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Constitutional Conflicts eBook Series

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  • Beyond Repair?

    America's Death Penalty

    by Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, Samuel R. Gross, Phoebe C. Ellsworth ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Can the death penalty be administered in a just way—without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists explore in Beyond Repair? All new, the essays in this collection focus on the period since 1976, when ... Read more

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  • Making Our Democracy Work

    A Judge's View

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly ... Read more

    PHP426.09

  • American Original

    The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justiceIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice ... Read more

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  • Debating The Death Penalty : Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    by Hugo Adam Bedau;Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Read more

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  • A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

    The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

    by Evan J. Mandery ...
    New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceDrawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history.For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an ... Read more

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  • Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court

    A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights

    by Rolando V. del Carmen, Craig Hemmens ...
    In any episode of the popular television show Law and Order, questions of police procedure in collecting evidence often arise. Was a search legal? Was the evidence obtained lawfully? Did the police follow the rules in pursuing their case? While the show depicts fictional cases and scenarios, police procedure with regard to search and seizure is a real and significant issue in the criminal justice ... Read more

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  • Death Penalty Cases

    Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment

    by Barry Latzer ...
    Death Penalty Cases presents significant verbatim excerpts of death-penalty decisions from the United States Supreme Court. The first chapter introduces the topics discussed throughout the book. It also includes a detailed history of the death penalty in the United States. After this introduction, the remaining eighteen chapters are divided into five parts: Foundational Cases, Death-Eligible ... Read more

    PHP1,876.39

  • Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual

    by John Boston, Daniel E Manville ...
    Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights. Clear, comprehensive, practical advice provides prisoners with everything they need to know on conditions of confinement, civil liberties in prison, procedural ... Read more

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  • Debating the Death Penalty

    Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case

    Edited by Hugo Adam Bedau, Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Read more

    PHP715.09

  • Supreme Court Decisions

    Edited by Richard Beeman ...
    Series series Penguin Civic Classics
    A selection of the landmark Supreme Court decisions that have shaped American societyPenguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life, including the founding ... Read more

    PHP304.09

  • Constitutional Fate

    Theory of the Constitution

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day. ... Read more

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  • Race, Crime, and the Law

    by Randall Kennedy ...
    **An "admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race" (The Washington Post) takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before."This book should be a standard for all law students."—Boston Globe**In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to ... Read more

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