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BOOK NOTICES:
WE, THE JURY: THE JURY SYSTEM AND THE IDEAL OF DEMOCRACY by Jeffrey Abramson. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2000. 308 pp. Paper $17.95. ISBN: 0-674-00430-2.
First published in 1994, this new edition adds a 24-page preface to the initial edition. The author presents a
doctrinal, historical, and normative argument in support of juries as a component of democratic governance.
THE SUPREME COURT, seventh edition, by Lawrence Baum. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000. 297pp. Cloth $41.95.
ISBN: 1-56802-524-6. Paper $28.95. ISBN: 1-56802-523-8.
This new edition of this standard undergraduate textbook on the Supreme Court discusses the justices, case selection,
decision-making, policy outputs, and the impact of the Court through the Court's decisions and events of June 2000.
AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL LAW: A POLICY-ORIENTED PERSPECTIVE, Second Edition, by Lung-chu
Chen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 496 pp. Cloth $60.00. ISBN: 0-300-08454-4. Paper $30.00. ISBN: 0-300-08477-3.
The author provides a new edition of a policy-focused or "New Haven School" introductory text about international
law. The sections of the book address the task of international law, and the participants, perspectives, arenas
of authority, bases of power, strategies, outcomes, and effects of international legal activity.
THE MONTANA STATE CONSTITUTION: A REFERENCE GUIDE by Larry M. Elison and Fritz Snyder. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 2000. 272 pp. Cloth $79.50. ISBN: 0-313-27346-4.
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Volume 31 in the series of Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States, this book follows
a format similar to others in the series. The authors, law professors, present a brief constitutional history of
the state followed by a discussion of the objectives and judicial interpretations of each section of the Montana
Constitution.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW FOR A CHANGING AMERICA: RIGHTS, LIBERTIES, AND JUSTICE, Fourth Edition, by Lee Epstein
and Thomas G. Walker. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2001. 860 pp. Paper $52.95. ISBN: 1-56802-542-4.
A new edition of a widely-used undergraduate civil rights and liberties casebook reviewed in the LPBR, Vol. 2,
No. 10 (October, 1992) pp. 145-147