Vol. 9 No. 11 (November 1999) pp. 486-488.
BOOK NOTICES
THE BILL OF RIGHTS, THE COURTS, AND THE LAW: LANDMARK CASE THAT HAVE SHAPED AMERICAN HISTORY, 3d edition, by David Bearinger (editor). Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 1999. 416 pp. Paper $21.94. ISBN 0- 9668919-1-0.
This casebook contains edited selections from 55 U. S. Supreme Court cases grouped to address major constitutional controversies. To evaluate and explain the cases, each chapter contains essays about them written by one of seven authors affiliated with educational institutions in Virginia.
CONTEXTS OF THE CONSTITUTION: A DOCUMENTARY COLLECTION ON PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW by Neil H. Cogan. New York, NY: Foundation Press, 1999. 824 pp. Paper ISBN 1-56662-783-4
The author provides a collection of approximately 120 edited selections from writings of the American colonial and revolutionary eras, British law politics, and political philosophy, and the period of the ratification of the Constitution, including several Federalist papers, Anti-Federalist essays, and state convention debates. He groups the selections as "primary texts" and under principles of constitutionalism, republicanism and democracy, structure, federalism, equality, and rights.
HUMAN RIGHTS by Louis Henkin, Gerald L. Neuman, Diane F. Orentlicher, and David W. Leebron. New York, NY: Foundation Press, 1999. 1228 pp. Cloth $60.00. ISBN 1-56662-754-1.
This casebook, designed for law school use, presents documents and commentary on the development of idea and ideology of human rights, human rights in national constitutions and law, international human rights, and comparative national human rights law.
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COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW by Vicki C. Jackson and Mark Tushnet. New York, NY: Foundation Press, 1999. 1507 pp. Cloth $60.00. ISBN 1-56662-728-1.
As casebook designed for law school use, this book presents an introduction to its contents using abortion law as an example. Then, chapters address constitutionalism, constitutional transitions, constitutional entrenchment, courts and constitutionalism, separation of powers, federalism, pluralism and rights, religious pluralism, free expression, and social welfare rights through the use of comparative documents and commentary.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES SINCE 1945, compiled by Winston E. Langley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 392 pp. Cloth $65.00. ISBN 0- 313-30163-8.
This item is a reference work containing an alphabetically listed series of entries designed to define and explain various international human relations topics. Each entry also cites relevant scholarly literature on the topic. Appendices contain a selected list of human rights groups, the International Bill of Human Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
THE ESSENTIAL BILL OF RIGHTS: ORIGINAL ARGUMENTS AND FUNDAMENTAL DOCUMENTS. Gordon Lloyd and Margie Lloyd (editors). Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. 368 pp. Paper $19.95. ISBN 0-7618-1076-5.
This book is an edited collection of selections from approximately 80 English and American documents from before 1792 that pertain to the development of the Bill of Rights. The editors group the selections into six chapters, and they provide an introduction to the documents included in each chapter.
CRIME AND THE RISK SOCIETY, Pat O'Malley (editor). Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998. 490 pp. Cloth $162.95. ISBN 1-84014-027-5.
This book contains a brief introduction by the editor and a collection of photographic reproductions of 23 previously published articles on actuarial justice, crime and risk, and crime management, many of which adopt post-structural political assumptions. Readers might find this collection valuable because many of the articles previously appeared in journals in Australia and Europe that are not always in the collections of American libraries.
CRIMINAL LAW: ITS NATURE AND SOURCES by Matthew A. Pauley. Wilmington, DE: Griffon House Press, 1999. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 0-918680-7. Paper $19.95. ISBN: 0-918-680-3.
Pauley offers an introductory text that provides an historically informed survey of basic principles of criminal law, such as the classification of crimes, actus reus, mens rea, mistake of fact and law, murder and manslaughter, complicity and conspiracy, attempt, and crimes
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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.