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New England Law Review‘s 1st issue of Volume 51: Symposium on Behavioral Legal Ethics and Dealing with Mistakes
The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This first issue of Volume 51 (2017) features an extensive and important Symposium, “Behavioral Legal Ethics,” with contributions by Catherine Gage O’Grady, Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Nancy L. Sachs, Donald C. Langevoort, Tigran W. Eldred, and Wallace J. Mlyniec. The issue also includes an essay by Elizabeth M. Schneider, “Why Feminist Legal Theory Still Needs Mary Joe Frug: Thoughts on Conflicts in Feminism,” in honor of the late Professor Frug. In addition, extensive student research examines Church’s chicken sandwich trademark, whistleblowing from the bench, rethinking student discipline in Massachusetts schools,…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s Apr. ’17 issue: Developments in the Law on “The U.S. Territories”
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, linked URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student casenotes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of Developments in the Law. This year’s subject is “The U.S. Territories.” Topics include territorial federalism, federal deference to Guam on its law, Puerto Rico’s place in the UN and the international community, and citizenship in American Samoa. The issue also includes an article by John Rappaport on “How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police.” In addition, student contributions explore Recent Cases on the First Amendment and selfies at…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s March ’17 issue: defining market power; housing and poverty; and minimal education rights
Harvard Law Review‘s March 2017 issue, Number 5, features these contents: • Article, “On the Relevance of Market Power,” by Louis Kaplow • Book Review, “Spiraling: Evictions and Other Causes and Consequences of Housing Instability,” by Vicki Been and Leila Bozorg (reviewing Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City) • Note, “Rights in Flux: Nonconsequentialism, Consequentialism, and the Judicial Role” • Note, “The Misguided Appeal of a Minimally Adequate Education” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: separation of powers and the appointments clause; personal jurisdiction in anti-terrorism act cases arising on foreign soil; deference to agency interpretations in conflict with circuit precedent; judicial review of zoning in…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s Feb. 2017 issue: statutory interpretation, the meaning of money, grand juries, and Chevron
The February 2017 issue, Number 4, features these contents: • Article, William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, “The Law of Interpretation” • Book Review, Kathryn Judge, “The Importance of ‘Money'” • Note, “Cashing Out a Special Relationship?: Trends Toward Reconciliation Between Financial Regulation and Administrative Law” • Note, “Restoring Legitimacy: The Grand Jury as the Prosecutor’s Administrative Agency” • Note, “The Rise of Purposivism and Fall of Chevron: Major Statutory Cases in the Supreme Court” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: abstaining from adjudicating habeas petition of Guantanamo detainee tried by military commission; a Second Circuit ruling that the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, but not the FSIA, allows recovery…
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Thorsten Sellin’s Slavery and the Penal System is Digitally Remastered:™ Shows history of using slave labor as criminal sentence, invention of the treadmill
The classic and groundbreaking study of penal slavery throughout the ages is finally available again. Previously a rare book — despite the fact that it is widely quoted and cited by scholars in the field of sociology, penology, and criminology — this book can now be accessed easily worldwide and be assigned again to classes. Now in its fortieth anniversary edition, Sellin’s classic book adds a new Foreword by researcher Barry Krisberg at Berkeley, and incorporates changes the author originally planned for a second printing, provided to Quid Pro Books by the Special Collections Library at Penn and authorized by his family. Part of the Classics of Law & Society Series from…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s Jan. 2017 issue: Obama on criminal justice, Tushnet on trademark
The January 2017 issue features these notable contents: • Commentary, President Barack Obama, “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform” • Article, Rebecca Tushnet, “Registering Disagreement: Registration in Modern American Trademark Law” • Book Review, Scott Hershovitz, “The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Tort Law” • Note, “Repackaging Zauderer” • Note, “Mending the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Approach to Consideration of Juvenile Status” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: whether mug shots may be exempt from FOIA disclosure; a Ninth Circuit ruling that concealed carry is not protected by the Second Amendment; collective action waivers in employment arbitration agreements under the NLRA; whether warrantless dog sniffs outside…
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Murphy’s classic Elements of Judicial Strategy is back, adding a new Foreword by Lee Epstein & Jack Knight
Now in a readily available, modern presentation, and adding a substantive 2016 Foreword by Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, this classic of law and political science is presented to a new generation of thoughtful observers of the U.S. Supreme Court and how its justices create judicial decisions. As Epstein and Knight write, this book is “extraordinary. It’s the rarest of rare: a breakthrough of the path-marking, even paradigm-shifting, variety….” Its publication offered a “huge conceptual breakthrough. Elements was the first to offer a strategic account” of judging, and its “framework forever changed the study of judicial behavior.” It remains influential to current thought, extending even in its “global reach,” and…
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Eric Sellin’s The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaud is Digitally Remastered,™ with new foreword by Peter Thompson
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) conceived and inaugurated the Theater of Cruelty, a dramatic movement that has had a profound influence on the avant garde theater in Europe and the United States. The movement is exemplified by the Peter Brook production of Marat/Sade. This book, the first to analyze Artaud’s theories, their sources, and the extent to which he succeeded in implementing them in his own plays, is now available in a 2017 digital edition and new printings, readily accessible to scholars and interested fans of literary criticism and the modern theater worldwide. The new editions add a thoughtful Foreword by Professor Peter Thompson of Roger Williams University. This sophisticated study will…
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Lawrence Friedman’s mystery novel A Body in the House follows the death of a Stanford professor
Lawyer Frank May is, as always, reluctant to get involved in murder cases. But when his young client, Margot, comes back from a vacation with her husband and finds the dead body of a woman in their house, Frank is drawn in despite himself. Who was this woman? And when another murder occurs—this time on the campus of Stanford University—you have to wonder: Are the two deaths connected? And does a quirky Hungarian violinist have something to do with the case? Baffling questions, to be sure. But in the end, Frank finds the surprising key that unlocks the mystery. … A new QP Mystery, in the series The Frank May Chronicles.…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s Dec. 2016 issue: legislative intent, corporate buyouts, and the trolley dilemma
The December 2016 issue, Number 2, features these contents: * Article, “Constitutionally Forbidden Legislative Intent,” by Richard H. Fallon, Jr. * Article, “Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts,” by Guhan Subramanian * Book Review, “Law and Moral Dilemmas,” by Bert I. Huang * Note, “Charming Betsy and the Intellectual Property Provisions of Trade Agreements” * Note, “Political Questions, Public Rights, and Sovereign Immunity” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on equitable relief from a foreign judgment under RICO, mootness after a 2014 Missouri election, compelling an internet service provider to produce data stored overseas, immunity for failure-to-warn claims under the Communications Decency Act, whether the federal cannabis prohibition is a…