The Psychology of the Supreme Court (American Psychology-Law Society)
by Lawrence Wrightsman
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With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the highest court in the land. Who are the justices that run it and how do they make their decisions? The...
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Lynched by Corporate America
by Herman Malone
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This book illustrates what happens when one of the world's largest companies rules the courtroom with impunity while a judge in black robes sits on the bench giving his stamp of approval to what the justice system calls fair and equal treatment. And what...
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Conflict of Laws
by Andrian Briggs
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This new addition to the Clarendon Law Series offers a much needed introduction to a complex subject. The Conflict of Laws addresses the jurisdiction of English Courts (and whether their judgments are enforced and recognised overseas) and the effect of...
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From Edison to Ipod: Protect Your Ideas and Make Money
by Frederick W. Mostert and Lawrence E. Apolzon
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A practical introduction to the subject of Intellectual Property demystifies the regulations and laws that protect ideas and inventions and explains how to assess the value of intellectual property; how, when, and why to defend one's intellectual...
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The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions
by Kermit Roosevelt
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This carefully considered book is a welcome addition to the debate over “judicial activism.” Constitutional scholar Kermit Roosevelt III offers an elegantly simple way to resolve the heated discord between conservatives, who argue that the...
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Updated and Expanded Edition
by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau
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Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11 world of NSA wiretaps and demands for data retention. Although the 1990s...
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Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000
by Alan M. Dershowitz
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Millions of Americans were baffled and outraged by the U.S. Supreme Court's role in deciding the presidential election of 2000 with its controversial ruling in Bush v. Gore. The Court had held a unique place in our system of checks and balances, seen as...
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Loony Laws & Silly Statutes
by Sh Lindsell Roberts
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Hundreds of the most ridiculous rules lawmakers have ever put into writing, drawn from actual city, state, and federal statute books. Find what has been forbidden about keeping pets (cats require tail lights in Sterling, Colorado), fishing and hunting...
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Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality
by Elizabeth Pri Foley
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In the opening chapter of this book, Elizabeth Price Foley writes, “The slow, steady, and silent subversion of the Constitution has been a revolution that Americans appear to have slept through, unaware that the blessings of liberty bestowed upon...
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Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus (Independent Studies in Political Economy)
by Donald Downs
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The decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty in American universities....
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Surviving the Loss of a Spouse (On the Road)
by Sheryl Garrett
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Few life experiences are more demanding than the loss of a spouse. While continuing to cope with grief, the surviving partner must also manage myriad financial details. This On the Road guide treats every fine point, from planning the funeral to claiming...
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The Supreme Court in the American Legal System
by Jeffrey Allan Segal
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Including a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court, this study examines the American legal system. It extensively examines lower courts as well, providing separate chapters on state courts, the U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Courts of...
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Plan Your Estate 8TH Edition
by Denis Clifford
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'The most comprehensive -- yet easy to read -- guide to estate planning on the market! Plan Your Estate covers everything from the basics of wills and living trusts to sophisticated tax-saving strategies. The authors give you straightforward, plain...
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Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family (Johns Hopkins Press Health Books)
by David John Doukas
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It won't happen to me. I'm too busy to worry about a living will. My family will know what to do. No one wants to plan for death or incapacitating illness. But, as the emotional legal battle in the Terri Schiavo case made all too clear, people of all...
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Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution
by Austin Sarat
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On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's...
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The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars
by George Liebmann
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This book commemorates a place and a time in American law teaching, but more importantly, an outlook: the common law tradition. That outlook was empirical and tolerant. These values were carried into expression by a group of people who were not part of a...
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Starr: A Reassessment
by Benjamin Wittes
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How is Kenneth Starr's extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons, or a savior of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to enforce a...
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Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made
by Jim Newton
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In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned- Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the Supreme Court in...
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Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm
by Jean Cohen
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The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions that have...
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Now Is the Time
by Lillian Smith
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In a new edition, Smith's memorable defense of America's moral commitment to civil rights. This impassioned plea for tolerance, desegregation, and civil rights advocacy was written by one of the South's leading activists and writers. Originally it was...
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