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Stanford Law Review‘s new Issue 4 – April 2011 – features articles by Stephen Gillers, Omri Ben-Shahar and Others
This current issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, history, and social policy by acclaimed scholars Stephen Gillers (on the ethics of lawyers who hold real evidence in a case, such as guns, presidential tapes, and drugs), Natalie Ram (on DNA technology in family identifications, and especially its forensic use in criminal cases), and Omri Ben-Shahar (on fixing unfair and imbalanced contracts). This issue also features extensive student work on the history of religious freedom in the early 1800s and on the amicus curiae briefing process of the Supreme Court. The Stanford Law Review was organized in 1948. Each year the Law Review publishes one volume, which…
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Stanford Law Review‘s March 2011 Issue 3 Hits the Streets Early
Quid Pro, LLC is the exclusive digital publisher of the Stanford Law Review. The latest issue, Number 3 (March 2011) features cutting-edge articles by recognized scholars on such diverse topics as “preglimony,” derivatives markets in a fiscal crisis, corporate reform in Brazil, land use and zoning, and a student Note on college endowments. It is available as a quality ebook even before the print edition is published. Footnotes, graphs and tables, and cited URLs are all linked, Contents are active (including contents page for each article), and tables are scaled properly. Available in multiple digital editions: Amazon for Kindle. [And at UK Amazon Kindle store.] Barnes and Noble for Nook.…
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Yale Law Journal Nov. 2011 Issue on International Law and Downsizing Government
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the second issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles on new ideas in enforcing international law, and on the role of incentives and disincentives under the idea of limited government. Contributors include the noted scholars Oona Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro, Benjamin Ewing, and Douglas A. Kysar. The issue also features student contributions on sentencing guidelines and the historical argument for Presidential war powers.
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Pérez Perdomo Examines Law, Politics and Justice in Justicia e Injusticias en Venezuela
The new Spanish-language analysis of institutions of law, politics, and reform in Venezuela 1780-2000, from the nation’s leading voice. Even though seeking justice is an undoubted good, the history of that effort has sometimes resulted in the creation of machinery and policies that have perversely resulted in massive injustices. This book is the culmination of years of intensive research, in records and interviews by Rogelio Pérez Perdomo, renowned law professor at Unimet in Caracas (often also teaching civil law at Stanford) and frequent writer (in Spanish and English) on law and society in South America; the work frames in a new way the search for democracy and equality in Venezuelan…
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Stanford Law Review‘s Issue 2 now out, in multiple ebook formats
Stanford Law Review has ebook distribution of its volumes–the first for a law review in all its current issues. [Issue 1 (Dec. 2011) of volume 63 was already available here.] Now, Issue 2 has published in all ebook formats. It is now in Kindle and Nook, and on iTunes. It was already available in multiple formats, including Sony, basic ePub, and PDF, from Smashwords. It features articles by Judge Posner, Cynthia Estland, and other scholars. The Stanford Law Review is edited by students at Stanford Law School and features scholarly articles in law, economics, and social policy. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive digital publisher of the Stanford Law Review. …
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Dr. Woodrow Wilson explains history and structure of governments in U.S., including local and state variations
Before he was the 28th U.S. President and the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wilson wrote popular books on history and civics. This text, used in schools in many countries for decades, explains local and federal units including courts, executive agencies. Know the difference between a town and township?
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Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, #1 (Dec. 2010) Is Available as an Ebook
One of the most read and recognized law journals in the world has added ebook and digital distribution of its volumes. The Stanford Law Review is edited by students at Stanford Law School and features scholarly articles in law, economics, and social policy. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive digital publisher of the Stanford Law Review. Footnotes and tables of contents are fully linked and functional, note numbering is retained, and the issue is properly formatted for ereaders (which allow word search, dictionary function, font size changes, and lending). The current academic year (2o10-11) is Volume 63. The Law Review publishes six issues a year. Its first issue is now…
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Cardozo’s Classic Nature of the Judicial Process Adds Modern Foreword by Harvard’s Andrew Kaufman
Judges don’t discover the law, they create it. Justice Cardozo's premier biographer, Andrew L. Kaufman, brings the classic study of judicial decision-making to a new generation. New, affordable cloth hardback and paperback. Digital formats include Nook and Kindle. Has become the standard edition of this important book.
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Lawrence Friedman’s Mystery An Unnatural Death Takes Lawyer Frank May Into May and December
Frank May practices law, but he gets by just doing the safe, bland kind—writing wills, forming partnerships, processing papers. Everything far from the seedy adventures of criminal law or detective work. But every lawyer knows: clients have a habit of taking you to places you don’t want to be. One of those clients is the estate of the late Harriet Wingate. Harriet had money, and that always makes for interested relatives. But a bizarre husband Harriet’s junior, by a half-century? Two squabbling nieces? The suddenly revealed grandson? Worst of all, a litter of soon-to-be rich cats? Frank did not think she even had a cat. Frank wrote Harriet’s will, or…
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Eliezer Segal Explores Jewish Holy Days and Their History, Legend and Lore
For Signs and for Seasons: Bringing his scholarly research into Jewish history and legend to a wide audience in pithy and clever essays, Eliezer Segal offers his 2011 collection of newspaper columns focusing on the holy days and seasons of the Jewish calendar. All its rich history and modern cultural implications — how is Coca-cola kosher if its ingredients are secret? how did Spanish Jewish poetry survive the Inquisition? — are explored in entertaining and insightful vignettes. For Signs and for Seasons is a natural sequel to its companion volumes, Holidays, History and Halakhah, At This Time, and Sanctified Seasons. Like those earlier books, this volume brings together a diverse…
