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Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It by Richard L. Hasen 9780300274097
Booksplease Price: £13.92An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving American elections, and protecting democracy "Hasen puts forth a number of solid recommendations on... -
Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America by Eugene D. Mazo
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £41.28Thanks to a series of recent US Supreme Court decisions, corporations can now spend unlimited sums to influence elections, Super PACs and dark money groups are flourishing, and wealthy individuals... -
Free to Judge: The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections by Michael Kang 9781503627611
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02The idea that wealthy people use their money to influence things, including politics, law, and media will surprise very few people. However, as Michael S. Kang and Joanna Shepherd argue in this... -
Presidential Lies, the First Amendment, and Democracy by Catherine J. Ross
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In A Right to Lie?, legal scholar Catherine J. Ross addresses the urgent issue of whether the nation's highest officers, including the president, have a right to lie under the Speech Clause, no... -
Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing by Joan Howarth
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The comprehensive source on attorney licensing and how to reform it. In Shaping the Bar, Joan Howarth describes how the twin gatekeepers of the legal profession-law schools and licensers-are failing... -
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A Year at the Supreme Court by Neal E. Devins 9780822334378 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £5.80The United States Supreme Court's 2002-03 term confounded Court watchers. The same Rehnquist Court that many had seen as solidly conservative and unduly activist-the Court that helped decide the 2000... -
Dangerous Leaders: How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead by Anthony C. Thompson 9780804799256
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: all these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures... -
Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America by Eugene D. Mazo 9781107177635
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £84.67Thanks to a series of recent US Supreme Court decisions, corporations can now spend unlimited sums to influence elections, Super PACs and dark money groups are flourishing, and wealthy individuals... -
Originalism as Faith by Eric J. Segall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Originalism as Faith presents a comprehensive history of the originalism debates. It shows how the doctrine is rarely used by the Supreme Court, but is employed by academics, pundits and judges to... -
Whitewashed: America's Invisible Middle Eastern Minority by John Tehranian
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John Tehranian The Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on... -
Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality Nancy Leong 9781503640153
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Nancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond-and do better. Why do people accused of racism defend themselves by... -
Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power by Josh Blackman 9781107169012
Booksplease Price: £37.74Six years after its enactment, Obamacare remains one of the most controversial, divisive, and enduring political issues in America. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed... -
Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality by Nancy Leong 9781503610132
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Nancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond-and do better. Why do people accused of racism defend themselves by... -
Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom: The Dangerous Allure of Censorship in the Digital Era by Michael J. Glennon 9780197636763
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.56A brisk, practical defense of free speech in America's digital public square that calls on the courts to reject the censors' absolutism, enforce enduring First Amendment principles, and restore a... -
Whitewashed: America's Invisible Middle Eastern Minority by John Tehranian 9780814783061
Booksplease Price: £90.57Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John Tehranian The Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on... -
The Precarious Line: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment Devon W. Carbado 9781620974247
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.49How the Supreme Court's decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black people The summer of 2020 will be... -
Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy Derek W Black 9780300272826
Booksplease Price: £25.74The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them,... -
Principles Matter: The Constitution, Progressives, and the Trump Era by Carlos A. Ball
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.87Progressives who opposed the Trump administration's policies found themselves repeatedly relying on constitutional principles grounded in federalism, separation of powers, and free speech to resist... -
Equitable Sharing: Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society by Thomas Kleven 9781498521062
Booksplease Price: £51.70Equitable Sharing: Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society argues that a principle of equitable sharing-one that requires the benefits and detriments of social life to be... -
A Feminist Critique of Police Stops by Josephine Ross
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £30.45A Feminist Critique of Police Stops examines the parallels between stop-and-frisk policing and sexual harassment. An expert whose writing, teaching and community outreach centers on the... -
Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. 9780197662199
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £65.63Free Speech as Civic Structure:A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech examines and explains the limited relevance of constitutional text to the scope and... -
Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus The American People by Jamin B. Raskin 9780415948951
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The Supreme Court has recently issued decisions announcing that citizens have neither a constitutional right to vote, nor the right to an education. Conservative judges have continually disavowed... -
The Preventative State: The Challenge of Predicting and Preventing Cataclysmic Harms without Granting Too much Power to Government by Alan Dershowitz 9781641774406
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.79"You shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book."-Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme CourtIf reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty... -
Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus The American People by Jamin B. Raskin
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10The Supreme Court has recently issued decisions announcing that citizens have neither a constitutional right to vote, nor the right to an education. Conservative judges have continually disavowed... -
Education in Democracy: The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Schools Ronald C Den Otter 9780700641468
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £75.80In contrast to recent efforts to restrict students by putting more power in the hands of parents and school officials, Ronald C. Den Otter makes a bold and rigorously argued case for respecting the... -
Capitalism v. Democracy: Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution by Timothy K. Kuhner
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to become a Member of the House. High-priced campaigns, an... -
Education in Democracy: The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Schools Ronald C Den Otter 9780700641475
Booksplease Price: £28.57In contrast to recent efforts to restrict students by putting more power in the hands of parents and school officials, Ronald C. Den Otter makes a bold and rigorously argued case for respecting the... -
Privacy at the Margins by Scott Skinner-Thompson
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In Privacy at the Margins, Scott Skinner-Thompson... -
Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right by David M. Rabban 9780674291058
RRP: £83.95Booksplease Price: £67.80"The best kind of scholarship-deeply researched and immensely useful. Wherever you stand on issues of free speech and academic freedom, you will learn from this book." -Michael Roth, President of... -
Privacy at the Margins by Scott Skinner-Thompson 9781107181373
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In Privacy at the Margins, Scott Skinner-Thompson... -
Reason and Imagination: The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand by Constance Jordan 9780199899104
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.81Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court... -
The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall 9780195373707
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £38.28A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one... -
Capitalism v. Democracy: Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution by Timothy K. Kuhner 9780804780667
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to become a Member of the House. High-priced campaigns, an... -
Ending Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline by Derek W. Black 9781479882335
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Answers the calls of grassroots communities pressing for integration and increased education funding with a complete rethinking of school discipline In the era of zero tolerance, we are flooded with... -
The People's Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union by John F. Kowal
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £23.16The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democratic Who wrote the... -
Making Habeas Work: A Legal History by Eric M. Freedman 9781479870974
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65A reconsideration of the writ of habeas corpus casts new light on a range of current issues Habeas corpus, the storied Great Writ of Liberty, is a judicial order that requires government... -
The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censor's Dilemma by Robert Corn-Revere
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.60Beginning in the nineteenth century with Anthony Comstock, America's 'censor in chief,' The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder explores how censors operate and why they wore out their... -
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse by Marjorie Cohn
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £18.55One of the most comprehensive examinations of US torture policy, from the Cold War to the War on Terror to the debate over accountability Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation... -
Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students' First Amendment Rights by Catherine J. Ross 9780674057746
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.43American public schools often censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Lessons in Censorship brings clarity to a bewildering array of court rulings that define the speech... -
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse by Marjorie Cohn 9780814769829
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82One of the most comprehensive examinations of US torture policy, from the Cold War to the War on Terror to the debate over accountability Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation...