TITLE: The Fear Within SUBTITLE: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial AUTHOR: Scott Martelle PUBLICATION DATE: May 2011 PUBLISHER: Rutgers University Press PAGE COUNT: 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4938-5 (Cloth) PRICE: $26.95 (Cloth) The author is a freelance journalist and writer with expertise in American history. Martelle details the 1948…
TITLE: The Eichmann Trial AUTHOR: Deborah E. Lipstadt PUBLICATION DATE: March 2011 PUBLISHER: Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc. PAGE COUNT: 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8052-4260-7 PRICE: $23.95 The author is a professor of Jewish Studies at Emory University and has written extensively about the Holocaust. In her new…
TITLE: THE CONSERVATIVE ASSAULT ON THE CONSTITUTION SUBTITLE: AUTHOR: Erwin Chemerinsky PUBLICATION DATE: October 5, 2010 PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster PAGE COUNT: 305 pp. + index ISBN: 978-1-4165-7468-2 PRICE: $27.00 A prolific author and law school dean, Chemerinsky brings his expertise in Constitutional law to his fifth book on the…
TITLE: JUSTICE BRENNAN SUBTITLE: Liberal Champion AUTHORS: Seth Stern & Stephen Wermiel PUBLICATION DATE: October 4, 2010 PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt PAGE COUNT: 688 pp. ISBN: 978-0-547-14625-7 (Paper) PRICE: $35.00 Stern, a reporter for CQ, and Wermiel, a law professor and former WSJ reporter, team up to chronicle the career…
TITLE: THE SUPREME COURT SUBTITLE: A C-SPAN Book Featuring the Justices in Their Own Words EDITORS: Brian Lamb, Susan Swain, and Mark Farkas PUBLICATION DATE: May 4, 2010 PUBLISHER: Perseus Books PAGE COUNT: 372 pp. ISBN: 978-1-38648-835-2 PRICE: $28.95 A team of C-SPAN editors has assembled a selection of interviews…
TITLE: Capital Punishment on Trial SUBTITLE: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America AUTHOR: David M. Oshinsky PUBLICATION DATE: April 14, 2010 PUBLISHER: University Press of Kansas PAGE COUNT: 160 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1711-1 (Paper) 978-0-7006-1710-4 (Cloth) PRICE: $14.95 (Paper) $29.95 (Cloth) Oshinsky , a Pulitzer-prize winning historian…
TITLE: Gay Families and the Courts SUBTITLE: The Quest for Equal Rights AUTHOR: Susan Gluck Mezey PUBLICATION DATE: September 2009 PUBLISHER: Bowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. PAGE COUNT: 300 pp. ISBN: 0-7425-6219-0 (Paper) 0-7425-6218-2 (Cloth) PROBABLE PRICE: $27.95 (Paper) $70.00 (Cloth) Mezey (political science–Loyola Chicago) is an established author in…
TITLE: A Right to Discriminate? SUBTITLE: How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association AUTHOR: Andrew Koppelman with Tobias Barrington Wolff PUBLICATION DATE: July 2009 PUBLISHER: Yale University Press PAGE COUNT: 192 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-12127-8 PROBABLE PRICE: $38.00 Koppelman (law &…
BY Philip Y. Blue, Senior Law Librarian New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library In a move that could reshape the library automation landscape, OCLC has expanded WorldCat Locals existing cataloging and discovery tools with new circulation, delivery, and acquisitions features. This new project, which OCLC calls “the first Web-scale,…
TITLE: The Sodomy Cases SUBTITLE: Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas AUTHOR: David A. J. Richards PUBLICATION DATE: February 17, 2009 PUBLISHER: University Press of Kansas PAGE COUNT: 232 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1636-7 (Cloth) 978-0-7006-1637-4 (Paper) PRICE: $35.00 (Cloth); $16.95 (Paper) NYU law professor Richards is a widely published and…