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  • Alabama Justice

    The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation

    by Dr. Steven P. Brown ...
    WINNER OF THE ANNE B. & JAMES B. MCMILLAN PRIZE IN SOUTHERN HISTORYExamines the legacies of eight momentous US Supreme Court decisions that have their origins in Alabama legal disputes.Unknown to many, Alabama has played a remarkable role in a number of Supreme Court rulings that continue to touch the lives of every American. In Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation, Steven P. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Trumping Religion

    The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts

    by Dr. Steven P. Brown ...
    The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in redefining religious freedom in the courtroom.Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000. Allied with several highly vocal, evangelical ministries, such as those of Jerry Falwell and Pat ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court

    Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest

    by Dr. Steven P. Brown ...
    A Southern voice on a national bench—McKinley’s legacy in antebellum law.John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court offers the first comprehensive biography of Justice John McKinley (1780–1852), a largely forgotten figure in American legal history who played a pivotal role during a formative period of the U.S. Supreme Court. Steven P. Brown rescues McKinley from historical obscurity, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Faith, Morality, and Civil Society

    by David Oki Ahearn, Professor Michael D. Bailey, John P. Bartkowski, Steven P. Brown, Beverly Gaddy, Joshua P. Hochschild, Kevin Pybas, Helen A. Regis, Brad Lowell Stone, Alan Wolfe, Alan Woolfolk ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    In this rich collection of essays, editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society. Though the level of religious expression has remained high in the United States, the shift from traditional religious beliefs to a far more individualized style of faith has led many to contend that no faith commitment, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Oath

    The Obama White House and The Supreme Court

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Making Our Democracy Work

    A Judge's View

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Rhetoric and The Rule of Law

    A Theory of Legal Reasoning

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Law, State, and Practical Reason
    Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a discernible structure and using recognisable kinds of arguments? Does it belong to rhetoric in this sense, or to the domain of the merely 'rhetorical' in an adversative sense? Is there any reasonable certainty about legal outcomes in dispute-situations? If not, what becomes of the Rule of Law? Neil MacCormick's book tackles these questions ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Sharī'a

    Theory, Practice, Transformations

    by Wael B. Hallaq ...
    In recent years, Islamic law, or Shari'a, has been appropriated as a tool of modernity in the Muslim world and in the West and has become highly politicised in consequence. Wael Hallaq's magisterial overview of Shari'a sets the record straight by examining the doctrines and practices of Islamic law within the context of its history, and by showing how it functioned within pre-modern Islamic ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    by Laurence Tribe, Joshua Matz ...
    "Illuminating. . . . [Tribe and Matz] offer well-crafted overviews of key cases decided by the Roberts Court [and] chart the Supreme Court's conservative path." — Chicago TribuneFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Paternalism

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Christian Coons, Michael Weber ...
    Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm, which has created considerable controversy at least since John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Mill famously decried paternalism of any kind, whether ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Case Against the Supreme Court

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    A preeminent constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two hundred yearsMost Americans share the perception that the Supreme Court is objective, but Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the country’s leading constitutional lawyers, shows that this is nonsense and always has been. The Court is made up of fallible individuals who base decisions on their own biases ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Idea of Labour Law

    Edited by Guy Davidov, Brian Langille ...
    Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring already well placed employees over less fortunate ones; and discredited for failing to cover the most vulnerable workers and workers in the "informal ... Read more

    $55.99 USD