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Book cover for Robert Cover: Justice Accused

Justice Accused : Antislavery and the Judicial Process

Robert Cover
Paperback - $50.95



Book cover for Claire Cross: Law & Government Under the Tudors

Law & Government Under the Tudors

Claire Cross
Paperback - $96.95

This is a collection of specially commissioned research essays by scholars on the government of Tudor England, designed as a tribute from a group of advanced students to their supervisor. Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whom the volume is dedicated, ...

Book cover for David P. Currie: The Constitution in Congress

The Constitution in Congress : Descent Into the Maelstrom, 1829-1861

David P. Currie
Hardcover - $109.95

This acclaimed series serves as a biography of the U.S. Constitution, offering an indispensable survey of the congressional history behind its development. In a rare examination of the role that both the legislative and executive branches have played ...

Book cover for Lynne Curry: The DeShaney Case

The DeShaney Case : Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

Lynne Curry
Paperback - $33.95

"Poor Joshua!" lamented Justice Harry Blackmun in his famous dissent. "Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, obviously cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by respondents who placed him in a dangerous predicament and wh ...

Book cover for William Curry: The Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone on the Laws and Constitution of England Carefully Abridged in a New Manner and Continued Down to the Presen

The Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone on the Laws and Constitution of England Carefully Abridged in a New Manner and Continued Down to the Presen

William Curry
Paperback - $68.95

1796. An abridged version of Blackstone's Commentaries. Sir William Blackstone, Professor of Common Law, Oxford University, was an eminent, prolific English authority on common law. His book, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, consider ...

Book cover for William Curry: The Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone on the Laws and Constitution of England Carefully Abridged in a New Manner and Continued Down to the Presen

The Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone on the Laws and Constitution of England Carefully Abridged in a New Manner and Continued Down to the Presen

William Curry
Hardcover - $90.95

1796. An abridged version of Blackstone's Commentaries. Sir William Blackstone, Professor of Common Law, Oxford University, was an eminent, prolific English authority on common law. His book, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, consider ...

Book cover for Barry Cushman: Rethinking the New Deal Court

Rethinking the New Deal Court : The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution

Barry Cushman
Hardcover - $254.95

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it h ...

Book cover for Barry Cushman: Rethinking the New Deal Court

Rethinking the New Deal Court : The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution

Barry Cushman
Paperback - $65.95

This book challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process and commerc ...

Book cover for Gerhard Czermak: Religions- Und Weltanschauungsrecht

Religions- Und Weltanschauungsrecht

Gerhard Czermak
Paperback - $80.95

Das lange Zeit etwas abgeschottete Religions(verfassungs)recht hat angesichts der ??nderungen der religionspolitischen Lage Konjunktur. Das Buch gibt eine kompakte Einf??hrung in die theoretisch und praktisch wichtigsten Bereiche des Religionsrechts. ...

Book cover for Wendy Davies: Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages

Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages

Wendy Davies
Paperback - $96.95

This is a collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power, a fundamental theme in medieval history. It addresses four main issues: the meaning of power over property; the ways in which property conveyed power; the nature ...

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