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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity

    by Vanessa Baird ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    The treatment of sexual minorities—whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender—varies significantly in different parts of the world. In some countries, equal rights have been achieved and progress is being made against discrimination; in others, being gay still incurs the death penalty.This guide examines all the colors of the sexual rainbow, unearths hidden histories, and looks at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population

    by Vanessa Baird ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    No-Nonsense Guide to World Population (1/2 page)With world population passing seven billion and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a number panic. This book explodes some of the common myths, looks at what the numbers really mean, and addresses nine topics, such as why women in most parts of the world have fewer children, what will happen to our societies as we all live ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Answering the Call of the Court

    How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda

    by Vanessa A. Baird ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    The U.S. Supreme Court is the quintessential example of a court that expanded its agenda into policy areas that were once reserved for legislatures. Yet scholars know very little about what causes attention to various policy areas to ebb and flow on the Supreme Court’s agenda. Vanessa A. Baird’s Answering the Call of the Court: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda represents the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Judges and Their Audiences

    A Perspective on Judicial Behavior

    by Lawrence Baum ...
    What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them.The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by other people only in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Classical Liberal Constitution

    The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Politics Of Law

    A Progressive Critique, Third Edition

    by David Kairys ...
    The Politics of Law is the most widely read critique of the nature and role of the law in American society. This revised edition continues the book's concrete focus on the major subjects and fields of law. New essays on emerging fields and the latest trends and cases have been added to updated versions of the now-classic essays from earlier editions.A unique assortment of leading scholars and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada

    An Empirical Examination

    by Donald R. Songer ...
    In the last half-century, the Supreme Court of Canada has undergone major upheaval. The most drastic change occurred with the adoption of the Charter of Rights in 1982, which substantially increased the Court's role in resolving controversial political and social issues. The Transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada examines the impact of institutional changes on the proceedings and decisions ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Behavior of Federal Judges

    a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice

    by Lee Epstein, William M Landes, Richard A Posner ...
    Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made. ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Toward an Ethic of Citizenship

    Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21St Century

    by William K. Dustin ...
    The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as "phonegate", that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990's in which a number of legislators were found to have been abusing their phone privileges. The hubris of the legislature in response to the discovery of this abuse not only made me rather angry, but, since I had been called for jury duty the year before, gave me ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Poverty of Privacy Rights

    by Khiara M. Bridges ...
    The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Law’s Abnegation

    From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State

    by Adrian Vermeule ...
    Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.In area after area, judges and lawyers, working out the logical implications of legal principles, have come to ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Decision Making by the Modern Supreme Court

    by Richard L. Pacelle, Jr, Brett W. Curry, Bryan W. Marshall ...
    There are three general models of Supreme Court decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model and the strategic model. But each is somewhat incomplete. This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates variables from each of the three models. In examining the modern Supreme Court, since Brown v. Board of Education, the book argues that decisions ... Read more

    $31.99 USD