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  • Cognitive Aging and the Federal Circuit Courts

    How Senescence Influences the Law and Judges

    by Ryan C. Black, Ryan J. Owens, Patrick C. Wohlfarth ...
    In the United States, federal judges occupy weighty positions. They interpret the Constitution, define people's rights and liberties, and apply laws and regulations to myriad cases. They also are older than ever. In 2023, the median age of a federal judge reached 70 for the first time. Nearly one-third of federal judges exceeded the age of 75. And ten percent were 85 years or older. The federal ... Read more

    $101.69 USD

  • The Conscientious Justice

    How Supreme Court Justices' Personalities Influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution

    by Ryan C. Black, Ryan J. Owens, Justin Wedeking, Patrick C. Wohlfarth ...
    United States Supreme Court justices make decisions that have a profound impact on American society. Empirical legal scholars have portrayed justices as either single-minded or strategic seekers of policy, and there is little room in these theories for things like law, reputation, or personality. This book offers a fresh perspective that will jar Supreme Court scholarship out of complacency. It ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

    by Ryan C. Black, Ryan J. Owens, Justin Wedeking, Patrick C. Wohlfarth ...
    This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences. The authors examine this dynamic by creating a unique measure of opinion clarity and then testing whether the Court writes clearer opinions when it faces ideologically hostile and ideologically scattered lower ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court

    A Deliberate Dialogue

    by Justin Wedeking, Ryan C. Black, Prof. Timothy R. B. Johnson ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court, with its controlled, highly institutionalized decision-making practices, provides an ideal environment for studying coalition formation. The process begins during the oral argument stage, which provides the justices with their first opportunity to hear one another's attitudes and concerns specific to a case. This information gathering allows them eventually to form a ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray ...
    The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. ... Read more

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  • Facing Reality

    Two Truths about Race in America

    by Charles Murray ...
    The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ... Read more

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  • The School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Structuring Legal Reform

    by Catherine Y. Kim, Daniel J. Losen, Damon T. Hewitt ...
    An in-depth analysis of the legal entry points and remedies in the school-to-prison pipelineThe “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points, from under ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Anti-Scientific Americans

    The Prevalence, Origins, and Political Consequences of Anti-Intellectualism in the US

    by Matthew Motta ...
    Anti-intellectualism has long been a powerful force in American political life. It has also regularly been the subject of both scholarly and public interest. In Anti-Scientific Americans, Matthew Motta revives Richard Hofstadter's pioneering insights from the 1960s on the subject and offers new theoretical and data-driven insights into the prevalence, origins, and policy consequences of anti ... Read more

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  • Special Education: What Every Parent and Lawyer Needs to Know

    by Matthew Famiglietti ...
    The Individualized Education Program (IEP), Mediation, Due Process, Fees and Expenses, and Other Remedies are covered in lay terms, making it easy for parents to understand what is happening, but there is sufficient detail and case law to make this an excellent resource for practicing attorneys.This book gives a brief summary of the history of special education law, which helps the reader ... Read more

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  • Backlash Against the ADA

    Reinterpreting Disability Rights

    Edited by Linda Hamilton Krieger ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Innovations in Child and Family Policy

    Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families

    by Emily M. Douglas, Loretta L. C. Brady, Esther F. S. Carvalhaes, Jason Castillo, Corey J. Colyer, Terry-Ann L. Craigie, Amy D'Andrade, Judy Doktor, Audrey Foster, James P. Gleeson, Diane F. Halpern, Arden Handler, Stacy Ann Hawkins, Anne Dannerbeck Janku, L Christopher Plein, Donna Potter, Margaret Samuels, Lorrie Schmid, Terry A. Solomon, Leslie Starsoneck, Jayme Swanke, Sherylle J. Tan, Michelle P. Taylor, Yvonne Wasilewski, Patricia Hrusa Williams, Laura Dreuth Zeman, Melissa Brown, Emily Douglas, Karen McCurdy, Robert A. Murphy ...
    Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing the history of this growing specialization within the social sciences. The main chapters of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Disabled Education

    A Critical Analysis of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

    by Ruth Colker ...
    Enacted in1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act – now called theIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides all children withthe right to a free and appropriate public education. On the face of it, theIDEA is a shining example of law’s democratizing impulse. But is that reallythe case? In Disabled Education, Ruth Colker digs deep beneath theIDEA’s surface and reveals ... Read more

    $44.99 USD