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  • Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters

    by Michael J. Nelson ...
    Why do some people retain cute baby-talk names for their relatives (like "Num-Num" and "Pee-Paw") well into middle age? How should a reasonable person respond when Olivia Newton-John sings, "Have you never been mellow?" Who's responsible for the sorry state of men's fashion, and is it the same guy who invented the jerkin? Is there any future in being a Midwesterner? Can you really enjoy your lunch ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mike Nelson's Death Rat!

    A Novel

    by Michael J. Nelson ...
    What if an aging, unsuccessful Minnesota author of history books with names like Old von Steuben Had a Farm: The German-American Settlement of the Midwest decided he could write a book every bit as vapid and ridiculous as the books that sold four hundred times more copies than his own? Well, he would write Death Rat, of course, the thrilling tale of a man who battles prejudice, his inner demons, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Efficacy of Judicial Review

    The Rule of Law and the Promise of Independent Courts

    by Amanda Driscoll, Jay N. Krehbiel, Michael J. Nelson ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
    Over the past century, countries around the globe have empowered constitutional courts to safeguard the rule of law. But when can courts effectively perform this vital task? Drawing upon a series of survey experiments fielded in the United States, Germany, Hungary, and Poland, this book demonstrates that judicial independence is critical for judicial efficacy. Independent courts can empower ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • The Elevator Effect

    Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary

    by Morgan L.W. Hazelton, Rachael K. Hinkle, Michael J. Nelson ...
    Appellate judges wield enormous influence in the United States. Their decisions define the scope of legislative and executive power, adjudicate relationships between the federal government and the states, and determine the breadth of individuals' rights and liberties. But, compared to their colleagues on trial courts, they face a significant constraint on their power: their colleagues. The ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Judging Inequality

    State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis

    by James L. Gibson, Michael J. Nelson ...
    Social scientists have convincingly documented soaring levels of political, legal, economic, and social inequality in the United States. Missing from this picture of rampant inequality, however, is any attention to the significant role of state law and courts in establishing policies that either ameliorate or exacerbate inequality. In Judging Inequality, political scientists James L. Gibson and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Federal Prosecution

    by Christina L. Boyd, Michael J. Nelson, Ian Ostrander, Ethan D. Boldt ...
    Federal prosecutors have immense power and discretion to decide when to bring criminal charges, what plea bargains to offer, and how to implement the federal government's legal priorities in their districts. While U.S. Attorneys take pains to emphasize their independence, we know relatively little about the extent to which politics colors federal prosecutorial staffing and decision making. The ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

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  • The School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Structuring Legal Reform

    by Catherine Y. Kim, Daniel J. Losen, Damon T. Hewitt ...
    An in-depth analysis of the legal entry points and remedies in the school-to-prison pipelineThe “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points, from under ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Poverty of Privacy Rights

    by Khiara M. Bridges ...
    The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior

    Edited by Lee Epstein, Stefanie A. Lindquist ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior offers readers a comprehensive introduction and analysis of research regarding decision making by judges serving on federal and state courts in the U.S. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Handbook describes and explains how the courts' political and social context, formal institutional structures, and informal norms affect ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Judicial Behavior

    Edited by Kirk A. Randazzo, Robert M. Howard ...
    Interest in social science and empirical analyses of law, courts and specifically the politics of judges has never been higher or more salient. Consequently, there is a strong need for theoretical work on the research that focuses on courts, judges and the judicial process. The Routledge Handbook of Judicial Behavior provides the most up to date examination of scholarship across the entire ... Read more

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  • The Behavior of Federal Judges

    a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice

    by Lee Epstein, William M Landes, Richard A Posner ...
    Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made. ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Backlash Against the ADA

    Reinterpreting Disability Rights

    Edited by Linda Hamilton Krieger ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD