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Responsive Democracy
Increasing State Accountability in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
"Responsive Democracy is a pioneering contribution to the political analysis of administrative law in East Asia. Both political scientists and legal academics will greatly benefit from the author's in-depth analysis of the intersection between presidential power and administrative law in the...
The Inception of Modern Professional Education
C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently...
The People’s Welfare
Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long...
The Tokyo Rose Case
Treason on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Iva Ikuku Toguri (1916-2006) was an American citizen, born on the 4th of July. Her parents, first-generation Japanese Americans, embraced their new nation and raised Iva to think, talk, and act like a patriotic American. But, despite her allegiance to the United States, she was forced to spend most...
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.
by H. N. Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
A recognized, fascinating and much-cited classic of judicial biography and Supreme Court insight is now available in a quality ebook edition, featuring active contents, linked notes, proper formatting, and a fully-linked Index.
Felix Frankfurter was perhaps the most influential jurist of the...
Everyman's Constitution
Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the "Conspiracy Theory," and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
In 1938, Howard Jay Graham, a deaf law librarian, successfully argued that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment--ratified after the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race--were motivated by abolitionist fervor, debunking the notion...
by C. H. Alexandrowicz
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The history and theory of international law have been transformed in recent years by post-colonial and post-imperial critiques of the universalistic claims of Western international law. The origins of those critiques lie in the often overlooked work of the remarkable Polish-British lawyer-historian...
Drowning in Laws
Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Since 1943, the lives of Brazilian working people and their employers have been governed by the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT). Seen as the end of an exclusively repressive approach, the CLT was long hailed as one of the world's most advanced bodies of social legislation. In Drowning in Laws, John...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The November issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 2nd of Volume 123, academic year 2013-2014) features articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include:
• Article, “Leviathan and Interpretive Revolution: The Administrative State, the Judiciary, and...
Understanding E-Government in Europe
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
This volume critically explores the contentions in the emerging debate surrounding new media technologies and the extent to which they are challenging traditional political and government models.
Examining a range of citizen/government interactions which together form e-government...
The Legalist Reformation
Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New York was the scene of intense struggle between white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant upper and middle classes...
Making Race in the Courtroom
The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
No American city’s history better illustrates both the
possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping
racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was
home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In
the eyes...
Final Judgment
The Last Law Lords and the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The House of Lords, for over 300 years the UK's highest court, was transformed in 2009 into the UK Supreme Court. This book provides a compelling and unrivalled view into the workings of the Court during its final decade, and into the formative years of the Supreme Court. Drawing on over 100 interviews,...