Contributions in Legal Studies – serie
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25 produkter
Constitutional Interpretation
Illusion and Reality
E-bok, 2000
1076 kr
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This study analyzes the process of constitutional interpretation, that is, the methodology by which the Supreme Court goes about interpreting the Constitution, and offers a comprehensive view of constitutional law through the lens of history, political science, and jurisprudence. Shaman examines …
Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty
The Founders' Understanding
E-bok, 2000
1076 kr
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In recent decades the Ninth Amendment, a provision designed to clarify that the federal government was to be one of enumerated and limited powers, has been turned into an unenumerated rights clause that effectively grants unlimited power to the judiciary. Was this the intent of the framers of the …
Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction
A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence
E-bok, 2000
1076 kr
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As the nation turned its back on Reconstruction, the Supreme Court in turn narrowed Thirteenth-, Fourteenth-, and Fifteenth-Amendment protections of former slaves, thus straying from the understanding of the amendments' framers. Tracking a long line of cases that employed narrow constructions of …
Religion, Law, and the Land
Native Americans and the Judicial Interpretation of Sacred Land
E-bok, 1999
1204 kr
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Examining a series of court decisions made during the 1980s regarding the legal claims of several Native American tribes who attempted to protect ancestrally revered lands from development schemes by the federal government, this book looks at important questions raised about the religious status of …
Appearance of Equality
Racial Gerrymandering, Redistricting, and the Supreme Court
E-bok, 1999
1076 kr
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An examination of the language of law in the area of political representation, this book considers the development and recognition of group claims brought pursuant to the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause in Supreme Court opinions. In his analysis, Burke highlights the different, …
Native American Aliens
Disloyalty and the Renunciation of Citizenship by Japanese Americans During World War II
E-bok, 1985
1169 kr
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“Collins addresses a subject that has been the object of much research and controversy in the past decade: the internment of tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans during WW II. More specifically, he focuses on the mass renunciation of citizenship by these persons of Japanese ancestry. The author …
Sixth Amendment in Modern American Jurisprudence
A Critical Perspective
E-bok, 1992
1076 kr
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Alfredo Garcia, who has been both a prosecuting and a defense attorney in criminal processes, reviews the United States Supreme Court's interpretations of the Sixth Amendment--the right to a fair trial--as they have evolved since the 1960s. He determines that the Court, with a few notable …
Choice of Law for American Courts
A Multilateralist Method
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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This study proposes a multilateralist method of choice of law in order to alleviate the great disarray that currently exists in American choice law. In the early 20th century, there was a fairly-uniform multilateralist method of choice law. In the 1920s and 30s, however, scholars adn courts began …
Natural Right to Die
Twenty-Three Centuries of Debate
E-bok, 2001
1052 kr
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While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of this question beyond the borders of the United States. Whiting demonstrates that the right to die controversy stretches back more than two thousand …
Development of Law on the Rocky Mountain Frontier
Civil Law and Society, 1850-1912
Inbunden, 1983
732 kr
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New High Priests
Lawyers in Post-Civil War America
Av Gerald W. Gawalt, Gerard W. Gawalt
Inbunden, 1984
978 kr
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Gerard W. Gawalt has collected essays that explore the critical period in the development of the legal profession from 1865 to 1900, when law replaced religion as the controlling element in American society and lawyers clearly established themselves as the formulators, advocates, and arbiters of …
Judicial Selection
The Cross-Evolution of French and American Practices
Av Jaquelin Lafon, Mary Volcansek
Inbunden, 1987
852 kr
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This volume is a comprehensive comparative study of the development of systems for naming judges in two nations, over a period of three centuries. It is designed to confront the origins, both normative and political, that affected the evolution of the systems now used in the United States and …
History of the Anglo-American Common Law of Contract
Inbunden, 1990
1561 kr
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This is the first booklength survey of the Anglo-American common law contract over its 800-year history, from genesis in 12th-century England to the present form in contemporary America. The volume presents a technically accurate yet readable analysis that focuses on how the form assumed by …
Truman's Court
A Study in Judicial Restraint
Inbunden, 1988
784 kr
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A concise, well-written examination by a lawyer-historian of the judicial restraint philosophies of President Truman's four appointees to the Supreme Court: Harold Burton, Fred Vinson, Tom Clark, and Sherman Minton. Rudko's analysis of the four men's opinions in criminal procedure, …
John Marshall's Law
Interpretation, Ideology, and Interest
Inbunden, 1994
784 kr
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This study draws on critical historical analysis and contemporary language theory to illuminate John Marshall's jurisprudence and political philosophy in new ways. It challenges both liberal and conservative views and it defines Marshall's constitutional interpretations, political ideology, and …
Fifth Amendment
A Comprehensive Approach
Inbunden, 2002
978 kr
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The Fifth Amendment is typically equated in both popular and legal discourse with the privilege against self-incrimination. This concept, Garcia reminds us, represents an incomplete view of the amendment. Often forgotten are the other two criminal clauses embodied in the text of the amendment: the …
Basic Principles of Property Law
A Comparative Legal and Economic Introduction
Av Ugo Mattei
Inbunden, 2000
1561 kr
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The first attempt to address comparative property law in a common integrative framework, this study discusses German, Italian, French, American, and British property law as mere variations based upon a few fundamental themes through which these nations developed legal systems to provide responses …
Whittaker
Struggles of a Supreme Court Justice
Inbunden, 2001
904 kr
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A Kansas farm boy, who talked his way into law school despite his lack of a high school diploma, Charles E. Whittaker was admitted to the bar before graduation and became the stereotype of a demanding, workaholic attorney. In a thirty-year practice representing Midwest corporations, he became …
Natural Right to Die
Twenty-Three Centuries of Debate
Inbunden, 2001
978 kr
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While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of this question beyond the borders of the United States. Whiting demonstrates that the right to die controversy stretches back more than two thousand …
Litigating Federalism
The States Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Av Bill Swinford, Eric N. Waltenburg
E-bok, 1999
1076 kr
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Waltenburg and Swinford provide a detailed and systematic examination of state government activity before the U.S. Supreme Court. They provide an explanatory model of state litigation behavior that both rests upon a solid theoretical perspective and places state decisions in a larger political …
State Constitutions and Criminal Justice
Av Barry Latzer
E-bok, 1991
1076 kr
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The new Judicial Federalism is a significant development in American law: more cases are being decided by state constitutions than ever before in history. In this book, Barry Latzer provides the most thorough treatment available of the criminal law aspects of the New Federalism. His comprehensively …
Stability, Security, and Continuity
Mr. Justice Burton and Decision-Making in the Supreme Court, 1945-1958
Inbunden, 1978
755 kr
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Promises on Prior Obligations at Common Law
E-bok, 1998
1076 kr
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An historical analysis of the development and reform of the law of prior obligations as expressed in preexisting duty rule and past consideration rule. Teeven's principal focus is on the judicial rationalization of common law reforms to partially remove the bar to enforcement of promises grounded …
