• Home
  • Search
  • Browse Collections
  • My Account
  • About
  • DC Network Digital Commons Network™
Skip to main content
NDLScholarship

NDLScholarship

  • Home
  • About
  • FAQ
  • My Account
Kresge Law Library

Home > NDLS_SCHOLARSHIP > NDLS_PUBS > LAW_BOOKS

Books

 
Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.

Follow

Switch View to Grid View Slideshow
 
  • Freedom and Education: Pierce v. Society of Sisters Reconsidered by Donald P. Kommers and Michael J. Wahoske

    Freedom and Education: Pierce v. Society of Sisters Reconsidered

    Donald P. Kommers and Michael J. Wahoske

    Symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the landmark case, Pierce v. Society of Sisters. Pierce v. Society of Sisters has long been celebrated as the Supreme Court case which vindicated the existence & free exercise of the right to private education.

  • Law of Federal estate and gift taxation by David T. Link and Thomas L. Shaffer

    Law of Federal estate and gift taxation

    David T. Link and Thomas L. Shaffer

  • Illinois Legal Research Sourcebook by Roger Jacobs

    Illinois Legal Research Sourcebook

    Roger Jacobs

  • Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies by Donald P. Kommers

    Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies

    Donald P. Kommers

    Book Chapter

    Donald P. Kommers, Abortion and the Constitution: The Cases of West Germany and the United States, in Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies 83 (Edward Manier, William Liu, & David Solomon eds., 1977)

    On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court substantially curtailed the power of the American states to prohibit or limit the right of a woman to procure an abortion. On February 25, 1975, the West German Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the German parliament, by permitting abortions within the first three months of pregnancy, violated the constitutional rights of unborn children. These decisions provide us with an uncommon opportunity to compare the constitutional law of different nations on abortion. That the highest tribunals of two robust constitutional democracies and secular political cultures should decide the question of the unborn child's right to life under the constitutions of their respective countries differently should excite the wonder of us all, no matter where we may stand in the abortion controversy.

  • Ecclesiastical Administration in Medieval England: The Anglo-Saxons to the Reformation by Robert E. Rodes Jr.

    Ecclesiastical Administration in Medieval England: The Anglo-Saxons to the Reformation

    Robert E. Rodes Jr.

  • Problems in Trial Advocacy by James H. Seckinger and Kenneth S. Broun

    Problems in Trial Advocacy

    James H. Seckinger and Kenneth S. Broun

  • Lawyers, Law Students, and People by Thomas L. Shaffer and Robert S. Redmount

    Lawyers, Law Students, and People

    Thomas L. Shaffer and Robert S. Redmount

  • Judicial Politics in West Germany: A Study of the Federal Constitutional Court by Donald P. Kommers

    Judicial Politics in West Germany: A Study of the Federal Constitutional Court

    Donald P. Kommers

    The Federal Constitutional Court is an important policy-making institution in the German political system. As the guardian of the Basic Law, the Constitutional Court has played a critical role in umpiring the federal system, resolving conflicts among branches of the national government, overseeing the process of parliamentary democracy, monitoring the financing of political parties, and reviewing restrictions on basic rights and liberties. In each of these areas, the Court's decisions have shaped the contours of German life and politics. Its influence is fully the equal of that of the Supreme Court in American politics. Despite its “activist” record of nullifying laws favored by legislative majorities, the German Court has managed to retain its institutional independence as well as the trust of the general public.

  • Legal Enterprise by Robert E. Rodes Jr

    Legal Enterprise

    Robert E. Rodes Jr

  • Mentally Retarded Citizen and the Law by Thomas L. Shaffer, Michael Kindred, and Lawrence A. Kane Jr.

    Mentally Retarded Citizen and the Law

    Thomas L. Shaffer, Michael Kindred, and Lawrence A. Kane Jr.

  • The Governments of Germany by Donald P. Kommers and Arnold J. Heidenheimer

    The Governments of Germany

    Donald P. Kommers and Arnold J. Heidenheimer

  • Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell by Thomas L. Shaffer

    Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell

    Thomas L. Shaffer

    Solving Problems and Telling Stories; Lawyer Persona and Feelings it Disguises; Establishing a Working Relationship; Getting the Facts (Interviewing); Theories and Models for Helping Relationships; Interventions and Skills; Place, Space and Territory; Sharing Authority and Collaborative Decision Making; Moral Dimension; Understanding Ourselves.

  • The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion by John M. Finnis, Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon

    The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion

    John M. Finnis, Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon

    During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic philosophical issues posed by this controversial subject: whether the fetus is a person, whether it has a right to life, whether a woman has a right to decide what happens in and to her body, whether there is an ethical connection between abortion and infanticide, whether there is any point after conception where it is possible to draw the line beyond which killing is impermissible. These five essays, together here for the first time in a single volume, offer radically differing points of view; they provide the best sustained discussion of these philosophical issues available anywhere.

    Contents: Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion"; Roger Wertheimer, "Understanding the Abortion Argument"; Michael Tooley, "Abortion and Infanticide"; John Finnis, "The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion"; and Judith Jarvis Thomson, "Rights and Deaths."

  • Menschenwürde und Freiheitliche Rechtsordnung by Donald P. Kommers

    Menschenwürde und Freiheitliche Rechtsordnung

    Donald P. Kommers

    Book Chapter

    Donald P. Kommers, Freedom and Authority, in Menschenwürde und Freiheitliche Rechtsordnung 357 (Gerhard Leibholz et al. eds., 1974).

  • Counselors at Law by Thomas L. Shaffer

    Counselors at Law

    Thomas L. Shaffer

  • The Planning and Drafting of Wills & Trusts by Thomas L. Shaffer

    The Planning and Drafting of Wills & Trusts

    Thomas L. Shaffer

  • Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials by Thomas F. Broden and Robert E. Rodes

    Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials

    Thomas F. Broden and Robert E. Rodes

    The Second Edition of Jurisprudence Cases and Materials includes several new features. First, it begins with two chapters on the ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and classical origins of law and jurisprudence. Second, it offers chapters that trace the systematic development of the Anglo-American analytic canon and modern critical responses. Continental thought is incorporated along with the realist and pragmatic traditions that remain among the major American contributions to jurisprudential thought. Third, the Second Edition retains and further develops analysis of jurisprudence in the courts. The result, we think, is a book that attains unusual breadth and richness of treatment of the web of law and philosophy.

    The Second Edition, like the first, uses cases to make jurisprudence more meaningful to students and to explore the "relevance" of jurisprudence, exploring how jurisprudential assumptions implicitly or subconsciously dominate the thinking of jurists and therefore play a role in driving the law. Jurisprudence is at the very heart of law and the book tries to make that clear.

    Having in mind the different ways that people like to teach jurisprudence, the authors sought to design a flexible book. Students can be taken sequentially through the ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and Classical origins of law and jurisprudence, the Anglo-American canon, modern critical responses, and how it is all reflected in the courts. The book can be taught sequentially or topically. Materials are provided which can be combined in a rich variety of ways to suit the professor's preference. The authors provide suggestions from their experience of different ways to structure the course from the materials.

  • Democracy in Crisis: New Challenges to Constitutional Democracy in the Atlantic Area by Donald P. Kommers

    Democracy in Crisis: New Challenges to Constitutional Democracy in the Atlantic Area

    Donald P. Kommers

    Book Chapter

    Donald P. Kommers, Judicial Power and Constitutional Democracy in Italy and West Germany, in Democracy in Crisis: New Challenges to Constitutional Democracy in the Atlantic Area 33 (Edward A. Goerner, ed., 1971)

    Democracy in Crisis is a collection of ten short essays on a variety of critical problems confronting democratic governments in Western Europe, the United States, and Canada. In "Judicial Power and Constitutional Democracy in Italy and West Germany," Donald P. Kommers presents a comparative appraisal of judicial review, a controversial yet often neglected aspect of parliamentary democracy in these two former authoritarian states.

  • Political Trials by Donald P. Kommers

    Political Trials

    Donald P. Kommers

    Book Chapter

    Donald P. Kommers, The Spiegel Affair: A Case Study in Judicial Politics, in Political Trials 5 (Theodore L. Becker ed., 1971)

    In Political Trials, Theodore L. Becker has brought together 11 original essays illustrating how courts in eight different countries have been used by the powerful to eliminate what they consider to be pesky irritants or deadly challenges.

  • Authority and Rebellion: The Case for Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church by Charles E. Rice

    Authority and Rebellion: The Case for Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church

    Charles E. Rice

  • Death, Property, and Lawyers by Thomas L. Shaffer

    Death, Property, and Lawyers

    Thomas L. Shaffer

  • Frontiers of Judicial Research by Donald P. Kommers

    Frontiers of Judicial Research

    Donald P. Kommers

    Book Chapter

    Donald P. Kommers, The Federal Constitutional Court in the West German Political System, in Frontiers of Judicial Research 73 (Joel Grossman & Joseph Tanenhaus eds., 1969).

    No view of the West German political system is complete without taking into account the role of the Federal Constitutional Court in the total competitive process of authoritative decision making. This role is largely determined by the place assigned the Court in the political system by the Basic Law of the Federal Republic and by the nature of the recruitment process. It is limited by the Court's structure, together with its internal processes of decision making and the political environment in which it functions. My purpose here is to discuss each of these factors and then to link them with selected aspects of the Court's policy-output.

  • Vanishing Right to Live: An Appeal for a Renewed Reverence for Life by Charles E. Rice

    Vanishing Right to Live: An Appeal for a Renewed Reverence for Life

    Charles E. Rice

  • Standards Relating to Electronic Surveillance by G. Robert Blakey

    Standards Relating to Electronic Surveillance

    G. Robert Blakey

  • Supreme Court and Public Prayer: The Need for Restraint by Charles E. Rice

    Supreme Court and Public Prayer: The Need for Restraint

    Charles E. Rice

 

Page 16 of 17

  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
 
 

Search

Advanced Search

  • Notify me via email or RSS

Browse

  • Collections
  • Disciplines
  • Authors
  • Expert Gallery
  • Digital Exhibits

Author Corner

  • Author FAQ

Links

  • Kresge Law Library
  • Notre Dame Law School
  • University Homepage
 
Elsevier - Digital Commons

Home | About | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement

Privacy Copyright