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Documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people.

This casebook provides the most complete treatment available of constitutional tort actions under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and Bivens. The elaborate and increasingly controversial doctrines of official immunity are examined in detail, as is the possibility of direct governmental liability under Monell v. Dept. of Social Services. The Fifth Edition also provides complete coverage of the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award Act and its implications for constitutional tort litigation. The book also explores...

The "religious clause" of the First Amendment, seemingly simple and clear, has been and continues to be controversial in its application. In this book, Flowers explains the Court's thinking, clarifying for readers the decisions that have been built on or that have altered previous positions.

This book contains the text in English of the most important laws that discipline the relationship between States and religious groups in the Post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It is completed by a comparative analysis of these laws, that highlights the principal topics they deal with (registration and financing of religious communities, religious freedom, teaching of religion in schools, etc.)

The legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, and the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law, is quite possibly the most momentous Supreme Court case on the issue of federal power in our era. Yet, despite the Court's ruling, the issue of health care reform is still an incredibly divisive issue. For the left, the federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce, and the health insurance industry surely falls under the definition of interstate commerce. For conservatives, th...

Is government forbidden to assist all religions equally, as the Supreme Court has held? Or does the First Amendment merely ban exclusive aid to one religion, as critics of the Court assert? After years of debate the controversy still rages on, with both positions now more solidified but neither side victorious. The First Freedoms studies the Church-State context of colonial and revolutionary America to provide a bold new reading of the historical meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amen...

Der Integrationsprozess der muslimischen Gemeinschaften ist seit Jahrzehnten im Gange, doch scheint er immer noch am Anfang zu stehen. Diese Arbeit behandelt das Thema aus juristischen, gesellschaftlichen, politischen, islam-rechtlichen und kulturellen Blickwinkeln. Die Analyse der Rechtslage und der Entscheidungen deutscher Gerichte im Bezug auf das Thema schafft einen umfassenden UEberblick uber den aktuellen Integrationsstand der Muslime in Deutschland. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Veroeffentlichu...

From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to overloaded internet voting servers to faulty voting machines, the growing relationship between democracy and technology has brought to light the challenges associated with integrating new digital tools into the electoral system. Canadian politics has also felt the impact of this migration online.This timely book presents the first comprehensive study of the various cyber-threats to election integrity across Canadian jurisdictions. Scrutinizing the events o...

Federalism is at once a set of institutions -- the division ofpublic authority between two or more constitutionally defined orders ofgovernment -- and a set of ideas which underpin such institutions. Asan idea, federalism points us to issues such as shared and dividedsovereignty, multiple loyalties and identities, and governance throughmulti-level institutions. Seen in this more complex way, federalism is deeply relevant to awide range of issues facing contemporary societies. Global forces --eco...

In May 1798, after Congress released the XYZ Affair dispatches to the public, a raucous crowd took to the streets of Philadelphia. Some gathered to pledge their support for the government of President John Adams, others to express their disdain for his policies. Violence, both physical and political, threatened the safety of the city and the Union itself. To combat the chaos and protect the nation from both external and internal threats, the Federalists swiftly enacted the Alien and Sedition Act...