Law: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newLaw.xml New Law Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu Cross Purposes: Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education | by Paula Abrams http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192896 Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated? The Price of Racial Reconciliation | by Ronald W. Walters http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=135227 NEW IN PAPER! Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States. Gardens and Neighbors: Private Water Rights in Roman Italy | by Cynthia Jordan Bannon http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=337014 The first in-depth study of Roman water rights in Italy. No Boundaries: Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement | by Tom Diaz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=287594 An alarming report on Latino crime gangs and the efforts of U.S. law enforcement to contain them. Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force | H. Jefferson Powell and James Boyd White, editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=360278 Neither law nor democracy can survive where the empire of force dominates. Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea | by Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=180934 Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America? A Good Quarrel: America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court | Timothy R. Johnson and Jerry Goldman, Editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=243263 The country's top legal reporters comment on and analyze some of the most important oral arguments in recent court history. Judges and Unjust Laws: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review | by Douglas E. Edlin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=319239 Judges have a legal obligation to overrule unjust laws. Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty | by Paul W. Kahn http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=336363 Is torture the inevitable reaction to terrorism? Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer | by David Kairys http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=297518 The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers. The Supreme Court on Trial: How the American Justice System Sacrifices Innocent Defendants | by George C. Thomas III http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=119352 Has the American criminal justice system abandoned its duty to protect the innocent?. Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise | by Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward Rubin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=106254 New analysis of a fundamental concept in politics and law, by a pair of influential and respected scholars. Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq | by Michael Musheno and Susan M. Ross http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=262968 The stories of the citizen soldiers of an Army Reserve unit who were among the first wave of reservists mobilized after September 11. Small Change: Money, Political Parties, and Campaign Finance Reform | by Raymond J. La Raja http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=293864 A rich analysis of the colorful and contentious history of campaign finance reform. When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System | by Charles Gardner Geyh http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=106478 NEW IN PAPER! Can our nation's judiciary remain independent, in light of the battle over judicial appointments? Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America | by Kim M. Williams http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17441 NEW IN PAPER! The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape. Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954 | by Julie Novkov http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=89977 A stunning exploration of America's attitudes on interracial marriage. In Defense of Monopoly: How Market Power Fosters Creative Production | by Richard B. McKenzie and Dwight R. Lee http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=93419 A provocative defense of market dominance. The Price of Racial Reconciliation | by Ronald W. Walters http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=135227 Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States.