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The Embattled Constitution by Norman Dorsen 9780814770122
Booksplease Price: £56.26"An indispensable and provocative guide through the thicket of today's most challenging constitutional controversies by some of the most eminent judges of their time. It offers an invaluable peek... -
The Unpredictable Constitution by Norman Dorsen 9780814719480
Booksplease Price: £90.87The Unpredictable Constitution brings together a distinguished group of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judges, who are some of our most prominent legal scholars, to discuss an... -
The Constitutional Rights of Children: In re Gault and Juvenile Justice by David S. Tanenhaus 9780700625048
Booksplease Price: £31.30This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Court's juvenile justice decisions including Miller v. Alabama; explains how disregard for... -
Human Rights for the 21st Century: Foundation for Responsible Hope Peter Juviler 9781563241109
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64Leading specialists and activists from Russia and the USA join, in this volume, to offer a searching assessment of human rights in their own countries and in the world at large. They reflect on past... -
Human Rights for the 21st Century: Foundation for Responsible Hope: Foundation for Responsible Hope by Peter Juviler 9781563240447
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Leading specialists and activists from Russia and the USA join, in this volume, to offer a searching assessment of human rights in their own countries and in the world at large. They reflect on past... -
Equality by John W. Chapman
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Equality--the battle cry of the French Revolution--has come to be accepted as everyone's birthright today. But what is equality? Is it a chimera in a world manifestly still abounding in inequality... -
When At Times The Mob Is Swayed: A Citizen's Guide to Defending Our Republic by Burt Neuborne 9781620973585
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.71On November 9, 2016, many Americans feared that their democracy was on the verge of collapse. But is it? In an erudite and brilliant evaluation of the current state of the US government, noted... -
Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment by Burt Neuborne 9781620970416
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.71One 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... -
Speech and Equality: Do We Really Have to Choose? by Gara Lamarche 9780814751053
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Conflict is the essence of civil liberty. Individual, or group, rights are rarely, if ever, recognized without a struggle. From the day that King John was forced at Runnymede to acknowledge that his... -
John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court by Tinsley E. Yarbrough 9780195060904
Booksplease Price: £51.93John Marshall Harlan served on the Supreme Court from 1955 until his retirement and death in 1971. An articulate and forceful critic of the expansive civil liberties doctrines and constitutional... -
The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy by Morton J. Horwitz 9780195092592
Booksplease Price: £34.67When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal... -
Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed by David Cole 9781541616578
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.84Donald Trump's policies, from his travel ban to his approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline, have prompted an immediate response from concerned liberals. Yet what effect can protest truly have in the... -
The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights by James W. Ely 9780195323337
Booksplease Price: £41.15The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain... -
Persons and Masks of the Law: Cardozo, Holmes, Jefferson, and Wythe as Makers of the Masks John T. Noonan, Jr. 9780520235236
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Legal thought in this country has always focused on the rules rather than on the persons affected by the rules. Persons and Masks of the Law restores the balance by taking a person-centered view of... -
The Rights Revolution: Rights and Community in Modern America by Samuel Walker 9780195090253
Booksplease Price: £28.55The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights. This "Rights Revolution" is currently under attack by both mainstream... -
Taming the Electoral College by Robert W. Bennett
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Taming the Electoral College explores poorly understood aspects of the electoral college, including two possibilities in particular that could pose the most serious danger for American democracy... -
When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate by Philippa Strum
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the Chicago suburb of Skokie, one out of every six Jewish citizens in the late 1970s was a survivor--or was directly related to a survivor--of the Holocaust. These victims of terror had resettled... -
The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic by Patrick Weil
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, and live where they choose-at home or... -
The People's Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union by John F. Kowal
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £25.92The 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... -
Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies by Sanford Levinson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Is it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to...