Going beyond the reading and interpretation of Supreme Court opinions, this practical text addresses the legal reasoning that comprises the written opinions themselves, giving students a deeper understanding of how to read and interpret the decisions of our highest court. The Third Edition is thoroughly updated, taking into account new developments in constitutional law and scholarship.
Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph. Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women...
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court
An important reference that provides the historical context and''constitutional perspective of more than 1,000 of the most important''Supreme Court cases. Landmark Decisions of the United States''Supreme Court offers an unparalleled history of the Supreme''Court and its impact on American democracy and society.''
Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho (International African Library, #31)
by Colin Murray and Peter Basil Sanders
A detailed and highly readable study of medicine murder in the mid-twentieth century Medicine murder involved the cutting of body parts from victims, usually while they were still alive, to be used for the preparation of medicines intended to enhance the power of the perpetrators. A 'very startling' increase in cases of medicine murder apparently took place in Basutoland (now Lesotho), in southern Africa, in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. It gave rise to a dramatic crisis of late colonial r...
Poison at Court; Certain Figures of the Reign of Louis the Fourteenth
by Marie Cher
Leading United States Supreme Court Cases in Criminal Justice
by Dean J. Champion
For courses in Introduction to Criminal Justice, Courts and Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law and Law and Society. This collection is the most comprehensive and current work available-giving readers immediate access to both key terms and leading United States Supreme Court cases in a single one-stop resource. Featuring over 1,300 U.S. Supreme court decisions, it is indexed by topic and provides case details, court holdings, and information on the case's relevance to the criminal justice syste...
Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: Between Retribution and Reparation (Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian and Criminal)
by Paul Christoph Bornkamm
Avizandum Statutes on Scots Family Law (Avizandum Statutes)
Fair Trial Rights and Multilingualism in Africa (Law, Language and Communication)
by Catherine Namakula
This book examines the best language fair trial practices of the courts in arguably the most multilingual region of the world. It contains an instructive list of standards and approaches to linguistic dynamics, which may be considered a Language Fair Trial Rights Code. By way of jurisprudential analysis and scrutiny of constitutional imperatives and examination of legislation among the respective jurisdictions from the Sahel region, the Horn of Africa, to the Cape, this publication presents pe...
An Account of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough
by Nathaniel Hooke
The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
One of Puerto Rico's leading historians, Fernando Pico has had tremendous influence over our currect understanding of Puerto Rican society. Here, he examines the ways in which developments in the courts and commercial centers of the Americas, Europe, and Africa have affected the common people, who have tried since the nineteenth century to take control of their political, social and economic lives. Pico expands his landmark 1986 book, Historia General, for this first updated American edition to...
The Judicial Code and Rules of Procedure in the Federal Courts, 2022 Revision (Selected Statutes)
by Kevin M Clermont
New book purchase includes complimentary digital access to the eBook. This comprehensive reference is the consolidated source for the judicial code of Title 28 and all the various rules of procedure in the federal courts, updated to include the latest amendments. Designed for practitioners and judges as well as for federal courts students, and conveniently sized for carrying with you, this volume nevertheless contains the U.S. Constitution, selected provisions of the Administrative Procedure Ac...
You Can't Spell Hero Without Aircraft Mechanic
by Everyday Inspiration Notebook & Journal
Strafprozessordnung Und Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz (Guttentagsche Sammlung Deutscher Reichsgesetze, #12)
by A Hellweg