Government Powers

The legal meaning of bankruptcy and insolvency law has often remained elusive, even to practitioners and scholars in the field, despite having been...

American Constitutional Law, Volume 1: Government Powers and Democracy is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constituti...

Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered...

One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019 One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019 Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize'As enjoyable as it...

The legal meaning of bankruptcy and insolvency law has often remained elusive, even to practitioners and scholars in the field, despite having been...

A pioneering model for constructing and assessing government authority and achieving policy goals more effectively Regulation is frequently less su...

Examines the outsized influence of jurors on prosecutorial discretion Thanks to television and popular media, the jury is deeply embedded in the A...

In straightforward language, the third edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief takes you step-by-step through the innocent spou...

In straightforward language, the third edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief takes you step-by-step through the innocent spou...

Democratization and state building are fundamental political processes, yet scholars cannot agree on which process should be prioritized in order t...

Our politics is broken, but it can be fixed.A real democracy is not only possible it is an urgent necessity.Provocative, succinct and inspiring, T...

This edited volume assesses governance innovation and institutional change under the fifth generation of Chinas political leaders headed by Xi Jinp...

A CounterPunch Best Book of the YearA Lone Star Policy Institute Recommended BookIf you care, as I do, about disrupting the perverse politics of cr...

At an unsettled time for liberal democracy, with global eruptions of authoritarian and arbitrary rule, here is one of the first full-fledged philos...

When the Supreme Court of Canada makes a decision that invalidates a statute, it creates a constitutional moment. But does that have a direct and o...

Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British ...

Since established by the Founding Fathers, the Electoral College was designated to be appoint the president to ensure that the voting process was a...

This wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpackin...

The Era of Political Partisanship on the U.S. Supreme Court challenges conventional notions of consensus-building and neutral decision-making on th...

The author argues that we the peoples rights under the Constitution as amended cannot be characterized as specific prohibitions against government....

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its l...

In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Sa...

This book is a long overdue reappraisal of Lord Hewart (Lord Chief Justice 1922-1940) and his book The New Despotism (1929). Following a brief biog...

Can Parliament legalize same-sex marriage? Can Quebec unilaterally secede from Canada? Can the federal government create a national firearms regist...

Not so long ago, being aggressively profree speech was as closely associated with American political liberalism as being pro-choice, proaffirmative...

Not so long ago, being aggressively profree speech was as closely associated with American political liberalism as being pro-choice, proaffirmative...

As the government increasingly uses commercial augmentation to perform many of its most basic functions, it is critically important that all employ...

The economist Kenneth Arrow proved in 1951 that a society of diverse individual preferences could only by ordered by dictatorship. His impossibili...