Law : Civil Procedure

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 litigate......

Evaluate your claim, figure out your best course of action and represent yourself in small claims court with this definitive guide Everybody's Guide to Smal......

This is the first systematic treatment in English by an historian of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society from the thir......

New democracies around the world have adopted constitutional courts to oversee the operation of democratic politics. Where does judicial power come from, how......

Constitutional courts have emerged as central institutions in many advanced democracies. This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial author......

Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a new model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyzes the Athenians' preference in ......

Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Evaluating S......

In this study, W. J. Waluchow argues that debates between defenders and critics of constitutional bills of rights presuppose that constitutions are more or l......

For nearly three decades, scholars and policymakers have placed considerable stock in judicial reform as a panacea for the political and economic turmoil pla......

Why did formerly independent Chilean judges, trained under and appointed by democratic governments, facilitate and condone the illiberal, antidemocratic, and......

This book is the first in-depth study of the actual role that the Russian Constitutional Court played in protecting fundamental rights and resolving legislat......

Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is ......

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court...

An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and ......

In Small Claims Court there's only one winner... Don't let your opponent rake you over the coals. It happened to me. Burned like toast! Now I'm fighting bac......

Legal Trail® Civil Procedure delivers the precise rule of law; concise and to the point. The actual Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are presented followed b......

Reason Curve, Jury Competence, and the English Criminal Justice System, a cross-jurisdictional and cross-disciplinary book, seeks to stimulate discussion and......

"Social Work and the Courts" is a compendium of the most recent and important legal cases in social work and social welfare. Its dissection and analysis of c......

Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650-2000, this book examines the role of law in making democracy work in changing societies. The Legacies of Law ......