Civil Law category: 2427 books
Never Too Late
A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evars Case
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2001
In June 12, 1963, Mississippi's fast-rising NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction twice at the hands of all-white Southern juries, and his crime went unpunished for more than three decades. Now, from Bobby DeLaughter,...
Engines of Liberty
The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
From the national legal director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook on standing up for fundamental civil liberties and resisting executive overreach -- named one of Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of the Year
What role do American citizens have in safeguarding our Constitution and...
by Kitty Calavita
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The acclaimed socio-legal study of the Bracero labor program, why it failed, and what that means to immigration policy and organizational theory. By Kitty Calavita, professor of criminology, law and society at UC-Irvine and author of 'Invitation to Law & Society' (U. of Chicago, 2010), now with...
Torture as Tort
Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
The controversial nature of seeking globalised justice through national courts has become starkly apparent in the wake of the Pinochet case in which the Spanish legal system sought to bring to account under international criminal law the former President of Chile,for violations in Chile of human rights...
Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law
Constitutions in an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law explores the impact that oxymoronic 'permanent' states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, constituent power. It challenges the idea that many constitutional orders are facing permanent states...
Mass Incarceration on Trial
A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns,...
Judge and Jury
American Tort Law on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Is the United States tort system in crisis? CBS television’s 60 Minutes has said the tort system metes out "jackpot justice," and Newsweek has called America a "Lawsuit Hell." Other observers of the legal system, however, argue that the tort crisis is a myth. Although both sides...
Antitrust and Monopoly
Anatomy of a Policy Failure
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
The stated purpose of antitrust laws is to protect competition and the public interest. But do such laws actually restrict the competitive process, harming consumers and serving the special interests of a few politically-connected competitors? Is antitrust law a necessary defense against the predatory...
Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly...
The Litigation State
Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Of the 1.65 million lawsuits enforcing federal laws over the past decade, 3 percent were prosecuted by the federal government, while 97 percent were litigated by private parties. When and why did private plaintiff-driven litigation become a dominant model for enforcing federal regulation? The Litigation...
by Alexander Somek
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Originally the constitution was expected to express and channel popular sovereignty. It was the work of freedom, springing from and facilitating collective self-determination. After the Second World War this perspective changed: the modern constitution owes its authority not only to collective authorship,...
by Terry Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
Finally, the truth is revealed about what really goes on inside the mind of a Police Officer. Forget about the main stream mottos like "serve and protect"; "community service"; and other boilerplate mantras spoon fed to the public by Law Enforcement Public Relation Pundits.
Take...
Knocking on the Door
The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted...
Understanding Mass Incarceration
A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system? Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in...