Legal systems: general

Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law.

Although international arbitration has emerged as a credible means of resolution of transnational disputes involving parties from diverse cultures, the effects of culture on the accuracy, efficiency, fairness, and legitimacy of international arbitration is a surprisingly neglected topic within the existing literature.

Lawyers know that client counseling can be the most challenging part of legal practice.

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.

In the past two decades, the General Counsel in many companies has risen in importance, and the GC is now often involved in business strategy from the inception.

Where the fate of a company is on the line in a negotiation, legal and business teams must work seamlessly to reach a successful conclusion.

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.

As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated.

In The Language of Bribery Cases, Roger W.

Legislation and case law following the relatively recent corporate scandals have increased scrutiny on the ethics and integrity of individuals, and the culture they create, at the highest levels within the corporate structure.

The lawsuit is the cornerstone of the civil justice system in America, and an open court the foundation of American jurisprudence.

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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.

No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession, yet it has done little to prepare them for this role.

The recent Boumediene v.

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

Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights.

Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding.

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

Great poker players are master tacticians.

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.

The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property.

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.

With the growth of the global economy over the past two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) laws, at both the national and international levels, have undergone rapid development in order to strengthen the protection standards for foreign investors.

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories.

Legislation and case law following the relatively recent corporate scandals have increased scrutiny on the ethics and integrity of individuals, and the culture they create, at the highest levels within the corporate structure.

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.

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.

A constitutional order is a system of systems.

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

In Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit, Nina J.

Friendship is one of our most important social institutions.

Friendship is one of our most important social institutions.

A History of Civil Litigation: Political and Economic Perspectives, by Frank J.

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.

You get good grades in college, pay a small fortune to put yourself through law school, study hard to pass the bar exam, and finally land a high-paying job in a prestigious firm.

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

You get good grades in college, pay a small fortune to put yourself through law school, study hard to pass the bar exam, and finally land a high-paying job in a prestigious firm.

Class action and other group litigation procedures are increasingly being adopted in jurisdictions throughout the world, as more countries deal with the realities of increased globalization and access to information.

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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.

In this much anticipated sequel to the legal bestseller, The Future of Law, Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working.