Civil Law category: 2427 books
Covering
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.
“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone...
Civil Rights Litigation
Representing Plaintiffs Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Asserting our civil rights goes to the heart of what it means to be an American, but unfortunately, our property, liberty, and even life can be sacrificed when we exercise these fundamental rights. This book seeks to help lawyers, their clients, and the general public negotiate the field of civil rights...
A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
In 1946 a young woman named Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (1924–1995) was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law because she was African American. The OU law school was an all-white institution in a town where African Americans could work and shop as long as they got out before sundown....
This Is Not Civil Rights
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with Americans...
The Three Paths of Justice
Court Proceedings, Arbitration, and Mediation in England
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This revised second edition takes account of developments in the field of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration. The book presents a concise account of the English system of civil litigation, covering court proceedings in England and Wales. It is an original and important study of...
Unfinished Business
Racial Equality in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates the course of racial equality in America, revealing...
Defining the Struggle
National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history. But these two flagship institutions...
The Three Paths of Justice
Court Proceedings, Arbitration, and Mediation in England
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
This book presents a concise account of the English system of civil litigation, covering court proceedings in England and Wales. It is an original and important study of a system which is the historical root of the US litigation system. The volume offers a comprehensive and properly balanced account...
Thinking About Terrorism
The Threat to Civil Liberties in a Time of National Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Written in response to Judge Richard Posner's "Not a Suicide Pact," Michael Tigar's new book examines the responses of governments throughout history to terrorist threats, including those in our own nation's history. Tigar focuses specifically on the effects of governmental action on the...
Concentrate Questions and Answers Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Law Q&A Revision and Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The Concentrate Q&As are a result of a collaboration involving hundreds of law students and lecturers from universities across the UK. The series offers you better support and a greater chance to succeed on your law course than any of the competitors. 'A sure-fire way to get a 1st class result' (Naomi...
by Michael J. Klarman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed...
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...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
One of the world's leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the third of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include:
John H. Langbein,...
by Dr Christian Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The Use of Force and International Law offers an authoritative overview of international law governing the resort to force. Looking through the prism of the contemporary challenges that this area of international law faces, including technology, sovereignty, actors, and compliance and enforcements,...