Constitutional category: 1750 books
The Constitutional Parent
Rights, Responsibilities, and the Enfranchisement of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In this bold and timely work, law professor Jeffrey Shulman argues that the United States Constitution does not protect a fundamental right to parent. Based on a rigorous reconsideration of the historical record, Shulman challenges the notion, held by academics and the general public alike, that parental...
Physician-Assisted Suicide
The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
Whether competent, terminally ill patients have a right to die with the assistance of their physicians or whether state and national governments have legitimate interests in forbidding the exercise of this right are the central questions around which this book revolves. In either case, essential constitutional...
by Eric Heinze
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Individual rights raise endless conflicts and spawn intricate standards and policies. Increasing involvement by courts has added still greater complexity. It would seem that few meaningful principles can unite an area of law plagued by such uncertainty. In this book the author argues that a fixed...
by Dr Andrew Blick
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book describes an astounding feat of constitutional writing and publication. For a number of decades, officials working across different branches of the United Kingdom (UK) constitution have been engaged in a series of separate projects. Taken in their totality, they amount to a vast enterprise....
by Wojciech Sadurski
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
After the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the newly democratized countries of this region joined two main pan-European political and legal structures: the Council of Europe and the European Union. This book shows how the Eastward enlargement of these two structures fostered the...
Declaring War
Congress, the President, and What the Constitution Does Not Say
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Declaring War directly challenges the 200-year-old belief that Congress can and should declare war. By offering a detailed analysis of the declarations of 1812, 1898 and the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the book demonstrates the extent of the organizational and moral incapacity of Congress to declare...
by John Laws
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
For the 2013 Hamlyn Lectures, Sir John Laws explored the constitutional balance between law and government in the United Kingdom. He argues that the unifying principle of the constitution is the common law and that its distinctive method has endowed the British State with profoundly beneficial effects,...
Syria, the Strength of an Idea
The Constitutional Architectures of Its Political Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Syrian crisis has confounded political leaders and experts who forecast a rapid fall of the regime. This monumental error of interpretation has had tragic consequences for the unfolding of the crisis and its slide into a frightful civil war with regional and international ramifications. This book...
by Kirk Meighoo, Peter Jamadar
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Using Trinidad and Tobago as the model, this book offers an overview of the constitutional reform process in the Commonwealth Caribbean. In these young, post-colonial democracies, where party politics and power politics have had a negative impact on the process of democratic reform, the authors review...
Human Rights Acts
The Mechanisms Compared
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
There are now a number of statutes in different parts of the world that offer non-constitutional protection for human rights through mechanisms such as strong interpretive obligations, quasi-tort actions and obligations on legislatures to consider whether statutes are felt to breach human rights obligations....
by Adam Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post).
In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author...
The Three Lives of James Madison
Genius, Partisan, President
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president
“In order to understand America and its Constitution, it is necessary to understand James...
The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.
From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's...
America's Constitution
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
In America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography” of America’s framing...