Victoria Nourse: 2 books

Book cover of Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy
by Victoria Nourse
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.
Book cover of In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
by Victoria F. Nourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008

The disturbing, forgotten history of America’s experiment with eugenics. In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization...
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