Today's (3/10/2010) New Book Releases on Law

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn’t you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision companions?

Fully updated and revised with all the most important recent legal developments, Routledge Lawcards are now packed with even more features:

• New revision checklists help you to consolidate the key issues within each topic
• Colour coded highlighting really makes cases and legislation stand out
• New tables of cases and legislation make for easy reference
• Boxed case notes pick out the cases that are most likely to come up in exams
• More diagrams and flowcharts clarify and condense complex and important topics

"…these spiral-bound beauties…are an excellent starting point for any enthusiastic reviser. The books are concise and get right down to the nitty-gritty of each topic."

Lex Magazine

Routledge Lawcards are supported by a Companion Website at http://www.routledgelaw.com/textbooks/lawcards offering:

• Flashcard Glossaries allowing you to test your understanding of key terms and definitions
• Multiple Choice Questions to test and consolidate your revision of each chapter
• Advice and tips to help you better plan your revision and prepare for your exams

Titles in the Series: Business Law; Commercial Law; Company Law; Constitutional Law; Contract Law; Criminal Law; Employment Law; English Legal System; Equity and Trusts Law; European Union Law; Evidence; Family Law; Human Rights; Intellectual Property Law; Jurisprudence; Land Law; Tort Law.

What is a constitutional right? If asked, most Americans would say that it is an entitlement to act as one pleases - i.e., that rights protect autonomy. That understanding, however, is wrong; it is, indeed, The Myth of Rights. The primary purpose and effect of constitutional rights in our society is structural. These rights restrain governmental power in order to maintain a balance between citizens and the State, and an appropriately limited role for the State in our society. Of course, restricting governmental power does have the effect of advancing individual autonomy, but that is not the primary purpose of rights, and furthermore, constitutional rights protect individual autonomy to a far lesser degree that is generally believed.

Professor Bhagwat brings clarity to many difficult controversies with a structural approach towards constitutional rights. Issues discussed include flag-burning, the ongoing debates over affirmative action and same-sex marriage, and the great battles over executive power fought during the second Bush Administration. The Myth of Rights addresses the constitutional issues posed in these and many other areas of law and public policy, and explains why a structural approach to constitutional rights illuminates these disputes in ways that an autonomy-based approach cannot. Readers will understand that while constitutional rights play a critical role in our legal and political system, it is a very different role from what is commonly assumed.

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn’t you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision companions?

Fully updated and revised with all the most important recent legal developments, Routledge Lawcards are now packed with even more features:

• New revision checklists help you to consolidate the key issues within each topic
• Colour coded highlighting really makes cases and legislation stand out
• New tables of cases and legislation make for easy reference
• Boxed case notes pick out the cases that are most likely to come up in exams
• More diagrams and flowcharts clarify and condense complex and important topics

"…these spiral-bound beauties…are an excellent starting point for any enthusiastic reviser. The books are concise and get right down to the nitty-gritty of each topic."

Lex Magazine

Routledge Lawcards are supported by a Companion Website at http://www.routledgelaw.com/textbooks/lawcards offering:

• Flashcard Glossaries allowing you to test your understanding of key terms and definitions
• Multiple Choice Questions to test and consolidate your revision of each chapter
• Advice and tips to help you better plan your revision and prepare for your exams

Titles in the Series: Business Law; Commercial Law; Company Law; Constitutional Law; Contract Law; Criminal Law; Employment Law; English Legal System; Equity and Trusts Law; European Union Law; Evidence; Family Law; Human Rights; Intellectual Property Law; Jurisprudence; Land Law; Tort Law.

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn’t you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision companions?

Fully updated and revised with all the most important recent legal developments, Routledge Lawcards are now packed with even more features:

• New revision checklists help you to consolidate the key issues within each topic
• Colour coded highlighting really makes cases and legislation stand out
• New tables of cases and legislation make for easy reference
• Boxed case notes pick out the cases that are most likely to come up in exams
• More diagrams and flowcharts clarify and condense complex and important topics

"…these spiral-bound beauties…are an excellent starting point for any enthusiastic reviser. The books are concise and get right down to the nitty-gritty of each topic."

Lex Magazine

Routledge Lawcards are supported by a Companion Website at http://www.routledgelaw.com/textbooks/lawcards offering:

• Flashcard Glossaries allowing you to test your understanding of key terms and definitions
• Multiple Choice Questions to test and consolidate your revision of each chapter
• Advice and tips to help you better plan your revision and prepare for your exams

Titles in the Series: Business Law; Commercial Law; Company Law; Constitutional Law; Contract Law; Criminal Law; Employment Law; English Legal System; Equity and Trusts Law; European Union Law; Evidence; Family Law; Human Rights; Intellectual Property Law; Jurisprudence; Land Law; Tort Law.