New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Second Edition. Paperback. With a new foreword by Harry H. Wellington. This classic book on the role of the United States Supreme Court traces the history of the Court, assessing the merits of various decisions along the way. Alexander Bickel begins with Marbury... More about The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law The specialized vocabularies of lawyers, ethicists, and political scientists obscure the roots of many real disagreements. In this book, the distinguished American international lawyer Alfred Rubin provides a penetrating account of where these roots... More about Ethics and Authority in International Law
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. The Association for Asian Studies Monograph No. 42. Frank Reynolds, Anthony Wu, Ronald Inden, Editors. More about Crime and Criminality in British India
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. More about The Color-Blind Constitution
New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Some of the material in this books first appeared in different form in "Gideon's Trumpet" also by Anthony Lewis. More about The Supreme Court and How it Works
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. More about The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Paperback. An Anvil Original # 97. More about A Basic History of the U.S. Supreme Court
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Almost every country today contains adherents of different religions and different secular conceptions of the good life. Is there any alternative to a power struggle among them, leading most probably to either civil war or repression? The argument of this book is that... More about Justice as Impartiality (A Treatise on Social Justice Volume II
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. More about Law and Order in Sung China
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Asian Studies at Hawaii, No. 33. More about Law and the State in Traditional East Asia: Six Studies on the Sources of East Asian Law
Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. Softcover. More about Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. First Trade Paperback Edition. Eighth Printing. Paperback. Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all... More about Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Washington D.C. United States Government Printing Office, 1978. Revised Edition. Softcover. # M-7 Issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service as a textbook and study aid for those seeking to obtain U.S. citizenship. More about Federal Textbook on Citizenship: Our Constitution and Government
New York: Bloomberg Press, 2009. Second Edition. First Printing. Softcover. An indispensable survival guide for anyone in the media industry and the lawyers who serve them Especially now, in an age of instant global access through digital media, it is vitally important that journalists, authors and publishers, as well... More about International Libel and Privacy Handbook: A Global Reference for Journalists, Publishers,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. First paperback edition. Paperback. More about Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar
New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Heavy book; please note additional shipping charges. More about The Oxford Companion to Law
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Paperback/Softcover. More about War & Self-Defense
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. More about Game Theory and the Law
Hong Kong University Press, 2002. Hardcover. First edition. More about Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China
New York: International Publishers Co., Inc., 1972. Third Printing of 1939 Ediiton. Paperback. New World Paperbacks book no. NW-21. More about Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science (Anti-Dühring
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: A Spectrum Book/Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967. Bennett Robinson (book design). First Printing. Paperback. At the center of the French Revolution stood an enigmatic lawyer from Arras who seemed to some a doctrinaire fanatic dedicated to the cult of the guillotine; to others an incorruptible man of the... More about Great Lives Observed: Robespierre
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. In this book, [the author] traces the myriad ways in which interpretive perspectives have come to prominence in modem political philosophy. Focusing on the work of John Rawls, Michael Walzer, Ronald Dworkin, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Jurgen Habermas, Warnke finds an increasing... More about Justice and Interpretation
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Interpretation of the law is based on assumptions about the nature of texts, language, and the act of interpretation itself. These fourteen new essays trace the origin of these assumptions, examine their philosophical implications, and extend legal interpretation in new and... More about Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory and Practice
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. More about Justice Downwind: America's Atomic Testing Program in the 1950s
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Fifth Edition. Paperback. This is the fifth edition of this textbook on public international law. The material has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of developments since 1990, and a new chapter on international environmental protection has been added. The book retains all its... More about Principles of Public International Law (Fifth Edition
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