Legal systems: courts and procedures

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.

In The Language of Bribery Cases, Roger W.

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.

The recent Boumediene v.

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

What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice?

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.

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations.

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories.

The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has become an important forum for international commercial arbitration, with parties from more than 30 countries, especially Western European countries and increasingly Russia, other Eastern European Countries, and China.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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Since the desegregation of public schools in the 1950s, the concept of standards-based reform has become a central topic within educational policy.

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.

David Faigman's Constitutional Fictions is the first book-length examination of the role of fact-finding in constitutional cases.

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

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

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The Economics of Lawmaking explores the relative advantages and limits of alternative sources of law.

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.

The recent Boumediene v.

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.