This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years and included service as its first Chief Justice.  Paul Hicks portrays Lumpkin as both a civic-minded professional and an evangelical Presbyterian reformer.  Exploring Lumpkin's important contributions to the institutional development of the Georgia Supreme Court, Hicks discusses Lumpkin's opinions in cases ranging in concern from family conflicts to slavery.  He also shows how Lumpkin cleared a way through the thicket of antiquated laws that threatened to strangle the growth of corporate banking and business in Georgia.  Treated in depth as well are the evolution of his views on slavery and secession and his involvement in social and economic reform, including temperance, education, African American colonization, and industrialization. 

The Supreme Court's intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House.  This vitally important book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court's action.  Did the Court's decision violate the rule of law?  Did it inaugurate an era of super-politicized jurisprudence?  How should Bush v. Gore change the terms of debate over the next round of Supreme Court appointments?

The contributors - Bruce Ackerman, Jack Balkin, Guido Calabresi, Steven Calabresi, Owen Fiss, Charles Fried, Robert Post, Margaret Jane Radin, Jeffrey Rosen, Jed Rubenfeld, Cass Sunstein, Laurence Tribe, and Mark Tushnet - represent a broad political spectrum.  Their reactions to the case are varied and surprised, filled with sparkling argument and spirited debate.  This is a must-read book for thoughtful Americans everywhere. 

Classical views of European integration have been shaken by the evolution of the past decade.  It has become clear that the traditional division of tasks between the European Union and its Member States, and between the various European institutions no longer provides an accurate description of European policy-making.  As the EU has become a major actor in the field of risk regulation, new institutional actors and others such as scientific experts and transnational bureaucratic networks increasingly play a major role.  This book considers the underlying forces that have brought about such change and critically analyzes the responses of the European institutions.  Various contributions explore the constitutional and the administrative law dimensions of the developing European market governance, and consider the changes which have occurred from the perspective of both legal and social theory.

Lives in the Law maps various ways that law enters the lives of individuals, groups and nations, and contributes to the more general effort to theorize what a life in the law entails.  While the essays begin in different locations - some obviously inside the law, some seemingly removed from it - together they highlight law's various and contingent presence in lives and life stories.

The challenges these essays present to established notions of law eschew a simple repudiation of the discourse of rights, or a rejection of the tenets of liberal legality.  Certainly they demonstrate the power of the law to define the terms of personal, collective, and national identity.  But they also remind us of the power of persons, groups, and nations to construct counternarratives, to define a space of accommodation in which we live more creatively in and through law. 

Originalism is the practice of reviewing constitutional cases by seeking to discern the framers' and ratifiers' intent.  Original Sin argues that the "jurisprudence of original intent," represented on the current Supreme Court by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, has failed on its own terms.  Attempts to determine the framers' intent have not brought greater determinacy and legitimacy to the process of constitutional interpretation.  Instead, the method has been marked by the very flaws - including self-interested reasoning and the manipulation of doctrine - that originalists argue marred the jurisprudence of the judicial "activists" of the Warren Court.

This is the second edition of Tony Honoré's 1982 book on the life and works of Ulpian, the early third-century lawyer from Syria who contributed two-fifths of Justinian's sixth-century Digest, which for many centuries formed the staple of European legal education.  His writing has been at least as influential as that of any other lawyer, ancient or modern.  As an intellectual in government he not only wrote about Roman law and administration, public and private, on a massive scale but also played a full part in the turbulent life of the Severan dynasty (193-235), until his murder by rebellious troops in 223 or 224 A.D.