Law : General

"Bravo! I'll say nothing funny about it, for it is a superior piece of work." -P. J. O'Rourke "F. H. Buckley's The Morality of Laughter...

The Possibility of Popular Justice is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of community mediation and should be very high on the list of anyone s......

Modernism in legal theory is no different from modernism in the arts: both respond to a cultural crisis, a sense that institutions and traditions have lost t......

The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of t......

In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting any law......

With refreshing eloquence, James O. Freedman sets down the American ideals that have informed his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and......

Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of part......

In this in-depth examination of community policing in Seattle, William T. Lyons, Jr. explores the complex issues associated with the establishment and operat......

Even as lawsuits challenging its admissions policies made their way through the courts, the University of Michigan carried the torch for affirmative action i......

Do ye no ungodly thing that godliness may prosper: Put from yourselves those errors that are childish, take unto yourselves the armors of true wisdom. . . ....

Many may find it difficult to understand how a woman could call herself both a lesbian and a Christian. In From Robe to Robe, author Martha E. Bellinger prov......

"Digital piracy. It's a global war. It touches you every day, even if you've never downloaded an MP3. And it's just begun. It's a war between media conglomer......

Federal and state regulatory agencies are increasingly making use of litigation as a means of regulation. In this book, three experts in regulatory law and t......

Most people are unaware of a quiet war that has been raging for the last decade in the courts, federal regulatory agencies, and Congress—a war over fed......

Our failure to appreciate the importance of the public domainÂthe realm of material that is free for anyone to use without permission or feeÂlimits free spee......

In 1941, after decades of struggling to hold on to the remainder of their aboriginal home, the Hualapai Indians finally took their case to the Supreme CourtÂ......

This book examines the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective. It describes the main features of......

The past few decades have witnessed an increase in the number international human rights treaties, their incorporation into domestic jurisdictions as well as......

< P> < P> This book is a detailed examination of whether domestic security measures are striking an appropriate balance between homeland security and civil l......