Internationales Recht

Judging Evil

Samuel H. Pillsbury

<p>Why do killers deserve punishment? How should the law decide?<br> These are the questions Samuel H. Pillsbury seeks to answer in this important new book on the theory and practice o...

International Organizations before National Courts

August Reinisch

Intellectual Property Rights Trade and Biodiversity

Graham Dutfield

Intellectual Property Rights Trade and Biodiversity

Graham Dutfield

The Law of Affirmative Action

Girardeau A. Spann

<p>The debate over race in this country has of late converged on the contentious issue of affirmative action. Although the Supreme Court once supported the concept of racial affirmative acti...

The Passions of Law

<p><b>The Passions of Law</b> is the first anthology to treat the role that emotions play, don't play, and ought to play in the practice and conception of law and justice. Ly...

Yearbook of Private International Law

Doctrine:Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg: Marriage Dissolution in an Integrated Europe - The 1998 European Union Convention on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Matrimonia...

Yearbook of Private International Law

Doctrine:Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg: Marriage Dissolution in an Integrated Europe - The 1998 European Union Convention on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Matrimonia...

Refugee Rights and Realities

When Sorry Isn't Enough

<p><b>Leading scholars, activists, and political leaders on being victim's of the world's worst atrocities</b><br><br>"How much compensation ought to be p...

Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom

Andrew E. Taslitz

<p>Rape law reform has been a stunning failure. Defense lawyers persist in emphasizing victims' characters over defendants' behavior. Reform's goals of increasing rape report and...

In Defense of Single-Parent Families

Nancy E. Dowd

<p>Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of pow...

Changing International Law of High Seas Fisheries

Francisco Orrego Vicuna

Interracial Justice

Eric K. Yamamoto

<p>The United States in the twenty-first century will be a nation of so-called minorities. Shifts in the composition of the American populace necessitate a radical change in the ways we as a...

Trials Without Truth

William T. Pizzi

<p><b>Uncovers a major deficiency of U.S. criminal justice—a trial system that prioritizes winning over truth</b><br><br>Reginald Denny. O. J. Simpson. Colin Fergus...

Double Jeopardy

George C. Thomas, III

<p>In the first book-length book on the subject in over a quarter century, George C. Thomas III advances an integrated theory of double jeopardy law, a theory anchored in historical, doctrin...

Laying Down the Law

Pierre Schlag

<p>In the collected essays here, Schlag established himself as one of the most creative thinkers in the contemporary legal academy. To read them one after another is exhilarating; Schlag'...

The Empire Strikes Back

Arthur D. Austin

<p>Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The m...

Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights

Ellen Carol DuBois

<p><b>An essential examination of the woman suffrage movement</b><br><br>In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's ...

Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas

<p>Whether in the form of Christmas trees in town squares or prayer in school, fierce disputes over the separation of church and state have long bedeviled this country. Both decried and cele...