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Presidential Accountability in Wartime

President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War

By Stuart Streichler
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Political History

Examines how and why holding US presidents accountable for war crimes is an obligatory but impossible task in the American constitutional system

The Fourth Amendment

Original Understandings and Modern Policing

By Michael J. Z. Mannheimer
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Untangling how the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments have influenced U.S. policing

Making Endless War

The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law

Edited by Brian Cuddy & Victor Kattan
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How two conflicts have shaped the relationship between law and war since 1945

Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law, Intellectual Property, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Courting Failure

How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts

By Lynn LoPucki
Subjects: Law

An eye-opening account of the widespread and systematic decay of America's bankruptcy courts

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

By Lisa Melinda Keen & Suzanne Beth Goldberg
Subjects: Law, Sexuality Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Describes the legal challenge to the Colorado anti-gay civil rights initiative

Baby Ninth Amendments

How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters

By Anthony B. Sanders
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Legal History

How states have adapted and used "Baby Ninth" Amendments to protect individual liberties

While Waiting for Rain

Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change

By John Henry Schlegel
Subjects: Law, Legal History, Political Science, Political Economy, Political History

How innovation will save the United States—and Buffalo—from economic decline

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

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?

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

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

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

Hybrid Justice

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

By John D. Ciorciari & Anne Heindel
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

A definitive scholarly treatment of the ECCC from legal and political perspectives

Parodies of Ownership

Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law

By Richard L. Schur
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Law, Music, Literary Studies

An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics

In Defense of Monopoly

How Market Power Fosters Creative Production

By Richard B. McKenzie & Dwight R. Lee
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Economy, Law, Business

A provocative defense of market dominance

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women

Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years

By Julie Lavonne Novkov
Subjects: Law, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies

Studies historical constitutional development in relation to protective laws for women in the U.S. during the Progressive Era and early New Deal years

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