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Strategies for Legal Case Reading and Vocabulary Development

By Susan M. Reinhart
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL), Law
Series: Michigan Series in English for Academic & Professional Purposes

The Truth Machines

Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India

By Jinee Lokaneeta
Subjects: Political Science, Criminology, Law, Law and Society, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Interrogation as a site of state sanctioned torture and violence

Keeping Hold of Justice

Encounters between Law and Colonialism

By Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan, and Mark David McMillan
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, Law, Law and Society, Legal History
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Colonialism is a structural injustice embedded in law; what possibilities for justice remain?

Stringfellow Acid Pits

The Toxic and Legal Legacy

By Brian Craig
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Law, Legal History, Nature/Environment

Before Erin Brockovich, there was Penny Newman and the fight for the biggest toxic waste lawsuit in California history

The Jurisprudence of Emergency

Colonialism and the Rule of Law

With a new Foreword by Antony Anghie and Preface by Austin Sarat

By Nasser Hussain
Subjects: Law, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The tension between the ideology of liberty and government by law in British India shaped the development of colonial rule, and thus, Western legality

Punishment and Political Order

By Keally McBride
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An incisive, eminently readable study of the evolving relationship between punishment and social order

Judging Justice

How Victim Witnesses Evaluate International Courts

By James David Meernik & Kimi Lynn King
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Law, International Law

Shows how witness experiences of testimony give credence to perceptions of justice in international courts

Archiving Sovereignty

Law, History, Violence

By Stewart Motha
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An account of how courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power.

Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea

By Joshua Horwitz & Casey Anderson
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, American Studies, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America?

Mountains Without Handrails

Reflections on the National Parks

With a New Foreword by Holly Doremus

By Joseph L. Sax
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Law

A controversial, informed, and important look at the protection and management of America’s national parks

Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials

The First Modern Civil Rights Convictions

By James P. Turner
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Law, Legal History, American Studies

A fascinating examination of the Viola Liuzzo trials, with a foreword by Ari Berman

The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law

Unfinished Business

By Leora Yedida Bilsky
Subjects: Law, International Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An important examination of multinational corporations’ accountability in the era of globalization and the long shadow of the Holocaust

Ancient Law, Ancient Society

By Dennis P. Kehoe & Thomas McGinn
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek, Law

An engaging look at how ancient Greeks and Romans crafted laws that fit—and, in turn, changed—their worlds

 

Curating Community

Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political

By Stacy Douglas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Law and Society, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Reconsiders complex questions about how we imagine ourselves and our political communities

 

The Chief Justice

Appointment and Influence

By Artemus Ward & David J. Danelski
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Judicial Politics, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Scholars use the most advanced methods in judicial studies to examine the role of Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Common Law Judging

Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law

By Douglas E. Edlin
Subjects: Political Science, Judicial Politics, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Law and Society

Moving beyond the subjectivity-objectivity debate, Edlin presents a case for intersubjectivity

The Poverty Law Canon

Exploring the Major Cases

By Ezra Rosser & Marie Failinger
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Class Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, History, American History
Series: Class : Culture

Engaging narratives that move beyond the final opinions of the Supreme Court to reveal the people and stories behind key poverty-law cases of the last 50 years

Refining Child Pornography Law

Crime, Language, and Social Consequences

By Carissa Byrne Hessick
Subjects: Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Legal experts, sociologists, and social workers debate the definition of child pornography, the punishment of offenders, and the protection of victims

The Impossible Machine

A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By Adam Sitze
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Human Rights, Race and Politics, African Studies

A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage

Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy

By David Ratzan, Dennis P. Kehoe, and Uri Yiftach
Subjects: Classical Studies, Law, Economics
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

A critical element of economic performance from antiquity to the present

The First Global Prosecutor

Promise and Constraints

By Martha Minow, C. Cora True-Frost, and Alex Whiting
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, International Relations, Criminology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Legal scholars and practitioners examine the role of the ICC’s first prosecutor

The One and Only Law

Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment

By James Martel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Law, Religion

A radical critique of contemporary legal practices and understandings based on a new consideration of Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”

Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism

By Roger Douglas
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Judicial Politics, Human Rights, Political Behavior and Public Opinion

In democratic states, the courts can help safeguard civil liberties against excessive legislative and executive efforts to combat terrorism

Cicero's Use of Judicial Theater

By Jonathan Hall
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Law

Judicial theatrics in Roman courts

Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate

Reconsidering the Charade

By Dion Farganis & Justin Wedeking
Subjects: Political Science, Judicial Politics, American Politics, Political Methodology, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

How much do Supreme Court nominees reveal at their confirmation hearings, and how do their answers affect senators' votes?

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