Politics
Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform
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In the struggle to ensure that schools receive their fair share of financial and educational resources, reformers translate policy goals into legal claims in a number of different ways. This enlightening new work uncovers the options reformers have in framing legal challenges and how the choices they make affect politics and policy beyond the courtroom.
Focusing on two of the most controversial and far-reaching court decisions in the nation in school finance… More >>
Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform
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The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
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Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism, especially its polygamous family structure. The Smoot hearing ultimately mediated a compromise between Progress… More >>
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
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The Politics of Adoption: International Perspectives on Law, Policy & Practice
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This book updates and significantly extends the first edition published by Springer in 2004. It addresses the social and legal functions of adoption, the changes currently taking place in England & Wales and developments in other common law countries. It identifies themes of commonality and difference in the experience of adoption in a common law context as compared and contrasted with that of civil law countries, other cultures in Asia and with the experience of in… More >>
The Politics of Adoption: International Perspectives on Law, Policy & Practice
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Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
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In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.
Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michae… More >>
Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
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The Constitution in the Courts: Law or Politics?
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In the modern period of American constitutional law–the period since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racially segregated public schooling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)–there has been a persistent and vigorous debate in the United States about whether the Court has merely been enforcing the Constitution or whether, instead, in the guise of enforcing the Constitution, the Court has really been usurping the legislative prerogative of making political choices … More >>
The Constitution in the Courts: Law or Politics?
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