Federal Jurisdiction category: 95 books
Power, Politics and the Emotions
Impossible Governance?
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters?
Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions...
by Lawrence E. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
The Impending Impeachment of Donald J. Trump - What is Truth? As the US is in the gripe of the President’s interactions with the Russians this new book looks in to Article II of the US Constitution, the History of Impeachment, Presidential Succession, the Special Counsel, Senate and House Investigations,...
A Broken Badge Healed?
The Fbi, a Special Agent, and the Cancer Within Both
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This is the true story of Frederic Donner, a veteran FBI agent battling and surviving metastatic brain cancer while contemplating whether (or how) his organization can best survive and succeed in a new era of law enforcement. Readers will find the metaphorical limits between personal cancer survival and complete FBI organizational restructure compelling and informative.
by Stephen Budiansky
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most influential justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Antietam. He lived...
by Woodrow Wilson, Josephus Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Woodrow Wilson was a leading force in the Progressive Movement, and during his first term he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal, He led the United States during World War I and was one of the 3 key leaders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where...
The Real Watergate Scandal
Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess—and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike,...
Scorched Worth
A True Story of Destruction, Deceit, and Government Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
To effect just outcomes the justice system requires that law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges be committed—above all—to doing justice. Those whose allegiance is to winning, regardless of evidence, do the opposite of justice: they corrupt the system. This is the jaw-dropping story...
by Kathleen Puckett PhD, Terry D. Turchie
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Many of the same people who inhabited the political jungles of Washington, D.C. during Watergate are still in power today. In their constant jockeying for political power and influence on public opinion, they foster the same ill will and distrust of the FBI they have for 30 years. Their political...
The War on Terror
The Legal Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This volume examines a large number of topics related to the struggle and in a remarkably concise exploration, makes them understandable to experts in international law as well as those who do not have a strong background in the field. This text provides a serious but concise review of the legal issues...
Homeland Security, its Law and its State
A Design of Power for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This book assesses the impact of post-9/11 domestic counterterrorism policy on US political life. It examines political discourse, law, institutional architecture, and state-population relations, and shows that ‘homeland security’ is a project with wide-ranging implications for democratic institutions...
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book II: Of the Rights of Things
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system. They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. This is book two out of four, including more than 3000 footnotes and annotations.
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book I: Of the Rights of Persons
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system. They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. This is book one out of four, including more than 1000 footnotes and annotations.
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Book IV: On Public Wrongs
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system. They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. This is book four out of four, including more than 1700 footnotes and annotations.
Law In and As Culture
Intellectual Property, Minority Rights, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
There are two oppositional narratives in relation to telling the story of indigenous peoples and minorities in relation to globalization and intellectual property rights. The first, the narrative of Optimism, is a story of the triumphant opening of brave new worlds of commercial integration and cultural...