The superb and indispensable one-volume reference to the Supreme Court--now in an updated and revised edition

The first-ever large-scale account of modern scholarship about law

Sheds light on the genesis of Hart's ideas and the scale of his contribution to legal and political philosophy

A broad ranging critical assessment of comparative law at the beginning of the twenty-first century

Drawing on recent cases involving such figures as Martha Stewart, Tom DeLay, and Enron's Kenneth Lay, Stuart Green weaves together disparate threads of the criminal code to reveal a complex and fascinating web of moral insights about the nature of guilt and innocence and what, constitutes conduct worthy of punishment.