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Yale Law Journal issue 7 (May 2012) examines voting, redistricting, and due process
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 7th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Richard Re and Christopher Re, Nathan Chapman and Michael McConnell, Bruce Cain, Christopher Elmendorf and David Schleicher, and Joseph Fishkin. The May issue’s complete Contents are: “Voting and Vice: Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Reconstruction Amendments,” by Richard M. Re and Christopher M. Re “Due Process as Separation of Powers,” by Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell “Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer?,” by Bruce E. Cain “Districting for a Low-Information Electorate,” by Christopher S. Elmendorf and David Schleicher “Weightless Votes,” by Joseph…
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Edna Lee Booker’s classic Flight from China: Inside account of Japanese occupation of China and World War II
Edna Lee Booker was an internationally recognized foreign correspondent who lived in China for two decades, along with her businessman husband John Potter. Raising a family in Shanghai, they were there when the Japanese invaded and occupied China. Looked upon with the suspicion of Americans in wartime, they realized the increasing danger. Edna and her children fled to the United States just days before they were to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp. John was not so fortunate, and was interned in unholy conditions for years. This is their tale: a journey of living in an exotic land during harrowing times of change and domination, a journey from the…
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University of Chicago Law Review‘s 2012 Issue 1: A Symposium on Understanding Education and Law, and Articles on Municipal Bankruptcy and Copyright
A leading law review now offers a quality eBook edition. This first issue of 2012 of the University of Chicago Law Review features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and education scholars, including an extensive Symposium on understanding education and law in the United States. Topics include economic structures in education, teaching patriotism, charter and Catholic schools, Amish one-room schools, minority students, empirical work on religious schools, federalism, equal opportunity, and higher-education accreditation. In addition, the issue includes articles by Clayton Gillette on municipal bankruptcy and federalism, and Steven Horowitz on copyright law’s asymmetry, as well as a student comment on wartime waivers and a book review. The issue…
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Stanford Law Review issue 4 (Apr. 2012) examines economic pricing, interpreting videos, classical Greek democracy, and copyright law
This current issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the April 2012 issue include: • The Tragedy of the Carrots: Economics and Politics in the Choice of Price Instruments by Brian Galle • “They Saw a Protest”: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction by Dan M. Kahan, David A. Hoffman, Donald Braman, Danieli Evans & Jeffrey J. Rachlinski • Constitutional Design in the Ancient World by Adriaan Lanni & Adrian Vermeule • The Copyright-Innovation Tradeoff: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Intentional Infliction of Harm by Dotan Oliar…
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Stanford Law Review March 2012 issue 3: Prosecuting the exonerated and double jeopardy, feminism and conflict of laws, and fragmentation nodes in finance
This new issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the March 2012 issue include: • “Prosecuting the Exonerated: Actual Innocence and the Double Jeopardy Clause” by Jordan M. Barry • “From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture, and the Conflict of Laws Style” by Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels & Annelise Riles • “Fragmentation Nodes: A Study in Financial Innovation, Complexity, and Systemic Risk” by Kathryn Judge • Note: “Insurmountable Obstacles: Structural Errors, Procedural Default, and Ineffective Assistance” by Amy Knight Burns • Comment: “The Gulf Coast Claims Facility…
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Stanford Law Review‘s Feb. 2012 Issue #2 Explores National Security, Thought Control, and Shareholder Liability
Contents for this February 2012 issue (Vol. 64, #2) include: • “National Security Federalism in the Age of Terror” By Matthew C. Waxman • “Incriminating Thoughts” By Nita A. Farahany • “Elective Shareholder Liability” By Peter Conti-Brown • Note, “Harrington’s Wake: Unanswered Questions on AEDPA’s Application to Summary Dispositions” By Matthew Seligman • Comment, “Boumediene Applied Badly: The Extraterritorial Constitution After Al Maqaleh v. Gates” By Saurav Ghosh The Stanford Law Review was organized in 1948. Each year the Law Review publishes one volume, which appears in six separate issues between January and July. This volume represents the 2011-2012 academic year. Each issue contains material written by student members of…
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Hardback, paperback & ebook: Rosen on the Roles and Dilemmas of Attorneys in Advising Corporations
Acclaimed study in law & society -- already used and cited for its path-breaking research -- passed around before in looseleaf, now available worldwide as a new book. Features new Foreword and Preface. In paperback, cloth and multiple digital formats. Called a "cult classic" and "wonderful" in recent blog posts. "...Should be read by everyone interested in how law matters to organizations of all kinds." --Prof. Jonathan Simon, UC Berkeley School of Law "A pioneering work in the sociology of the legal profession and a foundational piece in the slowly emerging canon of empirical research on inside counsel...normatively challenges the legal profession’s ideology of moral 'independence.'" -- Prof. Sung Hui…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Issue 6 (April 2012) Studies WikiLeaks, Dissolving Cities, and the Interplay of Votes and Rights
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 6th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012, Apr. 2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Daryl Levinson (on votes and rights), Michelle Wilde Anderson (on dissolving cities), and Patricia Bella (on WikiLeaks and national security). The issue also features student contributions on elected prosecutors throughout legal history and on execution of the mentally retarded as an issue under Section 1983 civil rights law. The editors of The Yale Law Journal are a group of Yale Law School students, who also contribute Notes and Comments to the Journal’s content. The lead articles and features are written by…
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Anthology of Key West’s Greatest Writers Includes Hemingway, Dos Passos, Tennessee Williams, Hunter Thompson, and Elizabeth Bishop
The Key West Reader features 25 of the most insightful and entertaining works that resonate from Key West: an edited collection of the finest literary and poetic works about Key West or from writers who lived in, or were touched by their time in, the Florida island community. It is said that Key West hosts more writers per capita than any other place in the world. Whether that is a statistical truth or just a civic mood, it captures the reality that this is a Place, an Inspiration. Some of the great writers in this fun anthology, for tourists and fans of literature alike, include Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Stephen…
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Martin Shapiro Links Freedom of Speech with the Legitimate Political Role of the Supreme Court
A classic study of the free speech right and especially the function of the Supreme Court in review—in effect answering, before his time, Chief Justice Roberts' claim that judges are neutral umpires. Such judicial modesty ignores the Court's political role in governing and protecting under-represented citizens. In paperback edition, plus Kindle, Nook, Apple, and other ebook formats.