In Curating Community: Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political, Stacy Douglas challenges the centrality of sovereignty in our political and juridical imaginations.
In Curating Community: Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political, Stacy Douglas challenges the centrality of sovereignty in our political and juridical imaginations.
A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change beyond litigation in the courts.
A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change beyond litigation in the courts.
The Constitution clearly states that the president shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint individuals to positions in the executive and judicial branches; yet the process may sometimes seem murky.
"e;A scholarly and cautionary collection of essays focusing on what [Fiss] views as the post-9/11 debasements of key provisions of the Constitution"e; (Kirkus Reviews).
In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands.
In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands.
The Constitution clearly states that the president shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint individuals to positions in the executive and judicial branches; yet the process may sometimes seem murky.
Este Manual de Derecho Constitucional va dirigido a los estudiantes de Derecho de facultades y escuelas universitarias en las que se imparten asignaturas de Derecho Constitucional y de introduccion a nuestro sistema constitucional y a nuestro orden juridico.
The Trump presidency was not the first to spark contentious debates about presidential power, but its impact on these debates will reverberate far beyond his term.
The Trump presidency was not the first to spark contentious debates about presidential power, but its impact on these debates will reverberate far beyond his term.
Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes important documents from nearly two hundred years of debate over abortion.
Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes important documents from nearly two hundred years of debate over abortion.
Die Pandemie hat in allen europäischen Staaten zu erheblichen, vorher so nicht denkbaren (Grund-)Rechtseingriffen und verwaltungsrechtlichen Fragestellungen geführt.
La Constitución de 1978 ha permitido una notable descentralización del Estado en España y ha configurado a las Comunidades Autónomas como poderes similares a los estados miembros de una federación, pero el sistema autonómico, como conjunto, muestra en los últimos años problemas graves de estructura y funcionamiento.
Este breve texto de 1927 de Heinrich Triepel -un discurso rectoral hasta ahora únicamente disponible en lengua alemana- se cita en todos los estudios sobre los partidos políticos, pero únicamente en lo referente a la actitud del Estado hacia ellos, que Triepel divide en cuatro fases: de hostilidad o rechazo, de ignorancia, de reconocimiento y legalización y, finalmente, de incorporación constitucional.
Entre los muchos logros de la civilización moderna, difícil será encontrar alguno que tan abiertamente se presente como producto de una planificación consciente como es el caso de las constituciones adoptadas por los Estados modernos desde fines del siglo XVIII.
How the Supreme Court's decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black peopleThe summer of 2020 will be remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment in the struggle for racial equality.
After a distinguished career as a jurist in Germany, Alfred Oppler came to the United States in 1939, and in 1946 was invited to Tokyo, where he was SCAP's authority on reform of the Japanese legal order to implement the principles of the new Constitution.
Courts of Appeals were designed to be a unifying force in American law and politics, but they also contribute to decentralization and regionalization of federal law.
In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands.
According to the traditional understanding of American constitutional law, the Revolution produced a new conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions on the power of the state rather than a mere description of governmental roles.
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier.
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier.
American constitutionalism rests on premises of popular sovereignty, but serious questions remain about how the "e;people"e; and their rights and powers fit into the constitutional design.
