Jurisprudence & General Issues

Skilled forensic consulting psychologists help clients prepare for courtroom trials. This book helps psychologists understand the demands of this c...

From the early sixteenth century, thousands of fishermen-traders from Basque, Breton, and Norman ports crossed the Atlantic each year to engage in ...

From the early sixteenth century, thousands of fishermen-traders from Basque, Breton, and Norman ports crossed the Atlantic each year to engage in ...

Records of settlement and bastardy examinations held in the parish of Chelsea in the mid-eighteenth century. The examinations give new insight int...

In preparing the long-awaited second edition of his well-liked text, Kent Newmyer consulted the best and most relevant of the recent scholarship on...

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. ...

This law and society reader taps a rich and diverse literature to compare and contrast the legal experience of many different cultures and nations....

Western Political Science Association's Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory Canadian Studies Network Prize for the Be...

Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages. Partly in reaction to t...

This is the first comprehensive casePub to address the relationship of uBuntu to law. It also provides the most important critical articles on the ...

Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedu...

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

Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war—a connection that has lo...

Should laws apply equally to everyone, or should some individuals and organizations be granted exemptions because of conflicting religious or moral...

Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages. Partly in reaction to t...

In a series of fifteen vivid essays, this book discusses the contributions of great common-law jurists and singular documents—namely the Magna Cart...

Americans have long been obsessed with their images—their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its ma...

In postrevolutionary America, the autonomous individual was both the linchpin of a young nation and a threat to the founders’ vision of ordered lib...

In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Rip...