Civil Law category: 2427 books
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law
Moving Beyond Legal Realism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural identity—such as ethnicity, race, or religion—has...
Our Enemies in Blue
Police and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every...
Redeeming the Dream
The Case for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
“Breathtakingly inspiring.” —Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
When advocates for marriage equality sought to challenge California’s notorious Proposition 8, they were fortunate to have the support of two of the nation’s preeminent lawyers, David...
by Stephen L. Pevar
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government...
by Roberta Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill Clinton
Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and...
Common Sense
and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Thomas Paine is most famous for writing Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed during the American Revolution advocating for colonial America's independence from Great Britain. Now, collected here in a beautiful gift book volume, are excerpts from this important historical American document, as well...
by Dale Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
“A highly informative, detailed, even thrilling account of how the Supreme Court arguments reshaped American law.”—Michael Bronkski, San Francisco Chronicle
No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call...
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty
Emerging Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage....
Ten Dollars to Hate
The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s—by far the most “successful” incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War—and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old Texas...
Slavery, Law, and Politics
The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1981
This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by half, all the chapters and major themes of the larger work have been retained, providing a masterful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War.
Tax Law and Racial Economic Justice
Black Tax
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
No study of Black people in America can be complete without considering how openly discriminatory tax laws helped establish a racial caste system in the United States, how they were designed to exclude blacks from lucrative markets and the voting franchise, and how tax laws extracted and redistributed...
More Secure, Less Free?
Antiterrorism Policy & Civil Liberties after September 11
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The first comprehensive analysis of the full range of antiterror initiatives undertaken in the United States after the 2001 terrorist attacks
Unlike earlier books published shortly after the September 11 attacks that focus on the Patriot Act, More Secure, Less Free? covers the Patriot Act but...
Corruption and Human Rights in India
Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
The malaise of corruption has become deeply embedded in the political and social fabric of the Indian society. The increased frequency and scale of corruption have had deleterious effects on a wide range of issues. Corruption, therefore, must be viewed not just as an issue of law and order or of the...
Human Rights in Northern Ireland
The Committee on the Administration of Justice Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This Handbook is the latest version of a book that was last published in 2003, and has been completely revised to take account of the innumerable legal developments since then. The book contains 26 chapters on topics ranging across the full spectrum of civil, political, social, economic and environmental...