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This book presents a collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases by feminist academics, lawyers and activists explaining the legal and historical context and what the feminist re-writing does differently to the original case.

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"A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee recounts how anonymous donors seized control of the U.S. Judiciary, including the Supreme Court"--

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Judges are meant to interpret laws but, increasingly, they make them.

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Written by the founder of the Federal Witness Protection Program, this riveting book is an insider's view of the controversial crime-fighting program that provides new identities for federal witnesses.

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Proposes a renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally. This title reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify fidelity as its organizing ideal. It asks what it is like - not psychologically but ethically - to practice law subject to the self-effacement that fidelity demands.

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This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law.

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America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great fills a major void in the popular literature by providing a thorough definition and historical account of judicial activism and by arguing that it is a method of prophetic adjudication which is essential to preserving American values.

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Comparing over 500 Supreme Court decisions with timely nationwide poll questions, Thomas R. Marshall shows that most Supreme Court decisions agree with poll majorities or pluralities across time and across issues and often represent Americans views to the same degree as federal policymakers.

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This powerful biography brings to life Australia's most powerful and controversial Chief Justice. An Australian classic, it is David Marr's first book.

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A valuable new reference work for students of the Spanish Empire, this dictionary presents biographies of the 172 men who served on the Council of the Indies--the supreme judicial tribunal for Spain's colonial empire--from the time of Philip V's reforms in 1717 to the French invasion in 1808.

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How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance This book uncovers the causes and consequences of judicial institution-building in the United States from the commencement of the new government in 1789 through the close of the twentieth century.

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Juries are the one place where common citizens play an important part in the governmental process. But both the jury system and the American legal system itself have been under attack.

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This study proposes a multilateralist method of choice of law in order to alleviate the great disarray that currently exists in American choice law.

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Both practicing and aspiring attorneys will find Country Lawyers illuminating reading, as will social scientists interested in the impact of context on the conduct of professional practice.

Landon begins by discussing the significance of the rural setting for the practice of law and offers a profile of the rural bar.

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Courting Publicity: Twitter and Television Cameras in Court is a new title dealing with an incredibly topical subject matter that is only likely to increase in interest in the future and lead to new legislation and case law.

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An extensive survey of the pros and cons, evolution, and current issues surrounding one of the hottest topics in today's social debates.