Civil Rights Law Books

A Warren Court of Our Own: The Exum Court and the Expansion of Individual Rights in North Carolina explores in depth the pathbreaking nature of the Exum Court’s jurisprudence and the justices themselves in the hope of providing a better understanding of this unique and important period in the history of North Carolina’s highest court and how it fundamentally changed North Carolina law

Asian Americans and the Law offers a groundbreaking exploration of the legal history of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States through primary legal sources, explanatory notes, and discussion questions, making complex issues of citizenship, discrimination, wartime measures, and legal recourse accessible to a broad audience.

This book discusses this ethnic cleansing of Ascendant Blacks and its implications for American society, and suggests possible ways to address the problem.

The latest edition of Civil Rights Legislation includes the latest materials on the basic principles of section 1983 and the Bivens doctrine, issues related to pleading standards, treatment of qualified immunity, issues related to municipal liability, issues arising from federal habeas corpus, recent treatment of federal court, remedies for violations of constitutional rights, developments under section 1981, developments under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and recent treatment of the Americans with Disabilities Act in district and appellate courts.

This casebook emphasizes important circuit court decisions together with relevant Supreme Court case law.

This casebook focuses on the constitutional and statutory doctrines necessary to litigate 4th, 8th, and 14th Amendment claims, 1st Amendment religion claims that arise in prison, and the 11th Amendment defense.

Employment Discrimination: A Practical Skills Guide and Learning Lab Manual prepares attorneys-in-progress to bridge the intellectual gap between substance and skill.

Relying upon case law, statutes, regulations, constitutional provisions, law review articles, social science research, historical accounts, scientific studies, and other sources, this interdisciplinary book explores why and how people discriminate as well as how the law aims to prevent and punish such behavior.

Dr. Charles Hamilton Houston was an outstanding Harvard-trained Supreme Court lawyer for the NAACP.

Illegal Drug and Marijuana Law provides comprehensive coverage of the many fascinating issues of law and policy related to the criminalization and regulation of mind-altering substances.