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Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional...
Race, Law, and American Society
1607-Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for...
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Legislating a New America
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Along with the civil rights and voting rights acts, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is one of the most important bills of the civil rights era. The Act's political, legal, and demographic impact continues to be felt, yet its legacy is controversial. The 1965 Act was groundbreaking in eliminating...
Why Marriage Matters
America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Why Marriage Matters offers a compelling and clear discussion of a question at the forefront of our national consciousness. It is the work of a brilliant civil rights litigator who has dedicated his life to the protection of individuals' rights and our Constitution's commitment to equal justice under...
In the Shadow of Korematsu
Democratic Liberties and National Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America - an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association...
Policing Hatred
Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. The nation’s attention has recently been focused on high-profile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention...
by Steve Babson, David Elsila, Dave Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Biography of Ernie Goodman, a Detroit lawyer and political activist who played a key role in social justice cases.
The Arrest Handbook
A Guide To Your Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Arrest Handbook is a guide to your rights and responsibilities when you deal with the police. Arrest, detention, searches, seizures and complaints are all covered in easy-to-understand language. Also included are special sections on mental health detentions, civil disobedience and protest, poverty law and anti-terrorist law.
by James Constant
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Certiorari Denied Without Opinion - Not For Publication - Jury Nullification
Once upon a time, juries were the sole arbiters of both facts and law, and the courts published written opinions. Today, judges violate litigant’s civil rights by deciding cases 1) cert denied without opinions, 2) with unpublished opinions, and 3) juries no longer are sole arbiters of law.
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 Marjorie S. Zatz
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
An insightful collection of essays from leading voices on the challenges and promise of justice and law, this book is accessible and interesting to a wide audience. It features internationally renowned members of the academy, national political figures, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, and crusading...
The Delivery of Human Rights
Essays in Honour of Professor Sir Nigel Rodley
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The Delivery of Human Rights reflects on two overlapping issues in international human rights law: how can existing norms be better implemented and effected, and how can other branches of international law or other international actors be used so as to provide an improved delivery of those norms....
Poverty Law and Legal Activism
Lives that Slide Out of View
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism. The book argues that we need to...
PROTAGONISMO JUDICIAL
Novo ativismo e teoria geral da função jurisdicional
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2017
A presente obra tem por objetivo primordial esboçar uma teoria que sistematize as principais características que o exercício da função jurisdicional na contemporaneidade tem revelado, calcada na consciência de que as concepções e dogmas tradicionais já não se prestam a fazê-lo adequadamente.Princípios/valores...