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Thurgood Marshall: Race, Rights, and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union by Charles L. Zelden
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. He was the first African American to hold that position, and was one of the most influential legal actors of his... -
'To Save the People from Themselves': The Emergence of American Judicial Review and the Transformation of Constitutions by Robert J. Steinfeld 9781108984591
Booksplease Price: €36.25In this expansive history, Robert J. Steinfeld offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of American judicial review and the central role it quickly came to play in the American... -
Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal Imagination Paul W. Kahn 9780300243413
RRP: €44.63Booksplease Price: €38.08An 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... -
Liberty Under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life by William M. Wiecek
Booksplease Price: €34.39The two-hundredth anniversary of the U.S. Constitution and the intense debates surrounding the recent nominees to the Supreme Court have refocused attention on one of the most fundamental documents... -
Terrorism and the Constitution: The Post-9/11 Cases by H. L. Pohlman 9780742560413
Booksplease Price: €55.07This book contributes to the ongoing national debate on civil liberties during the war on terrorism by providing easy access to relevant documents from major post-9/11 cases. The book's goal is to... -
Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall by Scott Douglas Gerber 9780814731147
Booksplease Price: €108.14Seldom has American law seen a more towering figure than Chief Justice John Marshall. Indeed, Marshall is almost universally regarded as the "father of the Supreme Court" and "the jurist who started... -
American Law in a Global Context: The Basics by George Philip Fletcher 9780195167238
Booksplease Price: €67.26American Law in a Global Context is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global persepctive. There is no basic book that introduces the foreign lawyer who has... -
Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 by Earl M. Maltz 9780700616664
Booksplease Price: €72.92During America's turbulent antebellum era, the Supreme Court decided important cases - most famously Dred Scott - that spoke to sectional concerns and shaped the nation's response to the slavery... -
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System by Duncan Kennedy
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was... -
Adjudicating Revolution: Courts and Constitutional Change Richard S. Kay 9781788971324
Booksplease Price: €129.78Lawyers usually describe a revolution as a change in a constitutional order not authorized by law. From this perspective, to speak of a 'lawful' or an 'unlawful' revolution would seem to involve a... -
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War by Mark A Graber 9780700639496
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94In contemporary constitutional politics, Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment-which includes the citizenship, privileges and immunities, due process, and equal protection clauses-is the star of the... -
States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies by Nomi Claire Lazar
Booksplease Price: €42.21In an emergency, statesmen concentrate power and suspend citizens' rights. These emergency powers are ubiquitous in the crisis government of liberal democracies, but their nature and justification is... -
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System by Duncan Kennedy 9780814747780
Booksplease Price: €107.78In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was... -
The Flexible Constitution by Sean Wilson 9780739197301
Booksplease Price: €61.52This is an ambitious work on constitutional theory. Influenced by the views of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sean Wilson tackles the problem of how a judge can obey a document written in ordinary, flexible... -
Habeas Corpus in America: The Politics of Individual Rights by Justin J. Wert 9780700636020
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.80For most Americans, habeas corpus is the cornerstone of our legal system: the principal constitutional check on arbitrary government power, allowing an arrested person to challenge the legality of... -
Pack the Court!: A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion by Stephen M. Feldman
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the House and Senate during the Biden presidency, they... -
Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity by Ran Hirschl 9781009473248
Booksplease Price: €133.79Constitutional identity has become one of the most important and hotly contested concepts in contemporary constitutional theory and practice. It has been repeatedly invoked in debates concerning EU... -
Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism by Elizabeth A. Fisher 9781849460880
Booksplease Price: €48.05Over the last decade the regulatory evaluation of environmental and public health risks has been one of the most legally controversial areas of contemporary government activity. As this award-winning... -
Pack the Court!: A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion by Stephen M. Feldman 9781439921586
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the House and Senate during the Biden presidency, they... -
Law's Evolution and Human Understanding by Laurence Claus 9780199735099
Booksplease Price: €127.68When should we follow the law? How can we know what law's words mean? What ^iis^r law? ^b^iLaw's Evolution and Human Understanding^r^r presents fresh and surprising answers to these questions. In an... -
Constitutional Convergence in East Asia Po Jen Yap 9781108926416
Booksplease Price: €34.00This comparative study of the constitutional jurisprudence of three East Asian jurisdictions investigates how the rulings of the Constitutional Court of Taiwan, the Constitutional Court of Korea and... -
The Implosion of American Federalism by Robert F. Nagel 9780195158410
Booksplease Price: €37.43At a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious? Why the talk-among politicians, academics, and jurists-of "coups d'etat," of... -
The Democratic Coup d'Etat by Ozan Varol 9780190626020
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €40.20The term coup d'etat--French for stroke of the state--brings to mind coups staged by power-hungry generals who overthrow the existing regime, not to democratize, but to concentrate power in their own... -
Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court: Law, Power, and Democracy by Stephen M. Feldman 9780814764664
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €47.48In this concise, timely book, constitutional law expert Stephen M. Feldman draws on neoconservative writings to explore the rise of the neocons and their influence on the Supreme Court. Neocons burst... -
The Violence of Law: The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda Jens Meierhenrich 9781108442282
Booksplease Price: €43.36'Lawfare' describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends. This provocative book examines this insufficiently understood form of warfare in post-genocide Rwanda, where it... -
Constitutional Convergence in East Asia by Po Jen Yap 9781108831178
Booksplease Price: €132.26This comparative study of the constitutional jurisprudence of three East Asian jurisdictions investigates how the rulings of the Constitutional Court of Taiwan, the Constitutional Court of Korea and... -
Congress and the Constitution by Neal E. Devins 9780822336129
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a skeptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress's capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned... -
Emergency Powers in Asia: Exploring the Limits of Legality by Victor V. Ramraj 9780521768900
Booksplease Price: €106.97What is the relevance of contemporary debates over emergency powers for countries situated in Asia? What role does, and should, the constitution play in constraining these powers? The essays in this... -
The Latin American Casebook: Courts, Constitutions, and Rights Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu 9781138483842
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €57.69Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions. This casebook... -
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War by Mark A. Graber 9780700635030
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €47.01In contemporary constitutional politics, Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment-which includes the citizenship, privileges and immunities, due process, and equal protection clauses-is the star of the... -
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Congress and the Constitution by Neal E. Devins 9780822335863 [USED COPY]
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €4.97For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a skeptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress's capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned... -
Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody: The True Story of Lies and Libel in Dominion V. Fox Ian Rosenberg 9781479833016
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.55Exposes the definitive story of Dominion v. Fox, revealing how election lies tested media power and reshaped the future of democracyDominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network is the watershed media... -
Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey by Mary L. Dudziak 9780195329018
Booksplease Price: €32.82Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a crossroads. A rising generation of... -
Pushback: The Political Fallout of Unpopular Supreme Court Decisions by Dave Bridge 9780826223036
RRP: €58.25Booksplease Price: €50.08The Supreme Court has usually operated in majoritarian fashion but not always, and when it hasn't done so, the consequences of its decisions have had an extremely important impact on the Court,... -
Bleached Faith: The Tragic Cost When Religion Is Forced into the Public Square by Steven Goldberg 9780804758611
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €20.71Public recognition of religion has been a part of American political life from the beginning of our country, and that is not going to change. But in recent years, the effort by some to challenge the... -
Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era by Vicki C. Jackson 9780199934690
Booksplease Price: €92.94Constitutional law in the United States and around the world now operates within an increasingly transnational legal environment of international treaties, customary international law, supranational... -
The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community by Michel Rosenfeld 9780415949743
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23The last fifty years has seen a worldwide trend toward constitutional democracy. But can constitutionalism become truly global?Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitutional... -
How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies by Stein Ringen
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €25.54Times have not been kind to democracy. This book is in its defense. In the new century, the triumph of democracy at the end of the Cold War turned to retrenchment. The core democracies, in... -
Constitutional Remedies in Asia by Po Jen Yap 9780367660697
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugned law to the extent of its inconsistency with the... -
Constitutionalism and a Right to Effective Government? by Vicki C. Jackson
Booksplease Price: €110.12Nations around the world are facing various crises of ineffective government. Basic governmental functions-protecting rights, preventing violence, and promoting material well-being-are compromised,...