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Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 1

Lash Kurt T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226688787, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
632 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 1 halftone

Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic nation...

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America

Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 2

Lash Kurt T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226688954, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of bas...

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Congress Overwhelmed The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform

LaPira Timothy M., Drutman Lee, Kosar Kevin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226702575, ISBN: HB: 9780226702438, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 line drawings, 43 tables

Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn't have the internal capacity to do what...

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To Save the Country A Lost Treatise on Martial Law

Lieber Francis, Lieber G. Norman, Smiley Will, Witt John Fabian

ISBN: HB: 9780300222548, Yale University Press, September 2019
344 pp., 21x14 cm, 4 black&white illus.

The last work of Abraham Lincoln's law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost – until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber's manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important...

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Outbreak Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety

Lytton Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226611686, ISBN: HB: 9780226611549, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 2 tables

Foodborne illness is a big problem. Wash those chicken breasts, and you're likely to spread Salmonella to your countertops, kitchen towels, and other foods nearby. Even salad greens can become biohazards when toxic strains of E. coli inhabit the wate...

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Political Science

America, Compromised

Lessig Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226316536, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 8 halftones, 1 table

"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are". So begins Lawrence Lessig sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it – from the se...

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Rebel Law Insurgents, Courts and Justice in Modern Conflict

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781849047982, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In most societies, courts are where the rubber of government meets the road of the people. If a state cannot settle disputes and ensure that its decisions are carried out, for practical purposes it is no longer in charge. This...

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Evidence of the Law Proving Legal Claims

Lawson Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780226432052, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How does one prove the law? If your neighbor breaks your window, the law regulates how you can show your claim to be true or false; but how do you prove that in breaking your window your neighbor has broken the law? American jurisprudence devotes an...

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Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy

Lake Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300214222, Yale University Press, January 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women –...

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Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Levi Edward H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226089720, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Originally published in 1949, "An Introduction to Legal Reasoning" is widely acknowledged as a classic text. As its opening sentence states, "This is an attempt to describe generally the process of legal reasoning in the field of case law and in the...

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