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Stanford Law Review‘s Feb. 2012 Issue #2 Explores National Security, Thought Control, and Shareholder Liability
Contents for this February 2012 issue (Vol. 64, #2) include: • “National Security Federalism in the Age of Terror” By Matthew C. Waxman • “Incriminating Thoughts” By Nita A. Farahany • “Elective Shareholder Liability” By Peter Conti-Brown • Note, “Harrington’s Wake: Unanswered Questions on AEDPA’s Application to Summary Dispositions” By Matthew Seligman • Comment, “Boumediene Applied Badly: The Extraterritorial Constitution After Al Maqaleh v. Gates” By Saurav Ghosh The Stanford Law Review was organized in 1948. Each year the Law Review publishes one volume, which appears in six separate issues between January and July. This volume represents the 2011-2012 academic year. Each issue contains material written by student members of…
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Hardback, paperback & ebook: Rosen on the Roles and Dilemmas of Attorneys in Advising Corporations
Acclaimed study in law & society -- already used and cited for its path-breaking research -- passed around before in looseleaf, now available worldwide as a new book. Features new Foreword and Preface. In paperback, cloth and multiple digital formats. Called a "cult classic" and "wonderful" in recent blog posts. "...Should be read by everyone interested in how law matters to organizations of all kinds." --Prof. Jonathan Simon, UC Berkeley School of Law "A pioneering work in the sociology of the legal profession and a foundational piece in the slowly emerging canon of empirical research on inside counsel...normatively challenges the legal profession’s ideology of moral 'independence.'" -- Prof. Sung Hui…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Issue 6 (April 2012) Studies WikiLeaks, Dissolving Cities, and the Interplay of Votes and Rights
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 6th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012, Apr. 2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Daryl Levinson (on votes and rights), Michelle Wilde Anderson (on dissolving cities), and Patricia Bella (on WikiLeaks and national security). The issue also features student contributions on elected prosecutors throughout legal history and on execution of the mentally retarded as an issue under Section 1983 civil rights law. The editors of The Yale Law Journal are a group of Yale Law School students, who also contribute Notes and Comments to the Journal’s content. The lead articles and features are written by…
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Anthology of Key West’s Greatest Writers Includes Hemingway, Dos Passos, Tennessee Williams, Hunter Thompson, and Elizabeth Bishop
The Key West Reader features 25 of the most insightful and entertaining works that resonate from Key West: an edited collection of the finest literary and poetic works about Key West or from writers who lived in, or were touched by their time in, the Florida island community. It is said that Key West hosts more writers per capita than any other place in the world. Whether that is a statistical truth or just a civic mood, it captures the reality that this is a Place, an Inspiration. Some of the great writers in this fun anthology, for tourists and fans of literature alike, include Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Stephen…
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Martin Shapiro Links Freedom of Speech with the Legitimate Political Role of the Supreme Court
A classic study of the free speech right and especially the function of the Supreme Court in review—in effect answering, before his time, Chief Justice Roberts' claim that judges are neutral umpires. Such judicial modesty ignores the Court's political role in governing and protecting under-represented citizens. In paperback edition, plus Kindle, Nook, Apple, and other ebook formats.
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Harvard Law Review‘s March 2012 Issue Analyzes Overlap of Administrative Agencies, Prison Reform, and Recent Cases and Legislation
Featured articles in this March 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Jody Freeman and Jim Rossi, on the coordination of administrative agencies when they share regulatory space, and James Whitman, reviewing Bernard Harcourt’s new book on the illusion of free markets as to prisons. Student contributions explore the law relating to antitrust and business deception; the failed Google Books settlement; mergers and acquisitions; materiality in securities law; administrative law; patentable subject matter; and paid sick leave. Finally, the issue includes two Book Notes. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from…
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Harvard Law Review April 2012 Issue Studies “Traditional” Sex Discrimination, the Presidency, and Criminal Process
Featured articles and essays in the April 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Cary Franklin (in an article on inventing the “traditional concept” of sex discrimination), Richard Pildes (on law and the President, in an essay reviewing a book by Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule), and Robert Weisberg (on the tragedy of crime and criminal law, reviewing a book by the late William Stuntz). Student contributions explore the law relating to everlasting software; incarcerating immigration detainees; the First and Fourteenth Amendments; Sixth Amendment implications of napping defense counsel; copyright under the first sale doctrine; war powers in Libya; and eyewitness identification evidence. The Harvard Law Review is a…
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Harvard Law Review‘s Feb. 2012 Issue Features Articles by Amanda Tyler and Kenneth Mack, Plus Recent Cases
Featured articles are from such recognized scholars as Amanda Tyler, on the core meaning of the Suspension Clause, and Kenneth Mack, reviewing Brown-Nagin's book on the grass roots origins of the civil rights movement. Also, several judges and professors write a tribute honoring Frank Michelman. In Kindle, Apple and Nook.
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Yale Law Journal‘s March 2012 Issue Features Articles on Tax Discrimination and the 26th Amendment
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 5th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Ruth Mason and Michael Knoll (an article on tax discrimination), and Michael Graetz and Alvin Warren, Jr. (a featured essay also analyzing tax discrimination, and in response). Student contributions discuss such issues as the 26th Amendment’s enforcement power, the Attestation Clause in United States history, and software licensing agreements. Ebook editions include active Contents for the issue and for individual articles, linked footnotes, linked cross-references in notes and text, active URLs in notes, and proper digital presentation from the original print edition. The…
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Meltsner’s novel Short Takes, on the angst and trials of an urban lawyer, republished to eBook and paperback
Novel, first published by Random House, about a liberal lawyer's urban journeys in New York, facing the angst of seeing his work undone by institutional inertia and his relationships undone by indecision and the handcuffs of people's expected roles. “...Engaging and extremely well written first novel, creates a character of enormous vitality and considerable charm, funny, caring..." --Boston Globe
