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University of Chicago Law Review Symposium: Revelation Mechanisms and the Law; Plus Article, Comment & Book Review in First 2014 Issue
The first issue of 2014 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and economics scholars, including an extensive Symposium on “Revelation Mechanisms and the Law.” Topics include voting options and strategies to reveal preferences, corporate governance, regulatory intensity, tort calculations of risk, audits, mandatory disclosure of choices, partitioning interests in land, and shopping for expert witnesses. In addition, Issue 1 includes an article, “Libertarian Paternalism, Path Dependence, and Temporary Law,” by Tom Ginsburg, Jonathan S. Masur & Richard H. McAdams. Applications include smoking bans and seat belt laws. Also included is a student Comment, “Too Late to Stipulate: Reconciling Rule 68 with Summary Judgments,” by Channing J. Turner, and…
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Yale Law Journal, March 2014, Studies Shrinking Cities, Fund Managers, Moral Impact, & Pretrial Monitoring
The March 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. The contents for Volume 123, Number 5, include: Articles: The New Minimal Cities, by Michelle Wilde Anderson The Separation of Funds and Managers: A Theory of Investment Fund Structure and Regulation, by John Morley Essays: The Moral Impact Theory of Law, by Mark Greenberg Pretrial Detention and the Right to Be Monitored, by Samuel R. Wiseman Notes: Stop Ignoring Pork and Potholes: Election Law and Constituent Service, by Joshua Bone An Offense-Severity Model for Stop-and-Frisks, by David Keenan & Tina M. Thomas Open Carry for All: Heller…
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Harvard Law Review, March 2014, challenges judicial review of agencies, adds Reviews on biracial couples, religion, and active judges
Volume 127, Number 5, features these new articles and review essays: • Article, “The Puzzling Presumption of Reviewability,” Nicholas Bagley • Book Review, “Making the Modern Family: Interracial Intimacy and the Social Production of Whiteness,” Camille Gear Rich • Book Review, “The Case for Religious Exemptions — Whether Religion Is Special or Not,” Mark L. Rienzi • Book Review, “Courts as Change Agents: Do We Want More — Or Less?,” Jeffrey S. Sutton • Note, “Improving Relief from Abusive Debt Collection Practices” In addition, student case notes explore Recent Cases on such diverse subjects as standing in increased-risk lawsuits, concealed carry permits, free speech and wedding photography, customary international law,…
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Lance Bennett & Martha Feldman Examine Juries and Narrative: What Makes People Believe a Witness?
Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom explains what makes stories believable and how ordinary people connect complex legal arguments and evidence presented in trials to assess guilt and innocence. The explanation takes the core elements of narrative—the who, what, where, when, how, why—and shows how average people who hear hundreds of stories every day use the connections between these elements to assess credibility. A series of simple experiments outside the courtroom provides evidence for the explanation, showing that there is little relationship between the actual truth of a story and the degree to which the story is believed to be true by an audience of random listeners not familiar with the…
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Sybille Bedford’s The Faces of Justice observes judging, personally, in five European countries
Novelist Sybille Bedford was a German-born writer of Jewish heritage who, as a refugee from Germany, lived and wrote in Italy, France, the United States, and England. In this compelling classic, she watched courts closely—and with remarkable insight—in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. There, she found stories of human frailty and impulse, even at the bench and bar. Part of the Classics of Law & Society Series, but written for a wide, U.S. audience.
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Greg Berman Recounts Criminal Process Reforms and Successes in the new book Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration
A new collection of compelling and challenging essays from one of the nation’s leading voices on criminal justice reform, Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration makes the argument that sometimes small changes on the ground can add up to big improvements in the criminal justice system. How do you launch a new criminal justice reform? How do you measure impact? Is it possible to spread new practices to resistant audiences? And what’s the point of small-bore experimentation anyway? Greg Berman answers these questions (and more) by telling the story of successful experiments like the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, an experimental courthouse that has been documented to reduce both re-offending…
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Rosann Greenspan’s classic study of due process, criminal procedure & administrative ‘bypass’ is available as a new book
A classic study in law & society is now readily available to scholars, researchers, and others in the field of criminal justice, due process, policing, and administrative procedure. It adds a new Preface by the author and a new Foreword by Berkeley law professor Malcolm M. Feeley. As the author reflects: “I think it was my first day in the field that the police liaison to the district attorney’s probation revocation program exclaimed, ‘Forget rights! Forget right to jury! Forget right to bail! There are no rights!’ As Malcolm Feeley says in his Foreword, what I ‘discovered’ over the course of researching and writing this study was in plain view…
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David Crump’s 2014 Courtroom Thriller Pits Herrick Against a Drug Kingpin and its Bank
New from the author of CONFLICT OF INTEREST and MURDER IN SUGAR LAND: Law professor David Crump’s latest courtroom drama features Houston trial lawyer Robert Herrick, in a case that risks it all. Herrick is the lawyer for the little guy in Houston, Texas. His courtroom experiences have been realistically recounted in David Crump’s previous novels, seen here and here. Now Herrick faces an international enemy of unbridled arrogance and ruthlessness: the drug kingpin El Jefe, whose petty grudge against a local reporter was expressed in a family bloodbath. Can a civil lawsuit against El Jefe’s bank bring some measure of justice? And who’s really to blame here, after all?…
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John Logue’s Novel of Southern Change and Choices in the Sixties is Digitally Remastered™
Set in the tumultuous sixties, and published by Little, Brown in the eighties, this novel of a people’s governor and a Southern newspaperman still resonates with the moral choices that only strong people face. John Logue’s compelling fiction is available again, in a new digital edition. As Library Journal reviewed it, in its original release: The governor is on his deathbed; a black woman tries to have her son, a Vietnam War casualty, buried in a white cemetery; a prominent doctor is found dead, an apparent suicide. It is January 1967, and Jack Harris has returned to Alabama, after a seven-year absence, to be editor of the Montgomery Courant. As…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel Who Killed Maggie Swift? Takes Reluctant Sleuth Frank May to the Dentist
Frank May practices law the safe, routine way: wills, trusts, business law. Books, forms, and documents. At least that’s the way he wants it…. But clients and life don’t always oblige. Frank avoids murder cases like most people avoid the dentist. That’s not so easy to do when a dead body shows up during his routine appointment for a teeth cleaning, and he is thrust into an investigation that bridges his law practice. He needs to get to the root of this death. That will take more than scraping the surface of a dental practice with deep secrets and suspicious characters — or the nearby, bizarre Xyloquex Corporation. If Frank…