Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
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Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Bob Woodward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439126348
The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices—maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.
Author : United States. Supreme Court
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : Edward Samuel Corwin
Publisher : Archon Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Law
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"Delivered as the Storrs lectures, Yale University, 1934.
Author : Paul Abraham Freund
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : Royal Clarence Gilkey
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Page : 590 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Civil rights
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Author : Francine Hirsch
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Page : 561 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0199377936
The Nuremberg Trials (IMT), most notable for their aim to bring perpetrators of Nazi war crimes to justice in the wake of World War II, paved the way for global conversations about genocide, justice, and human rights that continue to this day. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this new history of the trials, a central part of the story has been ignored or forgotten: the critical role the Soviet Union played in making them happen in the first place. While there were practical reasons for this omission--until recently, critical Soviet documents about Nuremberg were buried in the former Soviet archives, and even Russian researchers had limited access--Hirsch shows that there were political reasons as well. The Soviet Union was regarded by its wartime Allies not just as a fellow victor but a rival, and it was not in the interests of the Western powers to highlight the Soviet contribution to postwar justice. Stalin's Show Trials of the 1930s had both provided a model for Nuremberg and made a mockery of it, undermining any pretense of fairness and justice. Further complicating matters was the fact that the Soviets had allied with the Nazis before being invaded by them. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 hung over the courtroom, as did the fact that the everyone knew that the Soviet prosecution had presented the court with falsified evidence about the Katyn massacre of Polish officers, attempting to pin one of their own major war crimes on the Nazis. For lead American prosecutor Robert Jackson and his colleagues, focusing too much on the Soviet role in the trials threatened the overall credibility of the IMT and possibly even the collective memory of the war. Soviet Justice at Nuremberg illuminates the ironies of Stalin's henchmen presiding in moral judgment over the Nazis. In effect, the Nazis had learned mass-suppression and mass-murder techniques from the Soviets, their former allies, and now the latter were judging them for crimes they had themselves committed. Yet the Soviets had borne the brunt of the fighting--and the losses--in World War II, and this gave them undeniable authority. Moreover, Soviet jurists were the first to conceive of a legal framework for viewing war as a crime, and without that framework the IMT would have had no basis. In short, there would be no denying their place at the tribunal, nor their determination to make the most of it. Illuminating the shifting relationships between the four countries involved (the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the U.S.S.R.) Hirsch's book shows how each was not just facing off against the Nazi defendants, but against each other and offers a new history of Nuremberg.
Author : David P. Currie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 1992-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226131092
Currie's masterful synthesis of legal analysis and narrative history, gives us a sophisticated and much-needed evaluation of the Supreme Court's first hundred years. "A thorough, systematic, and careful assessment. . . . As a reference work for constitutional teachers, it is a gold mine."—Charles A. Lofgren, Constitutional Commentary
Author : Felix Frankfurter
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 1972-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Contempt of court
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