James R Ely

The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States

In Democracy in America, De Tocqueville observed that there is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. Two hundred years of American history have certainly born out the truth of this remark. Whether a controversy is political, economi...

The Oxford Companion to American Law (Oxford Companions)

A landmark in legal publishing, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court is a now classic text many of whose entries are regularly cited by scholars as the definitive statement on any particular subject. In the tradition of that work, editor in chief Kermit L. Hall offers up The Oxford Companion to...

The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions

The Supreme Court has been the site of some of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to busing and abortion. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions offers lively and insightful accounts of the most important cases ever argued before the...

Railroads and American Law

No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900 At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of econo...

The Bill of Rights in Modern America: Revised and Expanded

This newly revised and expanded edition of The Bill of Rights in Modern America captures the contentious national debate about the nature and extent of our individual rights. Free speech, the separation of church and state, public safety and gun control, property rights, the rights of criminals and ...

American Legal History: Cases and Materials, 4th Edition

This highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in American legal history, integrating the history of public and private law from America's colonial origins to the present. Devoting special attention to the interaction of social and legal change, America...

The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights (Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights)

The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls. The book emphasizes the interplay of law, ideology, politics, and economic ch...

Cases and Materials on Modern Property Law (American Casebook Series)

This case book is a tightly organized, manageable volume with emphasis on engaging, well-edited cases, useful notes, and crisp textual analysis. An introductory chapter, which now contains the Kelo case, examines property law's scope and position in the U.S. legal system. The next chapter on landlor...

American Legal History: Cases and Materials

Supercritical Fluid Technology: Reviews in Modern Theory and Applications

The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights

The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights

The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States

The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights

The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights

American Legal History: Cases and Materials