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Clarus Press Ltd Essentials of Irish Law
Book SynopsisThis book covers all of the core legal subjects including: constitutional law, EU law, the Irish legal system, contract law, tort, criminal law, land law and equity, employment law, family law and jurisprudence. Reflecting all new relevant constitutional, statutory and judicial developments, it is both a complete introduction to Irish law for students coming to the subject for the first time as well as a handy and accessible reference work for practitioners who wish to refresh their knowledge of the principles of a particular area.Table of Contents• The Irish Legal System • Constitutional Law • Law of Contract • Criminal Law • Company Law • Employment Law • EU Law • Family Law • Law of Torts • Jurisprudence • Land Law & Equity
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Straightforward Publishing An Emerald Guide To Managing Residential
Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to managing residential property.
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Straightforward Publishing Managing Commerical Property: A Straightforward
Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to the management of commercial property.
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Straightforward Publishing Company Law
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Straightforward Publishing A Guide To The English Legal System
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Straightforward Publishing Managing Personal Bankruptcy - Alternatives To
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de Gruyter Medizin Und Gesundheitsrecht
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Walter de Gruyter Sozialversicherungsrecht Und Sgb II
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts BVerfGE
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Kohlhammer W. Beamtenrecht BadenWurttemberg
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Kohlhammer W. Offentliches Recht
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Die öffentliche Hand als Bieter im
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Rechtliche Herausforderungen Der Beschulung Von Schulerinnen Und Schulern Mit EmotionalSozialem Forderbedarf
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Das Wettbewerbsregister Ein neues
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Faktische Durchsetzungsdefizite im Vollzugssystem
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Verlag Karl Alber Polizei Und Ordnungsrecht Hessen
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Nomos Verlags GmbH Bundesverfassungsgerichtsgesetz
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Migranten an Der Grenze
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Wydawnictwo Nasza Wiedza Prawa konstytucyjne i osoby niepenosprawne
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Edições Nosso Conhecimento A base para a revisão judicial no Supremo Tribunal Federal do Iraque
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Editions Notre Savoir Le Droit À La Mémoire À La Vérité Et À La Justice
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The University of Chicago Press Commentaries on the Laws of England V 1 A
Book SynopsisSir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece. Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.
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The University of Chicago Press Commentaries on the Laws of England Vol.2 A
Book SynopsisSir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece. Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.
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The University of Chicago Press The Mysterious Science of the Law
Book SynopsisReferred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's "Commentaries" on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. This work examines why "Commentaries" became the knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction I: The Law: Science and Mystery II: The Use of History III: The Tendency of History IV: The Use of Aesthetics V: The Limits of Reason VI: The Methods of Reason VII: Humanity VIII: Liberty IX: Property Conclusion: The Advantage of Being a Reasonable Creature Notes A Layman's Glossary Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Firm the Market and the Law
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on economics which focus on the practical implications of theory.
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The University of Chicago Press The Chicago Guide to FactChecking Chicago Guides
Book SynopsisProviding an innovative and accessible perspective on how civil rights legislation affects the lives of ordinary Americans, this work argues for a radical new understanding of rights. The study is based on interviews with those who had experienced discrimination on disability issues.
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The University of Chicago Press Mehinaku The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian
Book SynopsisFocusing on the language and symbols of reform, Fineman argues that by advocating measures based on equality of treatment rather than of outcome, liberal feminists disregarded the socioeconomic factors that simultaneously place women at a disadvantage in the market and favor their taking on primary domestic responsibilities.
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The University of Chicago Press The Constitutional Underclass Gays Lesbians and
Book SynopsisUsing Colorado's initiative with Amendment 2 as its focus, this text seeks to untangle the complex standards and subtle rhetoric the Supreme Court uses to apply the equal protection clause. It reveals how these standards are used to favour certain groups over others.
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University of Chicago Press The Collected Works of Justice Holmes Complete
Book SynopsisSure to be the standard reference for all subsequent scholarship.John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book ReviewA critical contribution to legal literature, and definitely worth having.Peter J. Messitte, TrialTable of ContentsVOLUME ONE Foreword: Editorial Principles Introduction The History of this Edition A Brief Biography of Justice Holmes Holmes's Philosophy and Jurisprudence: Origin and Development of Principal Themes A Critical Assessment Nonjudicial Works Youthful Works Introduction Undergraduate essays, addresses, and poems Civil War Poems, Obituaries The American Law Review 1867-1873 Introduction Digests of Cases Articles, comments, and book notices VOLUME TWO Introduction Holmes's Notes to Kent's Commentaries VOLUME THREE Articles in Preparation for The Common Law The Common Law Later Writings Speeches (1913 edition) Uncollected and Unpublished Addresses
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University of Chicago Press Law and the Economy in Colonial India
Book SynopsisSince the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it's widely acknowledged that India's legal infrastructure is in urgent need of reform, plagued by problems, including slow enforcement of contracts and land laws that differ from state to state. How has this situation arisen, and what can boost business confidence and encourage long-run economic growth? Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy trace the beginnings of the current Indian legal system to the years of British colonial rule. They show how India inherited an elaborate legal system from the British colonial administration, which incorporated elements from both British Common Law and indigenous institutions. In the case of property law, especially as it applied to agricultural land, indigenous laws and local political expediency were more influential in law-making than concepts borrowed from European legal theory. Conversely, with commercial law, there was considerable borrowing from Europe. In all cases, the British struggled with limited capacity to enforce their laws and an insufficient knowledge of the enormous diversity and differentiation within Indian society. A disorderly body of laws, not conducive to production and trade, evolved over time. Roy and Swamy's careful analysis not only sheds new light on the development of legal institutions in India, but also offers insights for India and other emerging countries through a look at what fosters the types of institutions that are key to economic growth.
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The University of Chicago Press Law Family and Women Toward a Legal Anthropology
Book SynopsisFocusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts allows him to present a compelling image of the social processes that affected the shape and function of the law. The numerous law courts of Italian city-states constantly devised and revised statutes. Kuehn traces the permutations of these laws, then examines their use by Florentines to arbitrate conflict and regulate social behavior regarding such issues as kinship, marriage, business, inheritance, illlegitimacy, and gender. Ranging from one man's embittered denunciation of his father to another's reaction to his kinsmen's rejection of him as illegitimate, Law, Family, and Women provides fascinating evidence of the tensions riddling family life in Renaissance Florence. Kuehn shows how these same tensions, often articulated in and throu
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University of Chicago Press The Spirits and the Law
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Columbia University Press Sappho Goes to Law School
Book SynopsisDrawing on concepts taken from US law and legal theory, postmodernism and queer theory, as well as the author's own experience in the courtroom and classroom, this book examines the complexities of lesbian identity and the often detrimental ways in which legal scholarship approaches lesbianism.
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Columbia University Press Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes
Book SynopsisFocusing on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the century before the First Opium War, Li Chen highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West and foreign extraterritoriality in China.Trade ReviewJust when we thought no one could offer any new approach to the subject of the Sino-Western encounter during the early modern period, this book pulls us back in. Li Chen sets a new standard for any future study on this topic. -- Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York UniversityLi Chen makes a gift of his expertise in legal history to readers of every level. He not only reinterprets monumental historical episodes in the relations between China and Europe but also builds on this platform a cultural history of European perceptions of punishment, justice, and state prerogative in China. Anybody considering legal history an arcane or marginal element of late Qing history and its international relations will have to reconsider. -- Pamela Kyle Crossley, Dartmouth CollegeChinese Law in Imperial Eyes is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of Chinese law and cultural studies. Li Chen's sophisticated analyses and wide-ranging archive illuminate the complex and fascinating encounter between Chinese and European legal traditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. -- Teemu Ruskola, Emory University School of LawThe discussion of the conceptual differences between Chinese and Western legal orders, public and private, codified and non-codified law is so fascinating and fundamental that it stands as one of the signal contributions of the volume. . . . Sets a very high bar for new studies, and will be a standard for many years to come. * American Historical Review *Extensively researched and well-written.... The aspiration of the author to restore the centrality of legal matters to Sino-Western interactions is clearly achieved. * H-Empire *Engages different discursive levels and reveals the evolution and diffusion of knowledge of the Chinese law, from rational to sentimental perspectives. * Frontiers of History in China *Chen's Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, not only provides a much needed and significant contribution, but could be regarded as quite the masterpiece, outlining the importance of legal discourses to Sino-Western encounters from the eighteenth century onwards. * Chinese Historical Review *Li Chen has delivered a carefully crafted and highly articulate study that will soon be required reading for students of comparative law, imperialism, and Sino-western relations in general. * Journal of Chinese History *A confident exemplar of a now-flourishing field. * English Historical Review *Enriches discourses on legal, intellectual, and political dimensions of modern Sino-Western relations. * Choice *In this nuanced and convincing study, Li Chen not only probes why and how oversimplified, reductive culturalist interpretations of Sino-Western legal collisions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries became dominant, but also pushes past the discourses of Euro-Americentric hegemonic creep typically found in revisionist scholarship. * Journal of East Asian Studies *This is a critical book for understanding a mutually influential relationship, as both Chinese and Western empires struggled to create their own legal identities and forge stable international practices. . . . With this book, Li Chen has equipped historians with an essential vision of the origins of longstanding presumptions about Chinese law. * Frontier of Literary Studies in China *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Imperial Archives and Historiography of Western Extraterritoriality in China2. Translation of the Qing Code and Colonial Origins of Comparative Chinese Law3. Chinese Law in the Formation of European Modernity4. Sentimental Imperialism and the Global Spectacle of Chinese Punishments5. Law and Empire in the Making of the First Opium WarConclusionList of AbbreviationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Architectural Building Codes
Book SynopsisArchitectural Building Codes by James G. Scott All architects musthave a solid working knowledge of building codes. Noncompliancemeans facing strained schedules and budgets at best, and lawsuitsat worst. Yet until now, no resource has been available toprofessionals that demystifies architectural building codes instraightforward, easy-to-understand language, with a unique graphicpresentation. James G. Scott''s Architectural Building Codes slicesthrough the technical, legal, and bureaucratic jargon of buildingcodes with a direct, engaging style. Beginning with the assumptionthat building codes are by nature complex and difficult tounderstand, Mr. Scott provides both the theoretical principles andpractical grounding all architectural professionals need toefficiently incorporate code regulations into their designs. Theauthor bridges the gap between theory and application, turning thearcane, impenetrable rules of building codes into usable concepts.The material is cogently organized from geTable of ContentsCodes, Standards, and Other Regulations. Administration. Use of Occupancy. Special Occupancy. General Building Limitations. Type of Construction. Fire-Resistant Materials and Construction. Interior Finishes. Fire Protection Systems. Means of Egress. Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities and the Americanswith Disabilities Act. Interior Environment. Energy Conservation. Exterior Wall Coverings. Roofs and Roof Structures. Structural Loads, Tests, and Inspections. Foundations and Retaining Walls. Building Materials. Elevators and Conveying Systems. Plumbing and Mechanical. Conclusion. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The First Legal Answer Book for FundRaisers
Book SynopsisCritical legal information for enhancing and expanding the activities of charitable fund-raisers As the competition for gifts grows increasingly intense, managers and fund-raisers for charitable organizations must learn how to work with tax and business law to optimize their return.Table of ContentsThe Basics: What Every Fund-Raiser Should Know About the Law. Public Charity Status. Tax Exemption Application. Charitable Contribution Deduction Rules. Planned Giving. Unrelated Business Activities. Fund-Raisers' Compensation. Annual Information Returns. State Law Regulation. Endnotes. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Interior Design Law and Business Practices
Book SynopsisYou dona t have to learn your lessons the hard way anymore. Most designers have to learn their lessons through time and experience when it comes to the business and legal aspects of starting and running an interior design firm. Now, Interior Design Law and Business Practices makes the hard lessons easy.Table of ContentsStarting an Interior Design Business. The Business of Interior Design (N. Lewis). Running the Business. Marketing Interior Design Services (R. Brandt). Accounting for Interior Designers (J. Beck). Professional Liability Insurance for Designers (J. Monteleone &B. Eisler). Interior Design Contracts. Contracts with Contractors. Licensing of Products. Purchasing Furniture and Selecting Products. Legal Disputes. New Areas of Concern for Interior Designers. Appendix. Index.
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Wiley Behaviour Crime Legal Processes A Guide for
Book SynopsisThis work explicitly sets out to close the gaps in professional practice, such as law, psychiatry, and the behavioural and social sciences and to address the questions that arise at the meeting-points and cross-roads of different backgrounds and spheres of activity.Trade Review"..there is a lot to recommend in this book.." (Legal &Criminological Psychotherapy, February 2002)Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. About the Contributors. Foreword by Dilys Jones. Preface. PART I: BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES AND LEGAL PROCESSES. Behavioural Sciences Applied to Forensic and Legal Contexts (J.McGuire, et al.). The Legal Context: Obstacle or Opportunity? (D. Carson). Psychology and Police Investigation (P. Ainsworth). Factors Influencing Witness Evidence (A. Memon & D.Wright). Psycho-legal Studies as an Interface Discipline (N. Eastman). Decision-Making in Legal Settings (J. McEwan). PART II: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. Explanations of Offence Behaviour (J. McGuire). Psychosis and Offending (A. O'Kane & R. Bentall). Risk Assessment and Prediction (R. Blackburn). Systems of Services (D. Heywood). Care and Management in the Community (T. Mason). Treatment of Sexual Deviation and Aggression (J. Hird). Treatment Approaches with Mentally Disordered Offenders (A.Grounds). Effective Interventions, Service and Policy Implications (J.McGuire, et al.). Index.
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Wiley Behaviour Crime and Legal Processes
Book SynopsisAreas of professional practice, such as law, psychiatry, and the behavioural and social sciences, overlap at numerous points in terms of underlying concepts and basic research.Trade Review"I strongly recommend it to practitioners, researches and students alike in psychology, psychiatry, social work, the probation and prison services, law and policing." (Expert Evidence, Vol 15, 2001) "..enjoyable and thought provoking, it is a positive contribution to the debate.." (Criminal Justice, Vol.1, No.2)Table of ContentsBEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES AND LEGAL PROCESSES. Behavioural Sciences Applied to Forensic and Legal Contexts (J. McGuire, et al.). The Legal Context: Obstacle or Opportunity? (D. Carson). Psychology and Police Investigation (P. Ainsworth). Factors Influencing Witness Evidence (A. Memon & D. Wright). Psycho-legal Studies as an Interface Discipline (N. Eastman). Decision-Making in Legal Settings (J. McEwan). RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. Explanations of Offence Behaviour (J. McGuire). Psychosis and Offending (A. O'Kane & R. Bentall). Risk Assessment and Prediction (R. Blackburn). Systems of Services (D. Heywood). Care and Management in the Community (T. Mason). Treatment of Sexual Deviation and Aggression (J. Hird). Treatment Approaches with Mentally Disordered Offenders (A. Grounds). Effective Interventions, Service and Policy Implications (J. McGuire, et al.). Index.
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University of California Press Justice in South Africa
Book SynopsisAn informative account of what happens to a society when it officially insists on a legal order that systematically denies the overwhelming majority of its population the minimum requirements of justice.
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University of California Press Gender Trials
Book SynopsisAn ethnography that examines the gendered nature of large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, it discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals.
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University of California Press Gypsy Law
Book SynopsisApproximately one thousand years ago Gypsies, or Roma, left their native India. Today Gypsies can be found in countries throughout the world. This book examines the Romani legal system, an autonomous body of law based on an oral tradition and existing alongside dominant national legal networks.
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Harvard University Press Agent Orange on Trial
Book SynopsisRecounts the courtroom confrontation between millions of ex-soldiers, the chemical industry and the federal government, from the first stirrings of the lawyers in 1978 to the court plan to distribute a record two-hundred-million-dollar settlement in 1985.Trade Review[Schuck] brilliantly tells the story of the class action suit brought by thousands of Vietnam veterans against the chemical companies that manufactured the herbicide. He probes deeply into the strategies of plaintiffs' lawyers, the novel defenses invoked, and the sitting judge's role…For general readers as well as scholars, this is a fascinating trip through the complexities of the law and the all-too-human response by all concerned. * Library Journal *Extraordinary…In addition to providing a clear, easily grasped, but sophisticated summary of the evolution of tort law, [Schuck] shows how the Agent Orange case was a great morality play, a cathartic drama about the Vietnam War and about America's dismal treatment of the soldiers who fought it…These pages offer the finest in investigative journalism and are destined to join the ranks of classics in legal literature…It is a first rate introduction to the world of tort law, a tour de force of legal narrative, and a deeply thoughtful consideration of policy reform. * Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law *A blow-by-blow account of the ferocious six year legal battle…In vivid, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Schuck portrays the primary actors—judges, lawyers, clerks, and individual veterans—in a Dickensian drama of personality clashes, misguided idealism, power struggles, greed, immeasurable suffering and bitter disillusionment. * USA Today *An engrossing tale of naive, angry veterans, their crusading, often self-serving lawyers, well-heeled chemical companies, and both ineffective and brilliant judges…Schuck relates this complex drama with colorful, novelistic detail, while always keeping present the essential purpose of his book, which is a critical analysis of the evolution of tort (personal injury) law in times of mass toxic disasters (asbestos, Bhopal, etc., as well as Agent Orange) and the growing use of class-action lawsuits to deal with them. * Los Angeles Times *Table of ContentsI. THE CONTEXT 1. A New Kind of Case 2. The Chemical and the Courts II. THE CASE 3. The Agent Orange War 4. Judge Pratt Rules 5. Discovery Begins 6. Three-Cornered Struggle 7. Enter Judge Weinstein 8. Fashioning a Settlement 9. A Question of Fairness 10. Compensations 11. The Final Act III. THE FUTURE 12. Versions of Legal Reality 13. Alternatives Afterword Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Reforming Products Liability
Book SynopsisDrawing on liability insurance trends and litigation patterns, Viscusi shows that the products liability crisis is has been developing for decades. He argues that the principal causes have been the expansion of the doctrine of design defect, the emergence of mass toxic torts, and an increase in lawsuits involving hazard warnings.Trade ReviewKip Viscusi presents a careful and compelling indictment of the modern system of product liability law, which skillfully weaves together economic theory, legal doctrine, and statistical and anecdotal evidence. The book should become a standard reference for readers in all relevant disciplines who are interested in the pros and cons of product liability reform. -- Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law SchoolThe standard view of the products liability crisis, largely based on anecdotal evidence, proclaims that the most important policy goal is to reduce tort claims and insurance premiums. This outstanding book, based on systematic, empirical investigation, tells us how to improve the product liability regime for consumers and injury victims as well as for manufacturers and their insurers. -- Paul C. Weiler, Harvard Law SchoolTable of ContentsPreface 1. Diagnosing the Liability Crisis Perspectives on Liability Reform Recent Trends in Products Liability Proposals for Reform 2. The Dimensions of the Liability Crisis Accident Rates Decline, But Litigation Soars The Surge in Asbestos Litigation Insurance Industry Trends Roots of the Insurance Crisis, 1980-1984 Other Economic Effects of Products Liability The Design Defect Doctrine and Hazard Warnings 3. The Litigation Process The Overall Structure of Products Liability Litigation Court Verdicts Claims Settled Out of Court Cases That Are Dropped Using Economic Models to Assess Reform Proposals 4. The Design Defect Test A Case Study of Risk-Utility Tradeoffs Risk-Utility Analysis The Producer as Insurer Alternative Risk-Utility Measures On the Threshold of Marketability Who Decides? Proposals for Restructuring the Product Defect Test 5. The Explosive Mathematics of Damages The Insurance Value and the Deterrence Value of Damages Inflation and the Increase in Verdict Awards Noneconomic Damages Has Voodoo Economics Come to the Courts? Applying the Value of Life: The Ford Pinto Case Proposals for Setting Damages 6. Regulation of Product Safety The Adequacy of Incentives Regulatory Violations and Products Liability Litigation Restructuring the Institutional Interactions 7. Hazard Warnings The Objectives of Hazard Warnings Assessing the Quality of Warnings Warnings and the Risk-Utility Test Regulatory Compliance Toward a National Warnings Policy 8. Environmental and Mass Toxic Torts The Market Paradigm and Why It Fails Products Liability--an Inadequate Remedy Agent Orange and the Economic Stakes of Mass Toxic Torts Compensation Funds Strategies for Mass Toxic Torts 9. Workers' Compensation Lessons from the Workers' Compensation Experience Job-Related Products Liability Claims and Workers' Compensation 10. Will Products Liability Reform Matter? Insurance Availability Products Liability Definitions State-of-the-Art Defenses Statutes of Limitation Collateral Source Rules and Damage Rules Effects on Premiums Conclusion 11. A Strategy for Principled Products Liability Reform Appendix A: Products Liability Costs in Different Industries Appendix B: The Litigation of Job-Related Claims Notes Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Sexual Science and the Law
Book SynopsisFocuses on the interplay between sexual science and legal decision-making, giving insights into such controversial social and sexual topics as rape, pornography, lesbian motherhood, and sex discrimination. Green examines how the law weighs the desires of the individual against social standards.Table of ContentsFornication; child custody and homosexual parents; homosexuality as a fundamental right; homosexuals as a suspect class; immigration and homosexuality; transexualism; pornography; intergenerational sexuality; sex education; prostitution; abortion; surgical or chemical castration of sex offenders; sex-linked defenses to criminal behaviour; sexual science and sexual privacy.
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Harvard University Press Trading Up
Book SynopsisVogel challenges conventional wisdom that trade liberalization and agreements promoting free trade undermine national health, safety, and environmental standards. He analyzes international and regional trade agreements and treaties, unraveling the important and contentious relationship between trade and environmental, health, and safety standards.Trade ReviewThis interesting book systematically examines the original European Community, the Single European Act, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its 1979 standards code, the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Area, and the more recent North American Free Trade Agreement...Vogel finds that, while counterexamples do exist, trade liberalization on balance has strongly reinforced environment-improving regulations. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *Trading Up tackles the increasingly prominent and controversial relationship between trade and regulatory/environmental policies...[It] is well written, with a wealth of sometimes off-beat detail, and will repay reading. * Journal of Environmental Law *This book is a pioneering contribution to the growing literature on the relationship between trade policy and protective regulation...[It] is a required reading not only for students and practitioners of international trade but all those involved in the making of environmental and regulatory standards. -- P. V. Mutalik-Desai * International Journal of Development Banking *Trading Up is not the only book on trade and environment...But it is the one of the most probable interest to most political scientists. It opens the way to many research inquiries on the outcomes of the various linkages and of their possible global extension...The outcomes of these linkages and their successes or failures may provide many dissertations, articles, and books in coming decades. -- Lynton K. Caldwell * American Political Science Review *When I teach international economics, students invariably ask me how to distinguish a protectionist barrier to trade from a legitimate health rule. This book provides a rich collection of cases to show how international trade agreements and their dispute settlement procedures have answered this question. The book centers around the question of how increased economic integration affects consumer safety...The results of the theoretical models are supplemented through rigorous empirical studies. The endnotes of each chapter provide crucial information to readers. The study is comprehensive and well-documented with an exhaustive list of references. The author provides a European perspective on the [Federal Reserve's] exchange rate policies in comparison to those of the Bundesbank's...This book is well-written, interesting and informative, and particularly good at describing how trade and regulatory disputes have been resolved. Teachers of international, environmental, or consumer economics should note that this book is written in an easily-accessible style, and is suitable for students. -- Shannon K. Mitchell * Southern Economic Journal *The book's coverage is broad. It treats efforts to promote free trade within Europe and throughout the world. It examines consumer issues, environmental issues, and the many issues that fall in between. It encompasses legal, economic, and political disputes. Few authors could have mastered all these topics, but fortunately Vogel is up to the task...The basic message of Trading Up cannot be ignored by students of the consumer movement...Vogel convinces us that, for the foreseeable future, it will be impossible to study the consumer or environmental movements without simultaneously considering trade policy. -- Robert N. Mayer * Journal of Consumer Affairs *Table of ContentsNational Regulation in the Global Economy Protectionism versus Consumer Protection in Europe Environmental Regulation and the Single European Market Greening the GATT Food Safety and International Trade Baptists and Bootleggers in the United States Reducing Trade Barriers in North America The California Effect Notes Abbreviations Index
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Vietnam War on Trial The My Lai Massacre and
Book SynopsisThe military trial of William Calley for his role in the slaughter of 500 or more Vietnamese civilians at My Lai shocked a nation already sharply divided over a controversial war. This work is a retelling of the My Lai story through the prism of the law.Trade ReviewA wise, discerning, and powerful account of a notable trial that illuminates the larger meaning of the Vietnam War. Belknap's extraordinary analysis of the My Lai story skillfully explores the atrocities, the cover-up, and the political manipulation of the affair, and takes us beyond contemporary journalism to the complex history of what happened - and why. Stanley Kutler, Author Of The Wars Of Watergate; ""I thought I'd overdosed on books about Vietnam years ago, but this one is terrific. It somehow manages to maintain its balance without losing its power to mesmerize. Vietnam junkies and novices alike can not help but be affected by it."" John Hart Ely, Author Of War And Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons Of Vietnam And Its Aftermath
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