Jurisprudence category: 1225 books
by Cass R. Sunstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular...
Promoting Integrity
Evaluating and Improving Public Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life? How do these settings and strategies relate to one another, and how do we know what is working and what is missing from the whole complex tapestry? Taking Australia as a case study that...
by Michael Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume collects together Michael Freeman's work on the family and society, and the part law plays in defining, structuring and controlling it. He questions the role of family law and its interface with family values, as well as the rights and best interests of children. Responsible parenthood...
by Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal now offers its issues in convenient and modern ebook formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers.
This first issue of Volume 41, 2015, features new articles and student contributions on cutting-edge topics related to: teleradiology,...
by John Page
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Property is more diverse than is usually assumed. Developing the concept of property diversity, this book explores the varied role of property in placed human landscapes. In acknowledging the propertied diversity about us, the book highlights the paucity of our settled contemporary assumptions of...
New Approaches to the Personhood in Law
Essays in Legal Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The concept of personhood becomes increasingly controversial in modern legal debates. The advancements in the contemporary science and technology entail the need for reconsideration of who should count as a person in law and why. Animals, cyborgs, artificial agents and the like may pose the most important...
Judges and Their Audiences
A Perspective on Judicial Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them.
The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only...
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said
The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the most famous case in American constitutional law. Criticized and even openly defied when first handed down, in half a century Brown has become a venerated symbol...
Romantics at War
Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice.
We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of war and the demands of justice, differences so deep that the pursuit of one often comes at the...
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court
Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780–1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley’s time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama.
Steven...
The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice
Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a groundbreaking book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil War to the present, to reveal the impact of stereotyping--race, class, gender--on the American...
by John M. Kang
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has been, and continues to be, praised as America’s greatest judge and he is widely considered to have done more than anyone else to breathe life into the Constitution’s right of free speech, probably the most crucial right for democracy. One indeed finds among professors...
Laughing at the Gods
Great Judges and How They Made the Common Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Any effort to understand how law works has to take seriously its main players – judges. Like any performance, judging should be evaluated by reference to those who are its best exponents. Not surprisingly, the debate about what makes a 'great judge' is as heated and inconclusive as the debate about...
by J.b. Bury, Norman Baynes, Louis Halphen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The Cambridge Medieval History Collection is a fantastic and comprehensive history of medieval Europe.
Featuring:
Volume 1 - THE CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEUTONIC KINGDOMS
Volume 2 - THE RISE OF THE SARACENS AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE
Volume...