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Pritchett’s The Roosevelt Court is a classic of law & society, exploring decision-making on the Supreme Court over a decade
THE ROOSEVELT COURT is a brilliant analysis of Supreme Court decisions during a crucial decade in the Supreme Court’s history, by a political scientist “interested in the social and psychological origins of judicial attitudes and the influence of individual predilections on the development of law.” A much-cited classic of the Court and judicial decision-making from the point of view of social science and not just doctrine, this work is at last available in a convenient and well-formatted digital edition, and in new paperback too. The digital presentation includes active Contents, linked notes, and all tables and graphics from the original print editions. “One of the most informative, judicious, and illuminating…
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Herzl’s impactful The Jewish State, calling for a new Israel in 1896, adds 2014 Foreword by Jerold Auerbach
Few books have changed human history as did Theodor Herzl’s 1896 tract advocating the founding—even the inevitability—of a Jewish state. The new edition from Quid Pro Books (in paperback, hardcover, and digital formats) adds a 2014 Foreword by Jerold S. Auerbach, Professor Emeritus of History at Wellesley College and recognized as a leading scholar in the U.S. on Judaism in America as well as Israeli history. Auerbach’s extensive introduction brings home the importance and complexities of this historic work, of this visionary man. Founder of the World Zionist Organization and an Austrian intellectual, Herzl recognized that Jews would never be truly assimilated in any country they settled in, even over…
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The Landis Report to Kennedy on Regulatory Reform Joins Legal Legends Series, in Print and eBooks
James Landis’ hard-to-find but much-cited Report to Sen. John Kennedy’s committee on administrative regulation and commissions is now readily and affordably available as an ebook or new paperback. Sold out or “unavailable” with major booksellers despite its frequent use in academic literature, the Report finds its new home in the Legal Legends Series. In 1960, James M. Landis drafted the Report on Regulatory Agencies to the President-Elect and submitted it to President-elect (Sen.) John F. Kennedy, reexamining the federal regulatory commissions and administrative agencies’ structures and powers. He recommended such reforms as strengthening the commissions’ chairpersons and streamlining the agencies’ procedures. The Kennedy Administration subsequently adopted many of the recommendations.…
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Classic Legends and Foods of New Orleans are Digitally Remastered Books™ and Available New Again
Four books that New Orleanians grew up with are now readily available again, as part of Quid Pro Books’ project to republish classic work to speak to a new generation. They are part of the Quaint Press imprint that identifies out-of-print works and brings them back worldwide in convenient formats. They are: 1. NEW ORLEANS: FACTS AND LEGENDS, by Raymond J. Martinez and Jack D. L. Holmes A classic compilation of history, tales, and folklore about New Orleans, the book is peppered with numerous vintage photographs of historic sites and the legendary men and women who framed Louisiana’s life and lore. Maintained in its original edition and accurately reproduced, this…
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Yale Law Journal Symposium on Modern Civil Rights Law & Theory Honors, or Challenges, Bruce Ackerman
“Symposium: The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution” (Vol. 123, No. 8, June 2014) is, in effect, a new and extensive book of contemporary thought on civil rights, written by today’s leading voices on constitutional law. In February 2014, Yale Law Journal held a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the new publication of Bruce Ackerman’s We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution (2014). Contributors’ essays reflected on the origins or status of the American civil rights project, using Ackerman’s book as a focal point or a foil as they saw fit. Those essays are collected here as June 2014, the final issue…
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University of Chicago Law Review, #2 of 2014, explores scientific evidence, regulatory agencies, habeas, and disability law
The second issue of 2014 features articles and essays from recognized scholars. Contents include these articles: • “Group to Individual (G2i) Inference in Scientific Expert Testimony,” David L. Faigman, John Monahan & Christopher Slobogin • “Game Theory and the Structure of Administrative Law,” Yehonatan Givati • “Habeas and the Roberts Court,” Aziz Z. Huq • “Cost-Benefit Analysis and Agency Independence,” Michael A. Livermore • “Accommodating Every Body,” Michael Ashley Stein, Anita Silvers, Bradley A. Areheart & Leslie Pickering Francis In addition, the issue includes a Review Essay by Sharon R. Krause entitled “The Liberalism of Love,” and these student Comments: • “Toward a Uniform Rule: The Collapse of the Civil-Criminal…
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Delmar Karlen’s classic comparison of appeals courts in US and UK is Digitally Remastered™ in print and ebook
Considered a classic of comparative law and legal systems, this book has been twice reprinted since its first appearance 50 years ago, and is now available in a high-quality digital edition. No work has so openly and extensively—using hands-on observations by the leading legal figures of the time—compared appellate courts in two common law countries. While much comparative work contrasts civil law systems with those of the common law, this study teased out substantial, impactful differences even within two traditional common law systems. The original project grew out of an intensive experiment in comparing the U.S. and English appellate courts, by which highly recognized American and English judges and lawyers…
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Harvard Law Review, #8, June 2014, Features Symposium on Freedom of the Press; plus Public Trials and Judicial Behavior
Harvard Law Review, Number 8 (June 2014), includes an extensive Symposium on Freedom of the Press, as well as an article, “The Criminal Court Audience in a Post-Trial World,” by Jocelyn Simonson, and a book review essay, “The Positive Foundations of Formalism: False Necessity and American Legal Realism,” by Lawrence B. Solum (reviewing Epstein, Landes, and Posner’s book on courts and judicial behavior). Specifically, the Symposium on press freedoms features: * “Introduction: Reflections on the First Amendment and the Information Economy,” by Mark Tushnet * “The ‘New’ New York Times: Free Speech Lawyering in the Age of Google and Twitter,” by Marvin Ammori * “Old-School/New-School Speech Regulation,” by Jack M. Balkin…
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Jerold Auerbach explores Israeli legitimacy in his 2014 book Jewish State, Pariah Nation
Jewish statehood was restored in 1948 amid a struggle over legitimacy that has persisted in Israel ever since: Who rules? Who decides? Antagonism between the political left and right erupted into bloody violence over the Altalena. Secular-religious discord even made defining who is a Jew in a Jewish state contentious. After the Six-Day War, the return of religious Zionist settlers to biblical Judea and Samaria reframed the struggle over legitimacy. Who decides where in the Land of Israel Jews may live: settlers and rabbis or the government? Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 provoked the first significant eruption of military disobedience, undermining the authority of the Israel Defense Forces with…
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Rutgers Computer & Tech Law Journal, #2, includes massive Bibliography of net, comm, and computer scholarship
The Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal now offers its issues in convenient and modern ebook formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This second issue of Volume 40, 2014, was published in June 2014 and contains articles from leading figures of the academy, technology, and the legal community, as well as contributions from law students at Rutgers-Newark. This issue features new articles and student contributions on topics related to: using tech to enhance pro bono work, using tech in the law classroom, BitTorrent copyright trolling, taxation of e-commerce and internet sales, and cyber insurance and tangible property. The issue also includes the annual, extensive Bibliography — in…