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Cambridge University Press How to Do Things with Rules A Primer of
Book SynopsisNew to English law? Need to know how rules are made, interpreted and applied? This popular and well-established textbook will show you how. It simplifies legal method by combining examples with an account of rules in general: the who, what, why and how of interpretation. Starting with standpoint and context, it identifies factors that give rise to doubts about the interpretation of a rule and recommends a systematic approach to analysing those factors. Questions and exercises integrated in the text and on the accompanying website will help you to develop skills in reading, interpreting and arguing about legal and other rules. The text is fully updated on developments in the legislative process and the judicial interpretation of statutes and precedent. It includes a new chapter on 'The European Dimension' reflecting the changes brought about by the Human Rights Act 1998.Trade Review'… one of the most influential legal academic books of the last 30 years. It has substantially and beneficially affected the thinking of law students and lawyers worldwide. It is a wonderfully vivid and stimulating introduction to legal methods and to the general arts of interpreting and applying rules. Using a cornucopia of examples from all sorts of real cases, legislation, human rights law, and European law, the authors demystify the processes by which rules are interpreted and applied. In a masterfully clear exegesis, the arcane world of rules and how they work is made easily accessible. This is an inspiring and indispensable book for all those whose scholarship involves argument about the making and breaking of rules. In fact, anyone whose work involves doing things with rules will gain great advantage, skill, and insight by reading this enjoyable book.' G. J. Slapper, Director of the Centre for Law, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Some food for thought; Part II. Reading, Using and Interpreting Rules in General: 2. Problems and mischiefs; 3. Of rules in general; 4. Interpretation and application; 5. Imperfect rules; Part III. Reading Law: Reading, Using and Interpreting Legislation and Cases: 6. Routine and problematic readings; 7. Legislation; 8. Interpreting legislation; 9. Reading cases; 10. The European dimension; 11. Rules, reasoning and interpretation; Part IV: Questions and exercises.
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Cambridge University Press Courting Social Justice Judicial Enforcement of
Book SynopsisThis book is a five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation. Detailed studies of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa present systematic and nuanced accounts of court activity on social and economic rights in each country. The book develops new methodologies for analyzing the sources of and variation in social and economic rights litigation, explains why actors are now turning to the courts to enforce social and economic rights, measures the aggregate impact of litigation in each country, and assesses the relevance of the empirical findings for legal theory. This book argues that courts can advance social and economic rights under the right conditions precisely because they are never fully independent of political pressures.Trade Review'Human rights are meaningless if they cannot be claimed. The formal court system is playing an increasingly important role in enforcing human rights claims in many countries, frequently with life-saving impacts, as part of the overarching institutional architecture and social mobilization for human rights accountability. Gauri and Brinks have produced a timely, distinctive and important comparative empirical analysis of prerequisites for effective legal claims to socio-economic rights, and their social policy implications. I have no doubt that this book will appeal to a wide readership of public policy makers, economists, social scientists and lawyers, transcending stale theoretical dichotomies between rights of different kinds and showing vividly what a cross-disciplinary field human rights has become.' Louise Arbour, UN Commissioner for Human Rights'Judicial enforcement of social and economic rights has generated much theoretical controversy but little empirical work. Gauri and Brinks have taken a giant step forward with this methodologically innovative volume. The chapters fit together seamlessly, and provide a host of comparative and theoretical insights into the causes and consequences of judicial intervention in social and economic rights. The result is a major contribution to the literatures on rights, judicial power and social change, and the role of law in development.' Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School'The book offers a comparative analysis of five countries, South Africa, Brazil, India, Nigeria and Indonesia. Each case is rich in empirical data, as well as relevant social and political factors … This book is written to be accessible to both the serious empirical scholar of law and justice, as well as anyone interested in social justice and the protection of rights for disadvantaged populations. The ideas presented offer academics, scholars, and activists alike, the possibility of applying theoretical and empirical analysis to their own practices to further social justice … Overall, this book successfully merges theoretical analysis regarding the courts as policy makers and their ability to protect rights with empirical data through the case studies.' Jamila Smith-Loud, University of MarylandTable of Contents1. Introduction: the elements of legalization, and the triangular shape of social and economic rights Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks; 2. Litigating for social justice in post-apartheid South Africa: a focus on health and education Jonathan Berger; 3. Accountability for social and economic rights in Brazil Florian F. Hoffmann and Fernando R. N. M. Bentes; 4. Courts and socio-economic rights in India Shylashri Shankar and Pratap Bhanu Mehta; 5. The impact of economic and social rights in Nigeria: an assessment of the legal framework for implementing education and health as human rights Chidi Anselm Odinkalu; 6. The implementation of the rights to health care and education in Indonesia Bivitri Susanti; 7. A new policy landscape: legalizing social and economic rights in the developing world Helen Hershkoff; 8. Transforming legal theory in the light of practice: the judicial application of social and economic rights to private orderings Daniel M. Brinks and Varun Gauri.
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Cambridge University Press Ashes and Sparks Essays On Law and Justice
Book SynopsisThis informed and unconventional view of the history, engineering and architecture of the justice system draws on the author's experience as a barrister, an academic and a judge, most notably in relation to the constitutional changes which have emerged in the last twenty years in the United Kingdom.Trade Review'This excellent book gathers lectures and articles which Stephen Sedley has composed over about thirty years, as advocate, trial judge and lord justice. Readers will be impressed, as I have been, by his learning and by the great sagacity of his judgments on many of the prime legal issues of our time.' Tom Bingham (1933–2010), former Senior Law Lord'This is a great book, with powerful insights in law and justice offered in a hugely enjoyable collection of witty essays. The book is of obvious interest to legal theorists and practitioners, but it is also astonishingly successful in bringing significant legal issues, even quite complicated ones, within easy reach of general public discussion.' Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, 1998'Stephen Sedley writes with such calm cadence and laid-back humour that it is only at the end of each chapter that you realise how persuasively radical his reflections are. Whichever way you look at it - judging this book by its cover, or covering this book by a judge - you are offered delight and enlightenment from beginning to end.' Albie Sachs, former judge, Constitutional Court of South Africa'Ashes and Sparks grapples with some of the fundamental justice issues facing modern nations. Justice Sedley's thoughtful - and sometimes provocative - comments on the evolution of the justice system in the United Kingdom, the role of Parliament and the courts, and the constitutional role of law in the search for social and individual justice, inform us and challenge us to think more deeply on these matters, so vital to our society.' Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada'The best book I've read so far this year … You could have no interest in the law and read [this] book for pure intellectual delight, for the exquisite, finely balanced prose, the prickly humor, the knack of artful quotation and an astonishing historical grasp. A novelist could be jealous.' Ian McEwan, The New York Times'Brilliant, compassionate, engaged with society. These essays are a reflection of a remarkable mind. Astonishing that the originality and open-mindedness were not stamped out by the years of judicial toil. In and out of court, always a good read.' Sir Michael Kirby, Justice of the High Court of Australia, 1996–2009'A marvellous collection of essays, steering through profound questions of society, law and justice, which engages the reader in a lively and learned discussion of many themes. Stephen Sedley writes of judging and justice with the deep knowledge that comes from long experience of the law and rich experience of life. Many more sparks than ashes …' Jean-Paul Costa, President, European Court of Human Rights'In this remarkable and capacious volume, Stephen Sedley sifts the law with wit, wisdom and lucidity. As he brings his incisive intelligence and deep historical knowledge to the tensions between human rights and common law, to our competing rights and responsibilities, to the dysfunctions of the democratic system and the workings of justice, the very meaning of judiciousness takes on a new force. This is a book that anyone interested in our polity will savour.' Lisa Appignanesi, President, English PEN'What unites all these pieces is the sheer quality of writing.' Counsel'Instructive and entertaining in equal measure.' Socialist Lawyer'… an educational and enlightening read … the thrust of this collection of essays is the studied observations of an exceptional mind, not only about the legal systems in the UK and elsewhere, but perhaps more importantly about the human condition. I will read it again.' Donald E. Shelton, Critical CriminologyTable of ContentsPart I. History: 1. Victors' justice; 2. Above it all; 3. Reading their rights; 4. From victim to suspect; 5. Farewell sovereignty; 6. No law at all; 7. The sound of silence; 8. The spark in the ashes; 9. Wringing out the fault; 10. Everything and nothing; 11. Skulls and crossbones; Part II. Judgery: 12. Justice miscarried; 13. The Guildford Four; 14. Declining the brief; 15. Big lawyers and little lawyers; 16. Parliament, government, courts; 17. Judges in lodgings; 18. Mice peeping out of oakum; 19. Justice in Chile; 20. Never do anything for the first time; 21. Rarely pure and never simple; 22. Law and plumbing; 23. The laws of documents; Part III. Justice: 24. The right to know; 25. The moral economy of judicial review; 26. Policy and law; 27. Responsibility and the law; 28. The Crown in its own courts; 29. Human rights - who needs them?; 30. Fundamental values - but which?; 31. Overcoming pragmatism; 32. Sex, libels and video-surveillance; 33. This beats me; 34. Public inquiries: a cure or a disease?; 35. Human rights: a 21st century agenda; 36. Are human rights universal, and does it matter?; 37. Bringing rights home: time to start a family?; 38. The three wise monkeys visit the marketplace of ideas.
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Cambridge University Press The Nuremberg SSEinsatzgruppen Trial 19451958
Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival research, this book offers a historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern front.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… illuminating … Earl has undertaken original and extensive archival research and safely takes her place with other major scholars working on Nazism's historical and legal legacy. … convincing and … devastating.' Edinburgh Law Review'Earl's conclusions augment the … scholarly examinations of the necessary but imperfect judicial reckoning with |Nazism.' The Journal of Central European HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The United States and the origins of the subsequent Nuremberg trials; 2. Otto Ohlendorf and the origins of the Einsatzgruppen trial; 3. Defendants; 4. Defense; 5. Trial; 6. Judge and judgment; 7. Aftermath; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals 81 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 81
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Cambridge University Press Forgiveness and Mercy
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the degree to which certain moral and legal doctrines are rooted in specific passions that are then institutionalised in the form of criminal law. Murphy also analyses philosophical arguments about the nature of forgiveness and mercy in the legal process.Trade Review'Their analyses of these crucial emotions are clear, elegant and sufficiently controversial to initiate an exciting and much needed discussion of the proper role and the nature of the personal passions in social practice and theories.' Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas, AustinTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Jeffrie Murphy and Jean Hampton; Part I. Introduction: 1. The retributive emotions Jeffrie Murphy; Part II. Forgiveness and Christianity Jean Hampton: 2. Forgiveness and resentment Jeffrie Murphy; 3. Forgiveness, resentment and hatred Jean Hampton; 4. Hatred: a qualified defence Jeffrie Murphy; 5. The retributive idea Jean Hampton; 6. Mercy and legal justice Jeffrie Murphy; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Good Muslim Reflections on Classical Islamic Law and Theology
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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports
Book SynopsisInternational Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts. It is therefore an essential work of reference. Cases are drawn from every relevant jurisdiction - international and national. The volumes are prepared at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law in the University of Cambridge. All decisions in other languages are translated into English. Because of the standing and scope of its coverage, the series is widely cited in judgments of international and national tribunals. No other publication provides a comparable coverage of case law in this field. The series should be an essential holding for every library providing even minimal international law coverage. These reports offer the most economical and efficient way of accessing the whole range of international case law.Table of Contents1. Legality of the use by a state of nuclear weapons in armed conflict (request by the World Health Organization for an Advisory Opinion) [International Court of Justice]; 2. Legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons (request by the United Nations General Assembly for an Advisory Opinion) [International Court of Justice]; 3. In the matter of: tariffs applied by Canada to certain US-origin agricultural products (CDA-95-2008-01) [NAFTA Arbitral Panel]; 4. X v. Secretary-General (Case No. 22) [OECD Administrative Tribunal]; 5. Billaud and Bessoles v. Secretary-General (Joined Cases Nos 24/25) [OECD Administrative Tribunal]; 6. Prosecutor v. Blaskic objection to the issue of Subpoenae Duces Tecum (Cases IT-95-14-PT and Case IT-95-14-ARbis 108) [International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia]; 7. M/V Saiga (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines v. Guinea) [International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea].
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Cambridge University Press Protecting Endangered Species in the United States
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Cambridge University Press Lawyers in Conflict and Transition
Book SynopsisThis book is valuable for law, sociology, and transitional justice researchers and postgraduate students interested in themes including cause lawyering, the sociology of the professions, the legal profession, gender and the law, the role of law in transition, peace negotiations, truth recovery, amnesties, strategic litigation, and legal ethics.Trade Review'… invaluable … a realistic assessment of the complexities of the morally and politically fraught profession of cause lawyering.' David Dyzenhaus, Journal of Law and SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Lawyers in conflict and transition; 2. Cause lawyers, political violence, and professionalism in conflict; 3. Boycott, resistance, and the law: cause lawyering in conflict, repression, and transition; 4. Gender and cause lawyering in conflicted, authoritarian, and transitional societies; 5. Government lawyers in conflict, repression, and transition; 6. Lawyers in transitional political negotiations; 7. Lawyers, transitional justice and dealing with the past; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure
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Cambridge University Press Secured Finance Law in China and Hong Kong
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Cambridge University Press Regional Rules in the Global Trading System
Book SynopsisThe proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past two decades has highlighted the need to look closely at the potential conflicts between regional and WTO rules or disciplines. A major obstacle to advancing understanding of RTAs is the absence of detailed information about their contents. This has limited the debate between those who view RTAs as discriminatory instruments hostage to protectionist interests and those who see them as conducive to multilateral trade opening. This book provides detailed analysis of RTA rules in six key areas - market access, technical barriers to trade, contingent protection, investment, services and competition policy - across dozens of the main RTAs in the world. The analysis helps to provide new insights into the interplay between regional and multilateral trade rules, advances understanding of the economic effects of RTAs and contributes to the discussion on how to deal with the burgeoning number of RTAs.Trade Review'The volume makes a useful contribution to existing literature and will be of interest not only to a policy audience, but also to researchers.' The Journal of World Trade ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction Antoni Estevadeordal, Kati Suominen and Robert Teh; 2. Big-think regionalism: a critical survey Richard Baldwin; 3. Market access provisions in regional trade agreements Antoni Estevadeordal, Matthew Shearer and Kati Suominen; 4. Trade remedy provisions in regional trade agreements Robert Teh, Thomas J. Prusa and Michele Budetta; 5. A mapping of regional rules on technical barriers to trade Roberta Piermartini and Michele Budetta; 6. Services liberalization in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs): how much further than the GATS? Martin Roy, Juan Marchetti and Hoe Lim; 7. Mapping investment provisions in regional trade agreements: towards an international investment regime? Barbara Kotschwar; 8. Competition provisions in regional trade agreements Robert Teh; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Application of the Precautionary Principle in Practice Comparative Dimensions
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Cambridge University Press History of the Supreme Court of the United States Part 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Cambridge University Press Global Legal Pluralism
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Cambridge University Press The Commercial Appropriation of Personality 4 Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press The Legal Regime of Foreign Private Investment in Sudan and Saudi Arabia
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Cambridge University Press Social and Labour Rights in a Global Context
Book SynopsisThe active pursuit of social and labour rights is a crucial response to globalization. These essays - by leading scholars from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USA - question the effectiveness of the rhetoric of rights including those to decent work and security, equality of opportunity and healthcare.Trade Review'Social and Labour Rights makes a significant contribution to a discussion that should be supported and expanded to include the broadest possible range of participants. It is a tribute to Cambridge University and its present and former labour lawyers that this project can build on such a vibrant tradition of scholarship and commitment to social justice.' The Industrial Law Journal'The contributors to Hepple's volume analyse not only the impact of new developments on social and labour rights, but also the role that such rights might play in countering effects of market-led globalisation. In this respect, the focus of this book is distinguishable from that of other texts relating to similar themes. The result is a valuable addition to the literature on what is likely to be an ongoing debate.' Legal Studies'… [an] outstanding collection of essays … an extremely important achievement'. Political Studies Review'Social and Labour Rights is an important contribution to the debate on social and labour rights ands to the debate on the nature of globalisation.' Modern Law ReviewTable of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Table of cases; Introduction Bob Hepple; Part I. Responses to Globalisation: 1. Common law, labour law, global law Lord Wedderburn; 2. The interaction of the ILO, the Council of Europe and European Union labour standards Paul O'Higgins; Part II. The Potential of Fundamental Social Rights in the European Union: 3. The Politics of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights Manfred Weiss; 4. Market freedom and fundamental social rights Silvana Sciarra; 5. Corporate governance, European governance and social rights Catherine Barnard and Simon Deakin; Part III. Constitutionalisation and Enforcement of Social Rights: Some Comparisons: 6. Social rights as fundamental human rights Ivan Hare; 7. The legal efficacy and significance of fundamental social rights: lessons from the European experience Antoine Lyon-Caen; 8. An American perspective on fundamental labour rights Cynthia L. Estlund; 9. The impact of fundamental social rights on Japanese law Takashi Araki; 10. Enforcement: the law and politics of cooperation and compliance Bob Hepple; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda Creating a
Book SynopsisNegotiating the liberalization of world agricultural trade in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is fraught with difficulty due to the complexity of the issues and the wide range of interests across countries. In the round of global trade negotiations under the WTO, different perspectives on trade reform have produced a highly contentious agenda. These issues are addressed from a range of perspectives in this survey of the trade agenda and its implications for both developing and developed countries. Agricultural trade specialists, including those in universities, in international organizations and think tanks, analyse a comprehensive range of topics including interests and options in the WTO trade negotiations, the trade agenda from a development patent perspective, WTO trade rules, trade barriers, tariff negotiations and patent protection for developing countries.Table of ContentsList of figures, tables and boxes; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction Merlinda D. Ingco and L. Alan Winters; 2. Agriculture and the trade negotiations: a synopsis Merlinda D. Ingco and L. Alan Winters; Part I. Experience and Lessons from the Implementation of WTO Agreements: 3. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture in practice: how open are the OECD markets? Dimitris Diakosavvas; 4. How developing countries are implementing tariff-rate quotas Philip Abbott and B. Adair Morse; 5. A review of the operation of the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Gretchen Stanton; Part II. Interests, Options, and Objectives in a New Trade Round: 6. Agriculture, developing countries, and the Doha Development Agenda Kym Anderson; 7. Where the interests of developing countries converge and diverge Alberto Valdés and Alexander F. McCalla; Part III. New Trade Rules and Quantitative Assessments of Future Liberalization Options: 8. Market access, export subsidies, and domestic support: developing new rules Harry de Gorter; 9. Options for enhancing market access in a new round Tim Josling and Allan Rae; 10. Liberalizing tariff-rate quotas: quantifying the effects of enhancing market access Aziz Elbehri, Merlinda D. Ingco, Thomas W. Hertel and Kenneth Pearson; 11. The global and regional effects of liberalizing agriculture and other trade in the new round Thomas W. Hertel, Kym Anderson, Joseph F. Francois and Will Martin; 12. Modeling the effects on agriculture of protection in developing countries Dean A. DeRosa; 13. Liberalizing sugar: the taste test of the WTO Brent Borrell and David Pearce; 14. Bananas: a policy overripe for change Brent Borrell; Part IV. New Trade Issues and Developing Country Agriculture: 15. Sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to agricultural trade: progress, prospects, and implications for developing countries Donna Roberts, David Orden and Tim Josling; 16. How developing countries view the impact of sanitary and phytosanitary measures on agricultural exports Spencer Henson, Rupert Loader, Alan Swinbank and Maury Bredahl; 17. State trading in agricultural trade: options and prospects for new rules W. M. Miner; 18. Environmental considerations in agricultural negotiations in the new WTO round John Whalley; 19. Intellectual property rights and agriculture Jayashree Watal; 20. Genetically modified foods, trade and developing countries Chantal Pohl Nielsen, Karen Thierfelder and Sherman Robinson; 21. Multifunctionality and optimal environmental policies for agriculture in an open economy Jeffrey M. Peterson, Richard N. Boisvert and Harry de Gorter; Author index; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press Companies International Trade and Human Rights 4 Cambridge Studies in Corporate Law Series Number 4
Book SynopsisThis book, originally published in 2005, considers the role of corporations within the trading system, including actions of corporations and their motives. The book assesses remedial devices such as Codes of Conduct and Human Rights instruments, seeking reasons for the failure of trade to reduce poverty, and considers the role of companies in globalisation.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Dine's book will be a valuable resource.' Human Rights QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface; Table of statutes, agreements, covenants and treaties; Table of cases; List of abbreviation; 1. A global crisis?; 2. Why we are here; 3. The institutional framework; 4. Relationship between Companies and Human Rights Law; 5. Corporate social responsibility; 6. Understanding property rights: companies, states and the duty of international co-operation; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Energy Law and the Environment
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Cambridge University Press The American Constitution and the Debate Over Originalism
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Cambridge University Press Boilerplate The Foundation of Market Contracts
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Cambridge University Press Gods Caliph
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Cambridge University Press Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas
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Cambridge University Press The Nature of Customary Law
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Cambridge University Press EC Regulation of Corporate Governance International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
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Cambridge University Press The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration Versailles to Iraq and Beyond Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 57
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Faber & Faber Name of the Devil
Book SynopsisWest Virginia: A church congregation vanishes in mysterious circumstances, only to be found dead some miles away. The evidence on the ground appears to indicate a ritual killing and the work of demonic forces.Enter Jessica Blackwood, the FBI''s specialist in all things unusual. A former illusionist, Jessica''s talent and experience enable her to see what others cannot, as she proved in the infamous ''Warlock'' case. Maybe now, once again, the devil will be in the details.Following the trail from West Virginia to Mexico and Miami, Jessica uncovers a deadly conspiracy that might lead all the way to the Vatican itself. Only with her unique understanding of the powers of deception can they hope to stop a ruthless killer from exacting a revenge that''s been thirty years in the planning . . .
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Pearson Education Limited EC Law in the UK
Book SynopsisAs the process of European integration accelerates the growth of EC Law is having a substantial impact. This text provides an overview of the ways in which EC Law has impacted upon the work of British courts, its focus being the role of British courts in protecting Community rights.Trade ReviewThe text is tightly written, with points clearly made. Issues are identified and each chapter ends with a summary/conclusions. There are plenty of headings, a helpful index, a bibliography and a short list of suggestions for further reading. Footnotes also point the student selectively to other academic writing.Christopher Kerse, Book Reviews, Journal of Legislative StudiesTable of ContentsTable of Cases Table of Legislation and Treaties Table of Equivalence 1. Identifying Community law 2. UK courts: United Kingdom courts or Community courts? 3. Obstacles to the enforcement of Community law 4. Ascertaining the substance of Community rights 5. Giving effect to Community law 6. National remedies for breach of EC law 7. A right to a specific remedy: State liability for breach of Community law 8. The UK courts working as Community courts 9. Community law and criminal law 10. Enforcing Community law against Community institutions 11. Specific Community rules for the enforcement of Community law Further reading Bibliography
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Pearson Education General Principles of Property Law
Book SynopsisIntroduces students to the general principles underpinning property law. The development of a common theme in the study of property, offers a new perspective which helps students gain an underestanding of the more specific branches of the subject.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Legal Concept of Property 2. Justificatory Theories for Private Property 3.Classification of Property 4. The Changing Nature of Property 5. Ownership and Possession 6. Title 7. Creation and Transfer of Proprietary Rights 8. Fragmentation of Ownership 9. Personal and Property Rights 10. Interference with Property Rights and Proprietary Remedies
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Pearson Education Writing Law Dissertations
Book SynopsisHow should you choose your dissertation topic? What is the best research method to adopt? What is going to make your dissertation achieve the best grades? This book provides a guide to various stages of the research and writing process for law students, and answers the many questions that face first-time researchers.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1. How to Begin - Introduction - What is 'research'? - What is a 'dissertation'? - How to choose your dissertation topic - Specific suggestions for getting you started - Identifying the key issues and marginal issues in your dissertation - Is the research viable in practice? - Putting pen to paper - Conclusion Chapter 2. Getting Along With Your Supervisor - Introduction - Choosing your supervisor - When to choose - What can you expect from your supervisor? - The role of the dissertation supervisor - Devise your own 'learning contract' - At the beginning of your supervision - Writing the dissertation - Meeting your supervisor - Reviewing draft chapters - How much supervision? - Making the most of constructive criticism and formative feedback - Common problems with supervision - Conclusion Chapter 3. Selecting Suitable Approaches to the Conduct of Dissertation Research - Introduction - Resistance to methodological discussion - Positive reasons for engaging in methodological discussion - Recognising the implications of the tension between different research methodologies - Avoiding the pitfalls of selecting an inappropriate methodology -
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Random House USA Inc The Courage of Compassion
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iUniverse A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Fraud Fraud
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Steam Ahead Publishing So you want to be a Tax Agent
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Essential Earth Pty Ltd WaterLover
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Harvard University Press Constitutional Construction Divided Powers and
Book SynopsisThe American Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect is the degree to which it acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and enforced by the courts. But according to Whittington, the Constitution also permeates politics itself, to guide and constrain political actors in the very process of making public policy.Trade ReviewMr. Whittington sees the Constitution not as an immutable legal document but as something more fluid and more mysterious, a powerful and authoritative force which constantly influences political outcomes while itself being subject to politics. Battles over constitutional construction are of course political battles...[and] Mr. Whittington has interesting things to say about the way these conflicts play out. -- Peter A. Jay * Washington Times *Constitutional Construction offers renewed vigor to a tired field and should provoke some fresh thinking by constitutional scholars. -- Jeremy Rabkin * Weekly Standard *This book is an important addition to modern constitutional theory. Whittington brings to life an old but not well understood idea--that constitutional development is the product of judicial interpretation and binding rules and of political practice. -- J. B. Grossman * Choice *Constitutional Construction is a fine example of institutional analysis...displays a fine feel for political nuance and sensitivity to institutional subtlety...shows that is possible to do exceptional political analysis without it becoming legalistic scholarship...[and is] exceptionally well written...Whittington's book demonstrates that political science profits handsomely from history. Political science without history isn't very good political science. And history without political science often amounts to little more than storytelling. The quality of this book's history is every bit as good as the quality of its political science. -- Craig Ducat * Law and Politics Book Review *This is a superb, pathbreaking book that demonstrates the dual nature of constitutional change. Through a subtle analysis of congressional-presidential politics, Whittington convincingly argues that the process by which constitutional meaning is defined is not solely the purview of the Supreme Court and lesser courts. He shows that the Constitution gains meaning as a result of the politics of construction engaged in by political actors seeking political and policy objectives...[Constitutional Construction] is must reading for a wide range of scholars of American institutions and political development, law and courts, history, and American political thought. -- Ronald Kahn * American Political Science Review *A major theoretical contribution to the perennial debate on the...fundamental, recurrent questions in American constitutional law. -- James E. Bond * Humane Studies Review *Whittington's book is among the most important recently published about constitutional theory and history. -- Mark Tushnet * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Constitutional Construction provides a needed corrective to the works of constitutional theorists who focus solely on jurisprudential issues...Whittington concludes that scholars need to look beyond the courts and recognize the multifaceted nature of the Constitution. -- Michael Ross * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Political Constitution 2. The Chase Impeachment and Shaping the Federal Judiciary 3. The Nullification Crisis and the Limits of National Power 4. Andrew Johnson and Executive Construction 5. Richard Nixon and the Leadership of the Modern State 6. Building the American Constitution Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Man and Wife in America
Book SynopsisExploring 150 years of American marriage, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage in the 19th century. He shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.Trade ReviewHendrik Hartog offers a revealing history of marital and legal struggles. The fascinating case histories scattered throughout personalize [his] larger legal and social points. -- Carolyn Alessio * Chicago Tribune *Hendrik Hartog’s book is particularly relevant in an era when debate over gay marriage is front-page news. The issues raised by this debate—the rights, responsibilities, and expectations of what marriage is and can do for individuals as well as constraints imposed by the marriage contract—are at the heart of the book, even though it is focused on traditional male/female marriages from the late eighteenth century to the 1950s… The volume is a very readable, well-written addition to the literature on legal history, family history, and women’s history. Hartog’s emphasis on the social and cultural context of changing marriage law is refreshing whether one agrees that women frequently benefited from coverture and traditional notions about marriage or not… [T]his book will bring the legal history of marriage to a larger audience of non-specialist academics and students. -- Altina Waller * American Historical Review *In addressing the history of marriage and divorce in America, Hendrik Hartog…[has] raised the bar for legal historians to dizzying heights… Man and Wife in America asks how nineteenth-century law shaped men and women’s understanding of the meaning of marriage and their self-identities as husbands and wives… Hartog’s focus, however, is on separation—a limbo between marriage and divorce—as a starting place to explore the law of marriage… [He] offers a more complicated, less-easily categorized, narrative. -- Felice Batlan * H-Net Reviews *This is a bold and provocative book, and although its principal themes are not novel, the idiosyncratic way in which Hartog develops them is… The boundlessness of Hartog’s research design together with the vastness of his chronological sweep would pose a serious problem in less able hands. For Hartog, however, both the boundlessness and vastness are part of his method. His frank denial of system in his scholarship with its echoes of postmodernism coincides nicely with one of his principle points: the untidy and indeterminate nature of American marriage laws… Hartog’s effort to recast the story of marriage law by underscoring its exceptions and complications is both interesting and important and is rendered with verve and imagination. The book is provocative and engaging; it should attract students as well as scholars; and it should become an integral part of scholarly discourse on Anglo-American marriage law and its long and controversial history. -- Norma Basch * Reviews in American History *Hartog, a history and law professor, examines the most basic social institution from a legal standpoint. He reviews important, precedent-setting cases that have formed American law on marriage and also examines the social context that produced the laws… Hartog charts the changes in law from the time when a woman’s legal identity derived from her husband to no-fault divorces and economic and social (e.g., feminism) trends in this interesting look at the legal institution of marriage. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *By locating and exploring the legal boundaries of marital behavior…Hartog is also able to say much about the social and economic context of marriages… Further, Hartog writes with great clarity and directness. The net result is that he has made a major contribution to the history of the American family with a book that, besides its scholarly excellence, is highly accessible to general readers. -- R. B. Lyman Jr. * Choice *Mining more than a century of case records, Hartog has written a book that will be an essential purchase for upper-level academic collections in legal or gender history. -- Robert F. Nardini * Library Journal *No one has done more than Hendrik Hartog to illuminate what it meant to be a husband or a wife in the nineteenth century. Wearing his immense and unique knowledge lightly, he ventures imaginatively into case after poignant case of marital escapade and contest, and makes this vivid landscape of struggling couples all the more meaningful for the present by revealing how the presence of law creeps into the most intimate corners of lives. -- Nancy Cott, author of Public Vows: A Political History of Marriage in the United StatesMan and Wife in America is a truly wonderful work. No one knows this subject as well as Hartog, and probably no one ever will. The result is a uniquely large and valuable contribution. One learns a great deal about cultural values, class relations, and gender, while meeting a host of striking characters. All in all, a magnificent achievement! -- John Demos, author of The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early AmericaHendrik Hartog is one of our most subtle and insightful legal historians, and a master storyteller. Man and Wife in America argues a stunningly original view of the meanings of marriage in the 19th century. A work of history that reads like a novel. -- Linda Gordon, author of The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionHartog gives the tangled subject of broken marriages a rich and instructive history. Through fascinating tales about men and women whose failed marriages led them to the law, he makes a major contribution to our understanding of American culture, past and present. Man and Wife in America is a compelling and important achievement that deserves a wide readership. -- Michael Grossberg, Editor, American Historical ReviewHartog illuminates the deep puzzles of the law of marriage, which effects more people, more profoundly, than any other field of law. Wise, imaginative, and learned, Man and Wife in America brings to life the marital conflicts and struggles that prompted judges to improvise solutions for unhappy spouses. Resolving mysteries about law’s practices, this book reveals the deeper mysteries of humans’ intimate connections. -- Martha Minow, Harvard Law SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scene of a Marriage 2. Abigail Bailey's Divorce 3. Early Exits 4. Being a Wife 5. Acting Like a Husband 6. Coercion and Harriet Douglas Cruger 7. John Barry and American Fatherhood 8. The Right to Kill 9. The Geography of Remarriage 10. Coverture in a New Age Epilogue A Note on Method Notes Index
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Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume provide focused examinations of the internal dynamics of intellectual and institutional Islamic law in modern Indonesia, together offering a substantive introduction to important developments in both the theory and practice of law in the world's most populous Muslim society.Trade ReviewThe book is a collection of well-written chapters analyzing Islamic law and society in the world's most populous Muslim state. In addition to contributing to Islamic legal studies, the volume includes highly accessible chapters that could be incorporated into undergraduate or graduate syllabi...A number of chapters deserve wide circulation. Overall, the volume is a welcome contribution to scholarship on Islamic law and society as well as political science. Scholars of Islamic law will appreciate the volume's solid empirical grounding. From these foundations, future scholars will be able to branch out beyond the study of the religious courts and Acehnese Shari'a...Political scientists should appreciate the accessibility of the chapters, which can be easily integrated into courses on law and politics. -- Jeremy Menchik * Law and Politics Book Review *This work is a much-needed addition to the literature on Islam in Indonesia and has established itself as a required reference for scholars interested in the state of Islamic legal thought and practice in contemporary Indonesia. -- Robert W. Hefner * Journal of Law and Religion *This book manages to provide an overall view of Islamic law in contemporary Indonesia and lives up to the promise of its title. For those who are interested to know more about the position of Islamic law in Indonesia, particularly its current development, this book is a must. The editors and writers should be congratulated for their hard work put into depicting the contemporary status of Islamic law in Indonesia. Researchers working on other Southeast Asia countries in particular would find it helpful to consider the position of the Indonesian legal system in view of the fact that their histories and destinies are intertwined. -- Farid Sufian Shuaib * Asian Journal of Comparative Law *
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Harvard University Press Convicting the Innocent
Book SynopsisDNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling analysis, Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 people exonerated by DNA testing, and proposes systemic reforms.Trade ReviewGarrett’s book is a gripping contribution to the literature of injustice, along with a galvanizing call for reform… It’s the stories in his book that stick in the memory. One can only hope that they will mobilize a broad range of citizens, liberal and conservative, to demand legislative and judicial reforms ensuring that the innocent go free whether or not the constable has blundered. -- Jeffrey Rosen * New York Times Book Review *Garrett’s book zooms out the view to give the reader a sense of the scope of the problems in our justice systems. But he does so in a way which I find both earnest and charitable. -- Andrew Cohen * The Atlantic *A uniquely valuable part of Garrett’s book is a statistical appendix that provides a quantitative overview of the false convictions, their consequences, and the factors that contributed to them… It is hard to imagine seven pages more damaging to the claims of our system of criminal justice. -- Richard C. Lewontin * New York Review of Books *Looking at the 250 people exonerated through DNA as of February 2010, Garrett aimed to determine how often…malignant factors had warped the criminal justice process at the expense of an innocent person (and to the benefit of an actual criminal who went unpursued). Garrett tracked down court transcripts and dug into case files. He then sliced, diced, sifted and collated the data. Some law professors would take a pass on this kind of grunt work. Garrett did not, and our justice system can be the better for it. -- Kevin Doyle * America *This book details some of the worst miscarriages of justice in U.S. history and describes how DNA evidence helped to right those wrongs… The book, what must be the most thorough treatment yet of wrongful convictions, is a first-rate examination of the human foibles and conflicts of interest hampering the pursuit of justice. -- A. C. Mobley * Choice *While false convictions are a recognized phenomenon, Garrett focuses much needed attention on potential solutions, offering concrete suggestions for reform. * Publishers Weekly *For six years now I have worked diligently within the innocence movement, and I often hear the question: ‘How do wrongful convictions happen?’ Convicting the Innocent gives all the answers. It is a fascinating study of what goes wrong, and it clearly shows that virtually all wrongful convictions could have been avoided. -- John GrishamDNA testing is revolutionizing our system of criminal justice: this book shows why. By digging deep into the case files of exonerees, Brandon Garrett uncovers what went wrong in those cases and probably in many more we simply can’t know about. Garrett makes a powerful case for how to improve criminal justice so that we dramatically reduce the number of wrongly convicted. -- Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, The Innocence ProjectThis is an invaluable book, a comprehensive, highly readable but well-researched work examining the hows and whys of the law’s ultimate nightmare—convicting the innocent. -- Scott Turow, author of InnocentIt’s common to say that DNA exonerations of innocent defendants provide a unique window on the weaknesses in our system of criminal investigation and trial. But what exactly do we see when we look through that window? Until now the answer has been pretty sketchy. Brandon Garrett has produced a far more detailed and complete picture of the lessons of DNA exonerations than anything else to date. This is an indispensable book for anyone wanting to understand or improve American criminal justice. -- Samuel R. Gross, Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law, University of MichiganHow can we stop sending innocent people to our prisons? As you turn the pages of this important and startling book, you will come to realize that wrongful convictions are not accidents. They are the tragic result of a criminal justice system in deep need of reform. -- Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
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Harvard University Press Reconstructing Contracts
Book SynopsisDouglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver Wendell Holmes’s set of principles, properly understood, continues to provide the best guide to contracts for a new generation of students, practitioners, and judges.Trade ReviewDouglas Baird's book is an excellent, non-technical introduction to the law and economics of contracts that is geared to the law student or even the non-economically oriented law professor who wants to be introduced to the field through what by consensus are the most famous cases. -- Ian Ayres, Yale Law SchoolReconstructing Contracts is an excellent primer for students (and professors) who are beginning to think seriously about the design of American contract law. I expect it to become a go-to text for first-year law students. -- Edward R. Morrison, University of Chicago Law School
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Harvard University Press Not Enough
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNo one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights than Samuel Moyn…In Not Enough, Moyn asks whether human-rights theorists and advocates, in the quest to make the world better for all, have actually helped to make things worse…This book, like the author’s last, is the rare academic study that is sure to provoke a wider discussion about important political and economic questions. -- Adam Kirsch * Wall Street Journal *[Moyn] effectively provincializes an ineffectual and obsolete Western model of human rights…Moyn’s book is part of a renewed attention to the political and intellectual ferment of decolonialisation, and joins a sharpening interrogation of the liberal order and the institutions of global governance created by, and arguably for, Pax Americana…[The book’s] critical—and self-critical—energy is consistently bracing, and is surely a condition of restoring the pursuit of equality and justice as an indispensable modern tradition. -- Pankaj Mishra * London Review of Books *No one has done more than Samuel Moyn to unsettle the story of human rights as a triumphal march of upgrades from Magna Carta to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…Not Enough asks us to rethink what human rights might accomplish if they were deployed not simply to set limits on state power, but to harness that power for the purpose of fostering economic equality. -- Benjamin Nathans * New York Review of Books *[S]peaks to the urgency of our contemporary politics… In Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, Moyn suggests that our current vocabularies of global justice—above all our belief in the emancipatory potential of human rights—need to be discarded if we are work to make our vastly unequal world more equal… Best read as a companion history to Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Not Enough explains how—across the fields of development, moral advocacy, philosophy, and governmental policy—the ideal of sufficiency gradually supplanted what was once an ideal of equality for all… The apparent paradox exposed in Not Enough is what makes the book another tour de force: what are we to make of the fact that our age of human rights was coterminous with the age of neoliberalism? …Moyn implores us to consider: what is the value content of justice in our age of human rights, and how do we try to rectify inequality, if the social and economic rights enumerated in international human rights law put no ceiling on wealth creation? -- Patrick William Kelly * Los Angeles Review of Books *Why do the grimmest obscenities of economic inequality barely register on the human rights agenda? What is the historical explanation for this? Moyn’s book offers fresh and nuanced insight into these questions, surveying a dizzying array of protagonists, from eighteenth-century Jacobin revolutionaries to late twentieth-century Princeton postgrads. -- Adam Etinson * Times Literary Supplement *Not Enough makes it impossible to conceive of the current status of human rights in the same way again…[It] leads the critical and ethical heart to beat much faster. -- Mark Goodale * Boston Review *An engaging and illuminating intellectual history of the rivalry between those focused on rights and those who have insisted on a more substantively egalitarian approach to emancipation…Intended to help everyone, from policymakers to political theorists, avoid the mistakes of the past in order to shape the future more fairly. * Commonweal *Samuel Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness. If we don’t address the growing global phenomenon of economic inequality, the human rights movement as we know it cannot survive or flourish. -- George SorosPromises to cement [Moyn’s] reputation as one of the most trenchant critics of ‘liberal humanitarian’ foreign policy. -- Jon Baskin * Chronicle of Higher Education *[A] marvelous book. -- Nils Gilman * Los Angeles Review of Books *Human rights do not seem to be enough in our era of unshared affluence. Samuel Moyn’s fascinating and highly timely book explores how we ended up here despite the higher hopes for humanity pursued by multiple political and philosophical movements over the last two hundred years. This is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the present age with its overwhelming challenges and breathtaking possibilities. -- Mathias Risse, author of On Global JusticeA brilliantly conceived and much-needed book on human rights and inequality. Moyn has a genius for writing history that is intelligent, surprising, and disciplined by fine judgment. -- Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature: A Politics for the AnthropoceneMoyn provides important insights into how international and domestic inequalities have increased in recent decades…[His] trenchant critique of classical liberal economic and political thought questions many long-standing human rights assumptions. An important addition to the literature. -- C. E. Welch * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Chevron Doctrine
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Harvard University Press Forbidden Grounds
Book SynopsisThis timely and controversial book presents powerful theoretical and empirical arguments for the repeal of the anti-discrimination laws within the workplace.Trade ReviewEpstein has convinced me…that the abuses of the anti-discrimination laws are so intimately connected with misconceptions in the laws themselves that any benefits from them will always be far outweighed by the harm they do. -- Harry V. Jaffa * Wall Street Journal *Forbidden Grounds covers not only laws on racial discrimination but also sex discrimination, age discrimination and disability discrimination. Never has the whole range of anti-discrimination laws been subjected to such a thorough and penetrating critique. No one who writes on this subject again can be taken seriously if he [or she] does not confront the analysis presented here by Epstein. -- Thomas Sowell * Forbes *
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Harvard University Press The Republic of Choice
Book SynopsisIn this exploration of modern legal culture, Friedman addresses how the contemporary idea of individual rights has altered the legal systems and authority structures of Western societies. Every aspect of law, he arguesfrom civil rights to personal-injury litigation to divorce lawhas been profoundly reshaped, reflecting the power of this concept.Trade ReviewFriedman’s book is a bold, imaginative, and carefully reasoned effort to describe the major characteristics of modern American law and its underlying social norms. Law, he urges, is not an autonomous discipline; it grows out of changing popular demands and values. How and why popular legal culture changed during the last century and a half is one important theme of this work. -- Maxwell Bloomfield, The Catholic University of AmericaThis book synthesizes much that has been going on in American culture, both in general attitudes and more specifically with respect to law and legal culture. There are few legal scholars that have Friedman’s breadth of background across a vast range of legal issues, and this shows in the wide variety of materials and examples that are brought to bear in behalf of his central thesis. The central theme that we are becoming a ‘republic of choice’ is given a fresh and inviting statement, one that will surely provoke interest. -- Stanton Wheeler, Yale Law SchoolThis is the first book that draws on the social research about law that has burgeoned in the last twenty years to produce a general interpretive characterization of contemporary American society. It is full of keen and original observations about the ‘legal culture’ and the public consciousness that informs and expresses it. -- Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin Law SchoolTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Legalism and Individualism 3. Modernity and the Rise of the Individual 4. Technology and Change 5. On Modern Legal Culture 6. The Chosen Republic 7. Gods, Kings, and Movie Stars 8. Crime, Sexuality, and Social Disorganization 9. The Life-Style Society 10. A Stab at Assessment Appendix: Social Meanings of Key Terms Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Sexual Orientation and the Law
Book SynopsisAttitudes toward homosexuality range from condemnation to pity to indifference to respect. This range of viewpoints also appears in the legal community, reflected in legislation, legal decisionmaking, and legal scholarship. Sexual Orientation and the Law examines the legal problems faced by gay men and lesbians: the interaction between gays and the criminal justice system; discrimination in public and private employment; first amendment issues posed by gay students and teachers in public schools and universities; legal problems faced in same-sex relationships; child custody and visitation rights, as well as the ability to become foster and adoptive parents; and other contexts, including immigration, insurance, incorporation of gay rights organizations, and local legislation to prevent sexual orientation discrimination. The Introduction establishes a theoretical framework for approaching gay and lesbian legal issues, and an Afterword updates the comprehensive coverage of all legal developments through the summer of 1989. This review and analysis of the current state of the law is an important part of the discussion and debate that will make antigay discrimination recognized as a legitimate issue and gay concerns part of the mainstream of legal discourse.
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Harvard University Press Sexy Dressing Etc Essay the Power and Politics of Cultural Identity
Book SynopsisKennedy argues that American radicalism is possible and desirable. One base for radical politics is the institutional workplace; another is popular culture (hence, sexy dressing). Kennedy's aim is to wed the rebelliousness, irony, and irrationalism of cultural modernism and postmodernism to the earnestness of political correctness.Trade ReviewWhat these essays have in common, besides wit and provocative argument, is Kennedy’s understanding that we come to know the world based upon situational perspectives and lifestyles. * Choice *Kennedy’s book offers a dazzling one-man show with many voices. It reveals a man of the left, without a trace of puritanism or ideological correctness; a blithe and antic spirit, with a wholly serious program for critical scholars and activists of promoting freedom through small, local, practical acts of analysis, reimagination, resistance, and organization. -- Robert Gordon, Stanford Law SchoolTable of ContentsPreface 1. Radical Intellectuals in American Culture and Politics, or My Talk at the Gramsci Institute 2. A Cultural Pluralist Case for Affirmative Action in Legal Academia 3. The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault! 4. Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing, and the Eroticization of Domination Notes Index
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