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How have regimes used the agencies of criminal justice for their own purposes? What characterizes the linkage of politics and justice? Drawing on a wealth of foreign and domestic source material, Otto Kirchheimer examines systematically the structure of state protection, the nature of a strictly "political" trial, including the trial by fiat of the successor regime, and the forms of legal repression that states have used against political organizations. He analyzes the Nuremberg trials, the Communist purge trials, and a number of Smith Act trials. In two highly original chapters he also explores the political and judicial nature of asylum and clemency. This study of the uneasy balance between abstract justice and political expediency is a contribution to constitutional and criminal law, political science, and social psychology.Originally published in 1961.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Law --- Law and politics --- Political aspects.

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Has constitutional law become merely the confused but self-important incantations of a secular priesthood? This volume offers an iconoclastic assessment of American constitutionalists from Madison and Jefferson to Dworkin and Bork, as well as a provocative overview of both the aspirations and the tragic failures of American constitutionalism.

Constitutional law --- Law --- Reason. --- Mind --- Intellect --- Rationalism --- Law and politics --- Political aspects.

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Le parcours accompli par l’État moderne est très significatif. Il est passé de la souveraineté princière (concédant aux particuliers un bagage essentiel de liberté subjective) à la souveraineté populaire (grâce à laquelle les droits du sujet se transforment en droit de l’homme et du citoyen) et ainsi de la crainte (qui caractérise le sujet) à la sécurité (qui distingue le citoyen), et aussi de la sécurité à la mobilisation politique des citoyens dans l’État de droit démocratique. Si on considère le droit cosmopolitique (toujours à la lumière du va-et-vient droit des gens-droit cosmopolitique) on peut observer que le cœur éteint de l’inerte cosmopolite n’est un hospice pour personne, et même un sauvage, le généreux sauvage de Herder, a place dans sa pauvre cabane pour tout étranger comme son frère. Dans le cadre d’un monde post-national, toutes les formes de vie (toutes les attentes, penchants et buts) ne peuvent pas être poursuivies : on doit aspirer uniquement aux formes de vie dont les droits sont compossibles. C’est au nom de la compossibilité que les revendications avancées par toutes les formes (choix) de vie doivent être jugées, qu’il s’agisse de revendications partagées, de revendications respectées, de revendications tolérées ou de revendications prohibées.

Law --- International law --- Jurisprudence --- Natural law --- Law and politics --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy.

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A comprehensive look at the Supreme Court Justices and their record. There are portraits of the nine who now sit on the high bench, and reviews of their nomination hearings. The workings of the Court are also explored, ranging from the selection and role of the clerks to the workload.

Judicial review --- Law --- Law and politics --- Political aspects. --- Rehnquist, William H., --- Rehnquist, Bill, --- United States. --- Supreme Court (U.S.) --- Chief Justice of the United States --- Supreme Court of the United States --- 美國. --- Law and politics.

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Many of America's most important social and political movements--abolition, women's suffragette, civil rights, women's liberation, gay and lesbian rights--have organized in the shadow of the law. All are based in their theoretical opposition to the law. Yet at the same time, they are dependent on the laws that prohibit them. Law is thus formed as much through the dynamic tensions that govern how these laws are received as through their official decree. Legal forms such as contracts, property, and rights also constitute social and political life because they structure our world. John Brigham here focuses on four ideological movements and their strategies, among them the struggle over the closing of gay bathhouses in the early years of the AIDS crisis and the radical feminist use of rage and radical consciousness in anti- pornography campaigns. The effect of law on politics, Brigham convincingly reveals, is pervasive precisely because political life finds its expression in a surprising variety of legal forms.

Sex and law --- Civil rights --- Law --- Jurisprudence --- Anglo-American law --- Law, Anglo-American --- Law and politics --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy.