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BOOK NOTICES
Yisrayl Hawkins. THE PEACEFUL SOLUTION: YAHWEH'S LAWS OF PEACE FOR ALL NATIONS, vol. 1. Abilene, TX: House
of Yahweh Publications, 1999. 555 pp. Cloth. No price listed. ISBN 1-890967-24-6.
This book is the first of a series of volumes proposed to define "613 Perfect Laws of Yahweh." The author
provides commentary about the benefits
of the laws and the dangers of the curses that affect lawbreakers. Scholars of the legalistic practices of religious
organizations and millenarian movements might find interest in this work.
Sheila Suess Kennedy (Editor). FREE EXPRESSION IN AMERICA: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1999. pp. 360. Cloth $49.95. ISBN 0-313-30241-3.
This volume contains 106 edited selections that illustrate the history of free expression in the United States.
The editor has arranged the selections, more than eighty of which are from U. S. Supreme Court opinions and federal
and state statutes, into seven sections. Other materials include selections from the writings of John Milton, Thomas
Paine, John Stuart Mill, and commentaries on free expression conflicts by journalists and a political scientist.
Each section contains a brief introduction by the editor.
David M. O'Brien. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND POLITICS: CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES. New York: W. W. Norton
& Co., 2000. 1,597 pp. Paper $41.00. ISBN 0-393-97441-3.
The author presents a new, expanded edition of his undergraduate civil liberties casebook. A review of the first
edition appeared in the LPBR, Vol. 2 No. 10 (October, 1992) pp. 161-162.
O, Brien, David M. SUPREME COURT WATCH 1999. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. 217 pp. Paper $14.95.
ISBN 0-393-97546-0.
This volume is a supplement to the author's constitutional law casebooks. It includes cases and commentary
for the 1996 through 1998 terms and a
preview of the docket for the 1999 term.
O'Brien, David M. STORM CENTER: The SUPREME COURT IN AMERICAN POLITICS, 5th Edition. Norton & Co., 2000.
446 pp. Paper $22.95. ISBN 0-393-97492-8.
This book is an updated version of the author's introductory text about U.S. Supreme Court politics and procedures.
J. Clay Smith, Jr. (Editor). REBELS IN LAW: VOICES IN HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1998. pp. 360. Cloth $39.50. ISBN 0-472-10883-2. Paper ed. forthcoming.
This volume contains 61 edited selections from letters, speeches, articles, and reminiscences by black women lawyers.
These original sources, often found by the editor in obscure archives or requested for this volume, are arranged
to address seven substantive topics, including choice of career, the power of black women, legal education, contacts
with presidents and judges, race and equality, crime, and international concerns. The editor provides an introduction
to the volume, and he includes photographs of many of the authors, and appendices with the minutes of the meeting
of the first black women's legal sorority, "pioneering facts" about black
women lawyers, statistical data on the race of lawyers, and biographical sketches of the contributors to the volume.Page 488 begins here
against property. The author employs some case materials and many examples to present his definitions of the content of the law. There is no material on the legal procedure, informal process, or politics of the criminal judicial process.
PRIVACY LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS by Richard C. Turkington and Anita L. Allen. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1999. Cloth $70.00. ISBN 0-314-23863-8.
A casebook designed for use in law schools, the authors present cases and commentary on the constitutional right of privacy, federal and state protection of conversations and e-mail, computer and internet privacy, the common law tort of privacy, privacy statutes, and privacy in intimate relations. The authors also include a statutory appendix.