Law

Unique and well-researched, this study concentrates on the right to keep and bear arms and analyzes the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment. Examining the history of the recognition of the right of freedmen to keep and bear...

This is a brilliant and provocative work, and Robert L. Lattimer has captured the essence of our current time for constructive protest based on our nation's principles of liberty, freedom, opportunity, and achievement for all Americans, that the promise...

"A moving and beautifully crafted memoir."--SCOTT TUROW "A daring act of justified defiance."--SHAKA SENGHOR "Nothing less than heroic."--JOHN GRISHAM He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now a...

This multidisciplinary volume considers the role of both public health and mental health policies and practices in the prevention of mass atrocity, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The authors address atrocity prevention...

There has recently been a sharp increase in cases where corporations have been sued by street and graffiti artists because their artworks had been used and exploited without the artists' authorisation, for example in advertising campaigns, as backdrops...

In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished. "Intimate, raw, and utterly...

A recent true story that happened in Hawaii, the 50th state of this nation. Author was sued for legal malpractice. The trial judge who was married to one of author's ultimate legal opponents failed to disclose her conflict and be recused. An influential...

In Preemption one of our nation's foremost legal scholars puts forward a controversial new theory on crime and punishment in the postmodern world. Using the American government's 2003 invasion of Iraq as a starting point, Alan M. Dershowitz tracks our...

Plexiglass pays homage to the millions of adults and children affected by mass incarceration in "the land of the free." Through this collection of interrelated poems, some of which speak the words of men and women sequestered from view in jails and...

Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the...

This series of essays address the ongoing debate centered on how patriotism is defined and who is a patriot. True patriotism is much broader than how it has been traditionally described in American society. There is a spirit of opposition within the...

Ohio Eviction and Landlord-Tenant Law (5th ed.) is a practitioner's manual. It is a manual principally for attorneys (and advocates) who represent or counsel tenants or landlords, and for judges and magistrates who hear eviction actions or other...