In the future, travelers don't hop on a plane, they hop into someone else's imagination. The most popular imaginers can host up to three million travelers at a time. Competition is intense. With intense competition comes cutting corners.Stanton Zerpa investigates imaginers who cut corners. His current case involves several travelers who have lost memories as the result of going into an imaginscape. Several victims cannot remember what happened inside the imagination they traveled i...

She had almost let him commit the perfect murder. He repaid her by haunting her dreams with his gloating face.The DNA sample she had collected at the crime scene had allowed him to walk free. Now she needed another sample if she was to show him that justice was a dish best served cold.

What happens when you tell the cops that you've stumbled on a terror plot, a terror plot which will result in thousands upon thousands of deaths?Nothing, that's what.They don't believe you. They demand proof. They demand that you go back inside where the plot is being planned, where the mice are being killed, where the weapon is being readied to use against humans. That is where the proof is. That's where I might be seen, chased, killed.

In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims. In order to address this problem, Daved Muttart has made a systematic study encompassing every judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada between 1950 and 2003.Examining almost 5000 cases, Muttart analyses these Supreme Court decisions employing several important criteria including whether the decisions overruled prior precedent, the extent to w...

Book Two starts several months after Zerpa with Doctor Anna Jaspers travelling into a medieval imaginscape for a well-earned and solitary vacation. Instead she finds herself dragged into a life-and-death battle with a dragon and a romance with a dashing knight.When she gets back to her psychiatrist practice, Jaspers is thrown into a maelstrom of patients dying from a new and oddly-behaving illness.In the future, travelers don't hop on a plane, they hop into someone...

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.

The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time.Exploring hot-button issues ranging from presidential power to same-sex relations ...

Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of a 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' is usually expressed through elections and electoral representation in parliaments. Judicial review of legislation h...

According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip Pettit addresses this crucial question in On the People's Terms. He argues that state coercion will not involve individu...

Having identified proportionality as the main tool for limiting constitutional rights, Aharon Barak explores its four components (proper purpose, rational connection, necessity and proportionality stricto sensu) and discusses the relationships between proportionality and reasonableness and between courts and legislation. He goes on to analyse the concept of deference and to consider the main arguments against the use of proportionality (incommensurability and irrationality). Alternatives t...

The adoption of the Canadian Constitution Act in 1982, with its embedded Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ushered in an era of unprecedented judicial influence on Canada's public policy. The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during the first twenty-five years of the Charter by analyzing landmark rulings handed down from appellate courts and the Supreme Court.The contributors consider the ...

Countries that now contemplate constitutional reform often grapple with the question of whether to constitutionalise social rights. This book presents an argument for why, under the right conditions, doing so can be a good way to advance social justice. In making such a case, the author considers the nature of the social minimum, the role of courts among other institutions, the empirical record of judicial impact, and the role of constitutional text. He argues, however, that when enforcing...