Civil Law

“This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.” For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights move­ment—which they were mostly absent from at the...

Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the...

Vor dem Gesetz sind alle gleich. Doch was geschieht, wenn geltendes Recht nicht mehr für jeden gilt und nicht ausnahmslos greift? Wenn gefällte Urteile nicht vollzogen werden? Wenn der Staat auf neue Entwicklungen in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und Globalisierung nicht angemessen reagiert? Wenn die Balance zwischen Freiheit und Sicherheit zunehmend zu Lasten der Freiheit verloren geht? Wenn zwar der Sozialstaat weiter ausgebaut wird, die Kernaufgaben des Rechtsstaates aber vernachlässigt werden?

Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender is a recent invention with a surprisingly contentious history - one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state" but also about the contours and compromises of 20th-century liberalism.

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500.

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights.

Tell is the riveting story of Major Margaret Witt’s dedicated and decorated military career as a frontline flight nurse, and of her love and devotion to her partner - now wife - Laurie Johnson. Tell captures the tension and drama of the politically charged legal battle that led to the congressional repeal of the controversial law and helped pave the way for a suite of landmark political and legal victories for gay rights.

The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts. Its power is integrally linked to the perceived threat of Black American equity in what lawyer and critic Hawa Allan demonstrates is a dangerous paradox. While the act was initially used to repress rebellion against slavery, during Reconstruction it was invoked by President Grant to quell white-supremacist uprisings in the South.

Most Americans still see Brown v. Board of Education as a triumph - but was it? James T. Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African-Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits; to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision.

Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty.

Edición 2019. Vigencia y actualización de esta edición verificada el 16/01/2019. *Importante: Esta edición contiene la última actualización publicada por el BOE el 15/01/2019.

The people most likely to face discrimination today are those who do not or cannot conform to the whims of society. They are the freaks, geeks, weirdos, and oddballs among us. They do and wear strange things, have strange opinions, and need strange accommodations. Outsiders is filled with stories that demand attention, stories of people whose search for identity has cast them to the margins. Their stories reveal that we have entered a new phase of civil rights and need to refresh our vision.

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil -...

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Abuso do Direito. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Natural e personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Capacidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Emancipação. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Morte. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Direitos da Personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Jurídica. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Domicílio. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Bens: conceito e classificação.

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Abuso do Direito. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Natural e personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Capacidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Emancipação. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Morte. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Direitos da Personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Jurídica. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Domicílio. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Bens: conceito e classificação.

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Abuso do Direito. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Natural e personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Capacidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Emancipação. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Morte. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Direitos da Personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Jurídica. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Domicílio. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Bens: conceito e classificação.

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Abuso do Direito. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Natural e personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Capacidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Emancipação. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Morte. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Direitos da Personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Jurídica. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Domicílio. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Bens: conceito e classificação.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in. “Overflowing with fascinating...

The life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights. At a time of increasing gun violence in America, Waldman's book provoked a wide range of discussion. This book looks at history to provide some surprising, illuminating answers. The Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state militias made up of all (white) adult men - who were required to own a gun to serve. Waldman recounts the raucous public debate that has surrounded the amendment from its inception to the present.

Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past - from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt him. It is the summer of 1838, and Springfield is embroiled in a tumultuous, violent political season. All of Springfield's elite have gathered at a grand party to celebrate the Fourth of July. Spirits are high - until a prominent local politician is assassinated in the midst of fireworks.