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New England Law Review #3 (2015): Symposium on Ph.D. and J.S.D. study in law for U.S. and international students
The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This third issue of Volume 49 (Spr. 2015) features an extensive and important Symposium on “Educational Ambivalence: The Story of the Academic Doctorate in Law,” presented by leading scholars on the subject. Contents include: “Educational Ambivalence: The Rise of a Foreign-Student Doctorate in Law,” by Gail J. Hupper “The Context of Graduate Degrees at Harvard Law School Under Dean Erwin N. Griswold, 1946-1967,” by Bruce A. Kimball “Perspectives on International Students’ Interest in U.S. Legal Education: Shifting Incentives and Influence,” by Carole Silver “A Future for Legal Education,” by Paulo…
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Leading Voices on Justice Under Law Discuss Civil Liberties, National Security, Gitmo, Immigration and Health Care
Law and the Quest for Justice is a 2013 book featuring evocative essays on hotbed issues of rights, liberty, security and law. An insightful collection of essays from leading voices on the challenges and promise of justice and law, this book is accessible and interesting to a wide audience. It features internationally renowned members of the academy, national political figures, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, and crusading lawyers. The thought-provoking topics include: Erwin Chemerinsky on reconceptualizing federalism and healthcare reform • John Echohawk on Native American rights • Jack Greenberg on Brown v. Board‘s legacy • Linda Greenhouse on how Supreme Court Justices evolve over time • Lani Guinier on reframing affirmative…
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Classic Social Science, Digitally Remastered:™ The Sociology of the Professions, edited by Dingwall & Lewis
Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis’s renowned compilation of diverse studies—written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers into the sociology of the professions—was groundbreaking when first published in 1983 and has influenced scholars, practitioners, and professionals since. Not limited to one occupation or field, as are most such works, this collection examines across traditional fields the idea and practice of professions and professionals. The 2014 edition features a substantive new Foreword by Professor Sida Liu of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He notes that this book “is a rare effort to fully compare the two classic cases of doctors and lawyers in the professions literature. The contributors of the book include…
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Slow Fire: A U.S. Philosopher’s Fascinating Account of Divided Berlin in the ’80s
Susan Neiman went to learn more about morality and reason, which she did, but she also came to terms with being Jewish in a city that did not always welcome her, as if her presence was a guilty reminder. (Or they did not know she was Jewish and said some amazing stuff.) This memoir–through the Reagan years ex-pat, till the fall of the Wall–is resonant, funny, and sometimes surreal. It’s the debut work, first published by Schocken/Random House, from the author of Moral Clarity, one of “2008’s Notable Books” by the New York Times. Available as new paperback and ebook formats. At that time a post-doc fellow at the Free…
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Walter Murphy’s bestselling novel The Vicar of Christ is Digitally Remastered™ and available again: explores the Supreme Court and Vatican politics
The New York Times Bestseller is now available in modern digital formats, featuring a new Foreword by Justice Samuel Alito, as well as a new paperback and hardcover. This book has universally been considered an unusual, fascinating, and well-written observation of the life of a man who was first a war hero and Medal of Honor winner from the Korean War, then Chief Justice of the United States, later a monk, and finally elected Pope: Pope Francis I. His exciting life is described by three men who ‘knew him well.’ The first narrator is a Marine, telling of their time together in Korea. A constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice,…
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Yale Law Journal, June 2015, on mandatory arbitration, constitutional proportionality review, and creditors’ partitioning
The contents of the 8th and final issue of academic year 2014-2015 (June 2015) are: Article, “The New Corporate Web: Tailored Entity Partitions and Creditors’ Selective Enforcement,” Anthony J. Casey Note, “A Reassessment of Common Law Protections for ‘Idiots,'” Michael Clemente Feature: Arbitration, Transparency, and Privatization: “Diffusing Disputes: The Public in the Private of Arbitration, the Private in Courts, and the Erasure of Rights,” Judith Resnik “Arbitration and Americanization: The Paternalism of Progressive Procedural Reform,” Amalia D. Kessler “Arbitration’s Counter-Narrative: The Religious Arbitration Paradigm,” Michael A. Helfand “Disappearing Claims and the Erosion of Substantive Law,” J. Maria Glover Feature, “Constitutional Law in an Age of Proportionality,” Vicki C. Jackson Quality…
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Eliezer Segal explores Jewish history and legends in his witty new collection of essays Chronicles and Commentaries
The controversial history of sermons, the physics and philosophy of rainbows, lions in the synagogue, hares in the Greek Bible, the gold standard, God in human disguise—these are but a few of the many topics that are introduced in this lively miscellany of glimpses into exotic frontiers of Jewish literature, history, and tradition. In the present compendium of short studies, Dr. Eliezer Segal once again introduces the public to the fruits of Judaic scholarship, while employing a charming style that combines learning and wit. Chronicles and Commentaries is the latest addition to the author’s distinguished series of collections that includes: Why Didn’t I Learn That in Hebrew School? (1999), Ask…
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New England Law Review, Volume 49, Nos. 1-2 (2014-2015): On confrontation clause, constitutional interpretation, outpatient commitment, and patent law
The New England Law Review now offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This second issue of Volume 49 (2015) contains articles by leading figures of the legal community. Contents include: Articles: “A Reliable and Clear-Cut Determination: Is a Separate Hearing Required to Decide When Confrontation Forfeiture by Wrongdoing Applies?,” by Tim Donaldson “Constitutional Interpretation and Technological Change,” by Allen R. Kamp Notes: “Defense Witnesses Need Immunity Too: Why the Supreme Court Should Adopt the Ninth Circuit’s Approach to Defense-Witness Immunity,” by Alison M. Field “Hacktivism — Political Dissent in The Final Frontier,” by Tiffany Marie Knapp Comment: “Morrow v. Balaski: When…
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Harvard Law Review, June 2015: Origins of low-value speech, legal change in the modern Supreme Court, and causation in toxic torts
The Harvard Law Review, June 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “Active Avoidance: The Modern Supreme Court and Legal Change,” by Neal Kumar Katyal and Thomas P. Schmidt • Article, “The Invention of Low-Value Speech,” by Genevieve Lakier • Book Review, “Crown and Constitution,” by Tara Helfman • Note, “Causation in Environmental Law: Lessons from Toxic Torts” … In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: corporate board of directors’ duties in mergers; the propriety of a Delaware corporation’s bylaws designating a non-Delaware exclusive forum; availability of habeas review for sentencing error as to ‘career offender’…
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Eliezer Segal’s new collection of fun, informative essays on the Jewish calendar: A Time for Every Purpose
A Time for Every Purpose continues the series of collections of Eliezer Segal’s beloved and witty articles about the Jewish sacred calendar — articles that originally appeared in his From the Sources column in the Calgary Jewish Free Press between 2011 and 2015. As always, the author strives to maintain a balance between accurate scholarship and entertaining readability as he introduces his readers to fascinating aspects of the Jewish festivals and holy days — and how they evolved in ongoing dialogue with historical changes, geographical diversity, and intellectual challenges. The articles are written from a sympathetic but non-dogmatic perspective by a recognized scholarly authority on the academic study of Judaism.…