Government, Law and Public Policy

Recent movers and shakers in government, law and public policy.

Updated January 6, 2026
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Justice Abandoned : How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration
Barkow, Rachel Elise.
Ebook
Chasing Shadows : Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy
Deibert, Ronald J.
Paper Book
Instant Bestseller Like a John Le Carré novel updated for the digital age, Chasing Shadows provides a gripping account of how the Citizen Lab, the world's foremost digital watchdog, has uncovered dozens of cyber espionage cases and protects people in countries around...
The law, politics and theory of treaty withdrawal
Cowell, Frederick
Ebook
Logic of Precedent: Constraint, Freedom, and Common Law Reasoning
Horty
Ebook
Unlike statutory law, which relies on the explicit formulation of rules, common law is thought to emerge from a complex doctrine of precedential constraint, according to which decisions in earlier cases constrain later courts while still allowing these courts the freedom to address new situations in...
Criminal justice in divided America : police, punishment, and the future of our democracy
Sklansky, David A.
Ebook
How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together. American criminal justice is in crisis. Prisons are swollen, confidence in police has plummeted, and race- and class-based biases distort every aspect of the...
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World
Whitman
Ebook
Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, James Q. Whitman asserts that there is no natural form of ownership. Whitman dives deep into the long Western history of this transformation in the...
We the Men : How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality
Hasday, Jill Elaine.
Ebook
Finding a Balance in the Exclusive Economic Zone: Conflict and Stability in the Law of the Sea
Sun
Ebook
Sun analyses the important and understudied subject of jurisdiction in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) over five groups of activities. It explores whether the basic premises and essential compromises of the EEZ regime established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea still hold...
Legal Rights and Moral Rights
Kramer
Ebook
In a short span, this Element will delineate the general nature of legal and moral rights and the general nature of the holding of rights, and it will also sketch the justificatory foundations of rights. Hence, the Element will treat of some major topics within legal, political, and moral philosophy...
The Digital Fourth Amendment : Privacy and Policing in Our Online World
Kerr, Orin.
Ebook

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