Government Powers

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (16001868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villager...

Winner of the 2021 Scribes Book AwardFrom two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy in...

The U.S. Supreme Court is as important as ever in the lives of Americans. Contrary to the image-enhancing claims of independence that many of its m...

A history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the land In May 2022, a seismic legal event occurred as the draft majority ...

The book introduces Legislative Conflict Theory. The theory suggests that conflict in legislatures in two-dimensional and that a moderate level of ...

The United States Constitution was established primarily because of the widely recognized failures of its predecessor, the Articles of Confederatio...

Recent developments, including anti-democratic moves by governments in Hungary, India, and Turkey and the rise of populist leaders, demonstrate the...

Indonesia's political and governmental structures underwent sweeping reforms in the late 1990s. After decades of authoritarian rule, a key aspect o...

In the past decade the Rule of Law developments in the world have become contentious; its idea, concept, and global implementation have met growing...

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...

FROM THE WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICSOne of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019Shortlisted ...