Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan, Hardcover

Reducere. A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolut...

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-...

Reducere. From the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, a richly detailed, news-breaking look at the unprecedented political fight over Ant...

DescriptionThe most sophisticated theories of judicial behavior depict judges as rational actors who strategically pursue multiple goals when makin...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Supreme Court has been the site of some of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to bus...

Reducere. The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the...

DescriptionAfter a restrained 2017 term in which the Supreme Court muddled through most of its work with just eight justices, the court roared back...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

A lifelong smasher of glass-ceilings, who took as her motto 'women are equal to everything', her landmark rulings in areas including domestic viole...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Lady HaleNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 195 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softba...

This first-of-its-kind book speaks to key normative and empirical issues in American government. It will appeal to those interested in the presiden...

Reducere. Why Not Just Make the Cake? That's a question countless people across the country started asking in 2012, when Jack Phillips told two men who walke...

"The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus's compelling narrative is ...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. KlarmanA monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's ruling...

Filling an important niche in the study of jurisprudence, The Empirical Gap in Jurisprudence demonstrates that systematic studies based on large sa...

Reducere. The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became t...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Who HQNumber of pages: 112Collection: What Was?Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 192 x 10Cover type: ...

Reducere. Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizer...

The Brandeis University Library's Archives and Special Collections is a rich and varied set of rare books and unique manuscripts that spans several...

Reducere. In The Supreme Court, Lawrence Baum provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court, one that is balanced and illuminatin...

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

Reducere. The Heart of Atlanta Supreme Court decision stands among the court's most significant civil rights rulings. In Atlanta, Georgia, two arch segregati...

DescriptionJustice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform ...

Equal to Everything is a beautifully illustrated, fictionalised tale based on the life of Lady Hale, President of the Supreme Court of England and ...

Reducere. This book explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ohio et al. v. American Express, and the preceding litigation, for the tr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran...

DescriptionFor more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's his...

Reducere. Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the...

Reducere. DescriptionThe fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge...

Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans--in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the...

Reducere. The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secr...

Reducere. The sixteenth Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Rehnquis...

Reducere. In 2020, US Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett became the fifth woman to serve on the country's highest court. The daughter of a law...

Reducere. Post-Conviction Relief: C.O.A. In the Supreme Court is a big step in the fight against Mass-Incarceration, America's greatest social crisis. This b...

Reducere. Description"Racist. Hero. Stubborn. Fighter. Chink. I've been called many things on the way to this moment, but ironically, I've never been called ...

Provides a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book...

Reducere. "Racist. Hero. Stubborn. Fighter. Chink. I've been called many things on the way to this moment, but ironically, I've never been called 'a slant.'"...

Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it ha...

Reducere. What does the U.S. Supreme Court do? Learn about who can be on the Supreme Court, how they are chosen, where they work, and more. Descriptive main ...

Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Richard J. LazarusNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist b...

Reducere. Filled with more than 800 recipes from around the world that cover all Jewish traditions.About author(s): Claudia Roden was born and raised in Cair...

The deeply personal reflections of a giant of Jewish history. Scholar Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009) possessed a stunning range of erudition in...

Reducere. In this one-of-a-kind atlas, scores of archival maps and dozens of newly created maps trace the battles, political turmoil, and great themes of Ame...

Reducere. An ambitious account of the legacies of Plessy and Ferguson . . . Undeniably timely and representative of the necessary work ahead.--Kirkus Reviews...