Product Description: This Third Edition of Opinion Writing breaks new ground for all writers of trial and appellate opinions--trial and appellate judges, administrative law judges, arbitrators, as well as current and aspiring law clerks.The differences between this edition of Opinion Writing and its predecessors are fundamental...read more

Product Description: In his twenty terms as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Thomas has written nearly 450 opinions. Although they are readily available to the American people, much of the public continues to base its view of Thomas merely on reporting of the media...read more

Product Description: In his years as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has written hundreds of opinions. Despite the availability of Thomas's eloquent and thoughtful words for Americans to examine, much of the public still bases its opinion of Thomas on the words of the American media...read more

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Product Description: in the professional world as a starting point for collaboration; rather than leaving decisions to just one person, dissent offers the opportunity to rethink or reinvent an idea, leading, one hopes, to a better result. When dissensus occurs in a federal court, however, it raises the question of whether this difference of opinion maintains the integrity of the judiciary or undermines its legitimacy...read more

Product Description: Reviews existing methods, styles, rules and techniques described in numerous books and articles. Forms and structure outlines serve as a guide to the judicial writer.This edition has been expanded to include a section on Judge's Views, which contains comments and ideas from many prominent judges, as well as a section dealing with the criticism of judges which has become more prominent in today's society...read more

Product Description: The Fifth Edition has been thoroughly updated, incorporating throughout material on opinions issued by the Supreme Court since the last edition.  It also includes:  a substantial revision of Chapter 4 — “The Legal Materials Used in Building a Constitutional Opinion” — to make major points clearer to students; a modification of Chapter 7 — “Strategies of Justification” — to make it more accessible; a sample brief in Chapter 8 to illustrate writing a brief; a new feature — “Practical Pointers” — following the first seven chapters and designed to help students use constitutional materials in making legal arguments; additional coverage of issues related to terrorism...read more

Product Description: The Keeper of the Flame is an examination and analysis of Justice Clarence Thomas's majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions, showing extensively, in his own words, what he understands to be the appropriate role of a Supreme Court justice.

Collecting the writing of the Supreme Court's most outspoken and controversial justice, the author presents speeches, rulings, and opinions that reveal Scalia's wit and intelligence both on the bench and off.

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In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psychologists to put American constitutional law into an American cultural context. By close readings of key Supreme Court opinions, they show how storytelling tactics and deeply rooted mythic structures shape the Court's decisions about race, family law, and the death penalty. Minding the Law explores crucial psychological processes involved in the work of lawyers and judges: deciding whether particular cases fit within a legal rule ("categorizing"), telling stories to justify one's claims or undercut those of an adversary ("narrative"), and tailoring one's language to be persuasive without appearing partisan ("rhetorics"). Because these processes are not unique to the law, courts' decisions cannot rest solely upon legal logic but must also depend vitally upon the underlying culture's storehouse of familiar tales of heroes and villains. But a culture's stock of stories is not changeless. Amsterdam and Bruner argue that culture itself is a dialectic constantly in progress, a conflict between the established canon and newly imagined "possible worlds." They illustrate the swings of this dialectic by a masterly analysis of the Supreme Court's race-discrimination decisions during the past century. A passionate plea for heightened consciousness about the way law is practiced and made, Minding the Law will be welcomed by a new generation concerned with renewing law's commitment to a humane justice. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Reprint of the first and only edition. Originally published: New York: Ad Press Ltd., [1938]. xvii, 441 pp. Frontispiece. Foreword by Robert F. Wagner. Edited by A.L. Sainer. A collection of notable opinions by the great Judge in the areas of civil rights, crime, contractual relations, injuries, estates, labor and social matters, and international relations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reviews existing methods, styles, rules and techniques described in numerous books and articles. Forms and structure outlines serve as a guide to the judicial writer.This edition has been expanded to include a section on Judge's Views, which contains comments and ideas from many prominent judges, as well as a section dealing with the criticism of judges which has become more prominent in today's society. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Literature of the Law brings together examples of the very best in judicial pronouncements over four centuries and two continents. Assembled into themes, such as life and death deicisions, freedom of speech and the protection of minorities, they form a fascinating summary of the law's interaction with society...read more

Product Description: A close examination of judicial positions as a literary genre.