Legal Studies
The Eight
The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.
The Crucible of Public Policy
Relates the dramatic role of New York courts in shaping public policy on key reform legislation in the progressive era.
Power, Constraint, and Policy Change
Examines how state courts change public policy through an analysis of their influence on state education finance reform.
Property Rights in Contemporary Governance
Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.
Judith S. Kaye in Her Own Words
A memoir and selected writings by the former Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.
Poor Joshua
Tells the story of a tragic Supreme Court decision involving child abuse and what might be done to rectify it.
Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State
A comparative examination of the political, historical, legal, and religious antecedents of penalties and discrimination against sexual minority groups around the world.
Between the Rule of Law and States of Emergency
Raises concerns about the degree to which the rule of law and emergency powers have become fundamentally entangled, using Israel as a case study.
Human Rights Standards
A bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South.
Regulating Desire
Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women’s sexuality in the United States.
Universal Rights and the Constitution
Innovative examination of the tensions between universal and more uniquely American definitions of cherished rights.
Opening Statements
Explores the influence of Dutch law and jurisprudence in colonial America.
Friends at the Bar
A Quaker lawyer looks at Friends’ relationship with the American legal system and at Friends’ legal ethics.
Affirmative Action in Antidiscrimination Law and Policy
Provides a comprehensive and even-handed overview of the very contentious subject of affirmative action.
Congress
An insightful reassessment of the relationship between the U. S. Congress and the states.
The Erotics of Corruption
A provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period.
Deliberative Freedom
The first sustained look at the relationship between deliberative democratic theory and the topic of freedom.
The Changing Role of the American Prosecutor
Looks at how prosecution of offenders is evolving in the contemporary legal milieu.
Murder on Trial
A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.
Justice for the Past
Examines whether race-based programs and slavery reparations are justified.
Eternal Bonds, True Contracts
Uses legal and literary resources to explore Shakespeare's use of the law and its instruments in the problem plays.
Selective Incapacitation and Public Policy
Using cutting-edge methodologies, this book evaluates California's measures to protect the public from dangerous criminals.
The Contexts of Juvenile Justice Decision Making
Explores the contexts of judges' decision making in juvenile courts that incarcerate disproportionately more minorities than whites.
Family History in the Middle East
Challenges conventional assumptions about the family and the modern Middle East.
Punishing the Mentally Ill
A provocative exploration of a wide range of controversies in mental health law, this book argues that the criminal justice system punishes citizens for being mentally ill.
Religious Conscience, the State, and the Law
Examines claims to freedom of religion by minority, unorthodox faith groups and how these challenges to the state and the law have contributed to the development of civil rights discourse and practice.
Al-Mughtaribūn
Examines the influence of American law on Muslim life in the United States, treating such issues as pluralism and religious toleration, immigration and naturalization, civil rights, Black Muslims and the prisoners' rights movement, municipal zoning, and hate-crimes legislation.
Property Rights and the Constitution
Controversies over public regulation of private land have dominated political agendas in recent years, especially at the local level. Land use and environmental regulation have reached unprecedented levels, ...