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Leo Pfeffer, the leading authority on church/state law, presents a trenchant analysis of the decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, focusing on the Court's interpretation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. These...

This groundbreaking book analyzes the decisions made by the United States circuit courts over the past half century. These courts have a profound impact on the law-they issue many more decisions in many more areas of law than the Supreme Court. Cross...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578911854Author Marc RainerFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Rukia Publishing UsPublisher Rukia Publishing UsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532376Author Barry FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980762761Author Mary W MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Mary W MaxwellPublisher Mary W MaxwellWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684870434Author James F SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393925203Author Professor David M O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton &...

Understanding Victimology: An Active Learning Approach is the only textbook with extensive discussion of both online and offline victimization reinforced by group and individual learning activities. Our textbook offers instructors a variety of active...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170121640Author Sumeet MalikFormat HardbackPage Count 1368Imprint Eastern Book CoPublisher Eastern Book Co

The Crisis in the American Criminal Courts highlights a variety of problems that judges, prosecutors, and public defenders face within a criminal justice system that is ineffective, unfair, and extraordinarily expensive. While many argue, and I agree,...

This book explores the causes of prosecutorial independence and effectiveness against systemic corruption through an examination of the conditions leading to the Italian “Clean Hands” operation’s unprecedented success. In 1992, Italian prosecutors...

This book examines the decisions of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens with regard to: select federalism issues; the constitutionality of congressional term limits and the presidential line item veto; select opinions on intellectual property law;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606926543Author Betsy PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 710g

Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few...

Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few...

The Law As It Could Be gathers Fiss's most important work on procedure, adjudication and public reason, introduced by the author and including contextual introductions for each piece-some of which are among the most cited in Twentieth Century legal...

"Must reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of the U.S. Supreme Court's role in race relations policy." Choice "Beware! Those committed to the Supreme Court as the ultimate defender of minority rights should not read...

The impartial administration of justice and the accountability of government officials are two of the most strongly held American values. Yet these values are often in direct conflict with one another. At the national level, the U.S. Constitution...

American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers' most basic task, but law professors rarely focus on how statutes are made. This misguided pedagogy, says Victoria...

How the immigration courts became part of the nation's law enforcement agency-and how to reshape them. During the Trump administration, the immigration courts were decried as more politicized enforcement weapon than impartial tribunal. Yet few people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935308379Author Ilya ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Cato Institute,U.S.Publisher Cato Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933995014Author Mark K. MollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cato Institute,U.S.Publisher Cato Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466318Author Sophie RigneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Progress was the byword of America's Gilded Age, a time of technological innovation, industrial growth, and overseas expansion. It was an era of emancipation for former slaves, settlement houses for immigrants, and colleges for women. Anti-saloon leagues...

This newest edition to The Supreme Court's Power in American Politics series explores and analyzes the dynamic alliances and tensions between the nation's chief executive and the Court over time. Through primary source and other documents and...

Law clerks have been a permanent fixture in the halls of the United States Supreme Court from its founding, but the relationship between clerks and their justices has generally been cloaked in secrecy. While the role of the justice is both public and...

Law clerks have been a permanent fixture in the halls of the United States Supreme Court from its founding, but the relationship between clerks and their justices has generally been cloaked in secrecy. While the role of the justice is both public and...

The Law As It Could Be gathers Fiss's most important work on procedure, adjudication and public reason, introduced by the author and including contextual introductions for each piece-some of which are among the most cited in Twentieth Century legal...

This book will appeal to researchers, scholars, and students of law and politics, Canadian politics, legal studies, political science, Canadian history, and public policy. Legal professionals, public officials, and members of the media will also find the...

Judicial Deliberations compares how and why the European Court of Justice, the French Cour de cassation and the US Supreme Court offer different approaches for generating judicial accountability and control, judicial debate and deliberation, and...

In the more than 30 years since the drug court model transformed the criminal justice landscape, problem-solving courts have expanded their reach beyond criminogenic needs. They now address demographic similarities (e.g., veterans courts, tribal wellness...

The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is important because of the enormous judicial power the Supreme Court exercises as the highest appellate court in the federal judiciary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600420559Author Marilyn EnglanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Vandeplas PublishingPublisher Vandeplas PublishingWeight(grams) 170g

This report contains synopses of Supreme Court decisions issued from the beginning of the October 2004 Term through the end of the Term on June 27, 2005. Included in this listing are all cases decided by signed opinion and selected cases decided per...

The selection and confirmation process for U.S. circuit and district court judges is of continuing interest to Congress. Recent Senate debates over judicial nominations have focused on issues such as the relative degree of success of President Barack...

In recent decades, Tribal Nations have faced significant problems in addressing public safety issues. Violent crime rates in Indian country are more than 2.5 times the national rate; some reservations face more than 20 times the national rate of violence...

The process of appointing Supreme Court Justices has undergone changes over two centuries, but its most basic feature -- the sharing of power between the President and Senate -- has remained unchanged. To receive a lifetime appointment to the Court, a...

The issue of whether or not to allow video cameras into the courtroom has been discussed and debated by Members of Congress, the legal community, journalists, and the public since the introduction of newsreel films in the early 20th century...

In the Senate Confirmation Hearings on his nomination, Chief Justice John Roberts memorably stated that he believed that the proper role of judges is "to call balls and strikes," an analogy repeated by Justice Kavanaugh in his hearings. This book makes...

This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan response to the varied legal questions of the past century. Canvassing the Court's jurisprudential history,...