Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Judicial Power

Starting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of important liberal accomplishments, especially in the law. As a result, conservatives' mobilizing efforts increasingly turned to law schools, professional networks, public interest groups, and the judiciary--areas traditionally controlled by liberals. Drawing from internal documents, as well as interviews with key conservative figures, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement examines this sometimes fitful, and still only partially successful, conservative challenge to...

Tamara R. Piety argues that increasingly expansive First Amendment protections for commercial speech imperil public health, safety, and welfare; the reliability of commercial and consumer information; the stability of financial markets; and the global environment.Using evidence from public relations and marketing, behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive studies, she shows how overly permissive extensions of protections to commercialexpression limitgovernmental power to address a broad range of public policy issues.

"The controversial Human Rights Act WILL be axed, David Cameron vowed yesterday. The PM pledged to replace Labour's law with a British Bill of Rights"

- Deputy Political Editor, "The Sun"

This book is NOT about saving the Human Rights Act ...

It's about building a 'safety net' of basic entitlements which can never be taken away from us by any political party. That way, whatever happens to the Act, we will always have this net to fall back on.

Politicians of all major parties were recently embarrassed by an expenses scandal. And today, our Prime Minister is embroiled...

There can be no justice that is not spatial. Against a recent tendency to despatialise law, matter, bodies and even space itself, this book insists on spatialising them, arguing that there can be neither law nor justice that are not articulated through and in space.

Spatial Justice presents a new theory and a radical application of the material connection between space - in the geographical as well as sociological and philosophical sense - and the law - in the broadest sense that includes written and oral law, but also embodied social and political norms. More...