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University of Chicago Law Review offers its Maroonbook style guide in eBook formats
For more than twenty years, the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review have offered a simple, clear, and efficient system of legal citation and referencing for use by lawyers, students, and judges. The Maroonbook, as it is commonly called, provides an alternative to cumbersome and detailed methods of legal citation and produces consistent, straightforward results in books, law journals, briefs, and judicial opinions. The Maroonbook is now presented in a convenient and quality eBook format for use as a handy, searchable reference book. The digital edition is properly formatted and features an extensive, active Table of Contents, as well as the full appendices of the print edition. Available…
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Harvard Law Review issue 8, June 2012: Developments on Presidential power, article on Spatial Diversity & redistricting, and review essay on Constitutional Originalism
The June 2012 issue features the Harvard Law Review‘s annual, extensive, and famous DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAW section; this year’s subject examines Presidential Authority. Issue 8 also includes an article by Nicholas Stephanopoulos, “Spatial Diversity,” which analyzes redistricting and other concepts of population dispersion, and a Book Review by Michael Dorf, “The Undead Constitution,” which explores originalism and constitutional interpretation in light of recent books by David Strauss and Jack Balkin. The issue begins with a series of In Memoriam contributions celebrating Bernard Wolfman. In its Developments survey on executive authority, the student-authors analyze the subjects of: * The President’s Role in the Legislative Process * Presidential Power and the…
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JM Review of IP Law special 2012 symposium issue explores IP and tech issues in China
Each spring, RIPL produces a symposium law review issue. The special symposium on APPLICATIONS OF LAW IP IN CHINA was held at John Marshall in April 2012, and brought together the leading voices on Sino-U.S. matters of IP law, innovation, and trade policy. In this important contribution, RIPL presents current articles on China and Asia--essentially a new book by experts in this emerging field. In Kindle, Apple, and Nook formats.
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Physics for Entertainment: A classic Russian book that delivers on the fun-with-physics promise of its title
Soviet popular-science writer Yakov I. Perelman makes physics fun in his classic English-language book Physics for Entertainment: Book One, offering real-world applications, demonstrations, and fascinating phenomena that remain relevant—and educational—to modern readers. This book explains many of the most entertaining aspects of the physical world and its principles, including optical illusions, light tricks and mirages, watermelon “bombs” of force, gravity and flight, travel to the moon as Jules Verne predicted, brain teasers, heat, boomerangs, “perpetual motion machines,” echoes, and feats of strength. The Polish-born Perelman was famous all over the world for his witty texts on math, physics, and the natural sciences, before his untimely death from starvation during World…
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Stanford Law Review for May 2012 explores securities class actions, municipal “home rule,” and judicial pay
Contents for the May 2012 issue include: • The City and the Private Right of Action, by Paul A. Diller • Securities Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers, by Merritt B. Fox • How Much Should Judges Be Paid? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Judicial Pay on the State Bench, by James M. Anderson & Eric Helland • Note: How Congress Could Reduce Job Discrimination by Promoting Anonymous Hiring, by David Hausman
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The Nature and the Sources of the Law: John Chipman Gray’s Anatomy of Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, and the Concept of Rights
The Nature and Sources of the Law (Second Edition, 1921) is Gray’s legal and jurisprudential classic, finally available in a high-quality eBook edition and new paperback. It is the 11th contribution in the Legal Legends Series and, unlike most such classics typically reproduced by crude scanning, offers full assurances of careful proofreading, proper formatting, and modern presentation. The eBooks also offer active Contents and linked footnotes. John Chipman Gray (1839-1915) was a noted lawyer and legal scholar of the progressive era and a founder of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray. His important book analyzed the uses of precedent and custom, the meaning of law and legal rights, the…
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Oesterreich’s classic study Occultism and Modern Science is republished with digital corrections and professional presentation
OCCULTISM AND MODERN SCIENCE: Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880-1949) was a German professor of philosophy and an expert on the philosophy and psychology of religion. He taught as a professor at Tübingen University. He is considered to be one of the first modern German scientists to declare his belief in psychic phenomena. Although his views on parapsychology evolved over the years, ranging from an outspoken skepticism to an acceptance of the paranormal, he continued to conduct scientific research and publish in academic journals. His 1921 book on psychic possession and obsession later influenced the author of The Exorcist. And in Occultism and Modern Science, also first published in German in 1921 (then…
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Harvard Law Review‘s new issue 7 (May 2012) features symposium on “the new private law”
Featured articles and essays in this issue are from recognized scholars in law and legal theory, including a Symposium on private law. The issue also includes the article “Regulation for the Sake of Appearance,” by Adam Samaha. The Symposium contents are: THE NEW PRIVATE LAW • “Introduction: Pragmatism and Private Law,” by John C.P. Goldberg • “The Obligatory Structure of Copyright Law: Unbundling the Wrong of Copying,” by Shyamkrishna Balganesh • “Property as the Law of Things,” by Henry E. Smith • “Duties, Liabilities, and Damages,” by Stephen A. Smith • “Palsgraf, Punitive Damages, and Preemption,” by Benjamin C. Zipursky The issue includes two student Notes: • “The Perils of…
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Hot Topics in the Legal Profession • 2012 Analyzes Recent Events in Ethics and the Profession
Current important events in the U.S. legal profession and legal ethics, with useful research and analysis of the rules and the profession's current status, are explored by Tulane law students from an advanced ethics seminar. Purchase of this book benefits Tulane's Public Interest Law Foundation, a nonprofit student group that funds public interest placements and indigent client representations throughout the country. In paperback and multiple eBook formats.
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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein’s foundational Women in Law adds Deborah Rhode’s new Foreword: available in paperback and eBooks
Simply one of the most important and influential works in the canon of the sociology of law, Epstein's WOMEN IN LAW is now republished (including new paperback) and available worldwide for departments of sociology, law, and gender studies — but is accessible and fascinating to a general audience, unloaded with legal or sociological jargon. It won the SCRIBES Book Award and the ABA's Merit Award.