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This book explores the state of the nation's federal judicial selection system-a process beset by deepening partisan polarization, obstructionism, and deterioration of the practice of advice and consent.

Arguing that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults (friends, acquaintances, and strangers), Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present.

Based on the responses of 366 law students at the University of Pennsylvania, Guinier argues that the existing program of classroom instruction based upon the Socratic method, and the use of standardized texts, serves neither the needs of current students nor the legal profession.

Drawing from a wide range of material and socio-legal methods, this collection brings together original essays that investigate emerging patterns in the shape and form of the legal regulation of domestic relations.

In this coverage of the Eichmann Trial, Harry Mulisch offers a portrayal of the process, of the man, and of the implications of the efficiency of evil.

This book looks at the political role of the Council of Europe, how it operates and the contribution that it makes. The author examines all that is specific to the Council within the European architecture, particularly vis-a-vis the European Union.

This book demonstrates that courts have used an expanding power of judicial review to invalidate citizen-enacted laws at remarkably high rates. The resulting conflict between the people and the courts raises profound questions about the proper scope of popular sovereignty and judicial power in a constitutional system.

In this volume, the author elaborates a particular version of economic justice rooted in the natural law tradition. He examines a range of case studies related to ownership, production, distribution, and consumption, using natural law theory as a basis for staking positions on a number of contested issues related to economic life.

The rights of students, parents, and school employees are governed by constitutional provisions and by federal, state, and local statutes. The authors analyze these legal issues from several points of view, explaining how the laws are interpreted in education-related cases.

This book aims to provide an answer to the urgent requirement for legal certainty, security and justice in e-consumer contracts. It is primarily concerned with existing approaches to jurisdiction and choice of law issues in e-consumer contracts in the European Community and England, but some typical approaches in other jurisdictions are also examined.