Courts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871542557Author Malcolm M. FeeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage FoundationWeight(grams) 400g

The single most important issue in American constitutional law is the role the Supreme Court should play in interpretation of the constitution. This issue has been a source of controversy since at least 1803, when Chief Justice John Marshall proclaimed...

Although the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals are the final word on 99 percent of all federal cases, there is no detailed account of how these courts operate. How do judges decide which decisions are binding precedents and which are not? Who...

Although the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals are the final word on 99 percent of all federal cases, there is no detailed account of how these courts operate. How do judges decide which decisions are binding precedents and which are not? Who...

After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert...

Courts and Country is the first book to examine the changing role of courts in the context of the entire Canadian legal system and in view of broader concerns about Canada's political culture. It examines Canada's reliance on the courts in a wide range...

Courts around the globe have become central players in governance, those in Southeast Asia have been no exception. This Element analyses the historical foundations, patterns, and drivers of judicialization of politics by mapping critical junctures that...

Why do appellate courts always have an odd number of judges? And what does the answer tell us about changing concepts of law? How can common law be unconstitutional? Why does the power of judges depend on accurate court reporting? Because legal education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313200359Author Howard BallFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761921943Author Lynn CopenFormat PaperbackImprint SAGE Publications IncPublisher SAGE Publications Inc

The United Nations system's foundational principle of sovereign equality reflects persistent disagreement within its membership as to what constitutes a legitimate and just internal public order. While the boundaries of the system's pluralism have...

Measuring Judicial Activism supplies empirical analysis to the widely discussed concept of judicial activism at the United States Supreme Court. Complaints about activist Court decisions are common within contemporary political discourse, but these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837103358Author Edmond CahnFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Pushing past the standard federal-state narrative, the essays in Florida's Other Courts examine eight little-known Florida courts. In doing so, they fill a longstanding gap in the state's legal literature.In Part I, the contributors profile Florida's...

This book is a historical study of jurisprudence focused on the assessment of the role of the Supreme Court in public school integration in the mid-twentieth century. The manner in which the principal Supreme Court decisions are illuminated by the...

With a survey of the thirty Supreme Court cases that, in the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators and legal historians, are the most important for American citizens to understand, The Pursuit of Justice is the perfect...

We are now more than half a century removed from height of the rights revolution, a time when the federal government significantly increased legal protection for disadvantaged individuals and groups, leading in the process to a dramatic expansion in...

Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law. Given our adversarial system, the way that rights cases are decided means that regardless of whether a losing side has committed any actions that cause...

Many legal scholars believe that judges should not be "activists." But exactly what does it mean for judges to practice "restraint," and how did that set of practices evolve in America? In Judicial Restraint in America: How the...

Decision days appear to outsiders as among the most dramatic events on the Supreme Court calendar. One thinks, for instance, of Chief Justice Earl Warren, reading the unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education in a courtroom pervaded by tension...

In The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution, Tinsley Yarbrough provides a comprehensive look at today's Supreme Court Justices and their record-a study all the more valuable for the Court's mixed decisions and hard-to-categorize course. An accomplished...

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was first Afro-American Justice. The first book on Justice Thurgood...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Supreme Court nomination was usually quick and painless. A president nominated a prospective Justice who was typically confirmed within ten days, and with little publicity. It was essentially a process...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956220735Author Sean OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Expert PressPublisher Expert PressWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991048523Author Bruce MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Pacific Trust Holdings Nz Ltd.Publisher Pacific Trust Holdings Nz Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Courts around the globe have become central players in governance, those in Southeast Asia have been no exception. This Element analyses the historical foundations, patterns, and drivers of judicialization of politics by mapping critical junctures that...

This indispensable work traces impeachment from its bloody origins in medieval England, to its adoption in the Constitution, and through 250 years of American experience culminating in the two impeachments of Donald Trump. Frank O. Bowman III tells the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991048509Author Bruce MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Pacific Trust Holdings Nz Ltd.Publisher Pacific Trust Holdings Nz Ltd.Weight(grams) 154g

The Crisis in America's 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, that...

This book analyzes the position of the ICC in relation to national court systems. The research illustrates that what seemed to be a straight forward relationship between the ICC and national courts under the complementarity mechanism, proves to be much...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778380433Author Peter TremblayFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Agora CosmopolitanPublisher Agora CosmopolitanWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605207308Author George J Jr EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 440g

Conveys the essence of the confirmation hearing which turned into the remarkable seminar on constitutional law in the history of the US Senate.Book InformationISBN 9781558763753Author Ralph E. ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Markus Wiener...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640020610Author Michigan Legal Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Michigan Legal Publishing Ltd.Publisher Michigan Legal Publishing Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610272414Author Marc GalanterFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637774472Author Brian VukadinovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Red Penguin BooksPublisher Red Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

This indispensable work traces impeachment from its bloody origins in medieval England, to its adoption in the Constitution, and through 250 years of American experience culminating in the two impeachments of Donald Trump. Frank O. Bowman III tells the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880780213Author Steve GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Excellent BooksPublisher Excellent BooksWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911121961Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Dark RiverPublisher Dark RiverWeight(grams) 336g