An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent menIn 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective...

“Wise and illuminating…Merrill’s treatment of the rise of Chevron, and its various twists and turns over the decades, is keenly insightful.” ―Cass R. Sunstein, New York Review of Books“Merrill is one of the brightest and best scholars of administrative...

“The best kind of scholarship―deeply researched and immensely useful. Wherever you stand on issues of free speech and academic freedom, you will learn from this book.”―Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University and author of Safe Enough SpacesA...

Surviving Prison As An Innocent Person Is A Surreal Nightmare No One Wants To Think About. But It Can Happen To You. Justin Brooks Has Spent His Career Freeing Innocent People From Prison. With You Might Go To Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, He...

Legal systems do not operate in isolation but in complex cultural contexts.This original and thought-provoking volume considers how cultural assumptions are built into American legal decision-making, drawing on a series of case studies to demonstrate the...

An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution.Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be...

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane,...

This two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, published by Springer, along with Springer's book series, Studies in Global Justice, is a major publication venture toward a comprehensive coverage of this timely topic. The Encyclopedia is an...

This volume brings together a range of influential essays by distinguished philosophers and political theorists on the issue of global justice. Global justice concerns the search for ethical norms that should govern interactions between people, states,...

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Against the law;: The Nixon Court and criminal justice Hardcover – 1974

A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politicsConventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the “rule of law” in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable...

A blistering exposé of Clarence Thomas and the conservative regime of corruption that has usurped the Supreme Court—by a Democratic activist and former Republican political operativePublic confidence in the Supreme Court has plummeted to new lows in the...