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  • Title IX

    The Transformation of Sex Discrimination in Education

    by Elizabeth Kaufer Busch, William E. Thro ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    This book examines the history and evolution of Title IX, a landmark 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination at educational institutions receiving federal funding. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and William Thro illuminate the ways in which the interpretation and implementation of Title IX have been transformed over time to extend far beyond the law's relatively narrow statutory text. The analysis ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • The Constitution on Campus

    A Guide to Liberty and Equality in Public Higher Education

    by Charles J. Russo, William E. Thro ...
    This book provides a user-friendly guide to constitutional law in the context of public colleges and universities that is easily accessible to students, faculty members, and administrators. While this book will be helpful to lawyers, our primary audience is the educated layperson. Each of the book’s chapters discusses the basic constitutional principles and how they apply in the context of public ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

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  • The Rule of Nobody

    Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, ... Read more

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  • Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Freedom of speech is one of our greatest legal rights and Cass Sunstein is one of our greatest legal theorists. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to think seriously about the free speech issues facing this generation.--Akhil Amar, Southmayd Professor, Yale Law SchoolThis is an important book. Beautifully clear and carefully argued, Sunstein's contribution reaches well beyond the ... Read more

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  • Truth Overruled

    The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom

    by Ryan T. Anderson ...
    "Every leader in America needs to read this book! It's by far the best summary of what's at stake." —Rick WarrenThe Supreme Court has issued a decision, but that doesn't end the debate. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled, Americans face momentous debates about the nature of marriage and religious liberty. Because the Court has redefined marriage in all 50 states, we have to energetically protect ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Divergent Paths

    The Academy and the Judiciary

    by Richard Allen 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

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  • Schools for Misrule

    Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America

    by Walter Olson ...
    From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next.The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools for Misrule, our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Inside Appellate Courts

    The Impact of Court Organization on Judicial Decision Making in the United States Courts of Appeals

    by Jonathan M. Cohen ...
    Inside Appellate Courts is a comprehensive study of how the organization of a court affects the decisions of appellate judges. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy federal appellate judges and law clerks, Jonathan M. Cohen challenges the assumption that increasing caseloads and bureaucratization have impinged on judges' abilities to bestow justice. By viewing the courts of appeals as large ... Read more

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  • Yale Law Journal: Symposium - The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution (Volume 123, Number 8 - June 2014)

    by Yale Law Journal ...
    "Symposium: The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution" is, in effect, a new and extensive book of contemporary thought on civil rights. In February 2014, the Yale Law Journal held a symposium at Yale Law School marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the simultaneous publication of Bruce Ackerman's 'We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution' (2014). Contributors' ... Read more

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  • Teaching America

    The Case for Civic Education

    by David J. Feith, Seth Andrew, Charles F. Bahmueller, Bruce Cole, Mike Feinberg, Senator Bob Graham, Chris Hand, Frederick M. Hess, Michael Kazin, Senator Jon Kyl, Jay P. Lefkowitz, Peter Levine, Harry Lewis, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Secretary Rod Paige, Charles N. Quigley, Admiral Mike Ratliff, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Jason Ross, Andrew J. Rotherham, Mark Bauerlein, John M. Bridgeland, Alan M. Dershowitz, Eugene W. Hickok, Jr., John R. Thelin, Juan Williams ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz, Juan Williams, Glenn Reynolds, Michael Kazin, Frederick Hess, Andrew Rotherham, Mike Feinberg, Seth Andrew ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior

    by Robert J. Hume ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in North American Politics
    What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside agencies after courts rule against them. Robert J. Hume draws upon dozens of interviews with current and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD