Courts & Procedure

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities o...

Our court system is struggling. It is too costly to deliver justice for all but the few, too slow to satisfy those who can access it. Yet the value...

An elected judiciary is virtually unique to the American experience and creates a paradox in a representative democracy. Elected judges take an oat...

This is the Fifth Edition of the textbook that pioneered the teaching of Evidence using problems rather than appellate opinions. The text explores ...

Quick Review of Evidence is a short, clear, concise, and substantive outline. It is designed to make the study of law clear and convenient, and to ...

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. Personalized Law---rules that vary pe...

Today, statutes make up the bulk of the relevant law heard in federal courts and arguably represent the most important source of American law. The ...

The latest volume in the Supreme Court Review series. Since it first appeared in 1960, the Supreme Court Review has won acclaim for providing a sus...

New book purchase includes complimentary digital access to the eBook.This statutory compilation is an essential text for any course on the Louisian...

A comprehensive source of the most authoritative statements of the International Criminal Court's appellate jurisprudence. Its clear format include...

The Russian Empire and its legal institutions have often been associated with arbitrariness, corruption, and the lack of a 'rule of law'. Stefan B....

This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approache...

On 13 February 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia passed away unexpectedly at the age of 79, vacating a seat on the Supreme Court which he had held for n...

On 16 March 2016, President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) ...

The selection and confirmation process for U.S. circuit and district court judges is of continuing interest to Congress. Recent Senate debates over...

Since the 1990 wave of constitutional reforms in Africa, the role of constitutional courts or courts exercising the power to interpret and apply co...