| User's Guide to the Bluebook
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| An Introduction To Statutory Interpretation and the Legislative Process (Introduction to Law Series)
| In an easy-to-read colloquial style, Mikva and Lane lead students to the understanding they need for succes in substantive courses with a heavy statutory emphasis: The Interpretation of Statutes - Beginning whre students do, by reading interpretive cases, the authors demonstrate that statutory interpretation is not simply the search for legislative meaning or intent, but also the exercise of power by a separate branch of government. Organized around two types of cases, those where the statutory...More
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| Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (Concepts and Insights Series)
| Suitable for students or practitioners, this authoritative overview of the legislative process and statutory interpretation moves smoothly and understandably between the theoretical and the practical. You'll find in-depth discussion of such topics as theories of legislation and representation, electoral and legislative structures, extrinsic sources for statutory interpretation, and substantive canons of statutory interpretation. Reap the benefits of the authors' experience, opinions, and insight...More
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| The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
| The Supreme Court has been the site of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to busing and abortion. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions offers lively and insightful accounts of over four hundred of the most important cases ever argued before the Court, from Marbury v. Madison and Scott v. Sandford (the Dred Scott decision) to Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. Here are the landmark decisions that have shaped Ameri...More
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| What's The Verdict?: You're the Judge in 90 Tricky Courtroom Quizzes
| Ninety intriguing cases, from malpractice to murder, dare you to figure out what the courts decided on each one. You're given the facts of each case and, if necessary, the rules of law that apply. Then, even if you're right, you'll need to rule on the appeal! 128 pages, 90 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4. ...More
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| Statutory Interpretation: The Search for Legislative Intent
| Statute reading can prompt more questions than answers largely because statutes often suffer from ambiguities, inconsistencies, or complete gaps in meaning. Statutory Interpretation: The Search for Legislative Intent is the first book to provide judges, lawyers, and law students with a handy source to find the proper methods and tools of statutory interpretation. This concise 4-x-6-inch pocket book is designed to be read through with a particular statute in mind while considering how differe...More
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| Legislation: Statutory Interpretation: 20 Questions (Turning Point (Foundation Press))
| The publication is an overview of the field of statutory interpretation.
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| Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint
| This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed work...More
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| Materials on Legislation: Political Language and the Political Process (University Casebook Series)
| This authoritative discussion of legislation and the political process covers the subject in depth, from legislative history to interpretation; text and context; compromise; and legislative action and inaction after passage of legislation. Expert commentary, case studies, case notes, and examples explain points under consideration. Thought-provoking questions hone students' legal reasoning and help ensure comprehension.
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| Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy, 3rd Ed. (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)
| Contains an introduction to legislation; descriptive and normative theories of legislation, including procedural theories of legislation, pluralism and interest groups, and institutional theories of legislation; Title VII: interpretive issues and political theories, the Supreme Court's decision in Griggs, affirmative action United States Steelworkers of America v. Weber and Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County; legislative drafting; representational structure...More
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| Derecho constitucional de Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico: Documentos--jurisprudencia--anotaciones--preguntas
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| Narrative, Violence, and the Law: The Essays of Robert Cover (Law, Meaning, and Violence Series)
| "Bob Cover was and remains the dominant voice of his generation among legal scholars. These essays, each one magnificent in itself, are, when taken together, even more important. The wisdom they impart is forever." --Guido Calabresi, Dean and Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University"Robert Cover drew his sources for the authority of law--for its violence, but also for its paideic potential--from the structuring stories that spark our communal imaginations. Literally until the day of his untime...More
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| Guide to Statutory Interpretation (Student Guide Series)
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| A Common Law for the Age of Statutes (O.W.Holmes Lecture)
| The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial-legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.
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| Jane's pocket book of airships
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| Citing & typing the law: A guide to legal citation & style
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| Debaters and dynamiters: The story of the Haywood trial, (Oregon State monographs: Studies in history)
| Travel with Martin Stadius as he searches for answers to a saga that begins on the shores of Oregon's beautiful Wallowa Lake and ends in the barren, wind-swept hills at Bears Paw, Montana. Stadius tells the story of the Nez Perce people-the Nee-Me-Poo. In 1877, the Dreamer (non-Christian) faction of the tribe, under pressure from land-hungry whites to move to a reservation, fled their homeland in eastern Oregon and central Idaho. During the next four months, the Nee-Mee-Poo led pursuing troops o...More
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| A Sure Path: Moving Ahead with Christ When We'd Rather Settle Down in the World
| An exceptional and compelling map to the rewards and excitement of exploring the unknown with God.
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| The Constitution and the Attorneys General
| Since the beginning of the Republic, the President's chief advisor in the interpretation of the Constitution has been the Attorney General. The opinions of the Attorneys General on constitutional topics are official statements of the executive branch's views, and in many circumstances where a constitutional question cannot come before a court, their opinions provide the final answer. This book offers the most important constitutional opinions of the Attorneys General and the Department of Ju...More
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| The Liber Augustalis or Constitutions of Melfi Promulgated By the Emperor Frederick II for the Kingdom of Sicily in 1231
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