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Word Cloud Classics eBook Series

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  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents

    by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...
    Series series Word Cloud Classics
    A collection of key dissenting and majority opinions from U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.During her 27 years as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became well known for her strongly worded dissenting opinions against the decisions of the conservative majority. Ginsburg was a fierce supporter of women’s rights whose personal experiences helped shape ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition

    by E. Allan Farnsworth ...
    In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition is designed to be a general ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The Classical Liberal Constitution

    The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Decision Making by the Modern Supreme Court

    by Richard L. Pacelle, Jr, Brett W. Curry, Bryan W. Marshall ...
    There are three general models of Supreme Court decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model and the strategic model. But each is somewhat incomplete. This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates variables from each of the three models. In examining the modern Supreme Court, since Brown v. Board of Education, the book argues that decisions ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • In Defense of Justice: The Greatest Dissents of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Edited and Annotated for the Non-Lawyer

    by Sarah Wainwright ...
    This book features Ginsburg’s best-known dissents in a format accessible to the non-lawyer, giving RBG’s worldwide fans an approach to their hero’s life’s work. Each dissent is prefaced with an explanation of the case to help prepare the lay reader for approaching difficult legal prose.Ginsburg is renowned for her feisty and fearless dissents, which are her arguments in opposition to the Court's ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System

    by Benjamin H. Barton ...
    Virtually all American judges are former lawyers. This book argues that these lawyer-judges instinctively favor the legal profession in their decisions and that this bias has far-reaching and deleterious effects on American law. There are many reasons for this bias, some obvious and some subtle. Fundamentally, it occurs because - regardless of political affiliation, race, or gender - every ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Judicial Behavior and Policymaking

    An Introduction

    by Robert J. Hume ...
    Judicial Behavior and Policymaking introduces students to the politics of judging, exploring why judges make the decisions they do, who has the power to influence judicial decision-making, and what the consequences of court decisions are for policymaking. Further, this text familiarizes students with the methods that professional political scientists use to conduct research about the courts, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited

    by Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth ...
    This book, authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision making. In the process, it critiques the two major alternative models of Supreme Court decision making and their major variants: the legal and rational choice. Using the US Supreme Court Data ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior

    by Robert J. Hume ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in North American Politics
    What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside agencies after courts rule against them. Robert J. Hume draws upon dozens of interviews with current and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Cato Supreme Court Review, 2012-2013

    Edited by Ilya Shapiro ...
    Published every September in celebration of Constitution Day, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to analyze the most important cases of the Court's most recent term. It is the first scholarly review to appear after the term's end and the only on to critique the court from a Madisonian perspective. This year's review looks at the Supreme Court's recent decisions ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Child Righits & Remedites

    by Robert Fellmeth, Jessica Heldman ...
    Child Rights and Remedies provides a comprehensive examination of how United States law and policy affects the lives and futures of children. This law school text covers a broad spectrum of major cases, statutes, and relevant empirical evidence that illustrate how children are faring in light of how our legal and political systems function. “Professor Robert C. Fellmeth, the master of child rights ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Purchasing Submission

    Conditions, Power, and Freedom

    by Philip Hamburger ...
    From a leading constitutional scholar, an important study of a powerful mode of government control: the offer of money and other privileges to secure submission to unconstitutional power.The federal government increasingly regulates by using money and other benefits to induce private parties and states to submit to its conditions. It thereby enjoys a formidable power, which sidesteps a wide range ... Read more

    $29.59 USD