Jurisprudence and general issues

While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law.

Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape.

This book addresses the myriad controversies and examines the evidence regarding capital punishment in America.

A thorough and timely investigation of both well-established and emerging crime and punishment issues, this book provides readers with compelling examples of how different countries around the world confront these problems.

Learn how to assist library patrons, including self-represented litigants, through legal research instruction, programming, and outreach.

The United States, often described as a nation of immigrants, has the most diverse population in the world.

Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.

This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.

This invaluable resource investigates U.

In the context of the 2016 presidential election, which was rife with charges of sexist actions, this book explains how common such behavior is among executives, why law doesn't protect victims, and how female professionals can bring change.

This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as we know it.

This volume presents a comprehensive, unbiased, and easily accessible review of U.

Taking an innovative approach, this book looks at how U.

How often is the defense of insanity or temporary insanity for accused criminals valid-or is it ever legitimate?

This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and scholarship to examine forced migration, refugee resettlement, asylum seeker experiences, policies and programs for refugee well-being in North America and Europe.

Ronald Reagan's presidency marked a pivotal shift in American politics, culture, and global relations.

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash.

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence?

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different.

As in a number of France s major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executions.

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection.

Constitutional litigation in general attracts two distinct types of conflict: disputes of a highly politicized or culturally controversial nature and requests from citizens claiming a violation of a fundamental constitutional right.

How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning?

Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing obsession.

This book provides social work practitioners and allied professionals with an applied understanding of the formal legislation, policy and guidance relating to young people who are considered 'at risk' of, accused of, or convicted of involvement in offending or anti-social behaviour.

Increasingly, therapy practitioners and researchers position themselves within a pluralistic perspective that draws on the value of multiple sources of knowledge.

Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world?

The First Amendment is the principle guarantor of speech rights in the United States.

In tracking the evolution of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clause doctrine through Key Supreme Court decisions on religious freedom, legal scholar Randall P.

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Whether it is doing a TEDx, presenting a podcast, sharing on social media, presenting at a conference, or pitching to a potential funder, engaging with storytelling and performance is now a prerequisite of an academics 'modus operandi.

In eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began rethinking its contractual foundation.

Following the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election of 2016, many prominent scholars and political pundits argued that a successful Democratic Party in the future must abandon identity politics.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, Third Edition, provides content required to deliver the best care for critically ill or injured children.

Winner: Bancroft PrizeWinner: Henry Adams PrizeWinner: Ohio History Association Book PrizeIn time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution.

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.

Are judges' decisions more likely to be based on personal inclinations or legal authority?

In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J.

Since 1980, the number of people in U.

In 1993, Jose Medelln, an eighteen-year-old Mexican national who lived most of his life in the United States, was arrested for his participation in the gang rape and murder of two girls in Houston, Texas.

Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Africa.

Although there are legal norms to secure the uniform treatment of asylum claims in the United States, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that strategic and economic interests also influence asylum outcomes.

Taking the long view of conflicts between truth and political powerWhat role does truth play in government?

When, in Obergefell v.

Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years.

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

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Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy over affirmative action.