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Yale Law Journal, May 2015 Issue 7: on punishing offenses under treaties, administrative severability clauses, judges citing scholarship, and Hobby Lobby
The contents of the May 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 7) are: Articles • Defining and Punishing Offenses Under Treaties, Sarah H. Cleveland & William S. Dodge • Administrative Severability Clauses, Charles W. Tyler & E. Donald Elliott Notes • Class Ascertainability, Geoffrey C. Shaw • The Right To Be Rescued: Disability Justice in an Age of Disaster, Adrien A. Weibgen • Expanding Conscience, Shrinking Care: The Crisis in Access to Reproductive Care and the Affordable Care Act’s Nondiscrimination Mandate, Elizabeth B. Deutsch Features • Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, Douglas NeJaime & Reva B. Siegel • Legal Scholarship for Judges, Diane P. Wood Book Review…
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Harvard Law Review, May ’15, on foreign relations law, changing family law, and bankrupt student loans
The Harvard Law Review, May 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “The Normalization of Foreign Relations Law,” by Ganesh Sitaraman and Ingrid Wuerth • Book Review, “The Family, in Context,” by Maxine Eichner • Note, “Forgive and Forget: Bankruptcy Reform in the Context of For-Profit Colleges” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: retroactive prosecution of conspiracy to commit war crimes at Guantanamo; holding a legislature in contempt for unconstitutional funding of education; bullying and criminal harassment law; first amendment implications of high school suppression of violent speech; using statistics to prove False Claims Act liability; first amendment problems of a requirement that sex offenders provide internet identifiers to police; BIA ruling that Guatemalan woman fleeing domestic violence meets asylum threshold; and FDA regulation on nutritional information under the Affordable Care Act. Finally, the issue features several summaries of Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive ebook publisher of the Review. … Available in leading formats: Kindle edition, at Amazon. NOOK, at Barnes & Noble. Apple iBooks and iTunes (see it directly on iPad and iPhone bookstores; previewed). At Google Play and Google Books. And in…
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Frank Zimring’s witty essays observing the modern condition and aging form the new book Memos from Midlife
“… It’s the most entertaining book I’ve read this year.” —Steve Chapman, Columnist and Editorial Writer, The Chicago Tribune There are no pretentious pronouncements about public policy or dry conclusions from social science in these pages … because it is a report from what Frank Zimring calls “my second career, and everybody else’s second career, the hard work of becoming an adult in the modern world.” Why is a piranha swimming in your pool a better illustration of how people get overcommitted than a giant man eating shark? (Consult chapter 3.) What should you say when your eight-year-old asks whether you would save him or his sister if the lifeboat…
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New devotional follows the seasons from a Christian point of view
Journey through a series of short stories based on real life experiences: soul searching, humorous, and all with the primary goal of promoting Christ. This devotional will take you through all four seasons of the year. You will be encouraged and filled with His hope as you read and grow in your faith. “What an amazing blessing to pull up a chair and join Cindy Childress at her kitchen table. Literally, as our families have enjoyed fellowship, and now figuratively through the pages of this devotional. I couldn’t help but read from story to story, spiritual truth to spiritual truth; presented in such a way as to think she and…
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Bert Kritzer’s Lawyers at Work: a recognized collection of studies and insights on the legal profession
This collection of articles and essays by Herbert Kritzer draws on his extensive research related to lawyers and legal practice conducted over the last 35 years. That research has applied existing theoretical frameworks and developed innovative ways of thinking about how to understand what it is that lawyers do. The chapters reflect the wide range of both qualitative and quantitative research methods he has employed, and draw on his work on the Civil Litigation Research Project, a massive study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice under the Carter administration, and continues through subsequent studies of lawyer-client relationships in Canada, contingency fee legal practice, and insurance defense practice. This book…
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Llewellyn’s classic The Common Law Tradition is Digitally Remastered™ and available in paperback, hardback & ebooks
Karl Llewellyn, a legal realist whose views on jurisprudence were influential and sometimes controversial, was also one of the leading teachers of fundamental legal thought. He took seriously the functions of courts, the use of precedent, and the power of rules. In this important book, he laid bare these jurisprudential tools, in support of appellate court thinking at all levels in the legal system. Legal analysis is so clearly picked apart that this work has served as a tool-kit for judicial thinking — and persuasive argument to courts — since it was first published in 1960. And his invaluable appendices show in detail how arguments and judicial expressions can be turned around…
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David Gold explores the earlier Tea Party Movement and its Emergence in the Midwest States
Supporters of the 21st-century Tea Party movement claim the Boston Tea Party of 1773 as their inspiration, while scholars dismiss the connection. Neither camp pays much attention to the intervening years, and both overlook one of the great populist movements in American history. As David M. Gold demonstrates, 19th-century Americans who were fed up with reckless government spending, high taxes, and crony capitalism launched a campaign for smaller, more accountable, more transparent government. The movement culminated in state constitutional conventions in all the states of the Old Northwest, and other parts of the country as well, that rewrote the nation’s fundamental law. Citizens and scholars will continue to debate the…
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Crump’s fictional lawyer Robert Herrick is Back: Suing Terrorists and their Money Machine
The football game is tied. It’s in sudden death overtime. And that’s when three Islamic extremists trigger an explosion that kills over 100 innocent spectators. The men who did it are promptly caught and charged with capital murder, but everyone knows that there are more guilty people behind the act. There are banks, or foundations, or governments who fronted this terrorism. Terrorists need money. Families of the victims ask attorney Robert Herrick—the “Lawyer for the Little Guy”—to bring the financiers to justice. It’s a tough claim, and he declines . . . but eventually he’s persuaded to take the case. Nothing about this lawsuit is easy, from preparing the court…
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Yale Law Journal, March 2015, on non-contentious jurisdiction, 401(k)’s, and mass atrocity crimes
The contents of the March 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 5) include: Articles: • “Article III Judicial Power, the Adverse-Party Requirement, and Non-Contentious Jurisdiction” James E. Pfander & Daniel D. Birk • “Beyond Diversification: The Pervasive Problem of Excessive Fees and ‘Dominated Funds’ in 401(k) Plans” Ian Ayres & Quinn Curtis • “The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-Term Shareholders” Jesse M. Fried • “Deviance, Aspiration, and the Stories We Tell: Reconciling Mass Atrocity and the Criminal Law” Saira Mohamed Notes: • “Mitigating Jurors’ Racial Biases: The Effects of Content and Timing of Jury Instructions” Elizabeth Ingriselli • “How To Eat an Elephant: Corporate Group Structure of Systemically Important Financial Institutions,…
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Harvard Law Review, April 2015: Developments in the Law – Policing; plus federalism by consent; anticipatory remedies for takings, and modern China
The Harvard Law Review, April 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include the annual Developments in the Law survey of a particular area of legal concern; this year’s topic is Policing. Other contents include: * Article, “Consent Procedures and American Federalism,” by Bridget Fahey * Essay, “Anticipatory Remedies for Takings,” by Thomas W. Merrill * Book Review, “How a ‘Lawless’ China Made Modern America: An Epic Told in Orientalism,” by Carol G.S. Tan Specific subjects studied in Developments in the Law – Policing are: Policing and Profit, Policing Students, Policing Immigrant Communities, and Considering Police Body Cameras. In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases, including…