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University of Chicago Law Review‘s Symposium on Immigration Features Leading Scholars in the Field
This first issue of 2013 features articles from internationally recognized scholars on immigration and emigration, including an extensive Symposium on immigration and its issues of policy, law, administrative process, and institutional design in the United States. Topics include why “family” is special (Kerry Abrams), risks and rewards of economic migration (Anu Bradford), criminal deportees (Eleanor Marie Lawrence Brown), policing immigration (Adam Cox & Thomas Miles), detention reform (Alina Das), rights of undocumented aliens (John Eastman), free trade and free immigration (Richard Epstein), screening for solidarity in labor (Stephen Lee), temporary worker programs (Hiroshi Motomura), institutional structure of immigration law (Eric Posner), and international cooperation on migration (Alan Sykes). In addition,…
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Harvard Law Review, March 2013, features Louis Kaplow on multistage adjudication and Nicola Lacey on criminal justice
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 5 include: • Article, “Multistage Adjudication,” by Louis Kaplow • Book Review, “Humanizing the Criminal Justice Machine: Re-Animated Justice or Frankenstein’s Monster?,” by Nicola Lacey • Note, “Importing a Trade or Business Limitation into § 2036: Toward a Regulatory Solution to FLP-Driven Transfer Tax Avoidance” • Note, “The Benefits of Unequal Protection” • Note, “Diagnostic Method Patents and Harms to Follow-On Innovation” • Note, “Three Formulations of the Nexus Requirement in Reasonable Accommodations Law” In addition, student research explores Recent Cases on the intersection of age discrimination…
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Yale Law Journal‘s March 2013 Issue Features Antitrust, Federalism, and Burden of Proof
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 5th of Vol. 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal history. Contents include: • Article: “Commandeering and Constitutional Change,” by Wesley Campbell • Article: “Parallel Exclusion,” by C. Scott Hemphill & Tim Wu • Essay: “Reconceptualizing the Burden of Proof,” by Edward Cheng In addition, the March 2013 issue contains substantial student research in the form of Notes: one on administrative law, using a federal common law framework to fill a void for state agencies in implementing federal law; and another on evaluating attorney misconduct habeas claims after the Maples case, by analogy to civil claims…
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Three classic works by Neil Smelser return as quality eBook editions; two in new paperback
Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences: Even after teaching generations of social scientists, this classic book by Berkeley’s Neil J. Smelser remains the most definitive statement of methodological issues for all comparative scholars and in political science, anthropology, sociology, economics and psychology. Such issues are timeless and therefore Smelser’s lucid analysis remains timely and relevant. Smelser posits a methodological continuity between the comparative studies of past masters and the more recent flow of contemporary comparative work. To that end, he takes a pragmatic, critical look at the classic studies of Alexis de Tocqueville, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. His analyses respect the historical specifics and contexts of their work, but…
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Margaret Sanger’s 1926 manual Happiness in Marriage: now a convenient eBook
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was an iconic American feminist, sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. She founded Planned Parenthood and wrote numerous articles and books on controversial topics including birth control. She was arrested for espousing contraception and women’s freedom of control over their own bodies. Decades later, and in part from her prosecution and activism, the U.S. accepted the right to control birth as she promoted, and the Supreme Court struck down laws forbidding contraception as an invasion of marital privacy. Part of that activism is present in Happiness in Marriage, first published in 1926. But the book attempts to do more–to teach both men and women what a…
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Jesse Choper’s Securing Religious Liberty is Digitally Remastered™ and Available in New eBook Formats
Although the Constitution of the United States states that there shall be no laws that either establish or prohibit religion, the application of the Religion Clauses throughout United States history has been fraught with conflict and ambiguity. In this classic book, a leading constitutional scholar (and former Dean of law at Berkeley) proposed a set of guidelines meant to provide for the consistent application of the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses. Jesse Choper’s thoughtful and pragmatic guidelines are designed to provide maximum protection for religious freedom without granting anyone an advantage, inflicting a disadvantage, or causing an unfair burden. Although Choper does not call for the wholesale overturning of judicial precedents…
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Marie Laveau, historical voodoo figure in New Orleans, featured in reprinted classic folk-book
Raymond J. Martinez’ classic book on legends, lore and unvarnished truths surrounding New Orleans’ most famous voodoo mistress, and other tales from surrounding parishes of days long gone by. Includes illustrated guide to palm-reading, humorous asides, historical comparisons, and over twenty images. In addition to the facts and folklore about Marie Laveau herself, including revealing research into some debunked myths and unanswered questions, the book offers entertaining stories of her life and the people around the New Orleans area, such as: • Lafayette’s visit to New Orleans, yes . . . but to Marie Laveau herself? • How Marie Laveau turned hate into love for some wishful suitors • How…
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Yale Law Journal, 2013, No. 4 Explores Second Amendment Analysis, Presidential Power to Appoint, Filibusters & Burqas
One of the world’s leading law journals is available as an eBook. This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the fourth of Vol. 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article: Text, History, and Tradition: What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second, by Darrell A.H. Miller • Essay: Can the President Appoint Principal Executive Officers Without a Senate Confirmation Vote?, by Matthew C. Stephenson • Note: The Majoritarian Filibuster • Note: Lawsuits as Information: Prisons, Courts, and a Troika Model of Petition Harms • Comment: Unveiling Inequality: Burqa Bans and Nondiscrimination Jurisprudence at…
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Maids and Caregivers in Saudi Arabia & UAE: Antoinette Vlieger explores their conflicts, the available norms and law, and petropolitics
Part of the Human Rights & Culture Series, Antoinette Vlieger’s Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and the Emirates brings home, through frank interviews, the dilemmas at issue when migrant maids and caregivers make their homes in oil-rich countries. Page 1 opens with a jarring turn: “Filipina domestic worker, employed in Riyadh: ‘Really they are good to me. If I say I need rest, they give me rest.’ [And if they were not so good to you, if you would have some problem with your employer, where would you go?] ‘Madam, I cannot go anywhere, I am not allowed to go outside. I cannot go to the embassy. I will just…
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Harvard Law Review‘s Feb. 2013 issue explores unbundled legal aid, presidential power, preemption, human trafficking, and Indian canon
The Harvard Law Review is offered as an ebook, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper formatting. The contents of Issue 4 include: • Article, “The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future,” by D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, and Jonathan Hennessy • Book Review, “Stochastic Constraint,” by Neal Kumar Katyal • Note, “Counteracting the Bias: The Department of Labor’s Unique Opportunity to Combat Human Trafficking” • Note, “Tilling the Vast Wasteland: The Case for Reviving Localism in Public Interest Obligations for Cable Television” • Note, “Preemption as Purposivism’s Last Refuge” • Note, “The Meaning(s) of ‘The People’…