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Takes a behind the scenes look at the debates and decisions of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.

Human trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media.

This book uses three independent lines of research to trace the origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause.

This collection of essays interrogate and extend the work of Jerry L.

Explores the proposed models of fiscal federalism that are compatible with the constitutional boundaries of the European legal order.

A former Marine judge advocate and legal counsel to General Colin Powell, James Terry explores the genesis of the United States approach to terror violence and the legal foundation for the nation's response to the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of The Path to Power and The Downing Street Years; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words.

For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States.

Understanding the Department of the Interior reviews many of the major issues handled by the Department of the Interior and impacting the U.

This book presents a uniquely dynamic and fluid model of political evolution in the world''s largest and most powerful authoritarian regime.

Leading experts in EU constitutional law examine the foundational importance of citizenship rights in delimiting the scope of EU law.

It departs from the scholarship produced on Sri Lanka, and re-introduces the neo-Marxist approaches through the works of Antonio Gramsci.

Explores the proposed models of fiscal federalism that are compatible with the constitutional boundaries of the European legal order.

According to the US Constitution, if a bill is not returned to Congress by the president within ten days of receiving it and Congress has adjourned, the bill is effectively vetoed.

Richard Nixon's loss in the 1962 gubernatorial election in California was more than just a simple electoral defeat.

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

An authoritative guide to federal democracy from two respected experts in the fieldAround the world, federalism has emerged as the system of choice for nascent republics and established nations alike.

The number of amicus briefs has increased dramatically over the years, filed not only with the Supreme Court but also with regularity in federal courts of appeals, state supreme courts, and state intermediate appellate courts.

The increase in the European Union's executive powers in the areas of economic and financial governance has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of EU law in constituting, framing, and constraining the decision-making processes and political choices that have hitherto supported European integration.

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

Public law has been conceived in many different ways, sometimes overlapping, often conflicting.

Shows how judges work in a deliberative fashion with aligned political parties to re-interpret legal and constitutional text.

Questions if voters would vote differently if it were illegal to discriminate in voting?

In These Estimable Courts, Damon M.

On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war.

This is a practical guidebook to current CERCLA litigation, written by an experienced attorney who specializes in this area of law.

In recent years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the U.

Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s.

Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror examines the judicial response to human rights claims arising from the Bush Administration's war on terror.

The second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s.

Shows how judges work in a deliberative fashion with aligned political parties to re-interpret legal and constitutional text.

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done.

Offers an accessible, interdisciplinary, and historically informed introduction to the study of American constitutionalism.

Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror examines the judicial response to human rights claims arising from the Bush Administration's war on terror.

In this follow-up volume to the critically acclaimed The Constitutional State, N.

Richard Nixon's loss in the 1962 gubernatorial election in California was more than just a simple electoral defeat.

In These Estimable Courts, Damon M.

[This] should be required reading for anyone who says feminism s work is done.

The New Zealand upper house, the Legislative Council (which bore a marked resemblance to its Canadian counterpart the Federal Senate) was abolished in 1950 in an action which represents one of the most clear-cut examples of pragmatic politics in New Zealand history.

Offers an historical, legal, constitutional, moral and philosophical analysis of the declarations of 1812, 1898 and the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to erect a statue of Baphomet alongside the Judeo-Christian tablets.

The Center Holds provides an intimate look at who the Supreme Court justices are, how they have made critical decisions, and why, ultimately, the Rehnquist Revolution failed.

In recent years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the U.

At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as 5 million illegals in the United States, the 1972 John Lennon deportation case takes on special relevance today, notwithstanding the passage of forty years since he was placed in deportation proceedings.