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Brian McGinty

Lincoln and the Court

Harvard University Press, 2008

KF8742.M32 2008

The Civil War, as McGinty explains, was a struggle over constitutional interpretation: did Lincoln have the constitutional authority to do whatever he thought necessary to compel seceding states back to the Union? He thought so, but Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney sometimes disagreed. This book describes several Supreme Court cases that centered on important legal issues such as habeas corpus, blockading ports, and whether or not a citizen could criticize the president during wartime.

Michael J. Gerhardt

The Power of Precedent

University Press, 2008

KF429.G47 2008

The role that precedent plays in constitutional decision-making can be a divisive subject. The debate rages over several aspects of the issue: to what extent are the Supreme Court and other constitutional actors constrained by precedent? To what extent should they be? The disagreements extend to the meaning of precedent itself: does precedent consist of just a prior holding or ruling? Or does it include the underlying reasoning? The author outlines the major issues in the debates about the significance of precedence, and offers his own theory for understanding the institutional power of precedence as a source of constraint on the constitutional decision-making of the Court, the presidency, and the Congress.

Brazilian Law

Roberto Senise Lisboa Manual de direito civil, 3. ed revista, atualizada e ampliada da 2. edicao do livro Manual elementar de direito civil, Ed. Revista dos Tribunais, 2004-2006.

KHD409.L57 2004

Acelino Rodrigues Carvalho Substituicao processual no processo coletivo : um instumento de efetivacao do estado democratico de direito, Editora Pillares, 2006.

KHD2600.C37 2006

Fredie Didier Jr., coordenador Execucao civil : estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Paulo Furtado, Editora Lumen Juris, c2006.

KHD2690.D54 2006

Carmen Tiburcio Temas de direito internacional, 1a ed., Renovar, 2006.

KHD2938.T53 2006

Marcus Vinicius Furtado Coelho Eleicoes : abuso de poder, instrumentos processuais eleitorais, OAB Editora, 2006.

KHD3053.C64 2006

Maria Cristina Vidotte Blanco Tarrega Autonomia privada e principios contratuais no Codigo civil, RCS Editora, c2007.

KHD822.T37 2007

Petronio Calmon Comentarios a lei de informatizacao do processo judicial : lei n 11.419, de 19 de dezembro de 2006, 1a ed., Editora Forense, 2007.

KHD2569.C35 2007

Luiz Rodrigues Wambier, organizadores, et. al. As novas fronteiras do direito processual, RCS Editora, c2007.

KHD2569.N68 2007

Petronio Calmon Fundamentos da mediacao e da conciliacao, 1a ed., Editora Forense, 2007.

KHD2585.C35 2007

Civil Rights

David Keane Caste-based discrimination in international human rights law, Ashgate Pub., 2007.

K3242.K43 2007

Consumer Law

Chris Willett Fairness in consumer contracts : the case of unfair terms, Ashgate, c2007.

KD1554.W56 2007

Michael L. Rustad Everyday law for consumers, Paradigm Publishers, c2007.

KF1610.R87 2007

Criminal Law

R.A. Duff Answering for crime : responsibility and liability in the criminal law, Hart, 2007.

K5018.D84 2007

Death Penalty

Michelangelo Delfino and Mary E. Day Death penalty USA : 2005 - 2006, MoBeta Pub., 2007.

KF9227.C2D45 2007

Domestic Violence

American Bar Association, Commission on Domestic Violence   primary authors: Lisae C. Jordan, Bette Garlow, editor of the third edition: Rebecca Henry The domestic violence civil law manual : protection orders and family law cases, 3rd ed., American Bar Association, Commission on Domestic Violence, c2007.

KF505.J67 2007

Energy Law and Policy

Arjun Makhijani, foreword by S. David Freeman, afterword by Helen Caldicott Carbon-free and nuclear-free : a roadmap for U.S. energy policy, RDR Books, 2007.

HD9502.U52M34 2007

Environmental Law and Policy

Tod I. Zuckerman, Thomas J. Bois II, and Thomas M. Johnson Environmental liability allocation : law and practice, 2007 ed., Thomson/West c2007.

KF1298.Z54 2007

Family Law

Andrew Koppelman Same sex, different states : when same-sex marriages cross state lines, Yale University Press, c2006.

KF539.K67 2006

Caroline Jones with a foreword by Maureen McNeil Why donor insemination requires developments in family law : the need for new definitions of parenthood, Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.

KD3415.J66 2007

Federal Courts

Charles B. Gibbons Federal trial objections, 2nd ed., Thomson/West, c2007.

KF8935.G526 2007

Health Law

Sarah Elliston Best interests of the child in healthcare, 1st ed., Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.

KD735.E438 2007

Insurance Law

Jeffrey E. Thomas, editor-in-chief; Leo Martinez, Marc S. Mayerson, Douglas R. Richmond, editors New Appleman insurance law practice guide, LexisNexis, 2007.

KF1164.N49 2007

International Organizations

Anton Vedder, et al. NGO involvement in international governance and policy: sources of legitimacy, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007.

JZ4841.N356 2007

Japanese Law

Akira Inoue Japanese antitrust law manual : law, cases and interpretation of the Japanese antimonopoly act, Kluwer Law International : Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Aspen Pub., c2007.

KNX3242.I56 2007

Judicial Process

Michael J. Gerhardt The power of precedent, University Press, 2008.

KF429.G47 2008

Labor Law

R. Blanpain, editor, et al. Comparative labour law and industrial relations in industrialized market economies, 9th and rev. ed., Kluwer Law International:  Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Aspen Pub., c c2007.

K1705.6.C65 2007

Legal Aspects of Bioethics

W. Noel Keyes Bioethical and evolutionary approaches to medicine and the law, Committee on Biotechnology, American Bar Association, c2007.

KF3821.K49 2007

Legal Writing

Michael D. Murray and Christy Hallam DeSanctis Adversarial legal writing and oral argument, Foundation Press, 2006.

KF250.M87 2006