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The Nature and the Sources of the Law: John Chipman Gray’s Anatomy of Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, and the Concept of Rights
The Nature and Sources of the Law (Second Edition, 1921) is Gray’s legal and jurisprudential classic, finally available in a high-quality eBook edition and new paperback. It is the 11th contribution in the Legal Legends Series and, unlike most such classics typically reproduced by crude scanning, offers full assurances of careful proofreading, proper formatting, and modern presentation. The eBooks also offer active Contents and linked footnotes. John Chipman Gray (1839-1915) was a noted lawyer and legal scholar of the progressive era and a founder of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray. His important book analyzed the uses of precedent and custom, the meaning of law and legal rights, the…
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Oesterreich’s classic study Occultism and Modern Science is republished with digital corrections and professional presentation
OCCULTISM AND MODERN SCIENCE: Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880-1949) was a German professor of philosophy and an expert on the philosophy and psychology of religion. He taught as a professor at Tübingen University. He is considered to be one of the first modern German scientists to declare his belief in psychic phenomena. Although his views on parapsychology evolved over the years, ranging from an outspoken skepticism to an acceptance of the paranormal, he continued to conduct scientific research and publish in academic journals. His 1921 book on psychic possession and obsession later influenced the author of The Exorcist. And in Occultism and Modern Science, also first published in German in 1921 (then…
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Harvard Law Review‘s new issue 7 (May 2012) features symposium on “the new private law”
Featured articles and essays in this issue are from recognized scholars in law and legal theory, including a Symposium on private law. The issue also includes the article “Regulation for the Sake of Appearance,” by Adam Samaha. The Symposium contents are: THE NEW PRIVATE LAW • “Introduction: Pragmatism and Private Law,” by John C.P. Goldberg • “The Obligatory Structure of Copyright Law: Unbundling the Wrong of Copying,” by Shyamkrishna Balganesh • “Property as the Law of Things,” by Henry E. Smith • “Duties, Liabilities, and Damages,” by Stephen A. Smith • “Palsgraf, Punitive Damages, and Preemption,” by Benjamin C. Zipursky The issue includes two student Notes: • “The Perils of…
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Hot Topics in the Legal Profession • 2012 Analyzes Recent Events in Ethics and the Profession
Current important events in the U.S. legal profession and legal ethics, with useful research and analysis of the rules and the profession's current status, are explored by Tulane law students from an advanced ethics seminar. Purchase of this book benefits Tulane's Public Interest Law Foundation, a nonprofit student group that funds public interest placements and indigent client representations throughout the country. In paperback and multiple eBook formats.
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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein’s foundational Women in Law adds Deborah Rhode’s new Foreword: available in paperback and eBooks
Simply one of the most important and influential works in the canon of the sociology of law, Epstein's WOMEN IN LAW is now republished (including new paperback) and available worldwide for departments of sociology, law, and gender studies — but is accessible and fascinating to a general audience, unloaded with legal or sociological jargon. It won the SCRIBES Book Award and the ABA's Merit Award.
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Yale Law Journal issue 7 (May 2012) examines voting, redistricting, and due process
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 7th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Richard Re and Christopher Re, Nathan Chapman and Michael McConnell, Bruce Cain, Christopher Elmendorf and David Schleicher, and Joseph Fishkin. The May issue’s complete Contents are: “Voting and Vice: Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Reconstruction Amendments,” by Richard M. Re and Christopher M. Re “Due Process as Separation of Powers,” by Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell “Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer?,” by Bruce E. Cain “Districting for a Low-Information Electorate,” by Christopher S. Elmendorf and David Schleicher “Weightless Votes,” by Joseph…
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Edna Lee Booker’s classic Flight from China: Inside account of Japanese occupation of China and World War II
Edna Lee Booker was an internationally recognized foreign correspondent who lived in China for two decades, along with her businessman husband John Potter. Raising a family in Shanghai, they were there when the Japanese invaded and occupied China. Looked upon with the suspicion of Americans in wartime, they realized the increasing danger. Edna and her children fled to the United States just days before they were to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp. John was not so fortunate, and was interned in unholy conditions for years. This is their tale: a journey of living in an exotic land during harrowing times of change and domination, a journey from the…
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University of Chicago Law Review‘s 2012 Issue 1: A Symposium on Understanding Education and Law, and Articles on Municipal Bankruptcy and Copyright
A leading law review now offers a quality eBook edition. This first issue of 2012 of the University of Chicago Law Review features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and education scholars, including an extensive Symposium on understanding education and law in the United States. Topics include economic structures in education, teaching patriotism, charter and Catholic schools, Amish one-room schools, minority students, empirical work on religious schools, federalism, equal opportunity, and higher-education accreditation. In addition, the issue includes articles by Clayton Gillette on municipal bankruptcy and federalism, and Steven Horowitz on copyright law’s asymmetry, as well as a student comment on wartime waivers and a book review. The issue…
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Stanford Law Review issue 4 (Apr. 2012) examines economic pricing, interpreting videos, classical Greek democracy, and copyright law
This current issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the April 2012 issue include: • The Tragedy of the Carrots: Economics and Politics in the Choice of Price Instruments by Brian Galle • “They Saw a Protest”: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction by Dan M. Kahan, David A. Hoffman, Donald Braman, Danieli Evans & Jeffrey J. Rachlinski • Constitutional Design in the Ancient World by Adriaan Lanni & Adrian Vermeule • The Copyright-Innovation Tradeoff: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Intentional Infliction of Harm by Dotan Oliar…
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Stanford Law Review March 2012 issue 3: Prosecuting the exonerated and double jeopardy, feminism and conflict of laws, and fragmentation nodes in finance
This new issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the March 2012 issue include: • “Prosecuting the Exonerated: Actual Innocence and the Double Jeopardy Clause” by Jordan M. Barry • “From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture, and the Conflict of Laws Style” by Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels & Annelise Riles • “Fragmentation Nodes: A Study in Financial Innovation, Complexity, and Systemic Risk” by Kathryn Judge • Note: “Insurmountable Obstacles: Structural Errors, Procedural Default, and Ineffective Assistance” by Amy Knight Burns • Comment: “The Gulf Coast Claims Facility…
