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1	The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America more books like this by Philip K Howard add to wishlist In this attack on legal regulations and bureaucratic red tape, a corporate lawyer shows how rules interfere with common sense and have taken away citizens' power to make decisions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law more books like this by Philip K Howard add to wishlist Americans are losing the freedom to make sense of daily choicesa??teachers cana??t maintain order in the classroom, managers are trained to avoid candour, schools ban the game of tag and companies plaster inane warnings on everything: a??Remove Baby Before Folding Strollera??. Philip K. Howarda??s urgent and elegant argument is full of examples, ... see all copies from $11.71! new only from $14.32! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It) more books like this by Sanford Levinson add to wishlist Levinson argues that too many of our Constitution's provisions promote either unjust or ineffective government. Under the existing blueprint, we can neither rid ourselves of incompetent presidents nor assure continuity of government following catastrophic attacks. Less important, perhaps, but certainly problematic, is the appointment of Supreme ... see all copies from $7.69! new only from $13.58!
4	Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice more books like this by Harold J Rothwax add to wishlist Longtime New York State Supreme Court Justice Harold J. Rothwax now puts our criminal justice system on trial. His verdict: Guilty. In his view, we are fast becoming a nation of bad laws, in which criminals and defense attorneys hide behind a morass of poorly conceived statues, procedures, and technicalities that keeps them from resolving the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom more books like this by Philip K Howard add to wishlist In pursuit of fairness at any cost, we have created a society paralyzed by legal fear: Doctors are paranoid and principals powerless. Little league coaches, scared of liability, stop volunteering. Schools and hospitals start to crumble. The common good fades, replaced by a cacophony of people claiming their "individual rights." By turns funny and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions
6	The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice more books like this by Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M Stratton add to wishlist In this sobering wake-up call, the authors claim that the wars we've waged against perceived social ills carry with them a hidden cost of harrowing proportions: the loss of personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta. see all copies from $3.49! new only from $18.78! \| first editions
7	The Constitution in 2020 more books like this by Jack M Balkin (Editor), Professor Reva B Siegel (Editor) add to wishlist The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language. Featuring some of ... see all copies from $12.02! new only from $12.02! \| SVS
8	The Second Constitutional Convention: How the American People Can Take Back Their Government more books like this by Richard E Labunski add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Woe Unto You Lawyers more books like this by Fred Rodell add to wishlist see all copies from $8.92!
10	No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Pervertion of Justice in America more books like this by Ralph Nader, Wesley J Smith add to wishlist This title is a look behind the scenes of the law business, where the pursuit of corporate profit has eclipsed the pursuit of justice. Nader and Smith use human stories, accurate statistics, and common sense to provide an alternative set of reforms that would open the system, streamline justice, and cut legal costs while guaranteeing all Americans ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Feminism and the Power of Law more books like this by Professor Carol Smart add to wishlist Carol Smart presents a new gendered analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist, post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.30! \| SVS
12 view cover	Reforming the Russian Legal System more books like this by Gordon B Smith, Mary McAuley (Editor) add to wishlist Reforming the Russian Legal System is a comprehensive analysis of the forces that are shaping legal reform in the republics of the former USSR. Looking beneath the flow of day-to-day developments, the book examines how traditional indigenous Russian legal values, and the 74-year experience with communism and 'socialist legality' are being combined ... see all copies from $4.96! new only from $31.17! \| SVS
13 view cover	Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation more books like this by Tariq Ramadan add to wishlist Tariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the foremost voices of reformist Islam in the West. In one of his previous books, 'Western Muslims and the Future of Islam'he urged his fellow Muslims to participate fully in the civil life of the Western societies in which they live, and addressed many of the issues that stand in the way of such participation. ... see all copies from $19.28! new only from $21.59!
14 view cover	Reconstructing Justice: An Agenda for Trial Reform more books like this by Franklin Strier add to wishlist In this study, Franklin Strier proposes reforms for the American trial system. Arguing that lawyers need to share more power with the judge and jury, he recommends ways we can retain and improve our basic adversarial system. The work suggests we eliminate peremptory challenges, give judges the authority to ask questions of witnesses, and limit the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
15 view cover	Un-Making Law: The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law more books like this by Jay M Feinman add to wishlist How the Right is subverting the legal protections of consumers, workers, injury victims, and the environment There is an undercover war going on in America that impacts everyone's life far more than has been reported. The Conservative movement has been systematically turning back a century's worth of liberal gains and protections found in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Democracy and Legal Change more books like this by Melissa Schwartzberg add to wishlist Since ancient Athens, democrats have taken pride in their power and inclination to change their laws, yet they have also sought to counter this capacity by creating immutable laws. In Democracy and Legal Change, Melissa Schwartzberg argues that modifying law is a fundamental and attractive democratic activity. Against those who would defend the ... see all copies from $23.97! new only from $23.97!
17 view cover	Unwanted Sex: The Culture of Intimidation and the Failure of Law more books like this by Prof. Stephen J Schulhofer add to wishlist Despite three decades of intense scrutiny and repeated attempts at ambitious reform, American laws against rape and sexual harrassment still fail to protect women from sexual over-reaching and abuse. In this work, Stephen Schulhofer shows the need to refocus laws against rape and to create a new system of legal safeguards against interference with ... see all copies from $2.17! new only from $10.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Towards a Just Society more books like this by Alastair Hudson add to wishlist This work analyzes the weaknesses in the established political approaches to reform of the provision of justice, judging them as being either too overtly concerned with inappropriate free market structures, or too wedded to legal procedural rules. It argues that the most efficient solution is an adapted version of legal aid as a kind of welfare ... see all copies from $13.69! new only from $22.07! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How the Common Good Collapses When No One is in Charge more books like this by Philip K Howard add to wishlist This study considers the litigiousness apparent in America, suggesting that individual rights and self-interest have eroded the judicial system. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao more books like this by Stanley B Lubman add to wishlist An expert on Chinese law evaluates the many changes in post-Mao China. Whereas there has been great change in some spheres--such as economics--there remains a Party-controlled legal structure. Yet author Lubman sees signs that the people are expecting more in the area of human rights, and that they are finding ways around the authoritarian power ... see all copies from $5.94! new only from $27.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Courts and Transition in Russia: The Challenge of Judicial Reform more books like this by Peter H Solomon, Jr., Todd Steven Foglesong add to wishlist It is hardly a revelation to say that in the Soviet Union, law served not as the foundation of government but as an instrument of rule, or that the judiciary in that country was highly dependent upon political authority. Yet, experience shows that effective democracies and market economies alike require courts that are independent and trusted. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
22 view cover	China's Long March Toward Rule of Law more books like this by Randall P Peerenboom add to wishlist China has enjoyed considerable economic growth in recent years in spite of an immature, albeit rapidly developing, legal system, a system whose nature, evolution and path of development have been poorly understood by scholars. Drawing on his legal and business experience in China as well as his academic background in the field, Peerenboom provides ... see all copies from $18.90! new only from $18.90! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation more books like this by Thomas Geoghegan add to wishlist A powerful new argument that right-wing legal policy gives Americans no recourse but to sue one another, by the National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. Since the dawn of the Reagan era, America's traditional legal structures have been gradually undermined, replaced by a kind of legal rage that has led to an explosion in the number of lawsuits ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $8.50! \| SVS
24 view cover	Before and After Hinckley: Evaluating Insanity Defense Reform more books like this by Henry J Steadman, Joseph Morrissey (Editor), Margaret A McGreevy (Editor) add to wishlist Based on grueling research in dusty county courthouses, nine articles explore the current status of insanity pleas. They consider reforms from 1978-90; changes in Georgia, New York, Montana, California; and other topics. Includes the statutes from the four study areas. Annotation copyright Book New see all copies from $18.50!
25	Toward the "Rule of Law" in Russia?: Political and Legal Reform in the Transition Period more books like this by Donald D. Barry (Editor) add to wishlist The contributors to this volume - all specialists on Soviet law and politics - offer a comprehensive examination of the effort to create a "law-based" state in the Gorbachev-era U.S.S.R., thus effecting a fundamental change in the relationship between the state and private groups and individuals. Gianmaria Ajani, Donald Barry, Harold Berman, ... see all copies from $3.44! new only from $9.95!

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