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Interpreting the Constitution by Erwin Chemerinsky 9780275926748
Booksplease Price: $92.69Interpreting The Constitution doesn't fit neatly into the extensive literature on judicial review and constitutional interpretation that reconciles judicial review with democracy defined as majority... -
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution by Erwin Chemerinsky 9781416574675
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $20.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416574675Author Erwin ChemerinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
The Case Against the Supreme Court by Erwin Chemerinsky 9780143128007
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $16.07Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky-"one of the shining lights of legal academia" (The New York... -
Enhancing Government: Federalism for the 21st Century by Erwin Chemerinsky
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24Federalism-the division of power between national and state governments-has been a divisive issue throughout American history. Conservatives argued in support of federalism and states' rights to... -
Aspen Treatise for Federal Jurisdiction by Erwin Chemerinsky 9781543813715
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $122.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543813715Author Erwin ChemerinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1184Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher... -
Constitutional Law: Principles and Polices by Erwin Chemerinsky 9781543857597
RRP: $163.77Booksplease Price: $152.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543857597Author Erwin ChemerinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1560Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher... -
The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State by Erwin Chemerinsky
RRP: $31.59Booksplease Price: $23.94Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided. And, with recent changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, First... -
Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism by Erwin Chemerinsky 9780300273984
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.16Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation "Chemerinsky . . . offers a concise, point-by-point refutation of the theory [of... -
Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times Erwin Chemerinsky 9780300270983
Booksplease Price: $33.20Expert guidance for navigating the difficult new issues around free speech rights in higher education In their earlier book, Free Speech on Campus, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman argued that... -
No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States Erwin Chemerinsky 9781324096887
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.73The Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws-its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the... -
We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century by Erwin Chemerinsky 9781250166005
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250166005Author Erwin ChemerinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Picador USAPublisher... -
Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable by Erwin Chemerinsky
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $33.86A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much... -
No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States Erwin Chemerinsky 9781324091585
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.11Deeply troubled by the US Constitution's inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that the nearly 250-year-old founding document is... -
Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment by Burt Neuborne 9781620970416
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.43One of America's foremost civil liberties lawyers challenges our understanding of how US democracy works with a radical new reading of a founding document.ReviewsPraise for Madison's Music "A... -
Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise by Malcolm M. Feeley 9780472034819
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $30.02Federalism is one of the most influential concepts in modern political discourse as well as the focus of immense controversy resulting from the lack of a single coherent definition. Malcolm M. Feeley... -
The Law & Society Anthology: Justice in 21st Century America and Beyond by Paul Lohse 9798823311717
Booksplease Price: $78.75The Law and Society Anthology: Justice in 21st Century America and Beyond provides students with a curated collection of readings that reinforce important legal concepts and provide insight into... -
The New States of Abortion Politics by Joshua C. Wilson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v. Coakley striking down a Massachusetts law regulating anti-abortion activism marked the reengagement of the Supreme Court in abortion politics. A throwback... -
The Fallacies of States' Rights by Sotirios A. Barber 9780674066670
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $44.90The idea that "states' rights" restrain national power is riding high in American judicial and popular opinion. Here, Sotirios A. Barber shows how arguments for states' rights, from the days of John... -
American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom by Andrew L Seidel
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70Is a fight against equality and for privilege a fight for religious supremacy? Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional attorney and author of the critically acclaimed book The Founding Myth: Why Christian... -
Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning by Edward Schiappa 9780809325016
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $32.95In Defining Reality, Edward Schiappa argues that definitional disputes should be treated less as philosophical questions of "is"and more as sociopolitical questions of "ought." Instead of asking... -
Defending Due Process: Why Fairness Matters in a Polarized World Brandon L. Garrett 9781509563876
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.03We all feel unfairness deeply when treated in rash ways. We expect and the law requires that government officials take fairness seriously, giving notice and an opportunity to be heard before taking... -
Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice by Marjorie Cohn 9780786466078
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50Do cameras influence courtroom proceedings? What effect, if any, do they have on trial participants? What implications do televised trials have on due process? Why have the courts, including the... -
Controversies in Equal Protection Cases in America: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation by Dr. Anne Richardson Oakes 9781138732179
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.26This collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA, as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. Contributors with a range of perspectives interrogate the... -
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II by John Higham
Booksplease Price: $42.52The persistence of racial inequality in a democratic society may be the gravest problem confronting the United States. It has surely been the most intractable. Yet the torrent of scholarship and... -
How AI, Metaverses, Crypto, and Cyber will Upend the 21st Century Jon M. Garon 9781035301553
Booksplease Price: $138.07This book explores the metamorphosis of fundamental social interactions and communal experiences, fuelled by technologies such as artificial intelligence, immersive online environments, augmented... -
Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court—and How We Can Fix It by Aaron Tang 9780300264036
Booksplease Price: $33.20How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely... -
The U.S. Supreme Court in American Society: Historical Perspectives James Hart 9781035349265
Booksplease Price: $112.62This insightful book examines the U.S. Supreme Court in a broad historical context, concentrating on the influence of political movements, military and economic developments, the arts and technology... -
Wholesale Justice: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class Action Lawsuit by Martin H. Redish
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In recent years, much political and legal debate has centered on the class action lawsuit. Many lawyers and judges have noted the intense pressure to settle caused by the very filing of a suit. Some... -
Lawyers, Liars, and the Art of Storytelling: Using Stories to Advocate, Influence, and Persuade by Jonathan Shapiro 9781627229265
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.45Nobody I know is funnier, smarter, or has a wider breadth of references than my friend Jonathan Shapiro. This book is a bit of a miracle: informative, insightful, poetic, and funny. -Paul Reiser,... -
Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice: Public Service and the Professions by Deborah L. Rhode 9780804751070
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23This book explores the aspirational principles and actual practices concerning lawyers' pro bono service. It begins from the premise that both the profession and the public have much to gain from... -
Advanced Introduction to US Civil Liberties Susan N. Herman 9781800376670
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $25.09Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be... -
Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship by Leo R. Chavez
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants." Even as the question of... -
Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics by Stephen E. Gottlieb 9781479823147
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their... -
Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique Jonathan Gienapp 9780300284874
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.96A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority "What are the chances... -
American Justice 2017: The Supreme Court in Crisis by Kimberly Robinson 9780812249972
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27With the death of associate justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court was plunged into crisis. Refusing to hold hearings or confirm the nominee of a Democratic president almost a year away from a... -
The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten a Free Press by Amy Gajda 9780674368323
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $39.27In determining the news that's fit to print, U.S. courts have traditionally declined to second-guess professional journalists. But in an age when news, entertainment, and new media outlets are... -
The Conservative Case for Class Actions by Brian T. Fitzpatrick 9780226816739
Booksplease Price: $30.79Since the 1960s, the class action lawsuit has been a powerful tool for holding businesses accountable. Yet years of attacks by corporate America and unfavorable rulings by the Supreme Court have left... -
We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court, Eight Cases That Subverted Civil Liberties and Civil Rights by Michael Avery 9780814707234
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $39.38The lawyers and legal commentators who contribute to We Dissent unanimously agree that during Chief Justice William Rehnquist's nineteen-year tenure, the Supreme Court failed to adequately protect... -
The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals by Michael Avery 9780826518774
Booksplease Price: $95.25Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organisation with extraordinary... -
A Year at the Supreme Court by Neal Devins 9780822334484
Booksplease Price: $43.06The 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...