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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

Peace, Preference, and Property

Return Migration after Violent Conflict

By Sandra F Joireman
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Human Rights, African Studies

A bottom-up analysis of what displaced people need rather than what states want

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