Courts & procedure books

Provides an exploration of how the French legal system operates, from court structure and the legal professions...  Read More >>

The first full-scale history, analysis, and critique of the new sentencing regime.  Read More >>

Donald Downs offers an analysis of the injustices behind the logic of battered woman syndrome, concluding that this...  Read More >>

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A study of the role of William Howard Taft and Oliver Wendell Holmes in the American Supreme Court of the 20s.  Read More >>

Psychology, Law and Eyewitness Testimony Peter B. Ainsworth, University of Manchester, UK Before giving evidence,...  Read More >>

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the methods of dispute resolution in Central and Eastern Europe have changed...  Read More >>

This book evaluates the hearings of lawyers who were crucial participants in the apartheid legal order.  Read More >>

This is a history of the juvenile court movement in America, one of the earliest social welfare reforms of the Progressive...  Read More >>

A re-assessment of the workings of the Chinese legal system during the Qing period. It questions conventional assumptions...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary review series provides an economic analysis of cases decided by the United States Supreme...  Read More >>

New in paperback. An in-depth collection of key writings on the Supreme Court's controversial 1966 ruling in Miranda...  Read More >>

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This 1998/99 guide brings together the five skills that are at the heart of the Legal Practice Course, and which...  Read More >>

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An account of the 19th-century criminal justice system as a whole, from the crimes committed and the classification...  Read More >>

A study of the practice of judicial summing-up to juries, and of the language of persuasion and rhetoric in the...  Read More >>

Chief Justice John Marshall was among the major figures of American law, and widely regarded as the father of the...  Read More >>

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In this paperback edition, he includes a discussion of the recent nomination of Stephen Breyer, addressing various...  Read More >>

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Tracing the past twenty years of attempted reforms through current trends, he measures the impact of various administrative,...  Read More >>

These interviews with African American judges draw out a wide range of outspoken views on, and insights into, justice...  Read More >>