Books, Law, Statutes & Cases

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The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

Alan L. Dworsky
User's Guide to the Bluebook
by Fred B Rothman & Co (Paperback)

Laws of Early Iceland: Gragas I : The Codex Regius of Gragas With Materials from Other Manuscripts (University of Manitoba Icelandic Studies, V. 3)
by University of Manitoba Press (Hardcover)

The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.

Abner J. Mikva, Eric Lane
An Introduction to Statutory Interpretation and the Legislative Process (Introduction to Law Series)
by Aspen Publishers (Paperback)

Written by leading scholars, each title in the "Introduction to Law" series contains comprehensive treatment in black-letter style. Featuring footnotes citing to case law, statutory and other authorities, these volumes are ideal for in-depth research on particular issues and points of law.

Kent Greenawalt
Legislation: Statutory Interpretation : 20 Questions (Turning Point Series)
by Foundation Pr (Paperback)

The publication is an overview of the field of statutory interpretation.

William N., Jr. Eskridge
Dynamic Statutory Interpretation
by Harvard University Press (Hardcover)

Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge argues that statutory interpretation changes in response to new political alignments, new interpreters, and new ideologies. It does so, first of all, because it involves richer authoritative texts than does either common law or constitutional interpretation: statutes are often complex and have a detailed legislative history. Second, Congress can, and often does, rewrite statutes when it disagrees with their interpretations; and agencies and courts attend to current as well as historical congressional preferences when they interpret statutes. Third, since statutory interpretation is as much agency-centered as judgecentered and since agency executives see their creativity as more legitimate than judges see theirs, statutory interpretation in the modern regulatory state is particularly dynamic. Eskridge also considers how ...

David H Grover
Debaters and dynamiters: The story of the Haywood trial, (Oregon State monographs: Studies in history)
by Oregon State University Press (Unknown Binding)

Travel with Martin Stadius as he searches for answers to a saga that begins on the shores of Oregon's beautiful Wallowa Lake and ends in the barren, wind-swept hills at Bears Paw, Montana. Stadius tells the story of the Nez Perce people-the Nee-Me-Poo. In 1877, the "Dreamer" (non-Christian) faction of the tribe, under pressure from land-hungry whites to move to a reservation, fled their homeland in eastern Oregon and central Idaho. During the next four months, the Nee-Mee-Poo led pursuing troops on an 1,100-mile chase that ended tragically only forty miles short of Canada. Today, the route of the Nee-Mee-Poo retreat is a National Historic Trail, part of the Nez Perce National Historic Park, with sites in three Western states. Stadius' crisp, entertaining writing style makes Dreamers: On the Trail of the Nez Perce, more than a history book. He follows the Nee-Mee-Poo route in his Volkswagon van, describing the trail today. At the same time, he tells the story of the retreat in ...

Cuenca (Spain)
The Code of Cuenca: Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier (Middle Ages Series)
by University of Pennsylvania Press (Hardcover)

Sometime around 1190, King Alfonso VII of Castile granted a royal charter to the community of Cuenca, a Castilian frontier town recently recaptured from the Muslims and resettled by Christians. The royal charter was in the form of a law code, or fuero. Fueros, which evolved from short lists of exceptions to standing royal directives into much more extensive commentaries on legal matters, were used as an incentive to Christian settlement on the frontier. Reflecting the complexities of administering a town that still had large Muslim and Jewish populations, the fuero or code of Cuenca was meant to assure the permanence of Christian conquest and settlement. James Powers provides the first translation into English of this notable historical document. The Code of Cuenca is of great importance to legal historians, particularly as a comparison to contemporary English and other European law texts. Because there is no similar urban compilation anywhere else in twelfth-century Europe that ...

William N., Jr. Eskridge, Philip P. Frickey, Elizabeth Garrett
Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (Concepts and Insights Series)
by West Publishing Company (Paperback)

Suitable for students or practitioners, this authoritative overview of the legislative process and statutory interpretation moves smoothly and understandably between the theoretical and the practical. You'll find in-depth discussion of such topics as theories of legislation and representation, electoral and legislative structures, extrinsic sources for statutory interpretation, and substantive canons of statutory interpretation. Reap the benefits of the authors' experience, opinions, and insight and gain a working knowledge of the area.

The Code of 1650: Being a Compilation of the Earliest Laws and Orders of the General Court of Connecticut
by Fred B. Rothman & Company (Hardcover)

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