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Good Courts by Berman and Feinblatt is digitally remastered,™ adding new Foreword
Presented in a new digital edition, and adding a Foreword by Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the state of New York, Good Courts is now available as an eBook to criminal justice workers, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, court officials, and others interested in the future of alternative justice and process in the United States. Public confidence in American criminal courts is at an all-time low. Victims, communities, and even offenders view courts as unable to respond adequately to complex social and legal problems including drugs, prostitution, domestic violence, and quality-of-life crime. Even many judges and attorneys think that the courts produce assembly-line justice. Increasingly embraced by even the most hard-on-crime…
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Harvard Law Review‘s Jan. 2016 issue analyzes Presidential Intelligence and the rise of the administrative state
The January 2016 issue, Number 3, features these contents: • Article, “Presidential Intelligence,” by Samuel J. Rascoff • Book Review, “The Struggle for Administrative Legitimacy,” by Jeremy K. Kessler (reviewing Daniel Ernst’s book on the origins of the administrative state) • Note, “Existence-Value Standing” • Note, “Rethinking Closely Regulated Industries” In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on compelled disclosures in commercial speech; due process notice of procedures to challenge a local ordinance; standing after liquidation actions taken under Dodd-Frank; exaction and takings by acquiring equity shares in AIG; religious liberty after Hobby Lobby; bias-intimidation laws and mens rea; and whether document production is the ‘practice of law’ under labor…
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Linda Veazey argues for a gendered view of cultural rights instead of the usual dichotomy
A Woman’s Right to Culture is a new and insightful analysis of the usual meme that cultural rights in international law are at odds with the rights of women in affected societies. Rather than seeing these concepts as mutually exclusive, Linda Veazey frames cultural rights — through detailed case studies and analysis of law — in a way that incorporates and enriches the very gender-protective norms they are often thought to defeat. Adding a Foreword by University of Southern California professor Alison Dundes Renteln, the study makes the case, and supports it with illustrations over several continents and cultures, that the only way out of the dilemma is to have…
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Harvard Law Review, Dec. 2015: On Intra-Agency Conflicts, Selling Body Parts and Milk, Immigrant Detention, and Conflict of Laws
The December 2015 issue, Number 2, features these contents: • Article, “Intra-Agency Coordination,” by Jennifer Nou • Book Review, “Body Banking from the Bench to the Bedside,” by Natalie Ram • Note, “‘A Prison Is a Prison Is a Prison’: Mandatory Immigration Detention and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel” • Note, “Bundled Systems and Better Law: Against the Leflar Method of Resolving Conflicts of Law” The issue also includes In Memoriam essays honoring the legacy of Professor Daniel J. Meltzer, with contributions by Judge David J. Barron, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Vicki C. Jackson, Robert S. Taylor, Justice Elena Kagan, David F. Levi, Martha Minow, and Donald B. Verrilli,…
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New England Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, on privacy and big data: a new symposium on technology and privacy
The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This 4th issue of Volume 49 (Sum. 2015) features an extensive and important Symposium entitled “What Stays in Vegas,” presented by leading scholars on the subject of privacy and big data. Contents include: * “Legal Questions Raised by the Widespread Aggregation of Personal Data,” by Adam Tanner * “What Stays in Vegas: The Road to ‘Zero Privacy,'” by David Abrams * “Privacy and Predictive Analytics in E-Commerce,” by Shaun B. Spencer * “Privacy and Innovation: Information as Property and the Impact on Data Subjects,” by Rita S. Heimes In addition, Issue…
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Boyum & Mather’s classic Empirical Theories About Courts is Digitally Remastered:™ A foundational work in the field of trial courts
The classic and groundbreaking study of trial courts and other dispute processes — and foundational ways to think about researching them — is now available in a modern digital edition. It is edited by Professors Keith O. Boyum and Lynn Mather, and contains chapters from the leading theorists about courts and their research. Much cited and relevant today in how it frames the analysis of courts, this book’s new republication features an additional Introduction and Afterword by the editors, with updates, and anew Foreword by Christina L. Boyd. As Boyd writes, “For nearly all civil and criminal cases the traditional model of court as a judge-dominated, formal adversary process of…
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Harvard Law Review, #1 for 2015-2016: The Supreme Court, 2014 Term, Has Case Summaries; Essays by Strauss, Gluck, Goldsmith and Yoshino
The November issue is the special annual review of the U.S. Supreme Court’s previous Term. Each year, the issue is introduced by noteworthy and extensive contributions from recognized scholars. In this issue, for the 2014 Term, articles include: * Foreword: “Does the Constitution Mean What It Says?,” by David A. Strauss * Comment: “Imperfect Statutes, Imperfect Courts: Understanding Congress’s Plan in the Era of Unorthodox Lawmaking,” by Abbe R. Gluck * Comment: “Zivotofsky II as Precedent in the Executive Branch,” by Jack Goldsmith * Comment: “A New Birth of Freedom?: Obergefell v. Hodges,” by Kenji Yoshino In addition, the first issue of each new volume provides an extensive summary of…
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Yale Law Journal, Nov. 2015: data privacy & extraterritoriality; political entrenchment using law; Posner on marriage equality; & financing class actions
The contents of November 2015 (Vol. 125, No. 2) are: Articles: “The Un-Territoriality of Data,” by Jennifer Daskal; and “Political Entrenchment and Public Law,” by Daryl Levinson & Benjamin I. Sachs Review Essay: “18 Years On: A Re-Review,” by Richard A. Posner (reviewing William Eskridge’s book on marriage equality) Note: “Financing the Class: Strengthening the Class Action Through Third-Party Investment,” by Tyler W. Hill Comment: “Law Enforcement and Data Privacy: A Forward-Looking Approach,” by Reema Shah Quality ebook formatting includes fully linked footnotes and an active Table of Contents (including linked Contents for individual Articles and Notes), proper Bluebook formatting, and active URLs in footnotes. This is the second issue…
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Lisa McElroy’s fun novel Called On “may be this generation’s One L”
“Lisa McElroy perfectly captures the pressures, challenges, and triumphs of both teaching and studying the law. Filled with big, memorable personalities, Called On is an utterly charming depiction of the 1L experience.” — Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex “McElroy nails law school—from first-day jitters to gunners and back-benchers—in a funny, perceptive, and poignant (but never predictable) first novel. Grab a Diet Coke and a handful of M&Ms and settle in; once you start reading, you won’t want to stop.” — Amy Howe, co-founder & editor, SCOTUSblog “In Called On, Lisa McElroy deftly chronicles the stories of law professor Connie Shun and first year law student…
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Paul Pruitt’s powerful collection of young lawyers’ essays on Alabama legal history
NEW FIELD, NEW CORN is an anthology of research papers that explore a range of topics from the rich legal history of the state of Alabama and its influential legal and judicial figures. Contemporary photography and mapwork are featured as well. “Alabama legal history can be surprising. Usually, this history is identified with dominant one-party politics, slavery, racial segregation, and limited social welfare. Paul Pruitt’s collection of young lawyers’ research reveals a new field. It extends out from legal subjects, embracing new perceptions of law in society across Alabama history. The collection rests on broad research. Lawyers working in diverse fields have produced Alabama legal history that sets a new…