Civil Law category: 2427 books
We Do!
American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
“The encouraging story of American acceptance of gay marriage and the roles that politicians—gay and straight—have played in that history” (The Philadelphia Tribune).
Through speeches, interviews, and commentary, this book chronicles the road toward marriage equality in the United States,...
A History of Civil Rights Through Legislation: Constitutional Amendments, Laws, Supreme Court Decisions & Key Foreign Policy Acts
Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Complete Amendments, The Federalist Papers, Gettysburg Address, Voting Rights Act, Social Security Act, Loving v. Virginia and more
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This collection incorporates the crucial democratic principles on which our identity as Americans is based. From the Declaration of Independence to the Civil Rights Act of 1968, this edition contains 40 most important decisions and acts that shaped the legal system and democracy of the USA. Table...
Abraham Lincoln, Esq.
The Legal Career of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. Abraham Lincoln,...
Make No Law
The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis.
The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech,...
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"
Michigan, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic...
Civil Litigation in China and Europe
Essays on the Role of the Judge and the Parties
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This volume addresses the role of the judge and the parties in civil litigation in mainland China, Hong Kong and various European jurisdictions. It provides an overview and an analysis of how these respective roles have been changed in order to cope with growing caseloads and quality demands. It also...
All for Civil Rights
African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted...
by Paulo Pimenta
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 11, 2014
A entrada em vigor do Código de Processo Civil de 2013, para além das profundas alterações introduzidas no quotidiano forense, implica que os manuais universitários sejam reformulados e ajustados ao novo quadro legal. É assim que surge este Processo Civil Declarativo. Tendo cessado a parceria que,...
Saving the Soul of Georgia
Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia’s chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and fought to undermine...
Transformation of Civil Justice
Unity and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
National civil justice systems are deeply rooted in national legal cultures and traditions. However, in the past few decades they have been increasingly influenced by integration processes at the regional, supra-national and international level. As a by-product of the emergence of economic and political...
Congress and the People’s Contest
The Conduct of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture...
The First Civil Right
How Liberals Built Prison America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that...
by Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points...
by Dr Jason NE Varuhas
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Winner of the 2018 Inner Temple New Authors Book Prize and the 2016 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.
Damages and Human Rights is a major work on awards of damages for violations of human rights that will be of compelling interest to practitioners, judges and academics...