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“benjamin michael superfine”

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  • The Courts and Standards Based Reform

    by Benjamin Michael Superfine ...
    Since the desegregation of public schools in the 1950s, the concept of standards-based reform has become a central topic within educational policy. Every American state is now required to enact standards-based reform policies while shifting responsibility away from the government and holding schools more accountable for their students performance. The Courts and Standards-Based Education Reform ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Life Sentence

    Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting -- or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian Justice System (Especially Judges)

    by Christie Blatchford ...
    A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system—and especially its judges—in this national bestseller.When Christie Blatchford wandered into a Toronto courtroom in 1978 for the start of the first criminal trial she would cover as a newspaper reporter, little did she know she was also at the start of a self-imposed life sentence.She has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Law’s Abnegation

    From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State

    by Adrian Vermeule ...
    Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.In area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Everyone’s Guide to South African Law

    4th Edition

    by Adriaan Anderson ...
    The law affects us all, and even your most basic day-to-day choices and actions have legal implications. Yet few people have much knowledge of the law or understand complicated legal terminology – and lawyers’ fees are beyond many people’s reach. This book will provide you with the necessary information on a wide range of legal issues that may impact on your daily life – at work, in the home, on ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Arbitrary Justice

    The Power of the American Prosecutor

    by Angela J. Davis ...
    What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice? Why are cases involving well-to-do victims often prosecuted more vigorously than those involving poor victims? Why do wealthy defendants frequently enjoy more lenient plea bargains than the disadvantaged? In this eye-opening work, Angela J. Davis shines a much ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Practice and Procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

    by Jo M. Pasqualucci ...
    A thoroughly revised second edition that incorporates the major changes made in the procedures and practice of the Inter-American Court. Jo M. Pasqualucci analyzes all aspects of the Court's advisory jurisdiction, contentious jurisdiction and provisional measures orders through 2011. She also compares the practice and procedure of the Inter-American Court with that of the European Court of Human ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Blackstone's Employment Law Practice 2012

    Edited by Gavin Mansfield, John Bowers QC, Damian Brown, Simon Forshaw, Anthony Korn, Julia Palca, David Reade QC ...
    Drawing together comprehensive coverage of practice and procedure in the employment tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, and Central Arbitration Committee, Blackstone's Employment Law Practice 2012 is an essential purchase for any serious employment practitioner. Ideal for preparing for and during a case in tribunal or court, it includes trusted advice on specialist topics, such as the ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Trial Justice

    The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army

    by Tim Allen ...
    Series series African Arguments
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda.There is no doubt that appalling crimes have occurred here. Over a million people have been forced to live in overcrowded displacement camps under the control of the Ugandan army. Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has abducted thousands, many of them children and has ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Judiciary in Iraq

    The Path to an Independent Judiciary and Modern Court System

    by Chief Justice Madhat al-Mahmood ...
    After simmering in the background through the nineties, Iraq burst into the awareness of many when it became a battleground against the war on terror under the Bush administration. Few realize that in the midst of the fierce policy battles, one partially implemented state-building exercise took root, and Iraq became the first country in the Middle East, democracy or otherwise, to have a ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights

    How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

    by Joseph Mello ...
    If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it’s that rights do not exist in a vacuum. What works for one side at the ballot box often fails in the courtroom. Conservative opponents of same-sex marriage used appeals to religious liberty and parental rights to win ballot measure campaigns, but could not duplicate this success in court. Looking at the same-sex marriage debate at the ballot ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Power and Purpose of International Law

    by Mary Ellen O'Connell ...
    The world is poised for another important transition. The United States is dealing with the impact of the Afghan and Iraq wars, the use of torture and secret detention, Guantanamo, climate change, nuclear proliferation, weakened international institutions, and other issues related directly or indirectly to international law. The world needs an accurate account of the important role of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Dissent and the Supreme Court

    Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

    by Melvin I. Urofsky ...
    “Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike." —The Los Angeles Review of BooksIn his major work*,* acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court’s long history. Constitutional dialogue is one of the ways in which we as a people reinvent and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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