"Originally published in 1928, this captivating book is comprised of six lectures given by Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes at Columbia University in which he
In Democracy in America, De Tocqueville observed that there is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judic
Focuses on the substance of American law, the processes that produce its legal principles, and the history of the Supreme Court, from its creation to the presen
Of the nearly five thousand cases presented to the Supreme Court each year, less than 5 percent are granted review. How the Court sets its agenda, therefore, is
For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the jus
