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Constitutional Conflicts eBook Series

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  • From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court

    Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy

    by Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, Vicki L. Ruiz, Blair L.M. Kelley ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and legal scholars takes the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Brown to reconsider the history and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    by Louisa Edwards ...
    Series series Recipe for Love
    When Lilah Jane Tunkle fled her dull life in Virginia for the bright lights of New York City, she didn't expect to wind up a nanny to a gorgeous celebrity chef's ten-year-old son. Working for the delectable Devon Sparks is a sure-fire recipe for disaster, especially after Lilah gets a tantalizing taste of his perfectly seasoned kisses …Devon's not sure he can handle one more surprise ingredient in ... Read more

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  • Courage to Dissent

    Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement

    by Tomiko Brown-Nagin ...
    In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that long before "black power" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a name, African Americans in Atlanta questioned the meaning of equality and the steps necessary to obtain a share of the American dream. This groundbreaking ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective

    Edited by Alec C. Ewald, Brandon Rottinghaus ...
    This collection of original essays by leading scholars and advocates offers the first international examination of the nature, causes, and effects of laws regulating voting by people with criminal convictions. In deciding whether prisoners shall retain the right to vote, a country faces vital questions about democratic self-definition and constitutional values - and, increasingly, about the scope ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

    Emerging Conflicts

    Edited by Douglas Laycock, Robin Fretwell Wilson, Anthony R Picarello ...
    Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise in many spheres of law as a result of the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5

    Fostering Development through Opportunity, Inclusion, and Equity

    Edited by Hassane Cisse, N. R. Madhava Menon, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Vincent O. Nmehielle ...
    Series series Law, Justice, and Development Series
    This volume will explore the potentially transformative role of effective laws and legal institutions in providing people with more opportunity that is both inclusive and equitable. Laws, legal frameworks and judicial institutions can create opportunity by providing the space to build human capital and assets, create jobs, and encourage individuals and organizations to make productive investments ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Controversies in Equal Protection Cases in America

    Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation

    Edited by Anne Richardson Oakes ...
    Series series Controversies in American Constitutional Law
    This collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA, as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. Contributors with a range of perspectives interrogate the legal, theoretical and factual assumptions which shape case law and consider the extent to which they satisfactorily address contemporary concerns with social hierarchies and norms. Divided into five ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • One Person, No Vote

    How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

    by Carol Anderson ...
    As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for DemocracyFinalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the National Book Award in NonfictionAn NPR Politics Podcast Book Club ChoiceNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by:Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * Ne... ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

    by Ralph J. Temple ...
    A memoir from one of the country's top civil rights lawyers—from his work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through his career at the ACLU.This volume comprises Ralph J. Temple's memoirs of his life and his work on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1956, Temple worked for Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund until he was drafted into the ... Read more

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  • International Humanitarian Law and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

    Edited by Aldo Zammit Borda ...
    This book provides a key reference on the role of the Commonwealth and its member states in relation to international humanitarian law (IHL). It provides insights in the implementation of IHL in Commonwealth states and, particularly, the challenges faced by small states. It examines the progressive development of IHL in the Commonwealth and provides an analysis of some of the landmark decisions ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Marvelous Price/Racism

    by R.L. ...
    The days in the life time of Marvelous Price residing in Lincoln, Nebraska-a living symbol for black youths in America. Where the Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution means absolutely nothing and all basic rights gain in the 60's have retrogressed in 2013, as profiling, impudence, bigotry, lynching, racism and DNA camps for blacks only have sky rocketed. Forces Marvelous at 15yrs. of age to learn ... Read more

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  • Gun Violence: How the 2nd Amendment can violate Civil Rights

    by Brent Waterbury ...
    This book is about our civil rights, gun violence, courts and the 2nd Amendment. As many realize, gun violence in America is off the charts compared to other industrialized nations. Over 70,000+ Americans a year are a victims of gun violence either through death or injury. This ebook argues that gun violence violates our civil rights and "liberty" which has been presumably guaranteed by the 5th ... Read more

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