Law & Politics Book Review
Volume 19, Number 5, May 2009
other issues THE TIE GOES TO FREEDOM: JUSTICE ANTHONY M. KENNEDY ON LIBERTY by Helen J. Knowles. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. 312pp. Hardback. $44.95/£30.00/€44.50. ISBN: 9780742562578.
Reviewed by Tobias T. Gibson
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COUNTDOWN TO UNITY: DEBATING IRISH REUNIFICATION by Richard Humphreys. Dublin, Ireland and Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 2008. 256pp. Hardback. €60.00/£45.00/$74.95. ISBN: 9780716528777. Paper. €24.95/£19.95/$32.00. ISBN: 9780716533474.
Reviewed by Lee P. Ruddin
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LANDING NATIVE FISHERIES: INDIAN RESERVES AND FISHING RIGHTS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1849-1925 by Douglas C. Harris. Vancouver: UBC Press 2008. 256pp. Hardcover. $85.00. ISBN: 9780774814195. Paperback. $32.95. ISBN: 9780774814201.
Reviewed by Catherine Lane West-Newman
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FROM WORDS TO WORLDS: EXPLORING CONSTITUTIONAL FUNCTIONALITY by Beau Breslin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 232pp. Cloth $50.00. ISBN: 9780801890512.
Reviewed by Keith E. Whittington
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FILES: LAW AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGY by Cornelia Vismann, translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. 216pp. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9780804751506. Paper. $24.95. ISBN: 9780804751513.
Reviewed by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
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THE END OF LAWYERS? RETHINKING THE NATURE OF LEGAL SERVICES by Richard Susskind. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2008. 256pp. Cloth. $50.00/£24.99. ISBN: 9780199541720.
Reviewed by Mark C. Miller
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TRIAL COURTS AS ORGANIZATIONS by Brian J. Ostrom, Charles W. Ostrom, Jr., Roger A. Hanson and Matthew Kleiman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. 204pp. Cloth. $56.50. ISBN: 9781592136308.
Reviewed by Paul Lermack
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THE CONSTITUTION AND ECONOMIC REGULATION: OBJECTIVE THEORY AND CRITICAL COMMENTARY by Michael Conant. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2008. 324pp. Hardback. $59.95. ISBN: 9781412807746.
Reviewed by Scott A. Beaulier
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THE TRANSFORMATION OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: ELECTORAL RIGHTS AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF POLITICAL SPACE by Jo Shaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 416pp. Hardback. £65.00/ $125.99. ISBN: 9780521860703. Paperback. £25.99/$52.99. ISBN: 9780521677943.
Reviewed by Colin L. Provost
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JUDGES AND UNJUST LAWS: COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF JUDICIAL REVIEW by Douglas E. Edlin. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2008. 336pp. Cloth $65.00. ISBN: 9780472116621.
Reviewed by Jack Wade Nowlin
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WHERE WE LIVE NOW: IMMIGRATION AND RACE IN THE UNITED STATES by John Iceland. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. 240pp. Cloth. $50.00/£29.95. ISBN: 9780520257627. Paper. $19.95/£11.95. ISBN: 9780520257634.
Reviewed by Kevin R. Johnson
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BLACK ROBES, WHITE COATS: THE PUZZLE OF JUDICIAL POLICYMAKING AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE by Rebecca C. Harris. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 208pp. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9780813543680. Paper. $24.95. ISBN: 9780813543697.
Reviewed by Timothy M. Hagle
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FIRST NATIONS CULTURAL HERITAGE AND LAW: CASE STUDIES, VOICES, AND PERSPECTIVES by Catherine Bell and Val Napoleon (eds). Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. 544pp. Cloth. CDN$85.00/US$98.00. ISBN: 9780774814614. Paper. CDN$34.95/US$39.95. ISBN: 9780774814621.
Reviewed by Anthony J. Connolly
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COURTING CHANGE: QUEER PARENTS, JUDGES, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN FAMILY LAW by Kimberly D. Richman. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 288pp. Cloth. $39.00. ISBN: 9780814775950.
Reviewed by Isaac West
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PRIVACY: THE LOST RIGHT By Jon L. Mills. Oxford University Press: New York, New York, 2008. 408pp. $65.00/£28.99. Cloth. ISBN: 9780195367355.
Reviewed by Gloria C. Cox
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COURTING SOCIAL JUSTICE: JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD by Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks (eds). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 384pp. Hardback. $90.00. ISBN: 9780521873765. eBook format. $72.00. ISBN: 9780511426841.
Reviewed by Jamila Smith-Loud
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PREEMPTION CHOICE: THE THEORY, LAW, AND REALITY OF FEDERALISM’S CORE QUESTION by William W. Buzbee (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 319pp. Hardback. $90.00/£50.00. ISBN: 9780521888059. eBook format. $72.00. ISBN: 9780511474279.
Reviewed by Staci L. Beavers
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