Author: Michael A. Rebell
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: courts, state, equity, pursuing, kids, educational
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-11-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226706192
ISBN-13: 9780226706191
Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in Brown v. Board of Education. Courts and Kids is the first detailed analysis of why the state courts have taken on this active role and how successful their efforts have been. Since 1973, litigants have challenged the constitutionality of education finance systems in forty-five states on the grounds that they deprive many poor and minority students
Author: Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: courts, central, eastern, europe, states, postcommunist, study, constitutional, rights
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2005-04-29
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 1402030061
ISBN-13: 9781402030062
Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to most other analysts and scholars he does not take for granted that they are a
Author: Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: courts, central, eastern, europe, states, postcommunist, study, constitutional, rights
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2007-12-20
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1402069820
ISBN-13: 9781402069826
Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to most other analysts and scholars he does not take for granted that they are a “force for the good”, but rather subjects them to critical scrutiny against the background of a wide-ranging comparative and theoretical analysis of constitutional judicial r
Author: Joint Service Committee on Miliatary Jus
Publisher: Claitor’s Law Books and Publishing Division
Keywords: states, united, martial, courts, manual
Published: 2008-03
List price: $62.00
ISBN-10: 1598044265
ISBN-13: 9781598044263
Author: Todd Bailey
Publisher: Todd Bailey
Keywords: courts
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2007-08-17
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0615154204
ISBN-13: 9780615154206
When senior Brad McKenzie graduates from a suburban Philadelphia high school he spends one last road trip at his brothers college with his best friend Tim Pfifer. Secrets the two have been concealing from everyone for the past six months come to life when Brad tells his story of how an attacker who raped fellow classmate Kelly Sanchez at The Courts, a run down basketball court under the turnpike bridge where all night parties take place, wound up dead. A coming of age piece which guides us through parallel stories of the McKenzie Brothers and spans over two years of struggle and eventual
Author: Leigh H. Irvine
Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co
Keywords: courts, follies
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 1987-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0837722403
ISBN-13: 9780837722405
Author: Jerome Frank
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: trial, courts
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1973-09-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0691027552
ISBN-13: 9780691027555
A book which laymen should read for insight into the operations of the courts of this country... Judge Frank does away with the mystery and the magic. a brilliant demonstration of the use of all the social sciences in analyzing a legal problem.
