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Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is Not a Court and its Justices are Not JudgesSupreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is Not a Court and its Justices are Not Judges presents a detailed discussion of the Court's most important and controversial constitutional cases that demonstrates why it doesn't justify being labeled a court of law.Eric Segall, professor of...
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The Mind of a Murderer: Privileged Access to the Demons that Drive Extreme ViolenceThe Mind of a Murderer: Privileged Access to the Demons That Drive Extreme Violence presents a series of cases in which a psychiatrist, psychologist, or counselor gained privileged access to a mass or serial murderer, going beyond the typical mental assessment to learn more...
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Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene ReconstructionistBlood Secrets reveals how forensic experts read the story of a murder told in the traces of blood left behind, providing crucial evidence that has helped convict criminals who might have otherwise walked free. When Rod Englert began his career in law enforcement, virtually...
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Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy"A hard-hitting critique of the American election process as timely as it is frightening. . . . Required reading for legislators and voters."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review From noted election law expert Rick Hasen comes a stark warning on the threats to American democracy in...
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The Soul of the First AmendmentA lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in AmericaAuthor: Floyd AbramsPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 04/24/2018Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9780300234206About the AuthorFloyd Abrams has litigated...
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Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The Jewish Question, the Holocaust, and German Legal TheoryGerman jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left...
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Heracles' Bow: Essays On The Rhetoric & Poetics Of The LawThe law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James Boyd White urges a fresh view of the law as an essentially literary, rhetorical, and ethical activity. Defining and elaborating his conception, he artfully...
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The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison SystemIn April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of...
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The Cost-Benefit RevolutionWhy policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks....
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The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the LawThere are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor...
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Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational EraConstitutional law in the United States and around the world now operates within an increasingly transnational legal environment of international treaties, customary international law, supranational infrastructures of human rights and trade law, and growing comparative judicial awareness. This new environment is reflected in increasing...
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Military Justice: A Very Short Introduction"You can't handle the truth." These iconic words, bellowed by Jack Nicholson as Colonel Jessup in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men, became an emblem of the conflict between honor and truth that the collective imagination often considers the quintessence of military justice....
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Criminal LawLaw students often find criminal law to be one of the most interesting, but also one of the most difficult courses. Even the fundamental elements of criminal liability can be hard to learn and even harder to apply on exams. The study of criminal...
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The Magic Mirror: Law in American HistoryWeaving together themes from the history of public, private, and constitutional law, The Magic Mirror: Law in American History, Second Edition, recounts the roles that law--in all its many shapes and forms--has played in American history, from the days of the earliest English settlements...
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Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American PoliticsThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Is social media destroying...
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Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not CensorshipThe updated paperback edition of HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. As "hate speech" has no generally accepted definition, we hear many...
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Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust WorldA great deal of contemporary law has a direct connection to the Holocaust. That connection, however, is seldom acknowledged in legal texts and has never been the subject of a full-length scholarly work. This book examines the background of the Holocaust and genocide through...
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Crimcomics Issue 5: Anomie and Strain TheoriesCrimComics offers a new way to approach criminological theory by engaging students with impactful, highly visual illustrated texts. Each CrimComics Issue traces the development of the theory--placing it in social and political context--and demonstrates its application to the real world. The last page of...
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The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern PropertyWhat does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions....
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Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is GuiltyWhat happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer?Anne Bird, the sister of Scott Peterson, knows firsthand.Soon after her birth in 1965, Anne was...
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