Legal systems: general

Michael Tonry, an internationally recognized authority on criminology, offers in these pages a comprehensive overview of current research, policy developments, and practical experiences concerning sentencing and sanctions.

For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life.

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This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants.

Bollinger provides a masterful critique of the major theories of freedom of expression, finding these theories persuasive but inadequate.

Dorothy Wright Nelson was a prominent federal judge on the level just below the U.

Dorothy Wright Nelson was a prominent federal judge on the level just below the U.

Examining legal argumentation by states and other actors in the settings where it mostly transpires - outside of courts, Talking International Law challenges the realist assumption that legal argumentation is largely inconsequential.

Examining legal argumentation by states and other actors in the settings where it mostly transpires - outside of courts, Talking International Law challenges the realist assumption that legal argumentation is largely inconsequential.

Legal practitioners of today are dealing with cross-border disputes in civil and commercial matters in an increasingly complex transnational legal environment.

Legal practitioners of today are dealing with cross-border disputes in civil and commercial matters in an increasingly complex transnational legal environment.

This book offers a new account of the power of federal courts in the United States to hear and determine uncontested applications to assert or register a claim of right.

This book offers a new account of the power of federal courts in the United States to hear and determine uncontested applications to assert or register a claim of right.

An exploration of how and why the Constitution's plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals' constitutional rights, while advancing regressive and reactionary barriers to progressive regulation.

An exploration of how and why the Constitution's plan for independent courts has failed to protect individuals' constitutional rights, while advancing regressive and reactionary barriers to progressive regulation.

Illuminates the unwritten ideas that underlie our deepest debates about the written Constitution.

Illuminates the unwritten ideas that underlie our deepest debates about the written Constitution.

The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law offers a unique and unparalleled treatment and presentation in the field of Transnational Law that has become one of the most intriguing and innovative developments in legal doctrine, scholarship, theory, and practice today.

The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law offers a unique and unparalleled treatment and presentation in the field of Transnational Law that has become one of the most intriguing and innovative developments in legal doctrine, scholarship, theory, and practice today.

This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States.

This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States.

International Law in the U.

International Law in the U.

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law.

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law.

While arbitration was robust in colonial and early America, dispute resolution lost its footing to the court system as the United States grew into a bustling and burgeoning country.

While arbitration was robust in colonial and early America, dispute resolution lost its footing to the court system as the United States grew into a bustling and burgeoning country.

This book offers the first quantitative study of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court.

This book offers the first quantitative study of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court.

When David Souter was nominated by President Bush to the Supreme Court, he cited John Marshall Harlan as his model.

Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer.

This book examines the legislative history and the political economy of the Sherman Antitrust Act--the main federal statute that regulates economic activity in the United States.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 established a federal court system, an experiment that became one of the outstanding features of American democracy.

With an overburdened and cumbersome system of court litigation, arbitration is becoming an increasingly attractive means of settling disputes.

An important contribution to constitutional literature, this collection of ten unpublished decisions by the Warren Court puts the decision making process of the Supreme Court in a new light.

Although less than fifty words long, the meaning of the seemingly simple Eleventh Amendment has troubled the Supreme Court at crucial points in American history and continues to spur sharp debate in present-day courts.

A companion to Oxford's The Unpublished Opinions of the Warren Court, this book contains the draft opinions that were prepared by the Justices in the cases included, as well as a short historical preface of each case and an analysis of the legal events occurring after the drafts were sent to the Justices.

Through the prism of litigation practice and tactics, Purcell explores the dynamic relationship between legal and social change.

During his thirty-four year tenure as a Justice of the Supreme Court, Hugo L.

It is a truism that the administration of criminal justice consists of a series of discretionary decisions by police, prosecutors, judges, and other officials.

In the mid 1980s, there was a crisis in the availability, affordability, and adequacy of liability insurance in the United States and Canada.

Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was the first African-American Justice.

In the last twenty years, the veil of secrecy surrounding the workings of the United States Supreme Court has been lifted.

In The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution, Tinsley Yarbrough provides a comprehensive look at today's Supreme Court Justices and their record--a study all the more valuable for the Court's mixed decisions and hard-to-categorize course.

A judge-made revolution?

In the modern period of American constitutional law--the period since the U.

Warren E.

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.

A text that will appeal to any reader interested in the relation of language to the law, or vice versa, Ideological Diversity in Courtroom Discourse focuses on the guilty plea as both a distinct procedure and a dialogue constrained by boundaries.

Several of the most divisive moral conflicts that have beset Americans in the period since World War II have been transmuted into constitutional conflicts and resolved as such.