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University of Chicago Law Review‘s 2nd issue of 2013: conflicting property schemes, scrutiny tiers & constitutional theory, federalism, elections & reapportionment, and advisory opinions to the courts
The University of Chicago Law Review‘s new issue features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars. Contents include: • Article, “Property Lost in Translation,” by Abraham Bell & Gideon Parchomovsky • Article, “Tiers of Scrutiny in Enumerated Powers Jurisprudence,” by Aziz Z. Huq • Article, “State and Federal Models of the Interaction between Statutes and Unwritten Law,” by Caleb Nelson • Article, “Our Electoral Exceptionalism,” by Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos • Essay, “Reverse Advisory Opinions,” by Neal Devins & Saikrishna B. Prakash • Review Essay, “The Inescapability of Constitutional Theory,” by Erwin Chemerinsky (reviewing a new book by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III) • Comment, “Amongst the ‘Waives’:…
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Harvard Law Review‘s June 2013 Issue Covers Racial Capitalism, Shallow Signals, Heirs, and Civil Rights Lawyers
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents and URLs, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 8 include: • Article, “Racial Capitalism,” by Nancy Leong • Essay, “Shallow Signals,” by Bert I. Huang • Book Review, “All Unhappy Families: Tales of Old Age, Rational Actors, and the Disordered Life,” by Ariela R. Dubler • Book Review, “Lawyers, Law, and the New Civil Rights History,” by Risa Goluboff • Note, “Recasting the U.S. International Trade Commission’s Role in the Patent System” • Note, “Juvenile Miranda Waiver and Parental Rights” • Note, “The Province of the Jurist: Judicial Resistance to Expert Testimony on Eyewitnesses…
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John Logue’s 3 Ballantine Murder Mysteries are now QP eBooks
Classic mystery writer John Logue has contributed some of his most acclaimed fiction to the growing eBook library of QP fiction. Now available are three suspense novels set in the world of high-stakes sports. Originally published by Crown Publishing and Ballantine Books of Random House, these books formed part of the Morris & Sullivan Mystery series. The first in the series, Follow the Leader, was a finalist in the Edgar Awards for best first novel. These books are fun, and presented digitally with active Table of Contents. FOLLOW THE LEADER. ISBN 978-1-61027-190-5 (eBook) Missing at his tee time at the U.S. Open outside Atlanta is the latest leader of America’s…
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Yale Law Journal, May 2013: Zoning, Eminent Domain, Nudges to Paternalism, and Patents
The 7th issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • “City Unplanning,” by David Schleicher • “Rethinking the Federal Eminent Domain Power,” by William Baude • “Behavioral Economics and Paternalism,” by Cass R. Sunstein • “The Continuum of Excludability and the Limits of Patents,” by Amy Kapczynski & Talha Syed In addition, the issue includes substantial contributions from student editors: • Note, “Should the Ministerial Exception Apply to Functions, Not Persons?,” by Jed Glickstein • Note, “How Do You Measure a Constitutional Moment? Using Algorithmic Topic Modeling To Evaluate Bruce Ackerman’s Theory of Constitutional Change,”…
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Alison Renteln’s Classic Study of the Relativity of Human Rights Norms; Adds New Foreword by Tom Zwart
A classic socio-legal study of the incompatibility and possible reconciliation of competing views of culture relativism and absolute fundamental human rights. It features prodigious research and insight that has often been cited by academics and human rights lawyers and activists over two decades. Originally published by Sage, the book is now available in Quid Pro's Classics of the Social Sciences Series, in new eBook and paperback editions; it remains one of the foundational works in human rights.
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Harvard Law Review‘s May 2013 Symposium on Privacy & Tech; Issue Adds Articles on Administrative Review and the OIRA
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, active URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 7 include scholarly articles and student case notes, as well as an extensive Symposium on Privacy and Technology. Subjects include: Article, “Agency Self-Insulation Under Presidential Review,” by Jennifer Nou Commentary, “The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Myths and Realities,” by Cass R. Sunstein SYMPOSIUM: PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY “Introduction: Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma,” by Daniel J. Solove “What Privacy Is For,” by Julie E. Cohen “The Dangers of Surveillance,” by Neil M. Richards “The EU-U.S. Privacy Collision: A Turn to Institutions…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel of lawyer Frank May proves where there’s a will there’s a death
Frank May practices law, but not the glamorous kind. His bread and butter is the sedate sort—writing wills and handling estates. Or more to the point, handling heirs. Even so, where there’s a will there’s a death. Try as he might, Frank just can’t avoid some of the more unsavory sides of human existence. And of heirs. There’s more than one unsavory side to the family Mobius, and Frank has front row seats to watch the quirks and squabbles of the various Mobiuses, after two older family members die. One, at least, was murdered in his squalid San Francisco apartment, while sitting on a family fortune that appears to be…
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Reinhard Bendix’s influential Work and Authority in Industry is now an eBook
Work and Authority in Industry is a high quality, Digitally Remastered™ republication of one of the classic works of social history and industrial relations. Reinhard Bendix’s foundational study of the rise of the capitalist class is now presented as an eBook. This book has been assigned, quoted, and referenced thousands of times since its original publication. Berkeley sociologist Reinhard Bendix explores how the emerging class of entrepreneurs increasingly attempted to create and manage an industrial work force. His analysis is comparative and historical, and applies across widely varying societal structures, particularly the United States, England, Russia, and East Germany. First published in 1956 and updated in a 1963 paperback release…
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Yale Law Journal, Apr. 2013: Rape-by-deception, abuse of property rights, civil rights lawyering, bankuptcy ride-through, and age & organ donors
The April 2013 issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 6th of Vol. 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law, legal theory and policy by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include an article analyzing rape-by-deception and the mythical idea of sexual autonomy, by Jed Rubenfeld; an essay on extortion and the principle of abuse of property right, by Larissa Katz; and a book review essay on the next generation of civil rights lawyers and the construction of racial identity, by Anthony Alfieri and Angela Onwuachi-Willig. The issue also features extensive student research, in the form of Notes and Comments, on such cutting-edge subjects as mandatory arbitration and…
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Harvard Law Review‘s April 2013 Issue features Developments on Immigration, Coase Theorem, and “Unwritten” Constitution
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student case notes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of emerging Developments in the Law. This year’s subject is immigration law and policy. Topics include legal representation of immigrants in removal proceedings, the applicability of the Fourth Amendment and its exclusionary rule, the application of DOMA to immigrant applicants, and the state-federal problem of immigration law and enforcement. The issue also includes an article by Lee Anne Fennell on transaction costs, Coase, and “resource access costs,” as well as a…