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  • Free Speech On Trial

    Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions

    by Richard A. Parker, Susan J. Balter-Reitz, Mary Elizabeth Bezanson, Nicholas F Burnett, Juliet Dee, Donald Fishman, Douglas M Fraleigh, Edward C. Brewer, John S Gossett, Franklyn S Haiman0, Joseph J Hemmer1, Dale Herbeck2, Warren Sandmann3, Stephen A Smith4, Wilfred R Tremblay5, Joseph S Tuman6, Andrew H Utterback7, David J Vergobbi8, Ann M Gill9, Craig R. Smith0 ...
    Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them.At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and why should we protect it? The 20 scholars of legal communication whose essays are gathered in this volume ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • How Judges Think

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The U.S. Supreme Court

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Linda Greenhouse ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    by Laurence Tribe, Joshua Matz ...
    "Illuminating. . . . [Tribe and Matz] offer well-crafted overviews of key cases decided by the Roberts Court [and] chart the Supreme Court's conservative path." — Chicago TribuneFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Reflections on Judging

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The American Supreme Court

    by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson ...
    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The sixth edition of the classic and concise account of the US Supreme Court, its history, and its place in American politics.For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court.As in prior editions, McCloskey's original text remains ... Read more

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  • A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

    The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

    by Evan J. Mandery ...
    New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceDrawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history.For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Judges and Their Audiences

    A Perspective on Judicial Behavior

    by Lawrence Baum ...
    What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them.The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by other people only in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Scalia

    A Court of One

    by Bruce Allen Murphy ...
    “[Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.” (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about of the most controversial Supreme Court justice of our time.Scalia: A Court of One is the compelling story of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Friend of the Court

    On the Front Lines with the First Amendment

    by Floyd Abrams, Karen Gantz Zahler Literary Management ...
    Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession. Floyd Abrams has been on the front lines of nearly every one of these major cases, which is also to say that, more than any other person, he has forged this country’s legal understanding of free speech. Litigating ... Read more

    $23.39 USD

  • Divergent Paths

    The Academy and the Judiciary

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges—at the risk of intellectual stagnation—to dismiss most academic discourse as opaque and divorced from reality. In Divergent Paths, Richard Posner turns his attention to this widening gap within the legal ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Ideas with Consequences

    The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution

    by Amanda Hollis-Brusky ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required for any conservative lawyer who hopes to enter politics or the judiciary. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD