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Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era by Vicki C. Jackson 9780195333442
Booksplease Price: £120.25Constitutional law in the United States and around the world now operates within an increasingly transnational legal environment of international treaties, customary international law, multilateral... -
How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies by Stein Ringen
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.46Times 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... -
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: £61.00Alfred 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: £90.57Legal 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... -
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights Risa L. Goluboff 9780674034693
Booksplease Price: £29.25Listen 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... -
Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism by Ran Hirschl
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50In countries and supranational entities around the globe, constitutional reform has transferred an unprecedented amount of power from representative institutions to judiciaries. The... -
Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment: Enforcing Liberty and Equality in the States by William B. Glidden 9781498515344
Booksplease Price: £46.74The 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... -
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: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Legal 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... -
Outlaw: Six Lessons for a Brave New World C.L. Skach 9781526693952
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Winner: 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... -
Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning by Keith E. Whittington 9780674005839
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.13This 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: £44.37The 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... -
The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History by Peter Charles Hoffer 9781479830220
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Finalist, 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: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.00Was 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: £112.65Constitutional 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: £70.89This 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: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Was 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: £35.47Since 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... -
Long Wars and the Constitution by Stephen M. Griffin 9780674058286
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22In 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: £61.35At 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: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Exposes 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: £26.72This 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law by Roger Masterman 9781316618172
Booksplease Price: £40.20What 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: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.48The 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law by Roger Masterman
Booksplease Price: £106.98What 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: £35.77The 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: £58.95Booksplease Price: £54.40Regulation 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: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Slavery, 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: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.60The 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: £71.00Booksplease Price: £69.20Free 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... -
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: £25.48University, 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... -
Reproductive Rights in New York and New Jersey: Abortion, the Empire, and the Garden by Jonathan F. Parent 9781498555531
Booksplease Price: £96.35New 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: £115.18Within 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... -
Colombian Constitutional Law: Leading Cases by Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa
Booksplease Price: £125.83This book provides in English the case law of the Colombian Constitutional Court, which has become one of the most creative and important courts of the global south and the world since its creation... -
The Politico-Legal Dynamics of Judicial Review: A Comparative Analysis by Theunis Roux 9781108425421
Booksplease Price: £79.06Comparative 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: £40.19In 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: £41.37Comparative 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: £31.28A 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Less 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: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.65This 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,...