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How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies by Stein Ringen
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $45.07Times 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... -
Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism by Ran Hirschl
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $47.25In countries and supranational entities around the globe, constitutional reform has transferred an unprecedented amount of power from representative institutions to judiciaries. The... -
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights Risa L. Goluboff 9780674034693
Booksplease Price: $61.43Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneIn this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American... -
University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War by Alfred L. Brophy 9780199964239
Booksplease Price: $128.10Alfred L. Brophy's University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people -- sometimes... -
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision by Jack M. Balkin 9780814798898
Booksplease Price: $190.20Legal experts rewrite the landmark court decision Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the... -
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision by Jack M. Balkin
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Legal experts rewrite the landmark court decision Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the... -
Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment: Enforcing Liberty and Equality in the States by William B. Glidden 9781498515344
Booksplease Price: $98.15The discrepancy between the fourteenth amendment's true meaning as originally understood, and the Supreme Court's interpretation of its meaning over time, has been dramatic and unfortunate. The... -
Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning by Keith E. Whittington 9780674005839
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $71.67This book argues that the Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect, on which legal scholars have focused, is the degree to which the Constitution acts as a binding set of rules that can be... -
Choosing Equality: Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience by Robert L. Hayman 9780271034348
Booksplease Price: $93.18The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 has long been heralded as a landmark in the progress of civil rights in the United States. But as the forces opposing affirmative... -
Outlaw: Six Lessons for a Brave New World C.L. Skach 9781526693952
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'When a renowned constitutional scholar explains why the law is not enough and is sometimes even the problem, we need to listen' PETER GRAY, AUTHOR OF FREE TO LEARN'Skach convincingly tells us that... -
Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present by Keith E. Whittington 9780700630363
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.00Winner: Thomas M. Cooley Book PrizeThomas M. Cooley Book Prize Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWhen the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the... -
The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History by Peter Charles Hoffer 9781479830220
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39Finalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: Legal Studies and Criminology A history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the land In May 2022, a seismic legal event occurred as the draft... -
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Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth by Pamela Brandwein 9780822322849 [USED COPY]
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $18.90Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation? Was it over when the social, economic, and political situation for African Americans no longer mimicked the conditions of slavery? If the... -
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions by Richard Albert 9780190640484
Booksplease Price: $236.57Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and... -
Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts by William Partlett 9781509972203
Booksplease Price: $148.87This book challenges the common view that the Russian Constitution is a sham or a reflection of Russia's authoritarian past.It instead shows that the Russian Constitution was a product of the... -
Long Wars and the Constitution by Stephen M. Griffin 9780674058286
RRP: $88.10Booksplease Price: $73.96In a wide-ranging constitutional history of presidential war decisions from 1945 to the present, Stephen M. Griffin rethinks the long-running debate over the "imperial presidency" and concludes that... -
The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty by Helen J. Knowles 9780742562578
Booksplease Price: $128.84At the ideological center of the Supreme Court sits Anthony M. Kennedy, whose pivotal role on the Rehnquist Court is only expected to grow in importance now that he is the lone "swing Justice" on the... -
The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism Ray Brescia 9781479832330
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $50.95Exposes the threats to our personal and political identity in the age of surveillance It has become alarmingly clear that our online actions are less private than we're led to believe. Our data is... -
Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts William Partlett 9781509972197
Booksplease Price: $56.11This book challenges the common view that the Russian Constitution is a sham or a reflection of Russia's authoritarian past.It instead shows that the Russian Constitution was a product of the... -
Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth by Pamela Brandwein 9780822323167
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation? Was it over when the social, economic, and political situation for African Americans no longer mimicked the conditions of slavery? If the... -
Democracy and Legal Change by Melissa Schwartzberg 9780521146579
Booksplease Price: $74.49Since ancient Athens, democrats have taken pride in their power and inclination to change their laws, yet they have also sought to counter this capacity by creating immutable laws. In Democracy and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law by Roger Masterman 9781316618172
Booksplease Price: $84.42What is the purpose of comparative constitutional law? Comparing constitutions allows us to consider the similarities and differences in forms of government, and the normative philosophies behind... -
The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020 by Lucas A. Powe 9780700632817
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $59.81The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020, Expanded Second Edition is a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In... -
Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. 9780197662199
RRP: $149.10Booksplease Price: $145.32Free 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law by Roger Masterman
Booksplease Price: $224.66What is the purpose of comparative constitutional law? Comparing constitutions allows us to consider the similarities and differences in forms of government, and the normative philosophies behind... -
The Disappearing First Amendment by Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. 9781108722919
Booksplease Price: $75.12The standard account of the First Amendment presupposes that the Supreme Court has consistently expanded the scope of free speech rights over time. This account holds true in some areas, but not in... -
Comparative Law and Regulation: Understanding the Global Regulatory Process Francesca Bignami 9781788118538
RRP: $123.80Booksplease Price: $114.24Regulation today is global. It affects everything from e-commerce to product safety to air quality and much more. How is regulation made and enforced in the multiple domestic and international... -
Great Cases in Constitutional Law by Robert P. George
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14Slavery, segregation, abortion, workers' rights, the power of the courts. These issues have been at the heart of the greatest constitutional controversies in American history. And in this concise and... -
The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020 by Lucas A. Powe 9780700632800
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $135.66The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020, Expanded Second Edition is a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In... -
Reproductive Rights in New York and New Jersey: Abortion, the Empire, and the Garden by Jonathan F. Parent 9781498555531
Booksplease Price: $202.34New York and New Jersey maintain almost identical laws dealing with abortion, but the process for developing those laws differed in each state. Courts were heavily involved in New Jersey, whereas... -
Outsourcing Rulemaking Powers: Constitutional limits and national safeguards by Cedric Jenart 9780192897831
Booksplease Price: $241.88Within democratic states, parliaments have always been regarded as playing a pivotal role in the creation of rules. Through its composition, parliament represents the opinions and interests of... -
University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War by Alfred L. Brophy 9780190933760
Booksplease Price: $53.51University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people-sometimes dozens of people-and... -
The Politico-Legal Dynamics of Judicial Review: A Comparative Analysis by Theunis Roux 9781108425421
Booksplease Price: $166.03Comparative scholarship on judicial review has paid a lot of attention to the causal impact of politics on judicial decision-making. However, the slower-moving, macro-social process through which... -
The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review by Larry D. Kramer 9780195306453
Booksplease Price: $84.40In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and... -
The Politico-Legal Dynamics of Judicial Review: A Comparative Analysis by Theunis Roux 9781108442329
Booksplease Price: $86.88Comparative scholarship on judicial review has paid a lot of attention to the causal impact of politics on judicial decision-making. However, the slower-moving, macro-social process through which... -
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Michael J. Klarman
Booksplease Price: $65.69A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court... -
Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life by Jay Wexler 9781503614994
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. These non-Christians have increasingly been demanding... -
Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West by Michael J. Broyde 9780190640286
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $200.87This book explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and other values-oriented communities, and it argues that secular societies should use secular legal frameworks to facilitate, enforce,... -
Foreign Judges in the Pacific by Dr Anna Dziedzic 9781509942909
Booksplease Price: $93.05This book explores the use of foreign judges on courts of constitutional jurisdiction in 9 Pacific states: Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu... -
The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court by Neal Devins
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $56.89Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them? The intuitive response of most is "yes," and most point to trends in electoral politics as well as the nature of...