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  • The New Zealand Legislative Council

    A Study of the Establishment, Failure and Abolition of an Upper House

    by William Jackson ...
    Series series Heritage
    The New Zealand upper house, the Legislative Council (which bore a marked resemblance to its Canadian counterpart the Federal Senate) was abolished in 1950 in an action which represents one of the most clear-cut examples of pragmatic politics in New Zealand history. It was abolished by the essentially conservative National party (fundamentally committed to the bicameral principle), while the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • The History of Law in Europe

    An Introduction

    by Marco de Benito, Bart Wauters ...
    'The rule of law and property rights were the ''secret weapons'' that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and Oceania democratic and prosperous. How did this European legal system come to be? To answer this question, Bart Wauters and Marco de Benito offer us a fresh overview of the history of law in Europe, dealing with both civil and common law, from Roman times through to its ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Bora Laskin

    Bringing Law to Life

    by Philip Girard ...
    In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large. Born in northern Ontario to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Laskin became a prominent human rights activist, university professor, and labour arbitrator before embarking on his 'accidental career' as a judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal (1965) and later Chief Justice of Canada (1973-1984). Throughout his ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Trotskyists on Trial

    Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR

    by Donna T Haverty-Stacke ...
    Series Book 1 - Culture, Labor, History
    Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or distributing anything advocating such sedition and made it illegal to organize or belong to any association ... Read more

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  • Feminist Legal History

    Essays on Women and Law

    by Tracy A Thomas, Tracey Jean Boisseau ...
    Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's interests. At its core, the nascent field of feminist legal history is driven by a commitment to uncover women's legal agency and how women, both ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Judicial Committee and the British North America Act

    An Analysis of the Interpretative Scheme for the Distribution of Legislative Powers

    by G.P. Browne ...
    Series series Heritage
    This comprehensive study is concerned primarily with the fundamental problem of the role of the judiciary in the federal system of Canadian government. The author criticizes previous accounts of the Judicial Committee’s interpretative scheme for the British North American Act because of their neglect of underlying jurisprudential assumptions and their readiness to accept the textual criticisms ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Sport and the Law

    Historical and Cultural Intersections

    Edited by Samuel O. Regalado, Sarah K. Fields ...
    Series series Sport, culture, and society
    This new collection examines not only how athletes looked to the nation’s judicial system to solve conflicts but also how their cases trans¬formed the interpretation of laws. These essays examine a vast array of social and legal controversies including Heywood v. NBA (1971), which allowed any player to enter the draft; Flood v. Kuhn (1972), which considered baseball’s antitrust status; the Danny ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The DeShaney Case

    Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

    by Lynne Curry ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    "Poor Joshua!" lamented Justice Harry Blackmun in his famous dissent. "Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, obviously cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by respondents who placed him in a dangerous predicament and who knew or learned what was going on, and yet did essentially nothing. . . ." Even so, the Supreme Court, by a 6-to-3 margin, absolved Wisconsin ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Least Among Us

    Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable

    by Rosa L. DeLauro ...
    The outspoken Connecticut congresswoman provides "a powerful case for protecting and expanding America's safety net" (Elizabeth Warren).Cynical politicians like Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump argue that the people of the United States would be better off without food stamps, Obamacare, and workplace protections. Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro knows these folks are just plain wrong.Growing up in ... Read more

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  • Crime Policy in America

    Laws, Institutions, and Programs

    by Shahid M. Shahidullah ...
    The second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s. This book examines the nature of presidential policy-making in crime and justice from Nixon to Obama, congressional policy-making since the birth of the Bill of Rights, and judicial policy ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Of Courtiers and Kings

    More Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices

    by Professor Barry Cushman, John D. Fassett, John Q. Barrett, Raymond S. Troubh, Arthur Seder Jr, Mimi Early Clark, Norman Dorsen, Earl C. Dudley, Jr., Fred Davis, Daniel Fischel, Thomas Kauper, Alan R. Novak, Monroe E. Price, Thomas Rowe, David Schulte, Steven Umin, Chad Oldfather, Bridget Tainer-Parkins, Rebecca Hurley, Nancy Marder, Craig M Bradley, Julia C. Ambrose, Kermit Roosevelt III, Laura Krugman Ray ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks.In Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman offer an intimate new look at the personal and professional relationships of law clerks with their justices. Going beyond the book’s ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Toward Kantian Cosmopolitanism

    by Lorena Cebolla Sanahuja ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the history of cosmopolitanism from its origins in the ancient world up to its use in Kantian political philosophy. Taking the idea of ‘common property of the land’ as a starting point, the author makes the original case that attention to this concept is needed to properly understand the notion of cosmopolitan citizenship.Offering a reconstruction of cosmopolitanism from an ... Read more

    $80.09 USD