Author: Sunstein, Cass R. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed...
Author: Scalia, Antonin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like thi...
Author: Thornhill, Chris Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of con...
Author: Ginsburg, Tom Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines administrative law throughout Asia, exploring the profound changes in many legal regimes that have occurred. It shows how many states have shifted towards a more market-oriented reg...
Author: Kommers, Donald P. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles an...
Author: Kommers, Donald P. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles an...
Author: Kommers, Donald P. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles an...
Author: Griffin, Stephen M. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to...
Author: Various, Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the period from the drafting and proposal of the federal Constitution in September, 1787, to its ratification in 1789 there was an intense debate on ratification. The principal arguments in fav...
Author: Skach, Cindy Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose was neither the pure parliamentary mode...
Author: del Carmen, Rolando V. / Ritter, Susan E. / Witt, Betsy A. Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The briefs in this edition provide accurate and concise coverage of topics of vital importance to criminal justice personnel - prison law, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and s...
Author: del Carmen, Rolando V. / Walker, Jeffery T. Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This popular reference book briefs cases dealing with topics of primary importance to law enforcement officials, including briefs of important cases in the areas of stop and frisk, search and seizure,...
Author: Turpin, Colin / Tomkins, Adam Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Like the immensely successful previous edition of this highly respected work, this new edition has been jointly prepared and thorough updated by Colin Turpin and Adam Tomkins. It takes fully into acco...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? This book defines and examines new autonomous differenc...
Author: Drakeman, Donald L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history in church-state cases. Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which the justices have portrayed the fr...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume brings together essays by many of the leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from many perspectives to collectively assess what we know - and do not know - about the design ...
Author: Arato, Andrew Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constit...
Description: Constitutional and Administrative Law (or Public Law) is a dynamic and challenging area of law which has an impact on all of our lives. Whenever a government is elected, a new piece of legislation is ...
Author: Lyon, Ann Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides an accessible one-volume introduction to the development of the British constitution from its earliest beginnings in the seventh century to the present day. It focuses on the politi...
Author: Arkes, Hadley Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book stands against the current of judgments long settled in the schools of law in regard to classic cases such as Lochner v. New York, Near v. Minnesota, the Pentagon Papers case, and Bob Jones ...
Author: Kanovitz, Jacqueline R. Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presents an up-to-date analysis of critical constitutional issues. Special attention is given to issues of greatest concern to criminal justice personnel - detention, arrest, search and seizure, inter...
Author: Kanovitz, Jacqueline R. Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presents an up-to-date analysis of critical constitutional issues. Special attention is given to issues of greatest concern to criminal justice personnel - detention, arrest, search and seizure, inter...
Author: Bessler, John D. Publisher: Northeastern Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalty based on the notion of cruel and unusu...
Author: Saunders, Robert Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Second Reform Act, passed in 1867, created a million new voters, doubling the electorate and propelling the British state into the age of mass politics. This study provides the first analysis of t...
Author: Mialon, Hugo M. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first book to examine individual rights from an economic perspective, collecting together leading articles in this emerging area of interest and showing the vibrant and expanding scholarsh...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is the relevance of contemporary debates over emergency powers for countries situated in Asia? What role does, and should, the constitution play in constraining these powers? The essays in this c...
Author: Vile, John R. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 1954, this indispensable reference quickly became the gold standard for concise summaries of important U.S. Supreme Court cases. The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases orga...
Author: Mensah, Barbara Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book can be used together with the European Human Rights Case Locator or as a stand-alone volume. This book contains all the cases decided by the court from 1960 to 2000, set out in an informativ...
Description: The book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the European Union. The work provides coherent coverage of ...
Author: Schiek, Dagmar Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This edited collection addresses the multidimensionality of EU equality law from conceptual as well as practical perspectives. Bringing together academics from all over Europe and from different disci...
Author: Zeno-Zencovich, Vincenzo Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the issues surrounding freedom of expression, looking at the current legal position in a number of European countries and the EU as well as engaging wit...
Author: Birkinshaw, Patrick Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Enacted in 2000 and in operation in the UK since 2005, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act has revealed information which has generated calls for constitutional reform. A massive 'information jurispr...
Author: Irving,Helen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We live in an era of constitution-making. New constitutions are appearing in historically unprecedented numbers, following regime change in some countries, or a commitment to modernization in others. ...
Author: Susan, Harris Rimmer Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offe...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation, and civic membership. However, there continues to be a significant gap b...
Author: Hamilton, Marci A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: God vs. the Gavel challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection. While religious conduct provides many benefits to society, it is not always benign....
Author: Shoraka, Kirsten Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The end of the Cold War has ushered a restructuring of the institutions of the European Community, culminating into its enlargement to Eastern Europe, under the aegis of economic integration, democrac...
Description: This book considers how English courts could use and adapt structures adopted by the German legal order in response to rulings from the European Court of Human Rights on Article 8 of the European Conv...
Author: Murray, Rachel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This work examines the role of the Organization of African Unity, now the African Union, and how it has dealt with human rights since its inception in 1963. It considers the role of its main instituti...
Author: Calavita, Kitty Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Spain and Italy have recently become countries of large-scale immigration. This provocative book explores immigration law and the immigrant experience in these southern European nations, and exposes t...
Author: Meydani, Assaf Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explains the reciprocal relations between the Supreme Court and the Israeli political system. It is based on a unique approach that contends that the non-governability of the political syste...
Author: Savage, James Publisher: Garrett County Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Years before his inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison first captured the national spotlight in late 1962, when he launched a series of raids on French Qua...
Author: Gordon, Richard Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Human Rights Act 1998 had a profound effect on the law of the United Kingdom,and in no area more so than judicial review. This book gives practical guidance on the interplay between the Act and do...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How effective are the courts in controlling bureaucracies? What impact does judicial review have on the agencies which are targeted by its rulings? For the first time, this book brings together the in...
Author: Davis, Jeffrey Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book studies the struggle to enforce international human rights law in federal courts. In 1980, a federal appeals court ruled that a Paraguayan family could sue a Paraguayan official under the Al...
Author: Harlow, Carol / Rawlings, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This definitive textbook explores the field of law which allows government and its agencies to practically apply its laws. The subject, affected by policy and political factors, can challenge even the...
Author: Eriksen, Erik Oddvar Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Investigates how the values of the rule of law, solidarity and democracy can be understood in the European Union in order ensure the sustainability of the European political order.
