State Constitutions and Criminal Justice

Barry Latzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• The new Judicial Federalism is a significant development in American law: more cases are being decided by state constitutions than ever before in hist... Lees meer

A Natural Right to Die

Raymond Whiting

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of t... Lees meer

The Death Penalty and Racial Bias

Gregory Russell

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• Russell tests the U.S. Supreme Court's assumption that the procedure used to select jurors who impose the death penalty does not inject racial bias in... Lees meer

Affirmative Action and Principles of Justice

Kathanne W Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 53
• A thorough examination of philosophical and legal issues, Affirmative Action and Principles of Justice systematically explores a vitally important yet... Lees meer

Group Defamation and Freedom of Speech

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 78
• This volume, an updated collection of essays presented by leading scholars at a Hofstra University conference on group defamation, provides a cross-di... Lees meer

The Aristocracy of the Long Robe

Jack M Sosin, J M Sosin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• Is judicial review constitutionally required or even authorized? Can it be said whether the federal courts exercise this power with the consent of the... Lees meer

Questioning the Law in Corporate America

Gerald L Houseman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• A powerful and succinct reminder of the way in which the 'corporate property rights structure' has come to dominate American society and politics. . .... Lees meer

Charisma, History, and Social Structure

Ronald Glassman, William H Swatos

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 58
• This new collection of essays looks at Max Weber's concept of the charismatic leader and the role and significance of charismatic leadership in relati... Lees meer

Who Cares for Them?

Penny Hollander Feldman, Alice Sapienza, Nancy M Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 16
• Large and growing numbers of the frail elderly and disabled depend on paid workers to assist them in daily life. Who Cares for Them? is the first book... Lees meer

Law and the Arts

Susan Tiefenbrun

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 87
• This interdisciplinary study examines the relationships between law and the humanities. The goal of the essays is to promote exchanges of ideas in suc... Lees meer

Presidential Defiance of Unconstitutional Laws

Christophe May

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 86
• Since the mid-1970s American presidents have, with growing frequency, claimed that they have the power to ignore any law they believe is unconstitutio... Lees meer

A Literature Guide to the Hospitality Industry

Philip Sawin, Denise Madland, Jana Reeg Sreidinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 10
• A Literature Guide to the Hospitality Industry is an annotated bibliography of materials with the common theme of hospitality. For the purposes of the... Lees meer

Philosophical Law

Richard Bronaugh

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 2
• This is a collection of essays touching on four distinct areas of interest to philosophers, lawyers, and political scientists: the philosophical justi... Lees meer

Contract Law and Morality

Henry Mather

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 90
• Combining natural law theory, reliance theory, and economic analysis to develop a jurisprudential approach, this is a prescriptive work presenting a v... Lees meer

A Representative Supreme Court? The Impact of Race, Religion, and Gender on Appointments

Barbara Perry

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken on an increased political prominence, due largely to such controversial issues as abortion, the se... Lees meer

Rocky Mountain Constitution Making, 1850-1912.

Gordon Morris Bakken

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• Bakken addresses important issues of constitutional history in the context of a seminal period in the history of the American West. He describes the c... Lees meer

Law and the Great Plains

J R Wunder

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• This collection of essays by some of the most respected American legal scholars represents the first investigation of the legal history of the Great P... Lees meer

The Appearance of Equality

Christopher Matthew Burke

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 89
• An examination of the language of law in the area of political representation, this book considers the development and recognition of group claims bro... Lees meer

Nuclear Weapons and Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• This book presents a rounded critique of the conventional wisdom about the legality of nuclear weapons by experts in international and constitutional ... Lees meer

Respecting State Courts

Michael E Solimine, James L Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 92
• Solimine and Walker provide a comprehensive examination of all the major issues revolving around judicial federalism- the sharing of judicial power be... Lees meer

James Madison on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

Robert J Morgan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 48
• Morgan provides a comprehensive, consistent, and unified analysis of Madison's political philosophy using Madison's views on the Constitution and the ... Lees meer

Judicial Entrepreneurship

Wayne V McIntosh, Cynthia L Cates

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 83
• A fresh and provocative perspective on the judicial process and the transmission of ideas into law. Professors McIntosh and Cates demonstrate, through... Lees meer

Before the Civil Rights Revolution

John Braeman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies
• There is a broad consensus that 1937 marked a turning point in the history of the Supreme Court. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the Cour... Lees meer

Religion, Law, and the Land

Brian Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Legal Studies | nr. 94
• Examining a series of court decisions made during the 1980s regarding the legal claims of several Native American tribes who attempted to protect ance... Lees meer