Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights, Hardcover - Erwin Chemerinsky

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...

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

Reducere. Over the last few decades, the Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts have undergone a dramatic shift to the right, the result of a determi...

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

Reducere. Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation--"first in time is first in right"--used to apportion water res...

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

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 ...

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...

During the course of American history, wrongful events have occurred and certain Americans have stood up and spoken out against these wrongs: Tom P...

Reducere. Conservative talk radio host, lawyer, and frequent National Review contributor Mark R. Levin comes out firing against the United States Supreme Cou...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Reducere. "A cogent, timely warning about the fragility of American democracy." -- Kirkus Reviews What will a conservative Supreme Court do with its power? F...

Reducere. ** WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER ** USA TODAY BESTSELLER ** PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** AMAZON BESTSELLER ** Wit...

The Supreme Court's understanding of political parties is impoverished, Batchis argues. The result is a distortion of the two-party system, and an ...

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

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.'"...

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...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERThe author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of San...

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

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...

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

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

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. Contraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women's movement. How did the women's movement, which fought for equal opportunity...

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

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...

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

In May 1963 news photographer Charles Moore was on hand to document the Children's Crusade, a civil rights protest. But the photographs he took tha...

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. 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: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Iain (University of Plymouth, UK) ChanningIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black ...

Checklists, flow-charts, and illustrative examples provide excellent guidance on how the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 applies to everyday ...

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

DescriptionA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An award-winning constitutional law scholar at th...

Reducere. No one knows the story behind the sensational headlines of the Scott Peterson murder trial better than defense attorney Matt Dalton. For six straig...

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

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...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

Reducere. Description1968 was a particularly tumultuous year in American history. The escalating war in Vietnam, the riots during the Democratic Convention, ...

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...

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