Constitutional category: 1750 books
How America Got Its Guns
A History of the Gun Violence Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author’s thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which...
David Hackett Souter
Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
When the first President Bush chose David Hackett Souter for the Supreme Court in 1990, the slender New Englander with the shy demeanor and ambiguous past was quickly dubbed a "stealth candidate". Since his appointment, Souter has embraced a flexible, evolving, and highly pragmatic judicial style...
Civil Rights Litigation
Representing Plaintiffs Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Asserting our civil rights goes to the heart of what it means to be an American, but unfortunately, our property, liberty, and even life can be sacrificed when we exercise these fundamental rights. This book seeks to help lawyers, their clients, and the general public negotiate the field of civil rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights? It is becoming increasingly obvious that a high quality environment is key to the fundamental human rights of life and health, and associated rights such as the...
by James Gordley
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1991
This study traces the influence of philosophical ideas on the development of contract law from the post-Roman period to the 19th century, focusing upon the synthesis of Roman law and the moral philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas.
Approaching the U.S. Constitution
Sacred Covenant or Plaything for Lawyers and Judges
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
By reminding readers that early Supreme Court justices refused to reduce the Constitution to a mere legal document, Approaching the U.S. Constitution provides a definitive response to Reading Law by Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner. Turning to the vision of Alexander Hamilton found in Federalists No....
Our Non-Christian Nation
How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. These non-Christians have increasingly been demanding their full participation in public life, bringing their arguments all the way to the Supreme Court. The...
Making the Case
The Art of the Judicial Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn’s classic The Bramble Bush, Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure of the judicial opinion. Learning to read the opinion,...
Impeachment
A Handbook, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Charles L. Black Jr.’s classic guide to presidential impeachment, now in an updated edition with new material by Philip Bobbitt
Originally published at the height of the Watergate crisis and reissued in 1998, two months before the second impeachment of a U.S. president, Charles Black’s...
Your Next Government?
From the Nation State to Stateless Nations
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized,...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The December 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal (the third of academic year 2014-2015) features new articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include:
- Article, "The Limits of Enumeration," by Richard Primus
- Article, "Rules Against Rulification,"...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the first of Volume 123, academic year 2013-2014) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include:
• Article, “Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity: Assessing the Role of Prosecutors...
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
The University of Chicago Law Review's third issue of 2013 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars, as well as extensive student research on cutting-edge topics. Contents include:
ARTICLES
• Tortfest, by J. Shahar Dillbary
• Judging the Flood...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Harvard Law Review, Number 8 (June 2014), includes an extensive Symposium on Freedom of the Press, as well as an article, "The Criminal Court Audience in a Post-Trial World," by Jocelyn Simonson, and a book review essay, "The Positive Foundations of Formalism: False Necessity and American...