TITLE: The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008 AUTHOR: Lucas A. Powe, Jr. PUBLICATION DATE: April 2009 PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press PAGE COUNT: 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-03267-5 PRICE: $29.95 A leading historian of the Supreme Court, Professor Powe clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas before joining the…
Georgia K. Briscoe* of the University of Colorado School of Law Library has sent the following announcement which we are please to post here for the benefit of all law librarians and perhaps some others as well. Here is her announcement: In case you haven’t heard, there is a new…
DAVID BADERTSCHER Tomorrow is Lincoln’s birthday; it is also the 200th anniversary of his birth, all of which calls for a special celebration of the life, works, and thought of such an inspiring individual. Our current President has said that he has found the thoughts and deeds of Abraham Lincoln…
Federal Rules of Evidence 2009 ISSN 566-5645 Published by Federal Evidence Review as a web based publication. According to the publisher this publication consists of “a current version of the Federal Rules of Evidence…,originally enacted in 1975 and as amended to the present.” It is “fully searchable using the Adobe…
A Quarterly of the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association Winter 2009. Volume 48 No. 1 Each issue of this journal contains featured articles and standing columns all of which relate in some way to a broad theme selected for that particular issue. The theme selected for this particular…
New: (February 2009) Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony: A Comprehensive Reference Manual for Lawyers, Judges and Criminal Justice Professionals This Comprehensive Reference Manual examines both criminal mental health and disability discrimination law from the points of view of lawyers, judges and other professionals within the criminal…
Posted January 27, 2009. MacCarthy on Cross-Examination Terence F. MacCarthy Learn how to look good on cross, even when the witness is not cooperating. Terence MacCarthy is synonymous with effective cross-examination. For 40 years he has been the head of the Federal Defender’s Office in Chicago, and is among the…
Last year was a busy year for our HeinOnline team at William S. Hein & Co., Inc. If you missed anything, here is a quick recap of everything they accomplished in 2008… ——————————————————————————– 8 New Library Modules In the order which they were released: (Click link to view brochure for…
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…
All subscribers to journal titles published by Haworth Press should have received the following e-mail. Although it is only addressed to current subscribers, others may also be interested in this information; we are therefore posting the letter here: Dear subscriber, I am delighted to let you know that from today…