"Since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter Movement in 2014, police brutality, police violence, and police reform have emerged as central public policy concerns, and throughout that time, Minneapolis has been at the center of these conversations,...

From one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretationFights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court’s...

This comprehensive work explores the broad question of how the English courts dealt with crime in the period during which the foundations of modern forms of judicial administration were being laid.

"Colker's book provides a comprehensive review of the ADA's history and a thorough analysis of how effective it has been in vindicating the rights of the disabled. She does not paint a pretty picture, but it is an accurate, empirically based assessment...

Winner of the 2012 Award for Concept Analysis from the International Political Science AssociationHow do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior governments? Should they be excluded or should they be...

An eye-opening look at “participatory defense,” the innovative practice that allows the loved ones of those charged with crimes to help influence the outcome of court cases, by the MacArthur Award–winning activistThe courthouse is an important part of...

A study of law, wrongdoing and justice as conceived in the minds of the ordinary people of England and Wales from the later eighteenth century to the First World War.Shortlisted for the 2015 Katharine Briggs AwardThis is a study of law, wrongdoing and...

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A VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAILNearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and...

This book covers the period from the Reformation to the end of Lord Eldon's Chancellorship when the modern law of charity had taken a definite shape. Mr Jones shows how the contemporary religious, economic and social pressures moulded the substantive law...

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a timely and powerful argument for rethinking how the U.S. Constitution is interpretedThe U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the right to abortion and is revisiting other fundamental questions...

Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation“Chemerinsky . . . offers a concise, point-by-point refutation of the theory [of originalism]. He argues that it cannot deliver what it...

This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places contemporary issues of crime and justice in historical perspective. Walker identifies the major periods in the development of the American system of criminal justice,...

Edited by Wilfred Prest. An Introduction and nine essays, including five on the English legal profession, and essays on the legal profession in colonial North America, in early modern Scotland, in pre-revolutionary France, and in Castile 1500-1750. 216...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short...

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Traces the life of America's most influential Supreme Court Justice, and describes the forces that shaped his career

Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current InterestAn instant New York Times Bestseller!“Stirring . . . Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.” —New York Times Book Review“In Dahlia...