Legal systems: courts and procedures

Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law.

Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law.

The history of criminal justice in the U.

For most of the 20th Century, sentencing purposes and procedures were virtually the same in all American jurisdictions.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history.

The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history.

Research on prisons prior to the prison boom of the 1980s and 1990s focused mainly on inmate subcultures, inmate rights, and sociological interpretations of inmate and guard adaptations to their environment, with qualitative studies and ethnographic methods the norm.

This is a major biography of one of America's most influential and respected Supreme Court justices by a leading law scholar.

Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law.

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust.

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories.

Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.

Mechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence.

In recent years the Supreme Court has been at the center of such political issues as abortion rights, the administration of police procedures, and the determination of the 2000 presidential election.

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories.

Focusing contemporary democratic theory on the neglected topic of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for increased civic engagement in criminal justice as an antidote to the American penal state.

When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits.

Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law.

For nearly two centuries in the United States, the punishment of crime was largely aimed, in theory and in practice, at prevention, rehabilitation or incapacitation, and deterrence.

When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits.

This is a major biography of one of America's most influential and respected Supreme Court justices by a leading law scholar.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "e;living"e; Constitution effectively "e;rendered the Constitution useless.

Human reason is limited.

With increased international trade transactions and a corresponding increase in disputes arising from those transactions, the application of the doctrine of Forum Non Conveniens - the discretionary power of a court to decline jurisdiction based on the convenience of the parties and the interests of justice - has become extremely relevant when determining which country's court should preside over a controversy involving nationals of different countries.

Known as the "e;Great Dissenter,"e; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G.

Mechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence.

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust.

This book presents three theories of contract interpretation, which allow courts to recognize different sets of interpretive elements.

Despite over two hundred years of experience with constitutional government, much remains unclear about the power of the political branches to curtail or re-define the judicial power of the United States.

Many legal scholars believe that judges should not be "e;activists.

Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments.

This book informs the debates about judicial activism with concrete empirical analyses of what judges actually do.

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The power and influence of the federal judiciary has been widely discussed and understood.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "e;living"e; Constitution effectively "e;rendered the Constitution useless.

Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.

Billings Learned Hand was one of the most influential judges in America.

What is a constitutional right?

Getting the Government America Deserves analyzes government ethics law from the perspective of an academic critic and that of a lawyer who was the chief White House ethics lawyer for two and a half years.

We are now more than half a century removed from height of the rights revolution, a time when the federal government significantly increased legal protection for disadvantaged individuals and groups, leading in the process to a dramatic expansion in access to courts and judicial authority to oversee these protections.

The rise of international criminal trials has been accompanied by a call for domestic responses to extraordinary violence.

Judicial decision-making may ideally be impartial, but in reality it is influenced by many different factors, including institutional context, ideological commitment, fellow justices on a panel, and personal preference.

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods.

Habeas Corpus in Wartime unearths and presents a comprehensive account of the legal and political history of habeas corpus in wartime in the Anglo-American legal tradition.

Sometimes the outcome of a lawsuit depends upon sensations known only to the person who experiences them, such as the buzzing sound heard by a plaintiff who suffers from tinnitus after an accident.

In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them.

In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them.

Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime.