Constitutional & Administrative Law

This collection of essays, the result of a John Marshall Symposium held in conjunction with the state of West Virginia's celebration of the Bicente...

American constitutionalism remains this country's greatest contribution to human freedom. The ideas and ideals expressed in the U.S. Constitution a...

Since the Second World War, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt faced periods of extensive state repression, between 1948-1951 and 1954-1970 and again ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

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This book examines the reasoning practice of 15 constitutional courts and supreme courts, including the Caribbean Commonwealth and the Inter-Americ...

This book examines the role of the European Court of Justice in the regulation of the internal market from a competence perspective. However, rathe...

This book delivers an original, theoretically informed analysis of the legal regulation of online speech. Rejecting the narrow pluralism of elitist...

This open access book presents the first comparative study on the legal sources of administrative law. Every modern legal order needs a set of gene...

Miller proposes that we focus our energies on the question of how the Constitution is to function in an era of rapid and fundamental social change....

Each article of the Bill of Rights is treated separately, the reasons for its original inclusion are explained, and the various interpretations--by...

In this work, Robert E. Brown applies the fruits of modern historical scholarship toward an understanding of Beard's groundbreaking and controversi...

Public choice theory should be taken seriously—but not too seriously. In this thought-provoking book, Jerry Mashaw stakes out a middle ground betwe...

The author attempts to trace from their sources the more important principles and institutions which make up the laws and constitution of Pakistan.

This book examines theories of language for their contribution to understanding the interpretation of constitutional law by the Supreme Court.

Legal scholarship is in a state of crisis, Laura Kalman argues in this history of the most prestigious field in law studies: constitutional theory....

This important book addresses head-on the controversy over attempts to reshape society in the name of antidiscrimination. While most Americans unde...

A complete constitutional history, from the British colonies to the Truman era.

“Child support in America is a national disgrace.  There is no more widespread and profoundly consequential example of lawlessness in our society t...

A Washington Post Book World Best Seller  “Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honors as a scholar can be. . . . He knows what he is talkin...

A pioneering study of dynamics of politics and technocracy that generated mistaken policies that still haunt environmental law today.  

The conservative "social issues agenda" is targeted to voters who have felt left out, even threatened, by the successes of the civil rights movemen...

This comprehensive book compares the intersection of political forces and legal practices in five industrial nations—the United States, England, Fr...

This book argues that Congress's process for making law is as corrosive to the nation as unchecked deficit spending.David Schoenbrod shows that Con...

Affirmative action has been one of the most hotly debated issues in America. In the wake of numerous Supreme Court decisions on the subject, the et...

Under the banners of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, the Supreme Court has constitutionalized a vast amount of criminal procedure law in w...

A study of the uncertain constitutional foundations of private property in American law and a discussion of two vastly different methods by which c...

This powerfully conceptualized book is both a rich intellectual history of two hundred years of American constitutional theory and an original phil...

A classic in American constitutional history, Max Farrand’s famous account of the Federal Convention presents a vivid analysis of the conditions, t...

Zimmerman places in perspective the important roles played by interstate compacts and interstate administrative agreements in the governance system...

How does the Supreme Court work? Is there something undemocratic about having unelected judges overturn laws passed by elected legislators? How can...

The United States Constitution has already been interpreted to provide a variety of family-related protections which, if applied consistently, also...

In 1959, the Supreme Court ushered in a new era of Indian law, which recognizes Indian tribes as permanent governments within the federal constitut...