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Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty: The Constitutional Heritage of the Religion Clauses

By: Adams, Alrin M/Emmerich, Charl

Price: $6.50

Publisher: May 2017

Seller ID: 340096

ISBN: 0812213181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here is a concise overview of the historical development and judicial interpretation of the First Amendment religion clauses. It begins with a survey of the history of American religious liberty, goes on to present the views of the Founding Fathers, and then considers the core value of religious liberty and the constitutional purposes that implement that value.

the book ends on a practical note by applying these principles to questions of equal access, religious symbolism in public life, and the task of defining religion for constitutional purposes. As the authors note in their introd...
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Right to Privacy

By: Alderman, Ellen/ Kennedy, Caro

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Jun-17

Seller ID: 458438

ISBN: 679744347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

By: Allen, Danielle

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 388945

ISBN: 1631490443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the...
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Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession

By: Barton, Benjamin H.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: June 2015

Seller ID: 464399

ISBN: 0190205563

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology can now handle routine legal tasks like drafting incorporation papers and wills, reducing the need to hire lawyers; tort reform and other regulations on litigation have had the same effect. As in all areas of today's economy, there are some big winners; the rest struggle to find work, or decide to leave the field altoge...
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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

By: Bharara, Preet

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 417571

ISBN: 525521127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

By: Bharara, Preet

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 449182

ISBN: 525521127

Binding: Hardcover

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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

By: Bharara, Preet

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 457896

ISBN: 525521127

Binding: Hardcover

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Morality of Consent

By: Bickel, Alexander

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2013

Seller ID: 221845

ISBN: 0300021194

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"This short but provocative volume... is a fitting testimony to the author's extraordinary, though tragically brief, career as a constitutional scholar, lawyer and teacher. In just a hundred and a half literate pages, we are treated to vintage Bickel insight into every major political issue of the decade, from the civil rights movement, to the Warren Court, through the frenetic university upheavals, and--inevitably--to Watergate.... A tapestry woven by a master of subtle color and texture."--Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Times Book Review
"Presents the core of Bickel's] legal and pol...
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Hugo Black: A Biography

By: Black, Hugo/Newman, Roger K.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Pantheon: October 1994

Seller ID: 466271

ISBN: 0679431802

Binding: Hardcover

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Zooland: The Institution of Captivity (The Cultural Lives of Law)

By: Braverman, Irus

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 370058

ISBN: 0804783586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Zooland begins and ends with the story of Timmy, the oldest male gorilla in North America, to illustrate the dramatic transformations of zoos since the 1970s. Over thes...
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Active Liberty

By: Breyer, Stephen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: August 2011

Seller ID: 154541

ISBN: 0307274942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution's primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls "active liberty" citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means recognizing the changing needs and demands of the populace. Indeed, the Constitution's lasting brilliance is that its principles may be adapted to cope with unanticipated situations, and Breyer makes ...
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Against the Death Penalty

By: Breyer, Stephen

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 393119

ISBN: 0815728891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty.

Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Breyer argues that it does; that it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently and, thus, violates the ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" specified by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.

"Today's administration of the death penalty," Breyer writes, "involves three fundamental constitutional defects: (1) serious unreliability, (2) arbitrariness in application, and (3) unconscionably long delays that underm...
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Trial by Jury

By: Burnett, D. Graham

Price: $5.00

Publisher: January 2012

Seller ID: 116680

ISBN: 0375727515

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face with a stunning act of violence, a maze of conflicting evidence, and a parade of bizarre witnesses. But it is later, behind the closed door of the jury room, that he encounters the essence of the jury experience -- he and eleven citizens from radically different backgrounds must hammer consensus out of confus...
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Trial by Jury

By: Burnett, D. Graham

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Jan-12

Seller ID: 443685

ISBN: 375727515

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

By: Burton, Susan

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 361679

ISBN: 1620972123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Awards

Winner of the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Biography/Autobiography)

Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice

"Valuable . . . like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . Becoming Ms. Burton is] a stunning memoir."
--Nicholas Kristo...
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Saint on Death Row: How a Forgotten Child Became a Man and Changed a World

By: Cahill, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 379058

ISBN: 0767926463

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bestselling author Thomas Cahill tells the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green--wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas--and shines a light on our racist and deeply flawed criminal justice system.
Green, an extraordinary young man from the urban ghettos of Houston, was utterly failed by every echelon of society--the Catholic Church, numerous U.S. courts of law, and even his own mother. But from the depths of despair on Death Row, he transcended his earthly sufferings and achieved enlightenment and peace, inciting an international m...
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Jurismania: The Madness of American Law

By: Campos, Paul F.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2011

Seller ID: 133745

ISBN: 0965782476

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Nature of the Judicial Process, The

By: Cardozo, Benjamin

Price: $3.50

Publisher: March 2017

Seller ID: 336482

ISBN: 0300000332

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this famous treatise, a Supreme Court Justice describes the conscious and unconscious processes by which a judge decides a case. He discusses the sources of information to which he appeals for guidance and analyzes the contribution that considerations of precedent, logical consistency, custom, social welfare, and standards of justice and morals have in shaping his decisions.

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Price of Silence The duke lacrosse scandal the power of the elite and the corrupti

By: COhan, William D

Price: $7.00

Publisher: August 2015

Seller ID: 300944

ISBN: 1451681798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Duke alumnus whose work has been hailed as "authoritative" (The Washington Post), "seductively engrossing" (Chicago Tribune), "riveting" (The Economist), and "masterful" (Los Angeles Times), presents a stunning new account of the infamous Duke lacrosse team case.
Bestselling author William D. Cohan, whose reporting and writing have been hailed as "gripping" (the New York Times), "authoritative" (the Washington Post), and "seductively engrossing" (Chicago Tribune), presents a stunning new account of the Duke lacrosse team scandal that revea...
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Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law

By: Cole, David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Basic Books: March 2016

Seller ID: 472026

ISBN: 0465060900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the national legal director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook for anyone seeking to stand up for fundamental civil liberties and rights
One of Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2016
In an age of executive overreach, what role do American citizens have in safeguarding our Constitution and defending liberty? Must we rely on the federal courts, and the Supreme Court above all, to protect our rights? In Engines of Liberty, the esteemed legal scholar David Cole argues that we all have a part to play in the grand civic dramas of our era--a...
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