often seen as an idiosyncratic feature of the UK and compared unfavourably with an entrenched legal constitution upheld by a supreme or constitutional court, such as that of the United States. By comparing both systems,...

Administrative Law provides a detailed and clear examination of what is a conceptually difficult area of law. Craig s thorough and contextual approach to the subject has prompted thought, discussion, and understanding amongst all those interested in the...

As Canada grapples with wildfires, floods, and other climate-related disasters, Climate Change and the Canadian Constitution is a timely and critical exploration by leading legal expert Nathalie J. Chalifour, examining the Constitution's role in...

What happens to legal thought when key terms-society, culture, power, justice, identity-become unsettled? With the boundaries defining sociolegal scholarship undergoing a profound shift, this book explores the intersections of law, culture, and identity...

The Competence Question in the (Con)Federal European Union provides a uniquely holistic understanding of the EU as a contested authority-construction, the legal concepts and political factors that make it (d)evolve, and the normative stakes at hand. ...

From America's foremost constitutional scholar, the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women's suffrageIn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593421864Author Amy Coney BarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams)...

With the majority of the global population still living under surprisingly stable autocratic regimes, we can assume that regime stability is the ultimate objective of autocratic leadership. However, this stability is continually challenged, so autocrats...

Since the adoption of the US constitution, there has been ongoing calibration of the power balance between the three branches of government, often in the face of rapidly changing social and political contexts. In 1952, US Supreme Court Justice Robert H...

This book offers a powerful new lens on one of the EU's most pressing challenges: the erosion of the rule of law. A must-read for anyone concerned with the future of democracy in Europe, the book places the EU's struggle in a broader comparative context,...

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Russian private international law (PIL) for the foreign lawyer.The book carefully examines the applicable conflict of law and jurisdictional rules on the basis of the relevant statutory...

The United Kingdom's constitution is famously uncodified, comprising not only statutes and legal judgments but also a vast body of informal rules known as constitutional conventions. These conventions-customarily followed by political actors such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNoah Theriault is associate professor of anthropology in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University.ReviewsNoah Theriault's A Forest of Dreams is an...

"Letters of marque" might suggest privateers of the Elizabethan era or the American Revolution. But such conventions are duly covered in the US Constitution, and the private military instruments they sanction are very much at work today in the form of...

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a number of new states were created that had little or no claim to any previous existence. Ukraine is one of the countries that faced not only political, social and economic transformation, but also state...

This book addresses two questions: firstly, how has the fight against COVID-19, especially the individual and collective responses of Latin American nation-states, influenced the relationship between power, people, and statebodies? And secondly, has...

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the principles shaping EU law: autonomy, conferral, equality, national identity, loyalty, solidarity, supremacy and effectiveness. Much has been written about principles of EU law inspired by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886972023Author Michael R WeisserFormat PaperbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 217g

"Diversity" has become a mantra within discussions of university admissions policies and many other arenas of American society. In the essays collected here, Sanford Levinson, a leading scholar of constitutional law and American government, wrestles with...

Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand. In this book, journalists who cover the Court-acting as the eyes and ears of...

"The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance-what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states."-Journal of American History"Curtis effectively settles a serious legal...

Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Analysis, Cases, and Materials is the first comprehensive casebook for the field, offering students an innovative and truly global approach to comparative constitutional law. Written by leading scholars, this...

Scotland's Constitution: Law and Practice, Fifth Edition provides a clear, comprehensive account of Scottish constitutional law within its UK and (continuing) European context. It describes and analyses constitutional arrangements while integrating that...

At a time when constitutional democracy is under increasing strain, Let's Agree on Poland offers a bold exploration of how divided societies can break through ideological deadlock and reform their institutions. While rooted in the case of Poland, the...

Since the mid-20th century, many postcolonial states have engaged in multiple constitution-making exercises, with the turnover in written constitutions often due to coups or internal conflict. Conversely, people have resisted authoritarian rule through...

This book includes essays in honour of Professor Andrew Harding, a leading scholar in the fields of Asian legal studies and comparative constitutional law. Written by his colleagues and friends, the essays deal with important themes in comparative law in...

Heresy Press's first non-fiction offering addresses free speech and creative freedom-central to the press's mission-in the form of a concise primer of arguments against censorship. Co-authored by Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, The War on Words: 10...

This book discusses some of the most important issues facing administrative law and related doctrines. Leading public law scholars from across the common law world have contributed chapters to recognise the exceptional scholarship and career of Matthew...