Search Results - Constitutional law

Lincoln's defense of politics the public man and his opponents in the crisis over slavery / by Schneider, Thomas E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Douglas : the missing constitutional basis -- Alexander H. Stephens : slavery, secession, and the higher law -- John C. …”
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Mixed legal systems, east and west /

Table of Contents: “…"As slippery as an eel"? : comparative law and polijural systems / Biagio Andò -- To hybridity and beyond : reflections on legal and normative complexity / Seán Patrick Donlan -- Mixed jurisdictions : the roads ahead / Luis Muñiz Argüelles -- Do pronouncements of the constitutional court bind erga omnes? …”
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Mixed legal systems, east and west /

Table of Contents: “…"As slippery as an eel"? : comparative law and polijural systems / Biagio Andò -- To hybridity and beyond : reflections on legal and normative complexity / Seán Patrick Donlan -- Mixed jurisdictions : the roads ahead / Luis Muñiz Argüelles -- Do pronouncements of the constitutional court bind erga omnes? …”
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The collapse of American criminal justice by Stuntz, William J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the rule of too much law -- Crime and punishment -- Two migrations -- "The wolf by the ear" -- The past -- Ideals and institutions -- The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise -- Criminal justice in the gilded age -- A culture war and its aftermath -- Constitutional law's rise, three roads not taken -- Earl Warren's errors -- The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment -- The future -- Fixing a broken system -- Epilogue: taming the wolf -- Note on sources and citation form.…”
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The collapse of American criminal justice by Stuntz, William J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the rule of too much law -- Crime and punishment -- Two migrations -- "The wolf by the ear" -- The past -- Ideals and institutions -- The Fourteenth Amendment's failed promise -- Criminal justice in the gilded age -- A culture war and its aftermath -- Constitutional law's rise, three roads not taken -- Earl Warren's errors -- The rise and fall of crime, the fall and rise of criminal punishment -- The future -- Fixing a broken system -- Epilogue: taming the wolf -- Note on sources and citation form.…”
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Justice and the social contract essays on Rawlsian political philosophy / by Freeman, Samuel Richard

Table of Contents: “…III. The law of peoples. The law of peoples, social cooperation, human rights, and distributative justice ; Distributative justice and the law of peoples.…”
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Justice and the social contract essays on Rawlsian political philosophy / by Freeman, Samuel Richard

Table of Contents: “…III. The law of peoples. The law of peoples, social cooperation, human rights, and distributative justice ; Distributative justice and the law of peoples.…”
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Measures of equality social science, citizenship, and race in Cuba, 1902-1940 / by Bronfman, Alejandra, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Unsettled and nomadic : law, anthropology, and race -- Social science and the negro brujo -- Barbarism and its discontents -- Contested histories : public memory and collective identities -- Social science, state-making, and the politics of time -- The politics of blackness on the eve of revolution -- From comparsas to constitutions.…”
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Measures of equality social science, citizenship, and race in Cuba, 1902-1940 / by Bronfman, Alejandra, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Unsettled and nomadic : law, anthropology, and race -- Social science and the negro brujo -- Barbarism and its discontents -- Contested histories : public memory and collective identities -- Social science, state-making, and the politics of time -- The politics of blackness on the eve of revolution -- From comparsas to constitutions.…”
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Illiberal justice John Rawls vs. the American political tradition / by Schaefer, David Lewis, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: John Rawls and the crisis of American liberalism -- Justice as fairness -- The second principle of justice -- "Choosing" principles of justice in the original position -- A just constitution -- Economic justice -- Civil disobedience vs. the right of resistance -- "Goodness as rationality," self-respect, and Rawlsian jurisprudence -- The sense of justice -- The just and the good -- Political liberalism I : principles -- Political liberalism II : applications -- "The idea of public reason revisited" -- The law of peoples -- Conclusion.…”
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Illiberal justice John Rawls vs. the American political tradition / by Schaefer, David Lewis, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: John Rawls and the crisis of American liberalism -- Justice as fairness -- The second principle of justice -- "Choosing" principles of justice in the original position -- A just constitution -- Economic justice -- Civil disobedience vs. the right of resistance -- "Goodness as rationality," self-respect, and Rawlsian jurisprudence -- The sense of justice -- The just and the good -- Political liberalism I : principles -- Political liberalism II : applications -- "The idea of public reason revisited" -- The law of peoples -- Conclusion.…”
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Legal aspects of economic integration in Africa by Oppong, Richard Frimpong, 1978-

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Legal aspects of economic integration in Africa by Oppong, Richard Frimpong, 1978-

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Emergencies and the limits of legality

Table of Contents: “…Rueban Balasubramaniam -- The political constitution of emergency powers : some conceptual issues / Mark Tushnet -- A topography of emergency power / Nomi Claire Lazar -- Law, terror and social movements : the repression-mobilisation nexus / Colm Campbell -- Emergency strategies for prescriptive legal positivists : anti-terrorist law and legal theory / Tom Campbell -- Ordinary laws for emergencies and democratic derogation from rights / Kent Roach -- Presidentialism and emergency government / William E. …”
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Emergencies and the limits of legality

Table of Contents: “…Rueban Balasubramaniam -- The political constitution of emergency powers : some conceptual issues / Mark Tushnet -- A topography of emergency power / Nomi Claire Lazar -- Law, terror and social movements : the repression-mobilisation nexus / Colm Campbell -- Emergency strategies for prescriptive legal positivists : anti-terrorist law and legal theory / Tom Campbell -- Ordinary laws for emergencies and democratic derogation from rights / Kent Roach -- Presidentialism and emergency government / William E. …”
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Ethics of procreation and the defense of human life contraception, artificial fertilization, and abortion / by Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Natural law and the thomistic roots of John Paul II's ethics of human life -- Sexuality and responsibility: contraception as an ethical problem -- The post-conciliar state of the question on contraception: the encyclical, relevant case, arguments, and description of contraception -- Toward an adequate argument in support of humanae vitae: the necessary integration of anthropology, action theory, virtue, and natural law -- The use of contraceptives under threat of rape: an exception? …”
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Ethics of procreation and the defense of human life contraception, artificial fertilization, and abortion / by Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Natural law and the thomistic roots of John Paul II's ethics of human life -- Sexuality and responsibility: contraception as an ethical problem -- The post-conciliar state of the question on contraception: the encyclical, relevant case, arguments, and description of contraception -- Toward an adequate argument in support of humanae vitae: the necessary integration of anthropology, action theory, virtue, and natural law -- The use of contraceptives under threat of rape: an exception? …”
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The modern prince what leaders need to know now / by Lord, Carnes

Table of Contents: “…Why leadership is still possible -- Why leadership is still necessary -- Leadership and statecraft -- On states -- On regimes -- Elites and how to manage them -- Modern founders -- Executive power and constitutional democracy -- Democracy without leaders -- Autocratic democracy -- What goals leaders pursue -- What tools leaders have available -- Administration -- Law -- Education and culture -- Economics -- Diplomacy -- Force -- Intelligence -- Communication -- On strategy -- On crisis management -- Advice and decision -- Leadership and politics -- Why leadership depends on the times -- Exhortation to preserve democracy from the barbarians.…”
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The modern prince what leaders need to know now / by Lord, Carnes

Table of Contents: “…Why leadership is still possible -- Why leadership is still necessary -- Leadership and statecraft -- On states -- On regimes -- Elites and how to manage them -- Modern founders -- Executive power and constitutional democracy -- Democracy without leaders -- Autocratic democracy -- What goals leaders pursue -- What tools leaders have available -- Administration -- Law -- Education and culture -- Economics -- Diplomacy -- Force -- Intelligence -- Communication -- On strategy -- On crisis management -- Advice and decision -- Leadership and politics -- Why leadership depends on the times -- Exhortation to preserve democracy from the barbarians.…”
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Freedom, union, and power Lincoln and his party during the Civil War / by Green, Michael S.

Table of Contents: “…Freedom, union, and power : the Civil War Republican Party -- Free labor, freed labor, and free capital -- The great secession winter and the politics of power and responsibility -- Lincoln's warring cabinet : many secretaries, one ideology -- The Republicans and slavery -- Law and order : the Republicans, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution -- The paradox of power : Republicans and the military -- The Republican Party, the Union Party, and Lincoln's reelection -- Reforming and remaking the Nation.…”
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