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“james stellios”

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  • The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia

    History, Principle and Interpretation

    by Nicholas Aroney, Peter Gerangelos, Sarah Murray, James Stellios ...
    The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia examines the body of constitutional jurisprudence in an original and rigorous yet accessible way. It begins by exploring the historical and intellectual context of ideas surrounding the Constitution's inception, and closely examines its text, structure, principles and purposes in that light. The book then unpacks and critically analyses the High ... Read more

    $137.79 USD

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  • Law’s Abnegation

    From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State

    by Adrian Vermeule ...
    Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.In area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Classical Liberal Constitution

    The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • From Empire to Union

    Conceptions of German Constitutional Law since 1871

    by Jo Eric Khushal Murkens ...
    Germany has long been at the centre of European debates surrounding the modern role of national constitutional law and its relationship with EU law. In 2009 the German constitutional court voted to uphold the constitutionality of the Lisbon Treaty, but its critical, restrictive decision sent shockwaves through the European legal community who saw potential threats to further European integration. ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America

    by WilliamJames Hull Hoffer ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination—but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court’s landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case.In response to the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Murder in Mississippi

    United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Howard Ball ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like Mississippi Burning and popular folk songs, these young men have been venerated as martyrs. Even so, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Buying the Vote

    A History of Campaign Finance Reform

    by Robert E. Mutch ...
    Are corporations citizens? Is political inequality a necessary aspect of a democracy or something that must be stamped out? These are the questions that have been at the heart of the debate surrounding campaign finance reform for nearly half a century. But as Robert E. Mutch demonstrates in this fascinating book, these were not always controversial matters. The tenets that corporations do not ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Interpreting Constitutions

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Jeffrey Goldsworthy ...
    This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Among the interpretive methods discussed are textualism, purposivism, structuralism and originalism. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Let the Students Speak!

    A History of the Fight for Free Expression in American Schools

    by David L. Hudson ...
    From a trusted scholar and powerful story teller, an accessible and lively history of free speech, for and about students.Let the Students Speak! details the rich history and growth of the First Amendment in public schools, from the early nineteenth-century's failed student free-expression claims to the development of protection for students by the U.S. Supreme Court. David Hudson brings this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Harvard Law Review: Volume 125, Number 4 - February 2012

    by Harvard Law Review ...
    Featured articles in this Feb. 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Amanda Tyler, on the core meaning of the Suspension Clause, and Kenneth Mack, reviewing Tomiko Brown-Nagin's recent book on the grass roots origins of the civil rights movement. Also, several scholars contribute to a tribute honoring Frank Michelman. Student contributions explore the law relating to international ... Read more

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  • Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?

    by Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. ...
    "Great cases like hard cases make bad law" declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. His maxim argues that those cases which ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of their national importance, interest, or other extreme circumstance, make for poor bases upon which to construct a general law. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • States of Union

    Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order

    by Mark E. Brandon ...
    Series series Constitutional Thinking
    Silver Gavel Award FinalistIn two canonical decisions of the 1920s—Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters—the Supreme Court announced that family (including certain relations within it) was an institution falling under the Constitution’s protective umbrella. Since then, proponents of “family values” have claimed that a timeless form of family—nuclear and biological—is crucial to the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD