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The Constitution and the New DealIn a powerful new narrative, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He does this by rejecting such misleading characterizations as liberal, conservative, and reactionary, and by reexamining several key topics in constitutional...
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Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the DisciplinesEvery academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars...
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Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration LawLegal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws. Angela S. García compares restrictive and accommodating immigration measures in various cities and states to show that place-based...
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch TrialsAuthor: Marion L. StarkeyPublisher: Anchor BooksPublished: 08/05/1969Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 7.92h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780385035095About the AuthorMarion Lena Starkey was the author of numerous works of history. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Starkey worked as a newspaper editor for the Saugus...
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California Notary Public HandbookThe Notary Public Handbook is your official source of laws related to notaries public in California. A notary public is a public official who performs invaluable services for the legal, business, financial, and real estate communities. Although there are no significant statutory changes for...
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Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a NationA Civil Action meets Indian country, as one man takes on the federal government and the largest boondoggle in U.S. history -- and wins.Author: Paul VandevelderPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublished: 08/04/2004Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.34w x 1.11dISBN: 9780316896894Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly...
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Impeachment: A HandbookOriginally published at the height of the Watergate crisis, Charles Black's classic Impeachment: A Handbook has long been the premier guide to the subject of presidential impeachment. Now thoroughly updated with new chapters by Philip Bobbitt, it remains essential reading for every concerned citizen....
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Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder TrialPrizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial "Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell -- the kind of spell to which Ms....
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The Morality of Law"Among the important books in the history of American legal philosophy. It includes insights into the relations between morality and law, and advances a theory of law of great practical relevance. . . . This] is the best discussion of the demands of the...
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American Cultural Pluralism and LawThis new edition of Norgren and Nanda's classic updates their examination of the intersection of American cultural pluralism and law. They document and analyze legal challenges to the existing social order raised by many cultural groups, among them, Native Americans and Native Hawaiians, homeless...
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The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday LifeWhy do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of...
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An Introduction to Legal ReasoningOriginally published in 1949, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning is widely acknowledged as a classic text. As its opening sentence states, "This is an attempt to describe generally the process of legal reasoning in the field of case law and in the interpretation of...
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The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison AmericaThe explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot...
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On Human RightsWhat is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents,...
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Good Lawyer: Seeking Quality in the Practice of LawEvery lawyer wants to be a good lawyer. They want to do right by their clients, contribute to the professional community, become good colleagues, interact effectively with people of all persuasions, and choose the right cases. All of these skills and behaviors are important,...
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Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New CenturyLee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom...
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in AmericaWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's...
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Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960sIn 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-played a key role not only in maintaining safety and order but also in enforcing conventional standards of...
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American Legal History: Cases and MaterialsThis highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in American legal history, integrating the history of public and private law from America's colonial origins to the present. Devoting special attention to the interaction of social and legal change, American...
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A History of American LawRenowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the twenty-first century. In addition to looking...
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