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Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty: The Constitutional Heritage of the Religion Clauses

By: Adams, Alrin M/Emmerich, Charl

Price: $6.50

Publisher: May 2017

Seller ID: 340096

ISBN: 0812213181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here is a concise overview of the historical development and judicial interpretation of the First Amendment religion clauses. It begins with a survey of the history of American religious liberty, goes on to present the views of the Founding Fathers, and then considers the core value of religious liberty and the constitutional purposes that implement that value.

the book ends on a practical note by applying these principles to questions of equal access, religious symbolism in public life, and the task of defining religion for constitutional purposes. As the authors note in their introd...
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Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

By: Allen, Danielle

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 388945

ISBN: 1631490443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the...
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Death Penalty: An American History

By: Banner, Stuart

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 380048

ISBN: 0674007514

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive history of the death penalty in the United States. Stuart Banner tells the story of how, over four centuries, dramatic changes have taken place in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. Banner moves beyond the debates to give us an unprecedented understanding of the many meanings of capital punishment in America.
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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

By: Bharara, Preet

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 417571

ISBN: 0525521127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara shows the thought process we need to best achieve truth and justice in our daily lives and within our society.

Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara believes in our system and knows it m...
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Morality of Consent

By: Bickel, Alexander

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2013

Seller ID: 221845

ISBN: 0300021194

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"This short but provocative volume... is a fitting testimony to the author's extraordinary, though tragically brief, career as a constitutional scholar, lawyer and teacher. In just a hundred and a half literate pages, we are treated to vintage Bickel insight into every major political issue of the decade, from the civil rights movement, to the Warren Court, through the frenetic university upheavals, and--inevitably--to Watergate.... A tapestry woven by a master of subtle color and texture."--Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Times Book Review
"Presents the core of Bickel's] legal and pol...
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Behavior of Law

By: Black, Donald

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 397519

ISBN: 0121026523

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book contains a number of propositions about the variation of law across social space. The purpose of these propositions is to predict and explain this variation, and so to contribute to a scientific theory of law. Theory of this kind has practical applications, and also applications to the study of other social life
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Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms

By: Bogus, CArl T.

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 335578

ISBN: 1565846990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With help from the National Rifle Association and the pro-gun lobby, the idea that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an unrestricted right to gun ownership has achieved a firm footing in recent decades. Yet few issues of public policy are so misunderstood, so oversimplified--and so crucially important to the health and welfare of all Americans. The gun lobby and its proponents would have us believe that the constitutional issue is moot, and that the regulation of firearms is beyond the reach of legislation. But as the contributors to this important anthology ...
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Anatomy of Injustice: a Murder Case Gone Wrong

By: Bonner, Raymond

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 377989

ISBN: 0307700216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Thebook that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana ...
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Zooland: The Institution of Captivity (The Cultural Lives of Law)

By: Braverman, Irus

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 370058

ISBN: 0804783586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Zooland begins and ends with the story of Timmy, the oldest male gorilla in North America, to illustrate the dramatic transformations of zoos since the 1970s. Over thes...
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Active Liberty

By: Breyer, Stephen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: August 2011

Seller ID: 154541

ISBN: 0307274942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution's primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls "active liberty" citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means recognizing the changing needs and demands of the populace. Indeed, the Constitution's lasting brilliance is that its principles may be adapted to cope with unanticipated situations, and Breyer makes ...
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Against the Death Penalty

By: Breyer, Stephen

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 393119

ISBN: 0815728891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty.

Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Breyer argues that it does; that it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently and, thus, violates the ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" specified by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.

"Today's administration of the death penalty," Breyer writes, "involves three fundamental constitutional defects: (1) serious unreliability, (2) arbitrariness in application, and (3) unconscionably long delays that underm...
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Trial by Jury

By: Burnett, D. Graham

Price: $5.00

Publisher: January 2012

Seller ID: 116680

ISBN: 0375727515

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face with a stunning act of violence, a maze of conflicting evidence, and a parade of bizarre witnesses. But it is later, behind the closed door of the jury room, that he encounters the essence of the jury experience -- he and eleven citizens from radically different backgrounds must hammer consensus out of confus...
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

By: Burton, Susan

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 361679

ISBN: 1620972123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Awards

Winner of the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Biography/Autobiography)

Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice

"Valuable . . . like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . Becoming Ms. Burton is] a stunning memoir."
--Nicholas Kristo...
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Saint on Death Row: How a Forgotten Child Became a Man and Changed a World

By: Cahill, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 379058

ISBN: 0767926463

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bestselling author Thomas Cahill tells the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green--wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas--and shines a light on our racist and deeply flawed criminal justice system.
Green, an extraordinary young man from the urban ghettos of Houston, was utterly failed by every echelon of society--the Catholic Church, numerous U.S. courts of law, and even his own mother. But from the depths of despair on Death Row, he transcended his earthly sufferings and achieved enlightenment and peace, inciting an international m...
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Jurismania: The Madness of American Law

By: Campos, Paul F.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2011

Seller ID: 133745

ISBN: 0965782476

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Nature of the Judicial Process, The

By: Cardozo, Benjamin

Price: $3.50

Publisher: March 2017

Seller ID: 336482

ISBN: 0300000332

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this famous treatise, a Supreme Court Justice describes the conscious and unconscious processes by which a judge decides a case. He discusses the sources of information to which he appeals for guidance and analyzes the contribution that considerations of precedent, logical consistency, custom, social welfare, and standards of justice and morals have in shaping his decisions.

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Price of Silence The duke lacrosse scandal the power of the elite and the corrupti

By: COhan, William D

Price: $7.00

Publisher: August 2015

Seller ID: 300944

ISBN: 1451681798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Duke alumnus whose work has been hailed as "authoritative" (The Washington Post), "seductively engrossing" (Chicago Tribune), "riveting" (The Economist), and "masterful" (Los Angeles Times), presents a stunning new account of the infamous Duke lacrosse team case.
Bestselling author William D. Cohan, whose reporting and writing have been hailed as "gripping" (the New York Times), "authoritative" (the Washington Post), and "seductively engrossing" (Chicago Tribune), presents a stunning new account of the Duke lacrosse team scandal that revea...
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In Contempt

By: Darden, Christopher

Price: $8.00

Publisher: September 2009

Seller ID: 38202

ISBN: 0060391839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Offers a personal perspective on the O.J. Simpson trial and shares the author's observations on legal strategy, racial issues, and the principal lawyers, officials, and witnesses involved in the case.
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Crime & Criminals: Address To The Prisoners In The Cook County Jail & Other Writings On Crime & Punishment

By: Darrow, Clarence

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 382229

ISBN: 0882862502

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Defending the Damned: Inside A Dark Corner of the Criminal Justice System

By: Davis, Kevin

Price: $7.00

Publisher: December 2013

Seller ID: 105961

ISBN: 0743270940

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned the most challenging and seemingly hopeless cases, yet they always fight to win.
One of those lawyers is Marijane Placek, a snakeskin boot-wearing, Shakespeare-quoting nonconformist whose courtroom bravado and sharp legal skills have made her a well-known figure around the courthouse. When an ex...
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Category: Law [P]