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  • Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer

    Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate

    by Rodney A. Smolla ...
    In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the "summer of hate." Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights.Smolla has ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Constitution Goes to College

    Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University

    by Rodney A. Smolla ...
    American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has carefully tracked the controversy surrounding the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia, the massacres at Virginia Tech, the dismissal of Harvard’s President Lawrence Summers, and the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Constitution Goes to College

    Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University

    by Rodney A. Smolla ...
    American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has carefully tracked the controversy surrounding the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia, the massacres at Virginia Tech, the dismissal of Harvard’s President Lawrence Summers, and the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Free Speech in an Open Society

    by Rodney A. Smolla ...
    This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in American jurisprudence. “Intellectually venturesome. . . .”—The New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $16.99 CAD

  • The “Stench” of Politics

    Polarization and Worldview on the Supreme Court

    by Joseph Russomanno ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court is as important as ever in the lives of Americans. Contrary to the image-enhancing claims of independence that many of its members claim, however, the Court’s current supermajority has transformed it into a powerful political institution that wages ideological war meant to return the nation to a previous period, at the same time denying rights to millions. The “Stench” of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court

    by Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, Paul Barrett, Lyle Denniston, Aaron Epstein, Kay Kindred, Tony Mauro, David Savage, Stephen Wermiel ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand. In this book, journalists who cover the Court—acting as the eyes and ears of not just the American people, but the Constitution itself—give us a rare close look into its proceedings, the people behind them, and the complex ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Tyranny of Good Intentions

    How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

    by Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton ...
    A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined social ills. The result: innocent people caught up in a bureaucratic web that destroys lives and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    by Laurence Tribe, Joshua Matz ...
    "Illuminating. . . . [Tribe and Matz] offer well-crafted overviews of key cases decided by the Roberts Court [and] chart the Supreme Court's conservative path." — Chicago TribuneFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Bill of Wrongs

    The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights

    by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose ...
    Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was working to protect the freedoms we all value. Sadly, today we’re living in a time when dissent is equated with giving aid to terrorists, when any of us can be held in prison without even knowing the charges against us, and when our constitutional rights are being ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Freedom of Expression

    by Daniel J. Baum ...
    Series Book 2 - Understanding Canadian Law
    This book explains our right to freedom of expression, its limits, and how Canadian courts draw the line.Freedom of expression is a fundamental right protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is part of the Constitution of Canada and, as such, the highest law of the land. But it has limits. Peacefully picketing an abortion clinic, so long as patients can come and go, is a protected ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

    Constitutional Law

    by Michael C. Dorf, Trevor W. Morrison ...
    Series series Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
    The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Constitutional Law presents an accessible introduction to the enduring topics of American constitutional law, including judicial review, methods of interpretation, federalism, separation of powers, equal protection, and individual liberties. One of the most important functions performed by the American Constitution and the more than two centuries' worth of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • A Court Divided

    The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law

    by Mark Tushnet ...
    "An incisive consideration of the Supremes, offering erudite yet accessible clues to legal thinking on the most important level."--Kirkus ReviewsIn 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 ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD