This edition is an affordable, all-purpose resource designed to support any classroom text. It provides the new rules and amendments and comprehensive restyle that took effect December 1, 2007. In addition, this edition provides up-to-date versions of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of Procedure of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, habeas corpus rules, Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States, Federal Rules of Evidence, the U...

As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheaval...