Human Rights & Civil Liberties Law

Americans of all political persuasions fear that “free speech” is under attack. This may seem strange at a time when legal protections for free exp...

This book is an essential resource for anyone who wants to understand race in America, drawing on research from a variety of fields to answer frequ...

Rewriting the Supreme Court’s landmark gay rights decision Jack Balkin and an all-star cast of legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Co...

This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of ...

This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to infe...

Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement o...

Originally published in 2012, Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world. In it, Erin Daly show...

In the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights law...

An up-close account of policing during the Ferguson protests, providing insights from both police officers and members of the community Policing Un...

The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation ...

After a distinguished career as a jurist in Germany, Alfred Oppler came to the United States in 1939, and in 1946 was invited to Tokyo, where he wa...

As an Advocate of the Supreme Court, John Dugard observes the South African legal order daily in operation. In this book he provides a thorough des...