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A comprehensive explanation of the English legal system, written for A-level and undergraduate students, but also designed to be accessible to the general reader. The ninth edition of this annually revised textbook includes coverage of changes to the tribunal system and the crea…
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The origins of uncontested adjudication -- Uncontested proceedings on federal dockets in the early Republic -- Probate and domestic relations proceedings -- The nineteenth-century perspective on federal judicial power -- The judicial response to the administrative state -- The p…
"For students of the federal judiciary, the Supreme Court's encounter with the adverse-party requirement in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) case, United States v. Windsor, was disappointing. The Court has rather dogmatically insisted that federal courts can hear only "definit…
As it interprets the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court defines the rights of individuals and referees disputes between the branches of government. For many years, the Court has limited access to those claimants who satisfy a shifting and sometimes amorphous case-or-controvers…
In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Court, when the Constitution was drafted, some 60 years earlier, its authors would not have intended that 'a subordinate and inferior cl…
