Founding series editors: Peter Charles Hoffer, N. E. H. Hull, and Williamjames Hull Hoffer
The Landmark Law Cases and American Society series has received the Scribes Award given by the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects.
Designed for students and general readers, the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series is composed of compact, authoritative volumes by leading scholars in history political science, and law. The focus of the series is how law and American society inform each other. One of the goals of the series is to demystify law as doctrine and to present legal matters as stories. Each volume includes a chronology outlining the key points in the case. Series volumes have no footnotes, but each has a bibliographical essay on related materials.
“In this series lumanaries in legal and constitutional history explore the relations between society and law in cases involving some of America’s most profound conflicts. A valuable addition to the classroom repertoire in history, political science, and law school classes.”—William M. Wiecek
For more information about the series, please contact: David Congdon, Acquisitions Editor: dcongdon@ku.edu.
Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship Abridged Edition
by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov
Price: $24.99
Pub Date: December 17, 2022
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States.
The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History Third Updated Edition
by N. E. H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer
Price: $29.99
Pub Date: February 16, 2021
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
This up-to-date history of Roe v. Wade covers the complete social and legal context of the case that remains the touchstone for America’s culture wars.
Buckley, McConnell, Citizens United, and McCutcheon
by Melvin I. Urofsky
Price: $24.99
Pub Date: October 23, 2020
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
The Campaign Finance Cases offers a much-needed, balanced account of how issues critical to American democracy figure in the adjudication of campaign finance law.
Clement L. Vallandigham, Presidential Power, and the Legal Battle over Dissent in Wartime
by Thomas C. Mackey
Price: $27.99
Pub Date: September 25, 2020
Format: Paperback
200 Pages
Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio opposed the Civil War policies of President Abraham Lincoln and raised the issue of internal security. How the Lincoln administration and President Lincoln dealt with and understood the problem of disloyalty, together with a decision of the United States Supreme Court, helped to clarify the scale and scope of presidential war powers to limit political speech.
Exposing the Growing Crisis in American Democracy Third Expanded Edition
by Charles L. Zelden
Price: $29.99
Pub Date: July 16, 2020
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Growing Crisis of American Democracy places the events, issues, and legal arguments/rulings of the 2000 presidential election crisis to provide powerful history of voting rights and elections in American from 2000 to the present and lay a foundation to understand the electoral tensions which underlie the 2020 election.
The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
by William E. Nelson
Price: $24.99
Pub Date: May 19, 2018
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
The history behind Marbury v. Madison and why it is a foundational case for establishing the principle of judicial review and to understanding the development of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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