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New England Law Review Joins Law Journal eBook Project with Volume 48, Issue 1
The New England Law Review now offers its issues in convenient and modern ebook formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This first issue of Volume 48, Fall 2013, was published in 2014 and contains articles and presentations from leading figures of the academy, the judiciary, and the legal community. Contents of this issue include: • Commencement Address at New England Law: Boston, May 24, 2013, by U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz Articles: • Creamskimming and Competition, by Jim Chen • “Give Me That Old Time Religion”: The Persistence of the Webster Reasonable Doubt Instruction and the Need to Abandon It, by Hon. Richard E. Welch, III •…
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Harvard Law Review, Feb. 2014, Explores Partisan Federalism, the Unnecessary Constitution, and State Action under Sebelius
The February 2014 issue (Volume 127, Number 4) features the following articles and essays: • Article, “Partisan Federalism,” by Jessica Bulman-Pozen • Book Review, “Never Mind the Constitution,” by Jeremy Waldron • Note, “NFIB v. Sebelius and the Individualization of the State Action Doctrine” In addition, student case notes explore Recent Cases on such diverse subjects as FDA limits on Plan B contraception, local zoning bans on medical marijuana sellers, a First Amendment defense to right-of-publicity claims, warrantless searches of cell-site data, copyright fair use and transformative artwork, undocumented alien workers as barred from backpay under labor law, international law and jurisdiction over the facilitator of piracy, juvenile life without…
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John Flood’s Study of the Corporate Law Firm Reveals a Side of Law Practice Often Ignored: Inside
A legal scholar and sociologist, John Flood spent years observing a large law firm from the inside—much like an embedded journalist, but with the perspective of a researcher on the theory and practice of legal organizations. What he found and analyzed resulted in a study that has been cited by many scholars over the years as the ultimate account of the inner workings of a corporate law firm, including its relations with clients, employees, and the broader profession. Further, using four detailed case studies, he showed how the construction of legal information and problems depended heavily on the role and specialization of the lawyer and the power of the client.…
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Alabama’s early history is brought to life, from settlement to the Civil War
Jim Lewis’ new book on antebellum Alabama joins the History & Heroes Series. The name Alabama comes from the Choctaw word meaning “clearers of the thickets,” inspiring the title of this fascinating new book. It examines Alabama’s early history beginning with the era of European colonization and culminating with the state’s controversial secession from the Union—after just 41 years as a state (recognizing, of course, that the actual history began long before this emigration, with Native American civilizations). In so doing, the author traces how Alabama emerged from a raw frontier of European settlement into a fully functioning state that provided much-needed order to its new citizens. The book begins…
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Harvard Law Review‘s Jan. 2014 issue explores public enforcement & motivation, tech issues with internet & broadband, sentencing review, trademark in fashion, and more
The January 2014 issue (Volume 127, Number 3) includes the following articles and student contributions: • Article, “For-Profit Public Enforcement,” by Margaret H. Lemos and Max Minzner • Book Review, “Technological Determinism and Its Discontents,” by Christopher S. Yoo • Note, “More than a Formality: The Case for Meaningful Substantive Reasonableness Review” • Note, “Appointing State Attorneys General: Evaluating the Unbundled State Executive” • Note, “The Devil Wears Trademark: How the Fashion Industry Has Expanded Trademark Doctrine to Its Detriment” In addition, student case notes explore recent cases on misleading law school employment data, the First Amendment religious rights of for-profit corporations, regulation of nuclear energy, forensic search of laptops…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Jan. 2014 No. 4: Bankruptcy, Shareholder Governance, Prosecutorial Vindictiveness, and Crowding Out Effects
The January 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 4, include: • “Ice Cube Bonds: Allocating the Price of Process in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy,” by Melissa B. Jacoby & Edward J. Janger • “The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption,” by Henry Hansmann & Mariana Pargendler • Note, “Vindicating Vindictiveness: Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining, Past and Future,” by Doug Lieb • Note, “Why Motives Matter: Reframing the Crowding Out Effect of Legal Incentives,” by Emad H. Atiq As with previous digital editions of The Yale…
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Frank Zimring’s The Changing Legal World of Adolescence is Digitally Remastered™ in eBooks & in paperback
This work attempts to explain changes in the legal conception of adolescence as a stage of life and as a transition to adulthood. The intended audience includes lawyers and others—such as parents, professionals, and kids—puzzled by trends labeled “children’s liberation” and “the revolution in juvenile justice.” Much cited and long recognized as an authority, it is considered a classic of law & society. Changes in legal conceptions of youth are interesting in their own right. They are also a useful way of examining important social, political, and economic changes. It is said that legal studies, “properly pursued, lead to a fuller understanding of the larger world of which the law…
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Malcolm Feeley’s classic Court Reform on Trial on Innovation & Failure in the Criminal Process, now Digitally Remastered™
COURT REFORM ON TRIAL is a recognized study of innovation in the process of criminal justice, and why it so often fails—despite the best intentions of judges, administrators, and reformers. The arc of innovation to disappointment is analyzed for such ideas as bail reform, pretrial diversion, speedy trials, and determinate sentencing. A much-maligned system of plea bargaining shifts power to prosecutors away from judges, as formal trials recede in importance—but is that really the problem? Perhaps it lies in unrealistic expectations, splintered systems and decisionmaking, waning political will, unempowered constituencies, and reformers’ hubris. Feeley analyzes the persistent failure and proposes insightful pathways out of the cycle. First commissioned as a…
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Dingwall’s Social Organisation of Health Visitor Training Returns with New Preface by the Author
A book that was hard to find but much cited and well reviewed finds a new home at Quid Pro Books, in multiple digital formats, as a Digitally Remastered Book.™ Its digital edition features new material, too. Robert Dingwall’s classic and original study of the training of health visitors (public health nurses) in the UK is now available in a convenient ebook edition, featuring linked chapter endnotes, all tables from the print edition, linked and detailed subject Index, and active Contents. The new digital edition adds a substantive, explanatory 2014 Preface by the author. This book has not been easily available in print for many years, but it has long…
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University of Chicago Law Review, Fall 2013, studies bankruptcy, precedent, copyright, and judicial good faith, plus six Comments
The University of Chicago Law Review‘s 4th and final issue, Fall 2013, features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research in the form of Comments. Contents of Volume 80, Number 4, are: ARTICLES • Bankruptcy Law as a Liquidity Provider, by Kenneth Ayotte & David A. Skeel Jr. • Impeaching Precedent, by Charles L. Barzun • Copyright in Teams, by Anthony J. Casey & Andres Sawicki • Inside or Outside the System?, by Eric A. Posner & Adrian Vermeule REVIEW ESSAY • Francis Lieber and the Modern Law of War, by Paul Finkelman COMMENTS • Having Their Cake and Eating It Too? Post-emancipation…