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Book cover for Karl S. Bader: Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte

Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte : Land Und Stadt - Burger Und Bauer Im Alten Europa

Karl S. Bader
Hardcover - $468.95

Die Autoren legen eine Darstellung der Rechtsgeschichte vom Ende des westr?mischen Reiches bis zum Umbruch um 1800 vor, die sich in Gliederung und Perspektive von der ?lteren, ausgesprochen oder unausgesprochen auf den Staat bezogenen Rechtsgeschicht ...

Book cover for Jack M. Balkin: What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said

What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said : The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision

Jack M. Balkin
Hardcover - $96.95

Taking positions both for and against abortion, 11 distinguished constitutional scholars rewrite the Supreme Court's opinions in this landmark case in light of 30 years of experience, offering illuminating arguments that get to the heart of the case, ...

Book cover for Jack M. Balkin: What Roe V. Wade Should Have Said

What Roe V. Wade Should Have Said : The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision

Jack M. Balkin
Paperback - $48.95

View the Table of Contents.Read the Introduction.Brings together some of Americas brightest legal minds to make the best arguments available for and against the constitutional right to abortion. An exceptional volume and essential for anyone who want ...

Book cover for Howard Ball: Murder in Mississippi

Murder in Mississippi

Howard Ball
Hardcover - $60.95

Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing than the 1964 brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. As we approach the 40th anniversary of the murders in June 2004, "Murder in Mississippi" provi ...

Book cover for Howard Ball: Murder in Mississippi

Murder in Mississippi : United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Howard Ball
Paperback - $27.95

Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing than the 1964 brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. As we approach the 40th anniversary of the murders in June 2004, "Murder in Mississippi" provi ...

Book cover for Jerome T. Barrett: A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution

A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution : The Story of a Political, Cultural, and Social Movement

Jerome T. Barrett
Hardcover - $80.95

"A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution" offers a comprehensive review of the various types of peaceful practices for resolving conflicts. Written by Jerome Barrett--a longtime practitioner, innovator, and leading historian in the field of ADR-- ...

Book cover for David A. Bell: Lawyers and Citizens

Lawyers and Citizens : The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France

David A. Bell
Hardcover - $235.95

Among the men who rose to power in France in 1789, lawyers were heavily represented. To a large extent, they also shaped the evolution of French political culture of the ancien regime. Lawyers and Citizens traces the development of the French legal p ...

Book cover for Roger Berkowitz: The Gift of Science

The Gift of Science : Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition

Roger Berkowitz
Hardcover - $116.95

The front pages of our newspapers and the lead stories on the evening news bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. The rich and famous get away with murder; Fortune 500 corporations operate sweatshops with impunity; blue-chip energy companie ...

Book cover for Harold J. Berman: Law and Revolution, II

Law and Revolution, II : The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition

Harold J. Berman
Paperback - $53.95

Harold Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German ...

Book cover for Mary Frances Berry: The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice

The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice : Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present

Mary Frances Berry
Paperback - $26.95

From the head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights comes a landmark study of the ways in which prejudice has shaped American justice from the Civil War era to the present. With an ear tuned to the social subtext of every judicial decision, Mary Fra ...

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