Vol. 10 No. 10 (October 2000) pp. 521-522.

BOOK NOTICES:

THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR IN AMERCIAN POLITICS, second edition, revised. by Katy J. Harriger. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 336 pp. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 0-7006-1019-7. Paper $16.95. ISBN: 0-7006-1020- 0.

The revised edition of this study, reviewed in the LPBR, Vol. 2, No. 12 (December, 1992): 189-190, adds material on the Iran-Contra affair, the investigations of the Clintons and Clinton administration officials, and the demise of the special prosecutor statute.

TEEN LEGAL RIGHTS, revised edition, by Kathleen A. Hempleman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. 320 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 0313-30968- X.

Although its cost will reduce its accessibility, this book lists hundreds of questions -- posed by the author -- and answers about a comprehensive range of legal issues affecting teenagers. Topics discussed include legal regulation, civil and criminal liability, and rights of teenagers at school, when using automobiles, in relationships with parents and other family members, when working, in their sex life, to control of personal appearance, to marry and have children, to enter contracts, to use courts, to participate in public life, and to control property.

RESEARCHING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, second edition, by Albert P. Melone. Liberty Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2000. 243pp. Paper $17.95. ISBN: 1-57766-140-0.

The new edition of this lengthy guide includes chapters on the use of judicial opinions, codes, and other primary legal documents, treatises, citators and other secondary sources, case briefing, scaling and bloc analysis, writing and documenting research papers, summaries of Supreme Court decisions, and a bibliography of books on courts. The discussion of Internet resources is, however, limited.

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BUCKLEY STOPS HERE: LOOSENING THE STRANGLEHOLD ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM, drafted by E. Joshua Rosenkranz for the Twentieth Century Fund. New York: The Century Foundation Press, 1998. 155pp. ISBN: 0-87078-419- 6.

This book provides an argument, essentially a legal brief, for overruling BUCKLEY v. VALEO (1976). It is designed as a public relations instrument by the group that supported its publication.

CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES: PROVOCATIVE QUESTIONS AND EVOLVING ANSWERS by Harold J. Sullivan. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000. 193 pp. Paper $22.67. ISBN: 0-13-084514-0.

Essentially a primer on civil rights and liberties as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States, the author poses questions about rights and liberties and discusses what the Court has and has not decided. The book opens with a chapter that discusses the nature of constitutional rights and the role of the Court in the interpretation of rights. Subsequent chapters address nine questions about freedom of expression, six questions about freedom of religion, six questions about equality, five questions about privacy, and four questions about other issues. The author then offers a brief conclusion.

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