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Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court
By James Mac Gregor Burns [Paperback 2010]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme Court For decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. In "Packing the Court," he turns his eye... more
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Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors
By Helena Silverstein [Hardcover 2007]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days View the Table of Contents. Read Chapter One. aDoes a terrific job of laying out how the courts have conspired to limit the abortion access of teenaged girls. The results are clear, convincing, and enraging. How we- and the lawmakers who represent us- r "Choice" Outstanding Academic Title for 2008... more
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Counterterrorism and the Comparative Law of Investigative Detention
By Dan E Stigall [Hardcover 2009]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days "A must read and a breakthrough work ... The book makes clear the importance of comparing, learning from, and adapting legal systems to the ever-changing world, while maintaining the integrity of the Constitution. The subtlety of the book shows deep under... more
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Reshaping the Judiciary
By Chris Corns [Paperback 2001]
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Available. Contents: Citizenship Theory and the Public Confidence Rationale for the Bias Rule; My People's Courts as Agents of Indigenous Decolonisation?; Can Public Sector Approaches to Accountability be Applied to the Judiciary; The Judicial Commission of NSW: Tre... more
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Judicial Recourse to Foreign Law: A New Source of Inspiration?
By Basil Markesinis , Jorg Fedtke [Hardcover 2006]
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Available. With commentaries by an international collection of leading judges, this accessible and clearly-structured book includes examinations of public and private law in its discussion about access to foreign laws and looks at the practice across the globe.... more
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Code of Federal Regulations, Title 28, Judicial Administration, PT. 43-End, Revised as of July 1, 2008
[Paperback 2008]
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The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.... more
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Unrestrained: Judicial Excess and the Mind of the American Lawyer
By Robert Nagel [Hardcover 2008]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days Robert Nagelas innovative volume attempts to explain why, despite almost four decades of conservative and moderate appointments, the Supreme Court continues to intervene aggressively in a wide array of social and political issues. The explanation lies pri... more
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Courts & Congress: Americas Unwritten Constitution
By William J Quirk , Ralph Nader [Hardcover 2008]
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Available. Itas often said, confirmed by survey data, that the American people are losing confidence in their government. But the problem may be the reverse-the government has lost confidence in the people. Increasingly the power to make decisions in our democracy h... more
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Modern Judicial Interpretations of U. S. Trade Secret Law
By Doneil John Hoekman [Paperback 2010]
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The Pursuit of Justice
By Henry Woolf , Christopher Campbell Holt [Hardcover 2008]
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Available. The Pursuit of Justice prints for the first time a collection of lectures and papers written and delivered by Lord Woolf since 1986, following his retirement in 2005 from the office of Lord Chief Justice and a judicial career that has spanned over four decades. The papers cover developments that... more
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Judge Made Federalism? : The Role of Courts in Federal Systems
By Hans Peter Schneider , Jutta Kramer , Beniamino Caravita Di Toritto [Paperback 2009]
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Available. What influence do the courts have in different federal or decentralized systems on federal development? This question is analyzed by dealing with court decisions in the US, Australia, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, Austria, Russia, Spain, Switzerl... more
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Courts and Federalism: Judicial Doctrine in the United States, Australia, and Canada
By Gerald Baier [Paperback 2007]
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Available. Courts and Federalism examines recent developments in the judicial review of federalism in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Gerald Baier argues that the judicial review of Canadian federalism is under-investigated by political scientists. New institutionalist literature in political science suggests that courts matter as sites of governmental conflict and... more
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The Courts
By Ian Greene [Paperback 2007]
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Available. The Courts provides a well-informed account of the judicial system and its place in democratic life. Academic and policy circles have been abuzz lately over whether unelected and unaccountable judges should play as great a role in policy making as they currently do. It was Canada's Supreme Court, for example,... more
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Modern Judicial Interpretations of U. S. Trade Secret Law
By Doneil John Hoekman [Paperback 2010]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days Modern Judicial Interpretations of U.S. Patent Law contains selected extracts from judicial opinions covering over one hundred different topics of U.S. patent law. The extracts represent recent and respected interpretations of patent law topics. Additionally, many selections were made due to the detail, insight and clarity of the opinion itself.... more
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Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law
[Hardcover 2011]
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Available. Jurisdiction: The Expression and Representation of Law pursues an emerging interest in the conceptual thematic of jurisdiction within legal studies; as it maintains that an adequate understanding of the power of law requires an attention, not just to the representation of law, but to its expression. In an age in... more
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Fight Back Legal Abuse: How to Protect Yourself from Your Own Attorney
By Rose Colombo [Paperback 2010]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days Thirty years in the works, "Fight Back Legal Abuse" is the story of one woman's fight against a corrupt legal system. Following her own dealings with three negligent attorneys, as well as years of case studies from the abused, author Rose Colombo fights back as an advocate for victims of... more
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Let Justice Be Done: The Life and Times of Justice J. Harold Hawkins
By Sr David A Dosser [Hardbound 2007]
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Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
By Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld , Humphry W Woolrych , Walter Wheeler Cook [Hardcover 2010]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 8-10 days Since his death Hohfeld's essays on the concepts of right and duty have been increasingly recognized for their significance as a foundation of thought on analytical jurisprudence. Posthumously collected and published by Yale University Press in 1964, the essays were originally published as two articles in the Yale Law Journal... more
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Judicial Control in the EU: Procedures and Principles
By K P E Lasok , Timothy Millett , Anneli Howard [Hardcover 2008]
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Available. This definitive work provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the practice and procedure of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. It details all aspects of procedure, covering direct and associated actions, references from national courts and appeals from the Court of... more
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Beyond the Formalist- Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging
By Brian Z Tamanaha [Paperback 2009]
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