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This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Representing Ebola provides readers with a critical legal analysis of the recent West African Ebola Outbreak.

Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams's work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or behavior that cross heteronormative boundaries of the mid-century period.

To maintain public confidence in the judiciary, judges are governed by the strictest of ethical codes.

Avenging Lincoln's Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth's Accomplices is an examination of the 1865 military commission trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who murdered President Abraham Lincoln.

Known by mobsters as "e;the man who couldn't be bought,"e; Brendan Byrne led New Jersey into a new era when he won the state's gubernatorial election by a landslide in the wake of political corruption scandals.

This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television's most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime.

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v.

Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams's work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or behavior that cross heteronormative boundaries of the mid-century period.

The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789 explores the French monarchy's role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm-the payment of criminal frais de justice in the vocabulary of the ancien regime-between 1670 and 1789 (that is, from the codification of criminal judicial procedure in the early period of Louis XIV's personal rule to the outbreak of the French Revolution).

Conduct risk is at the core of behavioural regulation, a new approach to regulating financial services, whose new agencies and public prosecutors have spread rapidly across the world.

The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is creating a paradigm shift in contemporary corporate culture and organizational behaviour with shareholder and stakeholder activism on the rise as international banking crises and global corporate scandals dominate the headlines.

The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson.

Going through a divorce is always tough, but when a child with special needs is involved it can be especially challenging.

Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education.

This book is centered on the fifteen landmark cases as identified and required for students taking the College Board Advanced Placement(R) Government and Politics Exam.

The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system.

“Law in America is a little gem.

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Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in the colonial era.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAs seen on This MorningBack in the day, I was Governor of Security and Operations for HMP Wormwood Scrubs.

Praise for In Chambers: "e;This new collection of essays, including some by former clerks, takes readers inside justices' chambers for a look at clerkship life.

The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion.

This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black-and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest-justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the commonwealth's history.

Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness-the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon-Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation.

Washington's Government shows how George Washington's administration-the subject of remarkably little previous study-was both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously thought.

High courts around the world hold a revered place in the legal hierarchy.

Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia's General Assembly revised the colony's statutes seven times.

Following the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election of 2016, many prominent scholars and political pundits argued that a successful Democratic Party in the future must abandon identity politics.

Praise for In Chambers: "e;This new collection of essays, including some by former clerks, takes readers inside justices' chambers for a look at clerkship life.

Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in the colonial era.

Do our federal courts, including the Supreme Court, lead or merely implement public policy?

The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle.

Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence.

In Voters' Verdicts, Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann address contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence voters' decisions in the election of state supreme court judges.

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court.

For most of their history, the U.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown.

The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion.

On the way to offering a new analysis of the basis of the Supreme Court's iconic decision in Brown v.

Over the course of the past decade, the behavioral analysis of decisions by the Supreme Court has turned to game theory to gain new insights into this important institution in American politics.

For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty and the First Amendment.

Written by former law clerks, legal scholars, biographers, historians, and political scientists, the essays in In Chambers tell the fascinating story of clerking at the Supreme Court.

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In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J.

Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson had the most substantial direct experience with the issues surrounding intellectual property rights and their impact on creativity, invention, and innovation.

Are judges' decisions more likely to be based on personal inclinations or legal authority?

Women were once excluded everywhere from the legal profession, but by the 1990s the Virginia Supreme Court had three women among its seven justices.