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BOOK NOTICES
CHIEF JUSTICE CORNELIUS OF PAKISTAN: AN ANALYSIS WITH LETTERS AND SPEECHES by Ralph Braibanti. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Cloth $24.95. ISBN: 0-19-579019-9.
The author presents on of the very few judicial biographies of a figure from a nation other than the United States and the United Kingdom. Cornelius, a Christian in a Muslim country, was chief justice of Pakistan from 1960 to 1968, and he held other important legal and judicial posts from 1947 to 1971. The biography contains chapters on his legal thought, its place in the development of Pakistani law, and the socio-judicial context in which it appeared. After the 176-page biography and analysis, the author includes a series of letters and speeches by the justice and three analytical lectures on Cornelius's opinions written by other justices of the Pakistan Supreme Court.
EXPOSE: THE FAILURE OF FAMILY COURTS TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM ABUSE IN CUSTODY DISPUTES by Elize T. Charles and Lynn Crook (Editors). Los Gatos, CA: Our Children Our Future Charitable Foundation, 1999. Paper $25.00. No ISBN.
This book contains nineteen chapters on the protection of children from abuse. The volume's selection focus on issues related to the law and judicial, prosecutorial, and administrative behavior in abuse cases. The chapters reprint court records, government documents, newspaper accounts, and professional social science journal articles. Original commentary also is contained in certain chapters. The materials support the objectives of the Foundation, but scholars of domestic relations law and policy might find them useful.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR A CHANGING AMERICA: SHORT COURSE, 2d. ed. by Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000. 768pp. Paper $47.95. ISBN 1-560802-417-7.
The authors present a revised an updated version of their undergraduate constitutional law text. It is designed for a single semester survey of constitutional law and civil
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libraries. For the review of the first edition of the longer version of this casebook, see the LPBR Special Issue, 1992.
LAY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL TRIALS: THE CASE OF CROATIA by Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic. Lanham, MD: Austin & Winfield, Publishers, 1999. Cloth $79.95. ISBN: 1572921307.
This volume reprints the author's doctoral dissertation. The volume opens with a discussion of lay participation in trials, its initial development in Germany, its use before World War II in Yugoslavia, and information about its recent use in Croatia. The latter half of the book discusses and analyzes, through contingency table analysis, original data collected by the author of the effect of lay participation on criminal case outcomes. The author thoroughly examines why the process marginalizes many lay judges and when some lay judges can exert influence on case outcomes. She draws comparisons from her data to lay participation in other nations, including the American and British jury systems.
EMPLOYER CONTROLS OVER PRIVATE LIFE by Ronald McCallum. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. 58 pp. Paper $9.95. ISBN 0-86840-450-0.
This brief volume surveys the history and current status of management- worker relations law in Australia. It also contains a useful bibliography for scholars of comparative labor relations law and policy.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND POLITICS: STRUGGLES FOR POWER AND GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY, 4th ed. by David M. O'Brien. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. 1032 pp. Paper $49.70. ISBN 0-393-97440-5.
The author presents a new, expanded edition of his undergraduate constitutional law casebook. A review of the first edition appeared in the LPBR, Vol. 2 No. 10 (October, 1992) pp. 161-162.
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL by H. Jefferson Powell (Editor). Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1999. 716 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-89089-893-6.
This book is a compilation of 104 opinions of the Attorney Generals of the United States on constitutional issues to May 1, 1998. The editor provides a brief introduction to the compilation, some annotations to the opinions, a list of Attorneys General, and a topical guide and an appendix that list the topic or issue addressed in the opinion. There is no index. The volume might be a useful reference for scholars lacking access to a law library or electronic database.
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PRACTICAL REASON AND NORMS by Joseph Raz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2d ed.1999. 220 pp. $29.95. Paper ISBN: 0-19-826834-3.
This volume is the paperback release of the 1990 edition of the author's well-known essays on normative systems and the unique normativity of the law.
THE BRITISH POLICE: POLICE FORCES AND CHIEF OFFICERS 1829-2000 by Martin Stallion and David S. Wall. Bramshill, Hook, United Kingdom: The Police History Society, 1999. 263 pp. Paper o15.00. ISBN 0-9512538-4-0.
The authors present a 28-page history of British police that is followed by a compendium of information on the departments and chiefs of British police departments and a guide to biographical information on the chiefs and the departments. This volume will be of most use to scholars conducting documentary research on the history of British police.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: AN ANALYSIS OF CASES AND CONCEPTS, 4th ed. by Charles H. Whitebread and Christopher Slobogin. New York: Foundation Press, 2000. 1100 pp. Cloth, no price listed. ISBN 1-56662-935-7. Paper, no price listed. $ ISBN 1-56662-936-5.
The new edition of this treatise includes long section on search and seizure law, the privilege against self-incrimination, identification procedures, entrapment, pretrial process, adjudication of guilt, the role of the defense lawyer, and the relationship between the federal and state courts.