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Jesse Choper’s powerful Judicial Review and the National Political Process available as an eBook
As constitutional scholar John Nowak noted when this classic book was first published, “Professor Choper’s Judicial Review and the National Political Process is mandatory reading for anyone seriously attempting to study our constitutional system of government. It is an important assessment of the democratic process and the theoretical and practical role of the Supreme Court.” That view is no less true today, as borne out by the countless citations to this landmark work over the decades. It is simply part of the foundational canon of constitutional law and political theory, an essential part of the library of scholars, students, and educated readers interested in considering the hard choices inherent in…
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Simon Roberts’ acclaimed legal anthropology Order and Dispute: now in Second Edition
A classic resource in the modern study of the anthropology of law, the much-cited and rare book is now widely available again. There are many societies that survive in a remarkably orderly fashion without the help of judges, courts and police. Roberts contends, however, that legal theory has become too closely identified with our own arrangements in western societies to help much in cross-cultural studies of order. Now in an updated edition, in paperback and eBook formats.
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Revolutionary, classic book Cybernetics: now in quality eBook, hardcover, and paperback editions
CYBERNETICS is on virtually everyone’s short list of the most important and influential nonfiction books of the last century. First published by MIT math professor Norbert Wiener in 1948, and later expanded in its Second Edition in 1961, this groundbreaking account of systems, thought processes, AI, and the use of “feedback” foreshadowed intelligent and replicating machines, complex organizational organisms, and the physiology and failure of the human nervous system. No small wonder this book has been widely read by scientists and lay readers alike, to understand the origins and future of computers, wider communication pathways, the use of feedback to refine actions and thought processes, and the logic and math…
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4th edition of Jerome Skolnick’s Classic Justice Without Trial Explores Policing and Democratic Values from Inside
Available in multiple ebook formats and paperback: the acclaimed and foundational study of police culture and practice, political accountability, application of and obedience to the rule of law in stops and arrests, and the dilemma of law versus order in free societies -- by the renowned sociologist using innovative and influential research techniques in law and criminology. New preface by the author and Foreword by Candace McCoy.
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Stuart Scheingold’s Pathbreaking Study of European Integration by Law is a Digitally Remastered Book™
In the early days of what would become the European Union, the new entity had a weak and ill-defined legislature and executive. And the European Court of Justice, whose decisions, actions, and even inactions subtly paved the way to a continent's integration. "Scheingold showed that its efforts, deftly melding law and politics, were a success beyond mere dispute-resolution and development of legal doctrine," states the new introduction to this classic study. "He was well aware that he was present at the creation of a powerful new institution. Yet he stood virtually alone in seeing what such an institution, using its power this way, could realize in terms of political integration.…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Special Symposium: The Gideon Effect, 50 Years Later (Issue 8, June 2013)
This final issue of The Yale Law Journal‘s Volume 122 features “Symposium: The Gideon Effect: Rights, Justice, and Lawyers Fifty Years After Gideon v. Wainwright.“ The year 2013 marks the golden anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which established a constitutional right to counsel for criminal defendants. A half century later, there remains a compelling need to reexamine its legacy, extensions, shortfalls, and long shadow over other areas of law such as immigration and custody disputes. This special Symposium issue is, in effect, a new and extensive book on this important subject, featuring contributions by internationally recognized legal and political scholars. It is…
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Harry Scheiber’s classic study of Wilson and civil liberties is back in print … and in eBooks
The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties, 1917-1921, is a Digitally Remastered™ reprint of one of the classic works of legal and social history. Harry Scheiber’s much-cited study of Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet explores the suppression of speech and print publication during an era of world war, the Red Scare, anti-foreign fervor, and unionism. Wilson’s notable achievements in social leadership and the progressive movement are questioned in light of his failure to protect civil liberties amidst the tide of war fever, nationalism, racism, and a protection of corporate interests. Worse, his own administration, through the Justice Department and the Postmaster General, took ruthless and often spurious actions to repress liberties,…
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University of Chicago Law Review‘s 2nd issue of 2013: conflicting property schemes, scrutiny tiers & constitutional theory, federalism, elections & reapportionment, and advisory opinions to the courts
The University of Chicago Law Review‘s new issue features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars. Contents include: • Article, “Property Lost in Translation,” by Abraham Bell & Gideon Parchomovsky • Article, “Tiers of Scrutiny in Enumerated Powers Jurisprudence,” by Aziz Z. Huq • Article, “State and Federal Models of the Interaction between Statutes and Unwritten Law,” by Caleb Nelson • Article, “Our Electoral Exceptionalism,” by Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos • Essay, “Reverse Advisory Opinions,” by Neal Devins & Saikrishna B. Prakash • Review Essay, “The Inescapability of Constitutional Theory,” by Erwin Chemerinsky (reviewing a new book by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III) • Comment, “Amongst the ‘Waives’:…
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Harvard Law Review‘s June 2013 Issue Covers Racial Capitalism, Shallow Signals, Heirs, and Civil Rights Lawyers
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents and URLs, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 8 include: • Article, “Racial Capitalism,” by Nancy Leong • Essay, “Shallow Signals,” by Bert I. Huang • Book Review, “All Unhappy Families: Tales of Old Age, Rational Actors, and the Disordered Life,” by Ariela R. Dubler • Book Review, “Lawyers, Law, and the New Civil Rights History,” by Risa Goluboff • Note, “Recasting the U.S. International Trade Commission’s Role in the Patent System” • Note, “Juvenile Miranda Waiver and Parental Rights” • Note, “The Province of the Jurist: Judicial Resistance to Expert Testimony on Eyewitnesses…
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John Logue’s 3 Ballantine Murder Mysteries are now QP eBooks
Classic mystery writer John Logue has contributed some of his most acclaimed fiction to the growing eBook library of QP fiction. Now available are three suspense novels set in the world of high-stakes sports. Originally published by Crown Publishing and Ballantine Books of Random House, these books formed part of the Morris & Sullivan Mystery series. The first in the series, Follow the Leader, was a finalist in the Edgar Awards for best first novel. These books are fun, and presented digitally with active Table of Contents. FOLLOW THE LEADER. ISBN 978-1-61027-190-5 (eBook) Missing at his tee time at the U.S. Open outside Atlanta is the latest leader of America’s…
