law

Briefly discusses legal rights with emphasis on real-life situations.

A lawyer tells how Americans are being frustrated and humiliated by laws that thwart common sense and proposes a plan for citizens to take back control of the legal system.

Examines the relationship between free markets and social justice through the exploration of seven basic themes, including the myth of laissez-faire, and the puzzle of human rationality, and argues that people's choices and judgments often vary from what traditional economists predict and must be considered when designing policies.

Examines the blending of the law and pop culture at the end of the twentieth century--such as the highly publicized trial of O.J. Simpson and the use of the courtroom as a place to tell media-conscious stories--and the effect of this on the law and concepts of fiction and reality.

Contains approximately 150 alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of terms and phrases involved in the bioethics/health care debates.

Provides information on legal problems and situations. Lists 2,600 entries of legal words and phrases, sample cases and feature articles.

A question and answer format discusses legal problems and how to cope with them.

An examination of the insanity plea, how it developed, how it works, and the controversy that surrounds it. Also discusses its effect on the criminal justice system in the United States.

Uses many case histories to trace the evolvement of our privacy laws and to demonstrate the increasingly numerous and alarming ways our private lives can be and are invaded.

Discusses more than two hundred significant rulings that were made during the period Earl Warren served as the Supreme Court's Chief Justice.