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This book examines how Justice John Paul Stevens served as an important defender of rights in criminal justice during his thirty-five year Supreme Court career. It examines his life experiences and judicial opinions to show how the Courts most prolific opinion author defended rights throughout an era of an increasingly conservative Court.

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This bibliography provides a guide to literature on the various careers of John Quincy Adams. He was a congressman, a diplomat and Secretary of State, and from 1825-9 he served as America's 6th President. Included are archival resources, Adams's own writings and general biographical publications.

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In this book, leading Christian political thinkers and practitioners critique the Rawlsian concepts of justice as fairness and public reason from the perspective of Christian political theory and practice. It provides a new level of analysis from Christian perspectives, including implications for such hot topics as the culture war.

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Hamburger offers this challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about religion and historical development.

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This book explores various connections of John Stuart Mills thought to ancient Greek philosophy primarily in relation to his conception of happiness. It argues that a better understanding of Mills background in ancient Greek thought and his reading(s) of Platos dialogues leads to innovative interpretations of his moral and political thought.

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At a crucial time in American history, John Tylerelected vice president on the Whig ticketbecame president upon the death of William Henry Harrison. This bibliography provides an excellent beginning for those wishing to research Tyler and this critical period in American history.

The definitive study of Tyler is yet to be written.

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This penetrating study of political leadership and state formation centers on the Cuban leader Jose Marti (1853-1895) and his relationship with Key West, Florida, the major Cuban emigre colony of the time.

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Joseph Chamberlain's political career was immense, embracing the campaign for state education, municipal reform, opposition to Irish home rule, social reform, foreign and colonial affairs, and imperial preference.

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This biography is a complete reassessment of an important American envoy to the Soviet Union in years that were critical in determining postwar East-West relations.

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This biographical companion covers Stalin's life and political career from 1879 to 1953; in particular it describes the more personal side of the man who orchestrated the Great Terror of the 1930s and constructed the Soviet monolith.

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'Judge Knot' explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development.

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'Judge Knot' explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development.

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The Judiciary and Congress not only do not communicate on their most basic concerns; they do not know how they may properly do so, writes Frank M. Coffin, a federal appeals court judge and former representative, in Judges and Legislators. The condition is that of a chronic, debilitating fever.

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Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris. By focusing on the different experience of high court judges in Aix-en-Provence, Sharon Kettering illuminates the causes of resistance to royal authority and offers a new understanding of the role of provincial officials in seventeenth-century revolts. Th

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In this collection, a cross section of judicial systems throughout the world are examined to explore these questions.

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This volume is a comprehensive comparative study of the development of systems for naming judges in two nations, over a period of three centuries. This book places in normative and historical context discussions about how best to recruit judges, and it explores shifts in priorities for judicial offices and their implications.

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Best-selling author Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people

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This book examines how humanity faces of the absence of a coherent, universal conception of justice. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the ecology.