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Yale Law Journal, No. 1 of 2015-16: Immigration policy, discrimination and immutability, nudges, and IRL
The contents of the October 2015 issue (Volume 125, Number 1) are: Article: Against Immutability, by Jessica A. Clarke Article: The President and Immigration Law Redux, by Adam B. Cox & Cristina M. Rodriguez Essay: Which Way To Nudge? Uncovering Preferences in the Behavioral Age, by Jacob Goldin Note: Saving 60(b)(5): The Future of Institutional Reform Litigation, by Mark Kelley Comment: Interbranch Removal and the Court of Federal Claims: “Agencies in Drag,” by James Anglin Flynn Quality ebook formatting includes fully linked footnotes and an active Table of Contents (including linked Contents for all individual Articles, Notes, and Essays), proper Bluebook formatting, and active URLs in footnotes. This issue is…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel Dead in the Park has Frank May tracking down his link to a corpse
Frank May is a private practice lawyer in San Mateo, California, and he doesn’t want to get involved with an unidentified dead body in the park. So why is he involved with an unidentified dead body in the park? The man was found in a neighboring California town with no identification; all the police found was a scrap of paper in the corpse’s pocket with Cynthia Greenhouse’s address and phone number. This would be none of Frank’s business … if only Cynthia wasn’t one of his clients. Here’s where the questions start: Who is this dead man? Why does he have Cynthia’s address? And why on earth does Cynthia have…
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Jonathan Liljeblad explores endangered species and international law, and how CITES is enforced locally
Debates over U.S. government policy frequently follow a philosophy of devolution in authority from federal government to local government. This concept opens the possibility of greater local involvement in national policy implementation—and provides international treaties an opportunity to advance global policy by incorporating the efforts of local actors into their implementation framework. Much of international policy involves enforcement through international-to-national linkages forming an “implementation chain,” but devolution offers the potential to extend the implementation chain by providing national-to-local linkages. This 2014 book explores the nature of such linkages, taking as a case study the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) via its domestic analog, the Endangered Species…
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A Personal Journal, Now Memoir, of Fighting Breast Cancer and of Faith
Tracy McCain is in for the battle of her life. A diagnosis of breast cancer; a treatment of surgery and chemo. Confronting challenge after challenge — to her health and to her faith — Tracy generously shared her journey with relatives and friends by posting regular entries to a website. Candid, revealing, and introspective, and even humorous at times, the posts became a personal record of this window into her courageous fight. Bridged by new explanatory notes and context, the journal posts became this book about the journey. “I remember the day Tracy called and told me she had cancer. I was so shocked — of all people to get…
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Buddy Ward’s novel Brave West Wind takes Steamer Causey from the Bahamas to Danger
Storms destroy things and leave their marks forever. Captain Steamer Causey–a charter boat captain on one of the finest boats in all the Bahamas–thought he had his life all arranged and had put his past far behind him. He did not look for, and did not see, the signs of the storms building all about him. The storms that would tear him from his complacency, hurl him back into his past, threaten to tear apart everything and everyone he loved, and possibly even end his very existence. Hardcover edition: available at such booksellers as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, BooksAMillion.com, YBP Library Services, and Ingram catalog. Paperback edition: available at such booksellers as Amazon.com, our QP…
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Robert Sauté recounts history and institutions of U.S. public interest law in his book For the Poor and Disenfranchised
Robert Sauté’s study explores over a century of public interest representations, pro bono legal work, and litigation groups such as the ACLU and NAACP’s Inc. Fund from a social science perspective of history and institutional analysis. For the Poor and Disenfranchised is a sociological account of the public interest bar in the United States. It traces how the legal profession delivered on the legal system’s promise of equal justice for all by making the legal system available to all and a vehicle for substantive justice, exploring political mobilization, entrepreneurial lawyering, and pro bono publico representation. “In this dramatic and detailed account, Robert Sauté documents the establishment and evolution of the…
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Raskin’s acclaimed study of classic Jewish jokes is Digitally Remastered™ in a new, expanded Second Edition
The first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study, Life is Like a Glass of Tea devotes a chapter to each of eight major jokes, tracing its history and variants—and looking closely at the ways in which the comic behavior enacted in the punchline can be interpreted. One of the unique properties of classic Jewish jokes is their openness to radically different interpretive options (having nothing to do with wordplay or double entendre). This openness to alternate interpretations—never before discussed in the literature on Jewish humor—gives classic Jewish jokes their special flavor, as they leave us wondering which of several possible attitudes we…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel Death of a Schemer pits Frank May against a house full of suspects
Frank May, the lawyer who’s a reluctant detective, takes on the mystery of a house full of characters and and secrets. Frank’s law office is in San Mateo, California, his practice often dealing with wills and estates. Dead clients are an essential part of an estates practice, but these are, for almost everybody, quite natural deaths. Yet somehow, through some quirk of fate, unnatural deaths seem to plague Frank’s clients and those close to them. And he gets drawn into these mysterious affairs. Andrew Wright, a schemer if there ever was one, was not exactly a client. Andrew had befriended a woman well past her mental prime, living in a…
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Agostino Inguscio explores 12th-century Genoa in new book on family and civil conflicts
A compelling new study of conflicts in Genoa during the 12th century. This book takes on the established orthodoxy about the extent, nature and effects of family conflicts and other civil disputes in medieval Genoa. As Emanuele Ferragina writes in the Foreword, Inguscio “brings history and its complexity back in, and he does so in a clear and empirically informed way. For this reason, Inguscio’s analysis sheds a light on the study of conflict and violence in medieval Europe without the intellectual arrogance to try to demonstrate a de-contextualised theory.” The work enriches our understanding of this time of crucial transition in Europe and the use of history and economic methods…
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New book on foreign investments in Asian power projects: handling political risk
The Legal Protection of Foreign Investments Against Political Risk examines how political risks associated with foreign direct investment in the energy sector are managed or mitigated, and suggests new ways to deal with the possibility of such risk. It applies its analysis–using case studies and international law, and examining actual contracts–to the specific context of foreign investment in five Asian countries’ power infrastructure projects. “Legal protection of foreign investments against political risk has been a problem for a long time. Professor Papanastasiou’s book brilliantly balances the legitimate regulatory power of host states with legitimate business interests of foreign investors by presenting a neatly designed multi-layered legal framework for political risk…