Jurisprudence & General Issues

Forty-three women who have made major contributions to the law through their work in the legal profession, scholarly legal research, and political ...

Compared to other countries, Canada’s Parliament shows a high level of party unity when it comes to legislative voting. This was not always the cas...

A new and urgently needed guide to making the American economy more competitive at a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power.The U.S. ...

Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the first judge to strike down a law, gave us modern common law by turning medieval common law inside-out. Through his...

Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876 stands as one of the great touchstones of American technological achievement. Bringing a...

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an...

Sheffer deals with some of the oldest continuing constitutional problems confronting the American government: the judicial development of president...

Ours is an age of growing doubt about constitutional theory and of outright hostility to any theory that defends judicial review. Why should a tiny...

This book brings to a culmination in later modern times the long and complicated history of ideas on sovereignty and the state that has occupied pr...

Previous works on Southern African law have been directed primarily to lawyers and students of law within Southern Africa; this is the first major ...

In the first half of the fifth century, the Latin-speaking part of the Roman Empire suffered vast losses of territory to barbarian invaders. But in...

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...

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the decision to prosecute made by the statutory Australian Offices of Director of Prosecution. ...

In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement won many supporters with its promise that social ills such as venereal disease, alcoholism, a...

Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on internationa...

Most people in the United States today no longer live their lives under the guidance of local institutionalized religious leadership, such as rabbi...

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing...

Should an employee be allowed to wear a religious symbol at work? Should a religious employer be allowed to impose constraints on employees’ privat...

This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of la...

An exciting aspect of contemporary legal scholarship is a concern for law from a global perspective across all legal fields. The book draws upon ex...

What makes a great judge? How are reputations forged? Why do some reputations endure, while others crumble? And how can we know whether a reputatio...

This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of la...