Author: Mark Dunn
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623499798
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
From 1983 to 1987, author Mark Dunn worked as a court clerk for a justice of the peace in Travis County, Texas, where, he says, “I learned more about human nature . . . than I could have learned in any other job I might have taken up as a bushy-tailed kid from Tennessee.” Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, Texas People’s Court promises to take readers on a tour of what it means to be a Texas justice of the peace: an experience that is by turns hilarious, sobering, heart-wrenching, and, from one end to the other, fascinating. Here in the Texas justice court, wrongs can be righted and lives changed in profound ways. A priceless family necklace might finally be restored to the rightful owner; an occupational driver’s license fortuitously granted. A death inquest may become an opportunity for family reflection and valediction, with the attending judge as sympathetic witness. In each of its chapters, Texas People’s Court takes up a different aspect, duty, or area of thought related to the profession of justice of the peace taken from conversations with JPs throughout the state of Texas—from those who serve in its most populous municipalities to rural county JPs—putting a human face on the responsibilities, attitudes, and perspectives that motivate their judgments. The result is a thoroughly entertaining, sympathetic view of what Dunn calls “the day-to-day observation of human conflict in microcosm.”
Texas People's Court
Author: Mark Dunn
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623499798
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
From 1983 to 1987, author Mark Dunn worked as a court clerk for a justice of the peace in Travis County, Texas, where, he says, “I learned more about human nature . . . than I could have learned in any other job I might have taken up as a bushy-tailed kid from Tennessee.” Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, Texas People’s Court promises to take readers on a tour of what it means to be a Texas justice of the peace: an experience that is by turns hilarious, sobering, heart-wrenching, and, from one end to the other, fascinating. Here in the Texas justice court, wrongs can be righted and lives changed in profound ways. A priceless family necklace might finally be restored to the rightful owner; an occupational driver’s license fortuitously granted. A death inquest may become an opportunity for family reflection and valediction, with the attending judge as sympathetic witness. In each of its chapters, Texas People’s Court takes up a different aspect, duty, or area of thought related to the profession of justice of the peace taken from conversations with JPs throughout the state of Texas—from those who serve in its most populous municipalities to rural county JPs—putting a human face on the responsibilities, attitudes, and perspectives that motivate their judgments. The result is a thoroughly entertaining, sympathetic view of what Dunn calls “the day-to-day observation of human conflict in microcosm.”
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623499798
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
From 1983 to 1987, author Mark Dunn worked as a court clerk for a justice of the peace in Travis County, Texas, where, he says, “I learned more about human nature . . . than I could have learned in any other job I might have taken up as a bushy-tailed kid from Tennessee.” Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, Texas People’s Court promises to take readers on a tour of what it means to be a Texas justice of the peace: an experience that is by turns hilarious, sobering, heart-wrenching, and, from one end to the other, fascinating. Here in the Texas justice court, wrongs can be righted and lives changed in profound ways. A priceless family necklace might finally be restored to the rightful owner; an occupational driver’s license fortuitously granted. A death inquest may become an opportunity for family reflection and valediction, with the attending judge as sympathetic witness. In each of its chapters, Texas People’s Court takes up a different aspect, duty, or area of thought related to the profession of justice of the peace taken from conversations with JPs throughout the state of Texas—from those who serve in its most populous municipalities to rural county JPs—putting a human face on the responsibilities, attitudes, and perspectives that motivate their judgments. The result is a thoroughly entertaining, sympathetic view of what Dunn calls “the day-to-day observation of human conflict in microcosm.”
The Texas Civil Appeals Reports
Author: Texas. Court of Civil Appeals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas.
Texas Reports
Author: Texas. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Texas Civil Appeals Reports
Author: Texas. Court of Civil Appeals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Appeal to the People's Court
Author: Vincent Luizzi
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9789004363854
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Appeal to the People's Court: Rethinking Law, Judging, and Punishment, Vincent Luizzi turns to the goings on in courts at the lowest level of adjudication for fresh insights for rethinking these basic features of the legal order. In the pragmatic tradition of turning from fixed and unchanging conceptions, the work rejects the view of law as a set of black and white rules, of judging as the mechanical application of law to facts, and of punishment as a necessary, punitive response to crime. The author, a municipal judge and philosophy professor, joins theory and practice to feature the citizen in rethinking these institutions. The work includes a foreword by Richard Hull, special Guest Editor for this volume in Studies in Jurisprudence.
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9789004363854
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Appeal to the People's Court: Rethinking Law, Judging, and Punishment, Vincent Luizzi turns to the goings on in courts at the lowest level of adjudication for fresh insights for rethinking these basic features of the legal order. In the pragmatic tradition of turning from fixed and unchanging conceptions, the work rejects the view of law as a set of black and white rules, of judging as the mechanical application of law to facts, and of punishment as a necessary, punitive response to crime. The author, a municipal judge and philosophy professor, joins theory and practice to feature the citizen in rethinking these institutions. The work includes a foreword by Richard Hull, special Guest Editor for this volume in Studies in Jurisprudence.
The Texas Criminal Reports
Author: Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Government Code
Author: Texas
Publisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Texas Court of Appeals Reports
Author: Texas. Court of Appeals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas
Author: Texas. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Texas Criminal Reports
Author: Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description