Considers the relation between law and politics, including human rights, federalism and equal protection.

People believe that governments and systems of justice give them the human rights, through specific rules, laws, and regulations, but this is never the case. Because your human ...

Stamp Duty on land and buildings now raises more revenue in the UK than inheritance tax and capital gains tax put together. The law on stamp duty, based on the Stamp Act of ...

This book offers a theory that predicts when executives should turn to decree and when legislatures should accept this method of policy-making.

This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia ...

This specially commissioned volume examines the issue of constitutionalism.

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New democracies around the world have adopted constitutional courts to oversee the operation of democratic politics. Where does judicial power come from, how does it develop in ...

Leading commentators from a range of disciplines consider the history and future of indigenous rights.

No liberty is more vulnerable to the vagaries of the current political climate than freedom of the press.