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Traditionally judges use recognized legal maxims to support their rulings, but todays judiciary is becoming more apt to use pop culture, modern music, even humor in their decisions. This book examines how song lyrics have influenced judges, provided themes for their decisions, and helped make existing law more accessible.

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Traditionally judges use recognized legal maxims to support their rulings, but todays judiciary is becoming more apt to use pop culture, modern music, even humor in their decisions. This book examines how song lyrics have influenced judges, provided themes for their decisions, and helped make existing law more accessible.

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This book demonstrates the use of the personal computer as an integral component of legal decision making. Several important areas of decision-making are covered, including predicting the outcome of future cases in light of previous relevant cases and present facts;

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This book analyses the European Court of Justice's approach to national procedural autonomy and the conceptual framework underpinning the case law.

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Now in paperback: "New York Times" bestselling author Grace, the acclaimed victims' rights advocate, throws the book at the criminal justice system.

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This work is intended to help readers understand the many ways in which politics shapes the allegedly nonpartisan judicial system in America.

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In the public law area, there is an understanding that judicial decision making is not always objective, that the courts are not constrained by the law and the facts of the case, and that courts are actually policy makers influenced by extraneous factors that have little to do the legal and factual matters of a case.

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The story of Australia's first non-Aboriginal community legal centre, which opened in 1972 at a time when access to legal assistance was largely denied to people on low incomes, marking the beginning of a period of legal radicalism in Australia.

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The new trend in problem-solving courts-specialized courts utilized to address crimes not adequately addressed by the standard criminal justice system-is examined in this thorough and insight-filled book.

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Public Interest Law Groups focuses on a special segment of the profession, namely groups `that provide cost-free legal care to willing clients' including `legal aid and legal services groups, interest groups that litigate, and public-interest law firms.' .

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Based on author's dissertation (doctoral - University College London, 2015) issued under title: Judicial review in England and Wales: a constructive interpretation of the role of the Administrative Court.

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This book explores the legal, ethical, and policy issues arising from self-representation in America's courts and acts as a useful guide for lawyers, judges, and for self-represented litigants themselves who face the complexity of litigation alone.

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This book suggests that the common conception of law (the legislature creates the law: courts apply it) should be abandoned, offering an alternative framework building on Dworkin's interpretive theory of law.

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An examination of the reasons for the dramatic increase in interest group litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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"A new - and largely hidden - profession has emerged during the past three decades. Drawing on the techniques of modern social science, psychology, and market research, its practitioners seek to remake"

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The procedures of summary judgment as well as other preclusive devices have been hailed by many as an effective solution to the current overload facing American courts.

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John Domino examines Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammages progressive jurisprudence of rights and liberties in cases involving the rights of minors, privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of press, and equal protection during the most tumultuous period in Texas judicial history.

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Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights This book brings together a distinguished group of legal scholars and political scientists who argue that the Court's power has exceeded its appropriate bounds, and that sound republican principles require greater limits on that power.