Fifty years after Alan Watson's Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, the concept of legal transplants remains central to comparative legal scholarship.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Administrative law is focused on the control of decision-making in government and the public sector.
In recent years, the relevance of religious freedom has spread well beyond academia, becoming a reference point for international relations, multi-level policy development, as well as interfaith negotiations.
In recent years, the relevance of religious freedom has spread well beyond academia, becoming a reference point for international relations, multi-level policy development, as well as interfaith negotiations.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Administrative law is focused on the control of decision-making in government and the public sector.
What would happen if the most powerful man in the country were in the throes of a personality condition that left him only a few cards to play—manifested by a limited, precise, and implacable set of destructive personality traits—that inevitably inflict harm and havoc on all those in his orbit?
At a time when constitutional democracy is under increasing strain, Let's Agree on Poland offers a bold exploration of how divided societies can break through ideological deadlock and reform their institutions.
When negotiating the formation of governments in multiparty democracies, do party leaders consistently consider the policy preferences of their voters?
When negotiating the formation of governments in multiparty democracies, do party leaders consistently consider the policy preferences of their voters?
Drawing upon David Hume's observation that, on the one hand people readily submit to authority, while on the other hand, authority depends on their opinion, Keepers of the Common Good examines the intricate interplay between opinion and submission to authority.
The United Kingdom's constitution is famously uncodified, comprising not only statutes and legal judgments but also a vast body of informal rules known as constitutional conventions.
At a time when constitutional democracy is under increasing strain, Let's Agree on Poland offers a bold exploration of how divided societies can break through ideological deadlock and reform their institutions.
The United Kingdom's constitution is famously uncodified, comprising not only statutes and legal judgments but also a vast body of informal rules known as constitutional conventions.
Since Illinois became a state in 1818, it has been a microcosm of the country at every stage of its development, from its status as a "e;free"e; state in antebellum America to a state rich in agriculture and industry whose goods and services now travel the world.
Over the last 25 years, UK governments have faced a series of challenges and changes of an intensity almost unprecedented in peacetime: some thrust upon them, some of their own making.
Brent Hamachek met Charlie Kirk at a dinner table in the fall of 2013, when Kirk was a nineteen-year-old with a business card and a fledgling group called Turning Point USA.
From civically and politically engaged women linking their identity as "e;mothers"e; to their fight for prohibition, public sanitation, and protective labor laws to the general call to arms of "e;mama grizzlies"e; issued by Sarah Palin in 2010, American political activists and candidates have used motherhood to rally women's interest, support, and participation throughout American history.
This enlightening book identifies liberalism's relevance to contemporary society and identifies how and where it offers robust opposition to modern forms of authoritarianism.
From civically and politically engaged women linking their identity as "e;mothers"e; to their fight for prohibition, public sanitation, and protective labor laws to the general call to arms of "e;mama grizzlies"e; issued by Sarah Palin in 2010, American political activists and candidates have used motherhood to rally women's interest, support, and participation throughout American history.
Refusing A Crown is sweeping and original history that reveals how George Washingtons voluntary surrender of poweran act unmatched in its timeshaped the American republic, influenced revolutions around the world, and remains one of the few moments in history capable of uniting Americans across todays political divide.
My book is a neural application attempting to install in the reader's mind a new style of civilization management in which every being/citizen comes to realize that they have a part to play in civman and that the way they conduct their lives impacts the course and health of their civilization.
Since 9/11, national security choices have become crucial to Americans as the country has been involved in wars overseas and terrorism has spread widely.
Dysfunction abounds in America in so many ways, from continuous turbulent change in the business environment, to a US federal government polarized by an inability to compromise and fulfill its historic missions, to personal levels where even deeper and darker levels of dysfunction reside within our colleagues, families, friends, and ourselves.
Seit Jahrzehnten fuhren Sozialwissenschaftler und politisch interessierte Zeitgenossen einen Streit um die Typologie des Franco-Regimes in Spanien (1936/1939-1975).
On July 4, 1776, the thirteen American colonies formally severed ties with the British Crown - and Thomas Jefferson's declaration explaining why became one of the most consequential political documents ever written.
Published anonymously in January 1776, Common Sense argued - in plain, forceful prose accessible to farmers and merchants alike - that American independence from Britain was not just desirable but a matter of, well, common sense.
Antes de que el progresismo hiciera de la confusion un deporte nacional, en estas tierras se sabia de donde veniamos: Dios alla arriba, la familia bien firme y la Patria como un orgullo que no hacia falta explicar.
A Neutral and Thorough Accounting of the Constitution's Original MeaningOver the past two decades, the federal judiciary has increasingly grounded its cases in the Constitution's original meaning.
A Modern-Day Profiles in Courage from New York Times Bestselling Author Tom BlairIn Letters to America, Tom Blair conjures up mini-memoirs of twelve fictional historical charactersspanning four centuries, from the first settlers in Jamestown to a 21st century billionaire.
