Courts & Procedure

For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions. In deciding individual ca...

School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought bef...

Justice isn't blind. It's winking. This is the message Americans get when, against the weight of overwhelming evidence, high-profile suspects go fr...

The role of the United States Supreme Court has been deeply controversial throughout American history. Should the Court undertake the task of guard...

"The sordid controversies of litigants," Benjamin Cardozo once said, are "the stuff from which great and shining truths will ultimately be shaped."...

In a remarkably innovative reconstruction of constitutional history, Robert Burt traces the controversy over judicial supremacy back to the foundin...

Go ahead and try to make a federal case of it. That may seem to be your right, but as Larry Yackle reveals in Reclaiming the Federal Courts, the gu...

The federal courts are the world’s most powerful judiciary and a vital element of the American political system. In recent decades, these courts ha...

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, unarguably one of the most outstanding judges of the twentieth century, is a man whose name remains prominent and whose co...

After the siege ended at Wounded Knee, the real battle had yet to be fought. The 1973 standoff in South Dakota between Oglala Lakota Indians and fe...

For the first time in our history, U.S. prisons house over a million inmates, enough to populate a city larger than San Francisco. Building prisons...

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren was the most revolutionary and controversial Supreme Court in American history. But in what sense...

Every year hundreds of defendants are convicted on little more than the say-so of a fellow citizen. Although psychologists have suspected for decad...

In a new preface to this foundational book on the American jury, Jeffrey Abramson responds to his critics, defends his views on the jury as an embo...

From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these priva...

The Supreme Court Explained is the only book to get at the basics of the Court - what Ellen Greenberg terms the process, the stage, the players, th...

In this important book, a distinguished legal scholar examines how the legal culture and institutions in Anglo-American countries affect the way in...

Should judges in United States courts be permitted to cite foreign laws in their rulings? In this book Jeremy Waldron explores some ideas in jurisp...

It's an enduring axiom: before there is democracy, there is rule of law. Thomas Geoghegan argues here in his lively pamphlet that as the pillars of...

"My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to surpass Pepys as a d...

This volume in ABC-CLIO's About Federal Government set looks at the history and daily operations of the federal judiciary, from district courts, to...

Part of ABC-CLIO's groundbreaking About State Government set, this volume is the first comprehensive resource to focus exclusively on judicial poli...

Beyond Common Sense addresses the many important and controversial issues that arise from the use of psychological and social science in the courtr...

Beyond Common Sense addresses the many important and controversial issues that arise from the use of psychological and social science in the courtr...

Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world.  Its decisions in ...

Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in th...

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startl...

In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long a...

Bridging law, genetics, and statistics, this book is an authoritative history of the long and tortuous process by which DNA science has been integr...

Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The s...

Are scientific expert witnesses partisans, or spokesmen for objective science? This ambiguity has troubled the relations between scientists and the...

The sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy is arguably the most acute crisis Catholicism has faced since the Reformation. The prevalence of cl...

Media relations are not just for the rich and famous. Mackenzie takes readers behind the scenes of high-profile cases in which men, women, and even...

The eight volumes of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789 1800 gather together documents from the National Arch...