Jurisprudence and general issues

On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts in Orange County, California, to end the segregation of ethnic Mexican children.

The idea of constitutional identity has been central to the negotiation of authority between EU and national constitutional orders.

Property is often seen as fundamentally inegalitarian, leading many to believe that a world without property would be a more equal one.

Property is often seen as fundamentally inegalitarian, leading many to believe that a world without property would be a more equal one.

Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Analysis, Cases, and Materials is the first interdisciplinary casebook for the field, offering students an innovative and truly global approach to comparative constitutional law.

The idea of constitutional identity has been central to the negotiation of authority between EU and national constitutional orders.

Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Analysis, Cases, and Materials is the first interdisciplinary casebook for the field, offering students an innovative and truly global approach to comparative constitutional law.

In November 2016, the flight Lamia Flight 2933 crashed, claiming nearly all members of the Brazilian Chapecoense soccer team.

Long regarded by US legal scholars as uninteresting, private law theory has received renewed attention in the United States and around the world.

The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia.

Wokeism and, before it, Political Correctness are attempts to replace traditional privilege with a new privileged class of special interest groups that have supposedly been discriminated against.

Long regarded by US legal scholars as uninteresting, private law theory has received renewed attention in the United States and around the world.

'The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the common law tradition.

This book challenges the long-prevailing interpretation of China’s legal tradition as “virtue given priority over penalty,” arguing that this proposition is a projection of modern Western rule-of-law discourse and fails to accurately reveal the structure of traditional Chinese legal thought.

This book challenges the long-prevailing interpretation of China’s legal tradition as “virtue given priority over penalty,” arguing that this proposition is a projection of modern Western rule-of-law discourse and fails to accurately reveal the structure of traditional Chinese legal thought.

The book focuses on the new Chinese Civil Code.

Jewish law, known as halakhah, is a unique legal system that has developed over nearly two millennia, across multiple continents, and in innumerable different contexts.

The book focuses on the new Chinese Civil Code.

Designed for use in law school courses, Comparative Constitutional Law introduces fundamental debates on the nature of constitutions, constitutional comparison, and the relationships between constitutions and constitutionalism in its various forms.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the emerging fourth generation of Chinese investment treaties.

Why do young people engage in acts of crime and what is it that drives their criminal careers?

Informers are generally reviled.

Informers are generally reviled.

Set against the rapid aging of the world's population, Human Rights and the Care of Older People explores the potential for the rule against torture and ill-treatment in international human rights law to better protect older people from care-related mistreatment.

The majority of common law jurisdictions, and some civil law jurisdictions, use juries composed of citizens drawn from the general population to deliberate and reach collective verdicts in criminal cases.

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense.

In countless ways we are affected by international environmental norms: some social, others legal; some quite general, others very specific.

Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication.

Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication.

Legal Professional Privilege in Criminal Investigations and Proceedings is concerned with the law of legal professional privilege and its practical application in criminal cases and internal investigations, providing a single point of reference for all criminal practitioners regardless of the type of case in which they are involved.

The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary.

Paris, 1599.

Winner: Palmer Civil Liberties PrizeSilver Gavel Award FinalistJules Milstein Faculty Writing AwardFrom wiretapping American citizens to waterboarding foreign prisoners, the Bush administration has triggered an uproar over its tactics in the War on Terrorand over its justifications for using them.

Paris, 1599.

Classifying people as 'victims' is a historical phenomenon with remarkable growth since the second half of the 20th century.

Federalism is a very familiar form of government.

Classifying people as 'victims' is a historical phenomenon with remarkable growth since the second half of the 20th century.

This book examines the history and current context of racism in housing and neighborhoods to understand how racism and white supremacy have hindered true equality.

This is the pioneering book that investigates reputation laundering at an institutional - state - level.

Federalism is a very familiar form of government.

Historians have well described how US immigration policy increasingly fell under the purview of federal law and national politics in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

'A leading figure in critical legal studies and renowned scholar of comparative constitutionalism, Frankenberg urges us forward, offering a new taxonomy for critical work.

The Law of Loyalty is a study of the principles governing the use of legal powers that are held for other-regarding ends.

The Law of Loyalty is a study of the principles governing the use of legal powers that are held for other-regarding ends.

Non-instrumentalist private law theory has been dominated by an interpretivist methodology that seeks to understand the concepts, doctrines, and structures of the law in principled terms.

It was perhaps fitting that in an age of industrialization, Americans began to think of the law as a tool, one that could be forged to fit their needs, without regard to the traditional ways of litigating cases in court.

A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat.

Non-instrumentalist private law theory has been dominated by an interpretivist methodology that seeks to understand the concepts, doctrines, and structures of the law in principled terms.

Inhabitants of Medellin, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s.

Modern society is riven by social divisions: between conservatives and progressives; liberals and socialists; the mainstream and the rise of far-right political groups etc.