Product Description: In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them. But many laws feature ambiguous or even contradictory wording. How, then, should judges divine their meaning? Should they stick only to the text? To what degree, if any, should they consult aids beyond the statutes themselves? Are the purposes of lawmakers in writing law relevant?Some judges, such as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, believe courts should look to the language of the statute and virtually nothing else...read more

Product Description: Focusing on the intersection of politics and law in six western European countries and in two supra-national bodies, the contributors here aim to debunk the myth that judges are merely "la bouche de la loi" and analyze similiarities in policy-making of the judiciaries from one nation to the next...read more

Working within the framework of law and politics, JUDICIAL PROCESS combines detailed information about the major structures and processes of the American judiciary with an insider's understanding of the importance of courthouse dynamics. From the organization and procedures of the various courts to the current applications of specific laws, this text explores the roles and impact of the judicial system. Throughout the text, the authors not only explain what the legal rules are but also explore each rule's underlying assumptions, history, and goals--for a complete and balanced look at the role of the judicial system today.

Product Description: This text is a general introduction to American judicial process. The authors cover the major institutions, actors, and processes that comprise the U.S. legal system, viewed from a political science perspective. Grounding their presentation in empirical social science terms, the authors identify popular myths about the structure and processes of American law and courts and then contrast those myths with what really takes place...read more

Product Description: Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured...read more

<p> For insight into the actual application of evidentiary rules in the courtroom, <b> Trial Evidence, Fourth Edition</b>, takes the point of view of the trial judge. Highly respected authors Mauet and Wolfson explore the methods, strategies, and tactics of trial evidence through an analytical approach that reveals how judges and trial lawyers think about evidentiary rules—particularly the Federal rules of Evidence. </p> <p> A terrific contribution to trial practice teaching materials, <b>Trial Evidence, Fourth Edition</b>, features: </p> <ul> <li> <b>sterling authorship</b> from two luminaries in the clinical field </li> <li> <b>complete coverage</b> of the effective use of evidence in a trial setting </li> <li> <b>an analytical structure</b> that reflects how judges and trial lawyers think about evidentiary rules, particularly the Federal Rules of Evidence </li> <li> <b>numerous examples</b> that illustrate how various evidentiary issues arise in practice, both before and during trial </li> <li> <i><b>Law and Practice</b></i><b> sections</b>, integrated throughout the book, based on actual federal and state cases </li> <li> <b>chronological organization that follows the sequence of a trial</b>—opening statement, direct examination, cross examination, closing arguments </li> <li> <b>straightforward writing style</b> and a <b>focus on practice</b>, not theory </li> <li> <b>complimentary CD-ROM with over 300 evidence problems based on actual reported cases</b> </li> </ul> <p> <b>Updated throughout, the Fourth Edition includes:</b> </p> <ul> <li> discussion of the <b>Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause</b>, and all Supreme Court cases interpreting <i>Crawford v. Washington</i> </li> <li> coverage of the <b>admissibility of electronic evidence</b>, such as email, web pages postings, and digital photographs </li> <li> <b>Amendments to FRE 404(a), 408, 606(b), and 609(a)(2)</b>, integrated throughout the text </li> <li> important <b>Supreme Court updates</b> through June 2008 </li> <li> <b>new problems</b> on the CD-ROM regarding the Confrontation Clause and electronic evidence admissibility issues </li> </ul> <p> <b>Trial Evidence, Fourth Edition</b> offers comprehensive coverage of the real-life applications of evidence at trial, helmed by two authors you trust to bring valuable insight into your classroom. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Product Description: For over 20 years, Stanley Brodsky s books have been essential guides for psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals who are called to testify as expert witnesses. In this comprehensive update to a classic text, Brodsky is joined by forensic psychiatrist Thomas Gutheil to teach expert witnesses new and improved techniques for giving effective testimony...read more

Product Description: `The author's concise and erudite exposition makes the book highly relevant to the study of liberalism and ideologies. Recommended for political scientists, economists, philosophers, and for all levels of students and faculty.' - R...read more

The incidence of cutaneous melanoma has risen considerably over the last few decades, and much attention is now paid to the early diagnosis of this tumour. As a consequence, pathologists are seeing more specimens of pigmented skin lesions. Clinically new entities, such as dysplastic naevi have been identified, and have added to the complexity of the differential diagnosis. Extracutaneous melanocytic lesions are less common but are of considerable clinical importance.

Product Description: Juliano Z. Benvindo investigates the current movement of constitutional courts towards political activism, especially by focusing on the increasing use of the balancing method as a “rational” justification for this process. From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, the book takes as examples two constitutional realities, Germany and Brazil, in order to discuss the rationality, correctness, and legitimacy of constitutional decisions within this context...read more

Product Description: In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.

Product Description: This second edition of Judicial Review: Law and Practice has been extensively rewritten to provide practitioners with a comprehensive companion to judicial review proceedings in the UK. It covers the substantive law of judicial review, including grounds of review and remedies, and it looks in detail at the practice and procedure specific to such claims...read more

Product Description: We dedicate this book to John Thibaut. He was mentor and personal friend to one of us, and his work had a profound intellectual influence on both of us. We were both strongly influenced by Thibaut's insightful articulation of the importance to psychology of the concept of pro­ cedural justice and by his empirical work with Laurens Walker in reactions to legal institu­ demonstrating the role of procedural justice tions...read more

Product Description: Constitutional review is a hot topic in contemporary constitutional debate and design. However, the legal force of judicial decisions, and in particular their effect over time, is an under-studied issue in legal literature. This is remarkable, considering the substantial impact of these decisions on the parties or the wider society (in particular, in the case of abstract review), and considering that the choice of retroactive, immediate, or future effects may have at stake legal certainty, the right to effective judicial protection, or the rule of law...read more

Product Description: In the mid-1970s, as a social psychologist dedicated to the application of knowl­ edge, I welcomed our field's emerging interest in the legal system. I have al­ ways been fascinated by jury trials-something about the idea that two con­ ceptions of the truth were in irrevocable conflict and jurors could choose only one of them...read more