In this authoritative reckoning with the eighteen-year record of the Rehnquist Court, Georgetown law professor Mark Tushnet reveals how the decisions of nine deeply divided justices have left the future of the Court; and the nation; hanging in the balance. Many have assumed that the chasm on the Court has been between its liberals and its conservatives. In reality, the division was between those in tune with the modern post-Reagan Republican Party and those who, though considered to be in the Co...
Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court
by Rolando V del Carmen and Craig Hemmens
Children deserve our love, support and most of all our protection. This book is roadmap for anyone that wants to help keep children safe. This guide suggests practice standards to help judges, parents' attorneys, children's attorneys, CFS workers, GALs and family members ask the questions that need to be asked in every case. Topics covered in the book include: *What is the System" *Terms and Definitions *The Need for a Balanced and Neutral System
Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity)
by Konstantinos Kapparis
Konstantinos Kapparis challenges the traditional view that free women, citizen and metic, were excluded from the Athenian legal system. Looking at existing fragmentary evidence largely from speeches, Kapparis reveals that it unambiguously suggests that free women were far from invisible in the legal system and the life of the polis. In the first part of the book Kapparis discusses the actual cases which included women as litigants, and the second part interprets these cases against the legal,...
The Lives And Times Of The Chief Justices Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
by Henry Flanders
Kids for Cash reveals the twisted and haunting realities of juvenile justice in America today. This gripping investigation follows the Pennsylvania case in which judges took cash payments for sending children to a privatised juvenile detention facility. In a shocking case that made international news, two judges were convicted of accepting millions of dollars in bribes by the owners of juvenile detention centres. William Ecenbarger, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, now presents...
Pathways to the U.S. Supreme Court is a quantitative-historical recapitulation of the routes taken to the US Supreme Court by the 112 Justices who were confirmed by the Senate and served, and the 28 others whose candidacies for confirmation were defeated, withdrawn, or declined
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Unquestioned Integrity (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections)
by Mame Hunt
The Judicial System: A Reference Handbook provides an authoritative and accessible one-stop resource for understanding the U.S. judicial system and its place in the fabric of American government and society. The American judicial system plays a central role in setting and enforcing the legal rules under which the people of the United States live. U.S. courts and laws, though, are complex and often criticized for bias and other alleged shortcomings, The U.S. Supreme Court has emerged as a partic...
A History Of The Tennessee Supreme Court
In this first comprehensive history of the Tennessee Supreme Court, seven leading scholars explore the role played by the Court in the social, economic, and political life of the state. Charting the evolution and organization of the Court (and its predecessor, the Superior Court of Law and Equity), the authors also assess the work of the Court within the larger context of the legal history of the South.Arranged chronologically, this volume covers the period from statehood in 1796 through t...
The Crisis in America's Criminal Courts (Applied Criminology Across the Globe)
by William R Kelly
A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how anonymous donors seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including the Supreme Court Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration’s appointment of over 230 “business-friendly” judges, including the last...
The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy.
Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders: 2007
by International Court of Justice United Nations
One of the main purposes of the United Nations is to bring about by peaceful means adjustment or settlement of international disputes. This is accomplished through the International Court of Justice, a principal organ of the United Nations. These publications contain the reports of judgements passed, advisory opinions offered and orders by the ICJ with respect to cases brought before it by Member States and organs of the United Nations.
The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Volume 1 of 2
by Henry Flanders