Courts & Procedure

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...

Uncovers a major deficiency of U.S. criminal justice—a trial system that prioritizes winning over truth Reginald Denny. O. J. Simpson. Colin Fergus...

In this sweeping study of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges' opinions have been presented from the early American Republi...

The Supreme Court of Canada's decision in the Marshall case asserted sweeping Native treaty rights and intense controversy. In "Power without Law" ...

The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Marshall case asserted sweeping Native treaty rights and generated intense controversy. In Power withou...

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes...

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

Medical malpractice has been at the center of recurring tort crises for the last quarter-century. In 1960, expenditures on medical liability insura...

This in-depth study of civil trial courts in any American city during the nineteenth century. Examining cases brought before the Boston civil court...

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...

Readers seeking information about Elena Kagan—from her early life and her ascent to the Supreme Court to how she approaches questions of fairness, ...

The process used to select judges of the Supreme Court of Canada has provoked criticism from the start. Some observers argue the process - where th...

The new trend in problem-solving courts—specialized courts utilized to address crimes not adequately addressed by the standard criminal justice sys...

America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great fills a major void in the popular literature by providing a thorough definition and h...

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

John Appleton was a prominent American lawyer who practiced in and around Bangor, Maine, beginning in the early 1820s and earned a national reputat...

In this study, Franklin Strier proposes reforms for the American trial system. Arguing that lawyers need to share more power with the judge and jur...

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection o...

An exploration of the U.S. Supreme Court during an era of dramatic sectionalism, slavery, and the Civil War. The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, an...

In this thoroughly informed account of the magistracy the author deals with key issues touching on that institution. Focussing on what Lord Bingham...

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

This unique reference offers a discussion of the social and legal history behind the ongoing evolution versus creationism controversy.Evolution in ...

This open access book explores the High Court’s powers under its inherent jurisdiction and wardship in relation to children and incapacitous and vu...

The number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of peopl...

Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from pri...

Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from pri...

A man murders his wife after she has admitted her infidelity; another man kills an openly gay teammate after receiving a massage; a third man, whit...

Many legal theorists and judges agree on one major premise in the field of law and religion: that religion clause jurisprudence is in a state of di...

2007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology 2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindela...

In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims. In or...

The authors use confidential interviews with Supreme Court justices, analysis of their rulings from 1970 to 2005, and measures that tap their perce...

The authors use confidential interviews with Supreme Court justices, analysis of their rulings from 1970 to 2005, and measures that tap their perce...

While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there have been few efforts to systematically pull together ...

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...