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The On Trial series examines the court rulings and legal opinions that have shaped the development of some of America's most controversial political and social issues. Each volume provides a substantial introduction to the history of the issue in question and includes an extensive collection of related documents; a glossary of key people, events, and concepts; a chronology; a table of cases cited; an annotated bibliography; and a comprehensive index.
The On Trial titles listed below will be published in September 2004;
Hackett will begin publishing paperback editions of additional titles in this series-including volumes on such topics as racial violence, religion,
pornography, Native American sovereignty, and the death penalty-in March of 2005. Please visit www.hackettpublishing.com for publication dates and additional information.
Lynne Curry
THE HUMAN BODY ON TRIAL
A Sourcebook with Cases, Law and Documents
325 pp., ISBN 0-87220-738-2, $12.95 FREE examination copy
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the U. S. courts have attempted, in a
series of landmark cases, to resolve bitter conflicts over an individual's
right to bodily autonomy. Lynne Curry draws on close readings of U. S.
Supreme Court and other twentieth-century legal decisions, supporting case
materials, public health records, and legal and medical theories to trace
the ways in which the courts' rulings have shaped the development of such
controversial issues as mandatory vaccination, abortion and the right to die.
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Lee Walzer
GAY RIGHTS ON TRIAL
A Sourcebook with Cases, Law and Documents
323 pp., ISBN 0-87220-740-4, $12.95 FREE examination copy
This introductory book examines the relationship between same-sex legal issues, public opinion, and legislation since the late 1800s and explores the ways in which the American legal system has advanced-and hindered-the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals.
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Charles L. Zelden
VOTING RIGHTS ON TRIAL
A Sourcebook with Cases, Law and Documents
347 pp., ISBN 0-87220-741-2, $12.95 FREE examination copy
At various times in U.S. history, the right to vote has been granted or
denied on the basis of such criteria as wealth, gender, ethnicity, and
race. Through both analysis and documentation, this volume guides the
reader through the history of vote denial and dilution and the landmark
court opinions that created and ended these practices.
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Brian R. Dirck
WAGING WAR ON TRIAL
A Sourcebook with Cases, Law and Documents
342 pp., ISBN 0-87220-739-0, $12.95 FREE examination copy
From the American Revolution to the Bush administration's "war on
terrorism" and the invasion of Iraq, Brian Dirck examines how, and under
what circumstances, the United States has decided to wage war. Four
narrative chapters introduce readers to the history and impact of the legal
issues involved in waging war, and examine the social, legal, and political
forces that have shaped wartime policies at crucial moments in U. S. history.
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Elizabeth Cawthon
MEDICINE ON TRIAL
A Sourcebook with Cases, Law and Documents
333 pp., ISBN 0-87220-742-0, $12.95 FREE examination copy
From the public controversies surrounding such issues as assisted suicide and bioengineering to broader questions concerning reproductive rights and mental illness, this accessible volume integrates legal, historical, and medical perspectives to chronicle the changing role of medicine in the
American courtroom during the last 150 years. In doing so, it provides a clear, accessible introduction to such major medical and legal controversies as the "right to die," assisted suicide, bioengineering,
reproductive rights, and DNA testing.
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Timothy S. Huebner, The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy, 2003.
An exploration of the U.S. Supreme Court during an era of dramatic sectionalism, slavery, and the Civil War.
For decades, the Taney Court's pro-slavery decision in the Dred Scott case tarnished its reputation among historians. It was only during the first half of the 20th century that the court received due credit for its important accomplishments in commerce, contracts, the protection of civil liberties, and defining the scope of presidential power.
The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy presents an in-depth analysis of the decisions and impact of the U.S. Supreme Court during the three-decade tenure of Roger B. Taney, one of the most important chief justices in U.S. history. A careful analysis of landmark decisions such as Dred Scott v. Sandford , Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge , and Prigg v. Pennsylvania shows how the court interpreted issues of commerce, contracts, slavery, and separation of powers, and how, despite its perception as being pro-states rights, it actually expanded federal judicial power.
Profiles of the 20 justices who served on the Taney Court place a special emphasis on those who made the most significant impact, including Taney, Joseph Story, Benjamin Curtis, and John A. Campbell.
Jeff Yates,
Popular Justice.
Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2002.
Popular
Justice explores the interaction between the presidency and the United
States Supreme Court in the modern era. It assesses the fortunes of chief
executives before the Court and makes the provocative argument that success
is impacted by the degree of public prestige a president experiences while
in office. Three discrete situations are quantitatively examined: cases
involving the president's formal constitutional and statutory powers, those
involving federal administrative agencies, and those that decide substantive
policy issues. Yates concludes that, while other factors do exert their own
influence, presidential power with the Court does depend, to a surprising
degree, on the executive's current political popularity.
"There is much to like in this book. It advances our knowledge of
presidential influences on court judgments, contains useful prescriptive
recommendations, and demonstrates the usefulness of quantitative analysis in
examining the presidential-Supreme Court relationship." - Stephen J. Wayne,
coauthor of Presidential Leadership: Politics and Policy Making
"What I find most impressive about this book is its integration of the
literature from the last twenty years on the relationship between the Court
and the executive branch into a multi-variate analysis. Most of the
literature has been descriptive in nature, often doctrinal, and when
empirical it has been limited to descriptive statistics with little causal
analysis. This book moves beyond those accounts and attempts to develop a
causal model utilizing multi-variate statistical techniques. The result is
an account which is both rigorous and robust." - Reginald Sheehan, coauthor
of Continuity and Change on the United States Courts of Appeals
Jeff Yates is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University
of Georgia.
Justice and Generals, recently shown on PBS, is a film about two
historic court cases brought against of two Salvadoran generals recently
capturing headline news. On July 23, 2002, in one of the cases, featured
in the film, a jury in West Palm Beach, Florida found two Salvadoran
generals liable for the torture of Dr. Juan Romagoza, Neris Gonzalez, and
Carlos Mauricio during the civil war in El Salvador. The jury awarded them
$54.6 million in damages.
Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in
World History, 400-1900. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Law and Colonial Cultures advances a new perspective in world
history, arguing that cultural practice and institutions - not just
the global economy - shaped colonial rule and the international
order. The book examines the shift from the multicentric law of early
modern empires to the state-centered law of high colonialism. In the
early modern world, the special legal status of cultural and religious
minorities provided institutional continuity across empires. Colonial
and postcolonial states developed in the nineteenth century in part as
a response to conflicts over the legal status of indigenous subjects
and cultural others. The book analyzes these processes by juxtaposing
discussion of broad institutional change with microstudies of selected
legal cases.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Legal Regimes and Colonial Cultures
2 Law in Diaspora: The Legal Regime of the Atlantic World
3 Order out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Tensions in Catholic and
Islamic Empires
4 A Place for the State: Legal Pluralism As a Colonial Project in
Bengal and West Africa
5 Subjects and Witnesses: Cultural and Legal Hierarchies in the Cape
Colony and New South Wales
6 Constructing Sovereignty: Extraterritoriality in the Oriental
Republic of Uruguay
7 Culture and the Rule(s) of Law
Bibliography
Index
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