Laws of Specific Jurisdictions

Nearly all communities are exclusive in some way. When race or wealth is the basis of exclusion, the homogeneity of a neighborhood, workplace, or c...

Social media hasn't just changed society—it's changing the way in which criminal law is prosecuted, defended, and adjudicated. This fascinating boo...

Your user-friendly study and revision guide to Scots criminal law, written specially for students by a law lecturer with over 20 years of teaching ...

The world of Internet law is constantly changing and is difficult to follow, even for those for whom doing so is a full-time job. This updated, eve...

In 2006 Philadelphia, graduate student Jonathan Love sued the organization that publishes the Law School Admissions Test. Love had attained average...

An authoritative but accessible reference, this book enables anyone to truly understand both the background and operation of the U.S. tax system an...

This book examines the history of the concepts of intellectual property and the current state of U.S. and international intellectual property law.I...

At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In al...

After thirty years, the debate over antitrust's ideology has quieted. Most now agree that the protection of consumer welfare should be the only goa...

In this book, Víctor Ferreres Comella contrasts the European “centralized” constitutional court model, in which one court system is used to adjudic...

In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them t...

The only book of its kind to look at how our legal system needs to change to accommodate a world in which machines, in addition to people, make dec...

Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize stat...

Copyright law, as conventionally understood, serves the public interest by regulating the production and dissemination of works of authorship, thou...

In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been lim...

What did the Founding Fathers mean when they wrote the Constitution? What did the right to keep and bear arms or an establishment of religion or th...

The Bush-Cheney administration took office in 2001 determined to assert the preeminent authority of the executive branch and its immunity from cong...

On June 23, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in the Fort Trumbu...

Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political f...

Solimine and Walker provide a comprehensive examination of all the major issues revolving around judicial federalism- the sharing of judicial power...

Freedom of speech is a foundational principle of the American Constitutional system. This collection of over 100 primary documents from a variety o...

Prisoners' rights is an area of constitutional law that is often overlooked. Combining an historical and strategic analysis, this study describes t...