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The True Stella Awards
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 13.00Gathered from the popular website www.StellaAwards.com, The True Stella Awards is an outrageous collection of America?s most frivolous lawsuits Named for Stella Liebeck, the woman who won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit after spilling hot McDonald?s coffee on herself, humorist Randy Cassingham?s popular website chronicles the hard-to-believe and... more...
Guide to the Supreme Court
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2004; US$ 454.25No other reference on the U.S. Supreme Court offers so much detail and insight in so readable a format. Now revised and updated through 2003, this classic reference explains everything readers need to know about the Supreme Court, from its origins and how it functions, to the people who have shaped it and the impact of its decisions on American life. more...
Culture under Cross-Examination
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 101.00An examination of the challenges posed by the largely unfamiliar culture in which the Special Court for Sierra Leone operates. more...
The Rules of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
BRILL 2006; US$ 232.00Together with the Statute of the Tribunal (Annex VI to the Convention), the Rules of the Tribunal, adopted on 28 October 1997, govern the functioning of the Tribunal and the proceedings before it. This commentary aims to give to legal practitioners and academics a detailed analysis of the provisions contained in the Rules. more...
General Principles of Law in the Decisions of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
BRILL 2008; US$ 132.00International lawyers usually disregard the vital functions that general principles of law may play in the decisions of international courts and tribunals. This volume examines the role that general principles of law have played in the decisions of international criminal courts and tribunals. more...
Supreme Court and the Powers of American Government
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2009; US$ 56.35This updated edition examines the impact of significant Supreme Court decisions on the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. government, under the U.S.Constitutions concept of Separation of Powers, as enumerated in Articles I III. more...
The British Immigration Courts
The Policy Press 1999; US$ 35.00Immigration has been a controversial and contentious area of public policy since the Commonwealth Immigration Act ended most primary immigration in 1962. This study looks in detail at the work of practioners in the court-system that hears appeals from immigrants and asylum seekers against decisions made by the British Government. more...
Studies in Law, Politics and Society
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 114.95Trials are well known as paradigmatic legal events. Some attract wide attention; others mostly escape notice. Indeed in the United States trials have recently become rare, with some scholars bemoaning the death of the trial. This issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains, along with two general interest articles, a symposium... more...
Judicial Accountabilities in New Europe
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 124.95Filling the gap in European scholarship between the two policy sectors of enlargement and judicial cooperation, taking an innovative approach towards the analysis of judicial policies and the guarantees of judicial independence, this exciting new volume presents an insightful account of the judicial reforms adopted by new member States and of the guidelines... more...
About Guilt and Innocence
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 139.00This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law. Dripps asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment's more general standards of due process and equal protection encompass the values that ought to govern the criminal process.||Why... more...









