Offers a comprehensive overview of landmark Supreme Court rulings in the years since "Roe v. Wade", discussing each case's background and their impact on American law and society.
"Great cases like hard cases make bad law," declared Justice Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr. in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities antitrust case of 1904. His maxim argues that those cases which ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of their nationa…
Der Zusammenhang von sexueller und kriegerischer Gewalt und ihre gegenseitige Beeinflussung bilden ein Forschungsfeld, das erst in Umrissen abgesteckt ist und dessen Erschließung noch in den Anfängen steht. Um so größere Bedeutung kommt dem Buch von Birgit Beck zu. Sie untersuch…
This Palgrave Pivot is the first book in the field of Law & Economics looking at the relationship between economics and law in legal reasoning. The book constitutes a reference point for the economic analysis of legal institutions, as legal reasoning remains the dimension of leg…
"In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself,…
"In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself,…