Toward A North American Legal System
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Toward A North American Legal System
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Author : J. McHugh
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-31
Toward A North American Legal System written by J. McHugh and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Political Science categories.
Toward a North American Legal System is a collection of scholarship that looks at a timely issue in public policy. Two decades after NAFTA, the team assembled by James T. McHugh works through both philosophical and practical questions related to a possibly more integrated legal system on the North American continent.
Toward A North American Legal System
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Author : J. McHugh
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-31
Toward A North American Legal System written by J. McHugh and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Political Science categories.
Toward a North American Legal System is a collection of scholarship that looks at a timely issue in public policy. Two decades after NAFTA, the team assembled by James T. McHugh works through both philosophical and practical questions related to a possibly more integrated legal system on the North American continent.
A History Of American Law Third Edition
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Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-06-01
A History Of American Law Third Edition written by Lawrence M. Friedman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-01 with Law categories.
In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices, and attitudes toward property, government, crime, and justice. Now completely revised and updated, this groundbreaking work incorporates new material regarding slavery, criminal justice, and twentieth-century law. For laymen and students alike, this remains the only comprehensive authoritative history of American law.
Law And Society In Transition
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Author : Philippe Nonet
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-12
Law And Society In Transition written by Philippe Nonet and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with Law categories.
Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social, political, and economic life, generating both praise and blame. Nonet and Selznick's Law and Society in Transition explains in accessible language the primary forms of law as a social, political, and normative phenomenon. They illustrate with great clarity the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled with raw conflict and the accommodation of special interests, and responsive law, the reasoned effort to realize an ideal of polity. To make jurisprudence relevant, legal, political, and social theory must be reintegrated. As a step in this direction, Nonet and Selznick attempt to recast jurisprudential issues in a social science perspective. They construct a valuable framework for analyzing and assessing the worth of alternative modes of legal ordering. The volume's most enduring contribution is the authors' typology-repressive, autonomous, and responsive law. This typology of law is original and especially useful because it incorporates both political and jurisprudential aspects of law and speaks directly to contemporary struggles over the proper place of law in democratic governance. In his new introduction, Robert A. Kagan recasts this classic text for the contemporary world. He sees a world of responsive law in which legal institutions-courts, regulatory agencies, alternative dispute resolution bodies, police departments-are periodically studied and redesigned to improve their ability to fulfill public expectations. Schools, business corporations, and governmental bureaucracies are more fully pervaded by legal values. Law and Society in Transition describes ways in which law changes and develops. It is an inspiring vision of a politically responsive form of governance, of special interest to those in sociology, law, philosophy, and politics.
The Lawyer Judge Bias In The American Legal System
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Author : Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law Benjamin H Barton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
The Lawyer Judge Bias In The American Legal System written by Helen and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law Benjamin H Barton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with LAW categories.
Explores the far-reaching effects on American law of bias amongst lawyers and judges towards the legal profession in their decision-making.
American Judicial Process
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Author : Pamela C. Corley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
American Judicial Process written by Pamela C. Corley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Courts categories.
This text is a general introduction to American judicial process. The authors cover the major institutions, actors, and processes that comprise the U.S. legal system, viewed from a political science perspective. Specifically, they discuss each component of the judicial process in terms of justice. How do the structure and processes of American law and courts further or inhibit justice? Could justice be better served by changes to existing practices? Toward that end, the authors take an innovative approach to the topic. Grounding their presentation in empirical social science terms, they incorporate three unique elements of a "myth vs reality" framework into each of the topical chapters on the major structures of the American legal process: 1) "Pop culture" boxes that provide students with popular examples from film, television, and music that tie-in to chapter topics and engage student interest 2) brief excerpts from scholarly research on each topic in order to demonstrate how social science answers the pressing questions under consideration 3) "How Do We Know?" boxes at the end of each chapter that discuss the methods of social scientific inquiry and debunk common myths about the judiciary and legal system. Unlike other textbooks, American Judicial Process emphasizes how pop culture portrays—and often distorts—the judicial process and how social science research is brought to bear to provide an accurate picture of law and courts. The key take-away is that judges are political actors situated in a separation of powers system. In addition, a rich companion website will include PowerPoint lectures, an instructor’s manual, and a test bank of objective questions for use by instructors. Students will have access to relevant weblinks, key objectives from each chapter, flash cards of key terms, and practice quizzes.
A History Of American Law Revised Edition
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Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-06-15
A History Of American Law Revised Edition written by Lawrence M. Friedman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Law categories.
A History of American Law has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice. Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay.
A History Of American Law
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Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-08-01
A History Of American Law written by Lawrence M. Friedman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-01 with categories.
Why Lawyers Derail Justice
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Author : John C. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-11
Why Lawyers Derail Justice written by John C. Anderson and has been published by Penn State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-11 with Political Science categories.
The "rule of law" has become a shibboleth of American democracy, but the emphasis on procedural and abstract rather than substantive justice that is embedded both in the workings of our judicial system and in the writings of our leading philosophers of law, John Anderson argues, has led to much real injustice. This book draws inspiration from Aristotle's notion of "natural justice" found in communities based on ties of friendship to point the way toward a more humane practice of law. Starting with concrete examples of injustice produced in our legal system, the author examines the distorting effects of legal argumentation and strategy on affirmative action, overzealous prosecutions, abusive enforcement of the tax code, sexual harassment litigation, and many other issues troubling our society. The jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin, with his notion of a "community of principle," is identified as best articulating the justification for our current system and is subjected to a thorough critique from an Aristotelian perspective. Kant's "kingdom of ends" is located at the root of rights-based notions of justice and is also argued to be inadequate because it lacks the flexibility allowed by the classical understanding of epieikeia (equity). What issues from this investigation of the faults of our present legal regime is a set of proposals for reform that include abolition of the legal profession and term limits for judges as well as politicians.
Social Justice Criminal Justice
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Author : Cyndy Caravelis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-14
Social Justice Criminal Justice written by Cyndy Caravelis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-14 with Law categories.
Social Justice, Criminal Justice is a thought-provoking examination of the U.S. legal system, focusing on how criminal justice and social justice are related. The book provides a solid foundation of key philosophical and theoretical issues and goes on to examine the function of the law as it relates to social justice issues. The authors present and explain the foundational legal documents of the United States, and critically examine how those same documents, which espoused the rhetoric of equality for all, contribute toward the perpetuation and maintenance of a system of exclusion for groups with minority status, such as racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, women, and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community. Succinct but comprehensive, this text offers a careful examination of possible relationships between social justice theory and criminal justice practice and illuminates the role that the legal system has played in both preventing and assisting social change and power dynamics. For each identified group, important landmark court decisions are used to demonstrate the plight of the powerless and the quest for equal rights. The book provides an important perspective and understanding of the relationships among criminal justice, social justice, and the law. Suitable for undergraduate and early graduate courses in Social Justice, Justice Studies, Critical Issues, Ethics, and American Government and Law, this text provides easily digestible content for those interested in thinking critically about the U.S. legal system.