Courtroom Evidence Handbook (Selected Statutes)
New book purchase includes complimentary digital access to the eBook. Designed both for law student advocates and students enrolled in traditional evidence courses, this handbook provides full coverage of courtroom evidence procedures, rules, and law. It contains the Federal Rules of Evidence, including recent and pending amendments; offers rule-by-rule commentary, serving as a mini-treatise on federal rules; and covers objections and responses. It is indispensable for students participating in...
America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System
by David W Neubauer and Henry F Fradella
By far the best-selling text in the market, AMERICA'S COURTS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM focuses on the dynamics of the court by introducing the concept of the "courtroom workhouse" and the interrelated relationship of the three main actors-judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney-thus illustrating the law in action, not just boring theories and facts. Neubauer also uses a myriad of pedagogical devices which bring the court process to life for students. This text has become a leader in large...
Research Handbook on International Courts and Tribunals
by William A. Schabas and Shannonbrooke Murphy
Since the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration for international dispute resolution in 1899, the number of international courts and tribunals has multiplied and the reach of their jurisdiction has steadily expanded. By providing a synthetic overview and critical analysis of these developments from multiple perspectives, this Research Handbook both contextualizes and stimulates future research and practice in this rapidly developing field. Made up of specially commissioned chapte...
Our current stalemate over detention serves nobody -not the military or any other component of the U.S. government that has to operate overseas.... It is a system that no rational combination of values or strategic considerations would have produced; it could have emerged only as a consequence of a clash of interests that produced a clear victory for nobody. -from the Introduction Benjamin Wittes issues a persuasive call for greater coherence, clarity, and public candor from the American govern...
(A) collection of hilarious outtakes from courtroom situations. . . . The humor derives from laypersons--prisoners, witnesses, jurors--who produce a wealth of banalities and faux pas, or from lawyers and judges, whose pomposity and long-windedness beg to be deflated.--Booklist.
Judicial Scrutiny of the Electoral Process in a Developing Democratic State
Judicial Review in State Supreme Courts (SUNY series in American Constitutionalism)
by Laura Langer
The Mysteries of the Court of London (1869)
by George W M Reynolds
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free
by Judge Jed S Rakoff
This text explores federalism's reemergence, focusing on Congress and the courts. It questions whether the Court's rediscovery of federalism doctrines will prove lasting, and concludes that the political climate is conducive to policy changes that produce more federalism and less government.
The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008
by Anne Green Regents Chair Lucas A Powe, Jr.
Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections [2 Volumes]
International Courts in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Assistant Professor Salvatore Caserta
Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons such as failing to pay a fine. This alarming trend not only affects the poor, who are hit particularly hard, but also ensnares the millions of self-identified middle-class people who are struggling to make ends meet. All across the country...
London has emerged as a safe haven for those who want to escape the law in India. Through eyewitness accounts and archival records, DANISH KHAN and RUHI KHAN delve into twelve extraordinary cases of extradition over seven decades to unravel the legal quagmire that has caused much debate in Her Majesty's courts, and consternation in New Delhi's corridors of power. Escaped examines the extradition of billionaire VIJAY MALLYA and diamantaire NIRAV MODI, throws a spotlight on their ultra-luxe world,...
An incisive examination by the bestselling author of The Mammoth Book of Gangs of some of the many miscarriages of justice of this and the previous century, which have seen innocent men and women found guilty, and sometimes executed. This shocking 'manual of injustice' exposes wrongful convictions and acquittals as a result of the chicanery of some forensic scientists, over-zealous or negligent police officers under pressure to get results, incompetent lawyers, lying witnesses, bribed juries, ju...
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Utilitarian Jurisprudence
by H. L. Pohlman
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story (Studies in Legal History)
by R. Kent Newmyer
The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story's greatest objective was to fashion a national jurisprudence that would carry the American people into the modern age without losing those values.
Zivilprozeßordnung Mit Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz Und Einführungsgesetzen (Guttentagsche Sammlung Von Textausgaben)
The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is important because of the enormous judicial power the Supreme Court exercises as the highest appellate court in the federal judiciary. Appointments are usually infrequent, as a vacancy on the nine-member Court may occur only once or twice, or never at all, during a particular President's years in office. Under the Constitution, Justices on the Supreme Court received lifetime appo...