Constitutional & Administrative Law

In the first comprehensive study of election law since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, Richard L. Hasen rethinks the Court’s role in regula...

Inclusive Equality explores the legal meaning of equality, examining both the substantive conditions of inequality and the dynamic institutional an...

White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young mind...

Inclusive Equality explores the legal meaning of equality, examining both the substantive conditions of inequality and the dynamic institutional an...

On 11 November 1918, the last day of the Great War, the Canadian Corps, led by Sir Arthur Currie, liberated Mons after four years of German occupat...

White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young mind...

Parliament, and the House of Commons in particular, is increasingly held in contempt by the British public. From attending parties during the Covid...

In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psycholog...

This unique book, formed as a series of essays in honour of the memory of Paul Heim CMG, the founder of Lincoln’s Inn European Group, focusses on t...

In the twentieth century, American society has experienced a “rights revolution”: a commitment by the national government to promote a healthful en...

This book develops a timely analysis of the complex trends and transformations emerging in EU competition law in the current turbulent times. Repe...

The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three import...

Our legal system is committed to the idea that private markets and the law of contracts that supports them are the primary institutions for allocat...

In a powerful new narrative, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in th...

Nat Hentoff is one of America's most passionate and prominent writers about civil liberties and civil rights. In "Living the Bill of Rights", he ha...

The separation of powers along functional lines--legislative, executive, and judicial--has been a core concept of American constitutionalism ever s...

American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today--hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and rese...

Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was c...

The history of America’s successes and failures in the battles for civil rights, from the Revolutionary period to today. Despite America’s commitme...

Criminal procedure in the common law world is being recast in the image of human rights. The cumulative impact of human rights laws, both internati...

This book considers the ways in which the concept of the Rule of Law will need to evolve in order to ensure that the exercise of power by Artificia...

In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarl...

In this book, Víctor Ferreres Comella contrasts the European “centralized” constitutional court model, in which one court system is used to adjudic...

Your guide to Holyrood, fully updated after the Scotland Act 2016This textbook gives students a rigorous introduction to the powers of the Scottish...

In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been lim...

What did the Founding Fathers mean when they wrote the Constitution? What did the right to keep and bear arms or an establishment of religion or th...

The Bush-Cheney administration took office in 2001 determined to assert the preeminent authority of the executive branch and its immunity from cong...

Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost...

Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political f...

Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneIn this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers ...

Solimine and Walker provide a comprehensive examination of all the major issues revolving around judicial federalism- the sharing of judicial power...

Freedom of speech is a foundational principle of the American Constitutional system. This collection of over 100 primary documents from a variety o...

Prisoners' rights is an area of constitutional law that is often overlooked. Combining an historical and strategic analysis, this study describes t...

Two original national surveys were conducted to examine the differences between mass and elite opinion regarding the policy making decisions of the...

This study analyzes the process of constitutional interpretation, that is, the methodology by which the Supreme Court goes about interpreting the C...

Jackson, Tushnet, and their contributors, distinguished jurists and legal scholars from around the world, seek to define the field of constitutiona...

Americans have a love-hate relationship with government. Rejecting bureaucracy—but not the goods and services the welfare state provides—Americans ...

Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876 stands as one of the great touchstones of American technological achievement. Bringing a...

Donna Price Cofer addresses the tensions between the administrative law judges (ALJ) of the Social Security Administration and their management and...

Sheffer deals with some of the oldest continuing constitutional problems confronting the American government: the judicial development of president...

This seminal book presents a fundamental reconsideration of modern American administrative law. According to Christopher Edley, the guiding princip...

Ours is an age of growing doubt about constitutional theory and of outright hostility to any theory that defends judicial review. Why should a tiny...

Here is a comprehensive account of the U.S. constitution--including its evolution and its impact on shaping American government and political repre...

This study of civil liberties focuses on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the dispute in Skokie, Illinois over the rights of members o...

In the former Eastern Bloc countries, one of the most important, and most difficult, aspects of the transition to democracy has been the establishm...

Miller examines the evolution of the system in response to climactic social and economic changes and questions how the American political system wi...