A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court

A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court
Brandt Goldstein (Author), Rodger Citron (Author), Molly Beutz Land (Author)
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Human Rights

A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court, using key litigation documents, leads the reader through the high-profile lawsuit chronicled in Storming the Court, a nonfiction title by Brandt Goldstein that tracks the lawsuit filed by human rights lawyers and Yale law students on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at the American Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Following in the tradition of books such as The Buffalo Creek Disaster and A Civil Action, Storming the Court is an engaging, easy-to-read account of a complex civil trial in which law students play many of the key roles. Meticulously documented to make moving between the original book and the companion trouble-free, this lively, accessible book will provoke energetic discussion and debate among students. Suitable for use in any civil procedure course, the documentary companion:
Uses the real case to illustrate a wide array of important legal concepts , particularly those taught in first-year civil procedure;
Includes key litigation documents and other original materials from the case along with notes, comments, hypotheticals, and questions that serve as excellent teaching tools;
Features photos of the key characters in the lawsuit and of the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, which further enhances the realism for students. What better way to bring litigation to life for your students and help them understand what the concepts and rules look like in practice than to follow a complex trial step-by-step. A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court takes a gripping and extremely readable book and turns it into a powerful teaching tool.

• Rank: #9634 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.76" h x 6.81" w x .71" l, 1.20 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals

The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals
Michael Avery (Author), Danielle McLaughlin (Author)
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Human Rights

Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. Although the organization is unknown to the average citizen, this group of intellectuals has managed to monopolize the selection of federal judges, take over the Department of Justice, and control legal policy in the White House.

Today the Society claims that 45,000 conservative lawyers and law students are involved in its activities. Four Supreme Court Justices--Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito--are current or former members. Every single federal judge appointed in the two Bush presidencies was either a Society member or approved by members. During the Bush years, young Federalist Society lawyers dominated the legal staffs of the Justice Department and other important government agencies.

The Society has lawyer chapters in every major city in the United States and student chapters in every accredited law school. Its membership includes economic conservatives, social conservatives, Christian conservatives, and libertarians, who differ with each other on significant issues, but who cooperate in advancing a broad conservative agenda.

How did this happen? How did this group of conservatives succeed in moving their theories into the mainstream of legal thought?

What is the range of positions of those associated with the Federalist Society in areas of legal and political controversy? The authors survey these stances in separate chapters on

regulation of business and private property;
race and gender discrimination and affirmative action;
personal sexual autonomy, including abortion and gay rights; and
American exceptionalism and international law.

• Rank: #92188 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.30" h x 7.30" w x 10.10" l, 1.60 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages