This introductory volume examines the relationship between same-sex legal issues, public opinion, and legislation since the late 1800s and explores...

The Risale-i Nur Collection offers general principles relating to all aspects of Islamic life, jurisprudence, and fields of knowledge. With its sou...

Book & CD-ROM. When such an issue with deep and powerful cultural resonance as firearms is given the full attention of the nation, the challeng...

Having written extensively on various aspects of the American constitutional order, Edward S Corwin is considered a leading constitutional scholar ...

Kames presents a history of law as a history of the progress of humankind from savage to civil society.

Kames presents a history of law as a history of the progress of humankind from savage to civil society.

This book is intended to provide a basic outline of the numerous steps of our federal lawmaking process from the source of an idea for a legislativ...

Book & CD-ROM. According to the National Notary Association, there are 4.8 million notaries working in the U.S. Depending upon state regulation...

Book & CD-ROM. When a loved one dies, we want to know that their final wishes were carried out as they had hoped. Being entrusted to carry out ...

Although the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States share many legal, social, and political values, they also represent different tradit...

Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he critic...

Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he critic...

The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith represents the first comprehensive Smith index ever published. For over fifteen y...

The prison population in the United States has been growing steadily for more than 30 years. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that since 20...

Why does the Global North appear to be having a crisis of political will when it comes to welcoming refugees and migrants into their countries? Is ...

Samuel Pufendorf was a pivotal figure in the early German Enlightenment and, along with Grotius, the great renewer of natural law theory. His versi...

Samuel Pufendorf was a pivotal figure in the early German Enlightenment and, along with Grotius, the great renewer of natural law theory. His versi...

A year after the publication of Dicey's LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION, William Gladstone was reading it aloud in the House of Commons, citing it as autho...

In March 1967 South Australian AttorneyGeneral Don Dunstan appointed his state's most outstanding barrister as Chief Justice. In public, Bray's app...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court on May 26, 2009. This book explores and examines selected opinions...

In the realm of jurisprudence, the issue of jurisdiction can be quite complicated. The select analyses provided in this book examine some of the my...

The present survey aims to focus on the delimitation of some definitive findings. The simple choice of terminology is charged with consequences on ...

The readings in Justice include the central philosophical statements about justice in society organized to illustrate both the political vision of ...

Author of The State, Anthony de Jasay, has been described as one of the few genuinely original minds in modern political philosophy. He breaks new ...