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  • Critical Race Judgments

    Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law

    Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt, Angela Onwuachi-Willig ...
    By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates that it's possible to be judge and a critical race theorist. Specific issues covered in these cases include the death penalty, employment, voting, policing, education, the environment, justice, housing, immigration, sexual orientation, segregation, and mass ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Centering Families of Color

    A Reimagination of Family Law

    Edited by R. A. Lenhardt, Nancy E. Dowd ...
    Series series Families, Law, and Society
    Centers families of color in family law, revealing their pivotal role in shaping justice, equality, and social change and how their perspectives reframe the scope of family lawCentering Families of Color argues for the reframing of how we define “family law.” Centering the voices and perspectives of families of color, it expands and contextualizes how the law functions in relation to families. It ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

    by Corey Robin ...
    A groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.“One of the marvels of Robin’s razor-sharp book is how carefully he marshals his evidence. . . . It isn’t every day that reading about ideas can be both so gratifying and unsettling.”**—**The New York TimesMost people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of s... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The American Supreme Court

    by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The sixth edition of the classic and concise account of the US Supreme Court, its history, and its place in American politics.For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court.As in prior editions, McCloskey's original text remains ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

    Constitutional Law

    by Michael C. Dorf, Trevor W. Morrison ...
    Series series Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
    The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Constitutional Law presents an accessible introduction to the enduring topics of American constitutional law, including judicial review, methods of interpretation, federalism, separation of powers, equal protection, and individual liberties. One of the most important functions performed by the American Constitution and the more than two centuries' worth of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

    The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History

    by Keith E. Whittington ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution? The justices on the Supreme Court certainly seem to think so--and their critics say that this position threatens democracy. But Keith Whittington argues that the Court's justices have not simply seized power and circumvented politics. The justices have had power thrust upon them--by politicians, for the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Tempting of America

    by Robert H. Bork ...
    Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.In The Tempting of America, one of our most distinguished legal minds offers a brilliant argument for the wisdom and necessity of interpreting the Constitution according to the “original understanding” of the Framers and the people for whom it was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Judicial Branch

    Edited by Kermit L. Hall, Kevin T. McGuire ...
    Series series Institutions of American Democracy
    In recent years the Supreme Court has been at the center of such political issues as abortion rights, the administration of police procedures, and the determination of the 2000 presidential election. The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With the guidance of coeditors Kermit L. Hall and Kevin T. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Power of Precedent

    by Michael J. Gerhardt ...
    The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision making is a perennially divisive subject among scholars of law and American politics. The debate rages over both empirical and normative aspects of the issue: To what extent are the Supreme Court, Congress, and the executive branch constrained by precedent? To what extent should they be? Taking up a topic long overdue for comprehensive ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Silent Covenants

    Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform

    by Derrick Bell ...
    When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision, which declared public school segregation unconstitutional, would become the Holy Grail of racial justice. Fifty years later, despite its legal irrelevance and the racially separate and educationally ineffective state of public schooling for most ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • When Courts and Congress Collide

    The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System

    by Charles Gardner Geyh ...
    "This is quite simply the best study of judicial independence that I have ever read; it is erudite, historically aware, and politically astute."-Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley"Professor Geyh has written a wise and timely book that is informed by the author's broad and deep experience working with the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Terms of Engagement

    How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government

    by Clark M. Neily III ...
    The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics. But those protections are meaningless without judges who are fully committed to enforcing them, and America’s judges have largely abdicated that responsibility. All too often, instead of judging the constitutionality of government action, courts simply ... Read more

    $17.99 USD