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  • Out of the Closets and into the Courts

    Legal Opportunity Structure and Gay Rights Litigation

    Over the past 30 years, the gay rights movement has moved from the margins to the center of American politics, sparking debate from bedroom to boardroom to battlefield. Out of the Closets and into the Courts analyzes the most recent gay rights cases, and explores the complex relationship between litigation and social change. Ellen Andersen describes what happens when these cases—many overseen by ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

    Constitutional Law

    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 ... Leer más

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  • From the Closet to the Courtroom

    Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation

    Series Libro 4 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small-on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case is a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from his home after his partner of ten years dies of AIDS; school officials in Wisconsin look the other ... Leer más

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  • Judges and Their Audiences

    A Perspective on Judicial Behavior

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Constitutional Conservatism

    Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation

    Peter Berkowitz identifies the political principles social conservatives and libertarians share, or should share, and sketches the common ground on which they can and should join forces. Drawing on the writings of Edmund Burke,The Federalist, and the high points of post-World War II American conservatism, he argues that the top political priority for social conservatives and libertarians should be ... Leer más

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  • For Discrimination

    Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

    **The definitive reckoning with Affirmative Action, one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law.”—The Washington Post“A clear-eyed take on America’s battle over affirmative action and diversity.... [Kennedy] goes straight at the issue with fearlessness and a certain cheekiness.” —Los Angeles Times** ... Leer más

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  • The Transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada

    An Empirical Examination

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Against Judicial Activism

    The Decline of Freedom and Democracy in Canada

    de Rory Leishman ...
    Against Judicial Activism cites numerous cases to support this argument. For instance, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and Supreme Court read a ban on discrimination on the ground of transsexualism as being part of the province's human rights code. On the basis of this revision of the law, the tribunal ordered the Vancouver Rape Relief Society to pay $7,500 to a transsexual man in ... Leer más

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  • Not Quite Supreme

    de Dennis Baker ...
    Baker argues that coordinate interpretation a model which requires both elected and appointed officials to interpret the Charter allows for the creation of a more robust democracy alleviating some of the tension between constitutionalism and democracy while limiting judicial activism. Drawing on literature from Montesquieu to recent court decisions Not Quite Supreme gives an extensive critique of ... Leer más

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  • Ideas with Consequences

    The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution

    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required for any conservative lawyer who hopes to enter politics or the judiciary. ... Leer más

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  • The Tempting of America

    Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.In The Tempting of America, one of our most distinguished legal minds offers a brilliant argument for the wisdom and necessity of interpreting the Constitution according to the “original understanding” of the Framers and the people for whom it was ... Leer más

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  • The Judicial Branch

    Edición de Kermit L. Hall, Kevin T. McGuire ...
    Series series Institutions of American Democracy
    In recent years the Supreme Court has been at the center of such political issues as abortion rights, the administration of police procedures, and the determination of the 2000 presidential election. The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With the guidance of coeditors Kermit L. Hall and Kevin T. ... Leer más

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