Courts category: 288 books
Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs examines...
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality, Gift Edition
As Delivered by Justice Anthony Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A beautifully packaged gift edition of Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality
A milestone in the history of American civil and human rights, Obergefell et al. v. Hodges legalized gay marriage across the United States. A...
by Jo M. Pasqualucci
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
A thoroughly revised second edition that incorporates the major changes made in the procedures and practice of the Inter-American Court. Jo M. Pasqualucci analyzes all aspects of the Court's advisory jurisdiction, contentious jurisdiction and provisional measures orders through 2011. She also compares...
America's Lone Star Constitution
How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional...
The Nominee
A Political and Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
President George W. Bush nominated Leslie H. Southwick in 2007 to the federal appeals court, Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans. Initially, Southwick seemed a consensus nominee. Just days before his hearing, though, a progressive advocacy group distributed the results of research it had conducted...
Sexualised Crimes, Armed Conflict and the Law
The International Criminal Court and the Definitions of Rape and Forced Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
From ancient to modern times, sexualised war violence against women was tolerated if not encouraged as a means of reward, propaganda, humiliation, and terror. This was and is in defiance of international laws that have criminalised acts of sexualised war violence since the 18th century. Ad hoc international...
by Victoria Nourse
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Victoria Nourse argues that lawyers must be educated on the basic procedures that define how Congress operates today. Lawmaking creates winners and losers. If lawyers and judges do not understand this, they may embrace the meanings of those who opposed legislation, turning legislative losers into judicial winners and standing democracy on its head.
Crime At El Escorial
The 1892 Child Murder, the Press, and the Jury
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents. D.J. Walker discusses the role of Spain’s intellectual elite in crystallizing dissatisfaction with the popular jury through its criticism...
by Mark A. Graber
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2004
The United States Supreme Court’s 2002–03 term confounded Court watchers. The same Rehnquist Court that many had seen as solidly conservative and unduly activist—the Court that helped decide the 2000 presidential election and struck down thirty-one federal statutes since 1995—issued a set...
by Adam Lamparello, Cynthia Swann
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book argues that the judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, should embrace an interpretive framework that promotes equal participation in the democratic process, fosters accountability, and facilitates robust public discourse among citizens of all backgrounds. The authors propose a solution...
Supreme Court of India
The Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
A leading expert on Indian judiciary, George Gadbois offers a compelling biography of the Supreme Court of India, a powerful institution. Written and researched when he was a graduate student in the 1960s, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the Court’s foundation and early years....
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality
The complete decision, including dissenting opinions
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The complete text of the landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality
The 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell et al. v. Hodges legalized gay marriage across the United States. This edition collects the widely quoted decision by Justice Kennedy, as well as the dissents of Justices Roberts,...
Kadi on Trial
A Multifaceted Analysis of the Kadi Trial
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Thejudgment of the European Court of Justice concerning the Kadi case has raised substantive and procedural issues that have caught the attention of scholars from many disciplines including EU law, constitutional law, international law and jurisprudence. This book offers a comprehensive view of the...
Judicial Deliberations
A Comparative Analysis of Transparency and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Judicial Deliberations compares how and why the European Court of Justice, the French Cour de cassation and the US Supreme Court offer different approaches for generating judicial accountability and control, judicial debate and deliberation, and ultimately judicial legitimacy. Examining the judicial...