From the publisher. In What's Law Got to Do With It?, the nation's top legal scholars and political scientists examine to what extent the law actually shapes how judges behave and make decisions, and what it means for society at large. Although there is a growing consensus among…
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The Tokyo Trial and war crimes in Asia
by Mei, Ruao, Ni, Zhengyu, Wang, Tieya, Mei, Xiaokan
Présentation de l'éditeur : "The book offers contributions to a philosophical and realistic approach to the place of adjudication in contemporary constitutional democracies. Bringing together scholars from different legal and philosophical backgrounds, the book purports to cast …
Introduction /Pierluigi Chiassoni, Bojan Spaić --The roles of judges in democracies : a realistic view /Brian Leiter --Is realism at odds with constitutional democracy? /Pierluigi Chiassoni --On the (un)changing judge icons and their creators : on Deborah, Coke and Montesquieu, …
"The book offers contributions to a philosophical and realistic approach to the place of adjudication in contemporary constitutional democracies. Bringing together scholars from different legal and philosophical backgrounds, the book purports to cast light on the role(s) of judg…
Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's …
A detailed look at the Rehnquist Court's key figures, rulings, and major changes to U.S. constitutional law. A pawn in the changing landscapes of the last four presidencies, the Rehnquist Court has become a battleground for intense partisan politics. As the nation hung in consti…
