If Buckley Fell
In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Buckley v. Valeo, a decision best known for prohibiting spending caps in election campaigns. Nearly a quarter of a century later, the troubling fallout of the Buckley decision has become clear: a campaign finance system in which candidates spend more time raising money than attending to voter needs; in which monied interests are entitled to drown out everyone else's voice; and in which the wealthy --or their friends --have a special clai...
In August 2015, Limerick man Jason Corbett was murdered by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, ex-FBI agent Tom Martens, in the bedroom of their luxury North Carolina home. He had been savagely beaten to death with a baseball bat and brick while his children slept nearby. For his sister, Tracey Corbett-Lynch, and the rest of his family in Ireland it was just the beginning of the nightmare that would involve a custody battle for his orphaned children, an online hate campaign by Molly Martens...
Restorative justice is an innovative approach to responding to crime and conflict that shifts the focus away from laws and punishment to instead consider the harm caused and what is needed to repair that harm and make things right. Interest in restorative justice is rapidly expanding, with new applications continuously emerging around the world. The restorative philosophy and conference process have shown great promise in providing a justice response that heals individuals and strengthens commun...
Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery in the Time of Queen Anne (1702 to 1714) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 2...
by Henry Flanders
Reports of the United States Tax Court, Volume 134, January 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010
Reports of the United States Tax Court, Volume 135, July 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010
The book opens with a brief account of the segregation decisions of 1954 and 1955 and with their relationship to a changing interpretation of the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Later chapters show that defiance of the highest tribunal has had many precedents.
Judges and Political Reform in Egypt
If justice in the Arab world is often marked by a lack of autonomy of the judiciary toward the executive power, one of the characteristic features of the Egyptian judiciary lies in its strength and activism in the defense of democratic values. Judges have been struggling for years to enhance their independence from the executive power and exercise full supervision of the electoral process to achieve transparent elections. Recent years have seen growing tensions in Egypt between the judiciary and...
You Can't Spell Hero Without Air Traffic Controller
by Everyday Inspiration Notebook & Journal
The Death Penalty (Documents Decoded)
by Joseph A. Melusky and Keith Alan Pesto
When is the death penalty considered "cruel and unusual punishment" or "constitutionally permissible"? This book exposes readers directly to landmark opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court that strive to answer difficult questions regarding capital punishment. This book provides far more than an effective overview of the history, current status, and future of capital punishment in America; it supplies excerpts of the words of the justices themselves to make these judicial opinions readily accessibl...
Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and with a keen sense of the Court’s his...
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue (Law in the Public Square, #2)
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Early Drug Courts (Drugs, Health, and Social Policy, #7)
This brief and readable volume focuses on five case studies in judicial innovation - the dedicated drug treatment courts in Miami, Oakland, Ft. Lauderdale, Portland, and Phoenix. Each case is presented in a chapter written by a local expert to describe and evaluate five prime examples of dedicated drug treatment courts. Editor W. Clinton Terry, III introduces this volume with a chapter that covers judicial innovation and dedicated drug courts, revealing that dedicated courts are unique because o...
Matrix Isolation Techniques (Practical Approach in Chemistry)
by Ian Dunkin
Matrix isolation is a technique for studying short-lived atoms and molecules at very low temperatures. This book offers detailed practical advice on how to carry out matrix-isolation experiments, and provides an introduction to the subject. The text covers a range of topics, from how to build a matrix-isolation laboratory from scratch, to detailed instructions for carrying out experiments. This book is intended for postgraduate students, and researchers in academia and industry using matrix isol...
Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 28, Volume 28 (Supreme Court Economic Review)