Legal systems: general

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.

In recent years, the Supreme Court appears to have taken a greater interest in "e;business"e; issues.

In These Estimable Courts, Damon M.

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 many criminal trials, forensic technical evidence is lacking and triers of fact must rely on the reliability of eyewitness statements, identifications, and testimony; however, such reports can be riddled with deceptive statements or erroneous recollections.

The Alabama State Constitution provides extensive analysis on American's longest state constitution, with an emphasis on the impact of recent court decisions declaring several of its most recently adopted provisions as in conflict with the U.

The Alabama State Constitution provides extensive analysis on American's longest state constitution, with an emphasis on the impact of recent court decisions declaring several of its most recently adopted provisions as in conflict with the U.

The rule of law paradigm has long operated on the premise that independent judges disregard extralegal influences and impartially uphold the law.

Our constitutional freedom to speak out against government and corporate power is always fragile, but today it faces unprecedented hazards.

Our constitutional freedom to speak out against government and corporate power is always fragile, but today it faces unprecedented hazards.

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.

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E.

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E.

Improving access to justice has been an ongoing process, and on-demand justice should be a natural part of our increasingly on-demand society.

Improving access to justice has been an ongoing process, and on-demand justice should be a natural part of our increasingly on-demand society.

Human reason is limited.

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

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image.

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

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

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

Failings of the International Court of Justice critically examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice.

A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005.

With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the highest court in the land.

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

In its roughly 25 years of existence, the trial consulting profession has grown dramatically in membership, recognition, and breadth of practice.

How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another?

Davis discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution, in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process.

When the first President Bush chose David Hackett Souter for the Supreme Court in 1990, the slender New Englander with the shy demeanor and ambiguous past was quickly dubbed a "e;stealth candidate"e;.

Many critics attack federal judges as anti-democratic elitists, activists out of step with the mainstream of American thought.

Criminal proceedings in which people can lose life, liberty, or reputation tell us a great deal about the character of any society.

When appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by President Nixon, Harry A.

Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them?

Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them?

Deference is perhaps the most important concept and practice in law.

Deference is perhaps the most important concept and practice in law.

In Point Taken, Ross Guberman delves into the work of the best judicial opinion-writers and offers a step-by-step method based on practical and provocative examples.

In Point Taken, Ross Guberman delves into the work of the best judicial opinion-writers and offers a step-by-step method based on practical and provocative examples.

This book presents a study of interpreter-mediated interaction in New York City small claims courts, drawing on audio-recorded arbitration hearings and ethnographic fieldwork.

International investment law today consists of a network of multifaceted, multilayered international treaties that, in one way or another, involve virtually every country of the world.

All modern sentencing systems, in the US and beyond, consider the offender's prior record to be an important determinant of the form and severity of punishment for subsequent offences.

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

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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.

If a dispute between commercial parties reaches the stage of arbitration, the cause is usually ambiguous contract terms.

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The rule of law paradigm has long operated on the premise that independent judges disregard extralegal influences and impartially uphold the law.

Language ideology is a concept developed in linguistic anthropology to explain the ways in which ideas about the definition and functions of language can become linked with social discourses and identities.

Since America's founding, the U.