ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Books > Law, Courts, and Constitutions
- The Right to Justice
Source: Amazon.com/Edward Elgar Pub.
Author: Charles K. Rowley
Country: United States
- Rowley examines federal legal services, concluding that political market forces "have subverted a well-meaning attempt to assist indigent Americans into a coordinated litigation and lobbying attack on the central institutions of the family, of capitalism and of Madisonian Republicanism."
(1992; Amazon price $49.95)
- The True Intent of the First American Constitutions of 1776-1791
Source: True Intent
Author: Edward A. Kole
Country: United States
E-mail: edwardakole@att.net
- A comparison of The Declaration of Independence, the first State Constitutions, The Federalist, The Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution, intended to help the reader interpret these documents and their contexts.
- Equality: Recapturing an Individualist Principle
Source: The Objectivist Center
Author: Clint Bolick
Country: United States
E-mail: toc@objectivistcenter.org
- In this essay, Clint Bolick examines competing conceptions of equality, the legal underpinnings of equality in the American system, and the real-world campaign to capture the banner of equality. (Paperback; $14.95)
- Actual Innocence
Source: Doubleday/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer
Country: United States
- How new DNA evidence is setting the wrongly-convicted free -- ten stories of the innocent victims of the criminal justice system. Doubleday 2000, hardcover, 297 pp., $12.50 from Laissez Faire.
- Sovereign Nations or Reservations?
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Terry Anderson
Country: United States
- "In this bold book, Terry Anderson debunks much of the romanticism surrounding American Indian culture. Contrary to the image of Indian tribes as semi-socialist communes, American Indians developed many forms of property rights, contracts, and market exchange resembling those used by modern Western cultures." $19.95 (1995)
- In the Teeth of the Wind
Source: Amazon.com/Writers Showcase Press
Author: Sheldon Waxman
Country: United States
- Subtitled "A Study of Power and How to Fight It," Waxman's book offers an insider's look at the justice system and its failings. (312 pp., trade paper, pub. 4/02, Amazon price $16.95)
- In the Teeth of the Wind: A Study of Power and How to Fight It
Source: Writers Showcase Press/Amazon.com
Author: Shelly Waxman
Country: United States
- A series of case-based stories that's likely to astonish even the most jaded with respect to the justice system. (Pub. 4/02; trade paper; 312 pp.; Amazon price $16.95)
- The Rule of Lawyers
Source: St. Martin's Press/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Walter K. Olson
Country: United States
- In ten chapters, Olson provides a clear, compelling analysis of class action litigation and the lawyers who press for it run amok. A very important book. Freedom Book of the Month, 3/03. (Pub. 1/03; hardcover; 358 pp.; current LFB price $17.95)
- Cato Supreme Court Review, 2001-2002
Source: Cato Institute
Country: United States
- The inaugural edition of the annual Cato Supreme Court Review analyzes the 2001-2002 Supreme Court term from a classical liberal perspective. (Pub. 9/02; 270 pp. trade paper; $15)
- Cato Supreme Court Review 2001-2002
Source: Cato Institute/Laissez Faire Books
Country: United States
- An excellent overview of important Supreme Court cases from the year, including relevant history and commentary on the principles involved. Written for nonlawyers. (Pub. 12/02, 261 pp., paper, LFB price $14.95)
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