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Trials from Classical Athens
Christopher Carey
Paperback - $84.95
What appeals, ideals, values and prejudices could be expected to influence an Athenian jury? "Trials from Classical Athens" presents a selection of key oratorical speeches with new translations and lucid explanatory notes, detailing the strengths ...
The Cloaking of Power : Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism
Paul Carrese
Hardcover - $84.95
How did the U.S. judiciary become so powerful-powerful enough that state and federal judges vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy both in America and international ...
We Gotta Have More Jails
Alvin H. Clement
Paperback - $47.95
BOOK 1. 1984-1987. Observations in Houston on Bar Room Types, Business and Political deals, Illusions, and the Business and Drug Worlds. RECONQUESTA, the ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM, views of the Louisiana and Texas legal systems, Drug Wars, and Yelps for Mor ...
Sexual Harassment and the Law : The Mechelle Vinson Case
III Cochran
Paperback - $31.95
Title Vll of the 1964 Civil Rights Act may have outlawed sex discrimination, but it did not address the sexual harassment of women in the workplace--behavior that courts did not deem illegal until well into the era of the modern civil rights and wome ...
Restitution : Past, Present and Future
W. R. Cornish
Hardcover - $300.95
A collection of essays on the law of restitution, published in honour of Professor Gareth Jones.
Language and Power in Court : A Linguistic Analysis of the O.J. Simpson Trial
Janet Cotterill
Hardcover - $149.95
Sociolinguists and lawyers will find insight and relevance in this account of the language of the courtroom, as exemplified in the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson. The trial is examined as the site of linguistic power and persuasion, focusing on the r ...
Brown V. Board of Education
Robert J. Cottrol
Hardcover - $51.95
Before 1954, both law and custom mandated strict racial segregation throughout much of the nation. That began to change with "Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision that overturned the pernicious "separate but equal" doctrine. In declarin ...
Brown V. Board of Education : Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
Robert J. Cottrol
Paperback - $26.95
Tracing the litigations, highlighting the pivotal role of the NAACP, and including incisive portraits of key players, this book simply but powerfully shows that "Brown" not only changed the national equation of race and caste, it also changed our vie ...