books by Stanford Law Books     books:     Stanford Law Books      Bleached Faith: The Tragic Cost When Religion Is Forced into the Public Square (Stanford Law Books) Steven Goldberg Stanford Law Books, 2008 Public recognition of religion has been a part of American political life from the beginning of our country, and that is not going to change. But in recent years, the effort by some to challenge the long held separation of church and state by imposing religion in the public sphere has caused more harm than good. Along the lines of other ...             European Union E-Commerce Law: Consolidated Legislation Stanford Law Books, 2008 The consolidation of the European Union created a large single European market, comprising 27 member states and about 500 million people with its own legal framework for online business activities. This book offers a quick and easy reference for lawyers, business professionals, and students to the most important EU legislation for e-business ...             Police and the Liberal State (Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law) Stanford Law Books, 2008 Police and the Liberal State advances a broad interdisciplinary and international project to refocus attention on the scope and function of modern governance through the lens of the police power in its multiple manifestations?from the family to the police station and the prison, and from municipal government to state sovereignty and global ...             No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment David Lange, H. Jefferson Powell Stanford Law Books, 2008 The original text of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create a regime of intellectual property protection. The first amendment, however, prohibits Congress from enacting any law that abridges the freedoms of speech and of the press. While many have long noted the tension between these provisions, recent legal and cultural developments ...             Hegel's Laws: The Legitimacy of a Modern Legal Order (Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory) William Conklin Stanford Law Books, 2008 Hegel's Laws serves as an accessible introduction to Hegel's ideas on the nature of law. In this book, William Conklin examines whether state-centric domestic and international laws are binding upon autonomous individuals. The author also explores why Hegel assumes that this arrangement is more civilized than living in a stateless culture. The ...             Legal Realism Regained: Saving Realism from Critical Acclaim (Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory) Wouter de Been Stanford Law Books, 2008 Legal Realism Regained presents a comparison between the legal realists, a group of pragmatic legal theorists from the 1920s and 1930s, and critical legal studies, a movement of postmodern legal theory during the end of the twentieth century. The book argues for a return to legal realism and the classical pragmatism of John Dewey and William ...             Enhancing Government: Federalism for the 21st Century Erwin Chemerinsky Stanford Law Books, 2008 reducing the role of the legislature The author advocates the court system's writing law instead of being the arbiter. The author appears to believe that courts can make all decisions by broadly referencing the Constitution. In the extreme, the authority of elected legislatures would be dramatically ...             Securing Privacy in the Internet Age (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford Law Books, 2008 The Internet Age has created vast and ubiquitous databases of personal information in universities, corporations, government agencies, and doctors' offices. Every week, stories of databases being compromised appear in the news. Yet, despite the fact that lost laptops and insecure computer servers jeopardize our privacy, privacy and security are ...             Shaping the Common Law: From Glanvill to Hale, 1188-1688 (Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory) Thomas Barnes Stanford Law Books, 2008 In a series of fifteen vivid essays, this book discusses the contributions of great common-law jurists and singular documents?namely the Magna Carta and the Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts?that have shaped common law, from its origins in twelfth-century England to its arrival in the American colonies. Featured jurists include such widely ...             H.L.A. Hart, Second Edition (Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory) Neil MacCormick Stanford Law Books, 2008 In this substantially revised second edition, Neil MacCormick delivers a clear and current introduction to the life and works of H.L.A. Hart, noted Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University from 1952 to 1968. Hart established a worldwide reputation through his powerful philosophical arguments and writings in favor of liberalizing criminal ...             Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil Lesley McAllister Stanford Law Books, 2008 Although many developing countries have environmental statutes, regulations, and resolutions on the books, these laws are rarely enforced and often ignored. Making Law Matter presents the first book-length treatment of an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful ...             The Theory and Practice of Statutory Interpretation Frank Cross Stanford Law Books, 2008 Today, statutes make up the bulk of the relevant law heard in federal courts and arguably represent the most important source of American law. The proper means of judicial interpretation of those statutes have been the subject of great attention and dispute over the years. This book provides new insights into the theory and practice of statutory ...          products you might be interested in search for books consolidated, environmental, institutions, intellectual, interpretation, perspectives      toavi.com    web we recommend reducing the role of the legislature randomly chosen book: Hazel Green