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Harvard Law Review‘s March 2012 Issue Analyzes Overlap of Administrative Agencies, Prison Reform, and Recent Cases and Legislation
Featured articles in this March 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Jody Freeman and Jim Rossi, on the coordination of administrative agencies when they share regulatory space, and James Whitman, reviewing Bernard Harcourt’s new book on the illusion of free markets as to prisons. Student contributions explore the law relating to antitrust and business deception; the failed Google Books settlement; mergers and acquisitions; materiality in securities law; administrative law; patentable subject matter; and paid sick leave. Finally, the issue includes two Book Notes. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from…
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Harvard Law Review April 2012 Issue Studies “Traditional” Sex Discrimination, the Presidency, and Criminal Process
Featured articles and essays in the April 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Cary Franklin (in an article on inventing the “traditional concept” of sex discrimination), Richard Pildes (on law and the President, in an essay reviewing a book by Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule), and Robert Weisberg (on the tragedy of crime and criminal law, reviewing a book by the late William Stuntz). Student contributions explore the law relating to everlasting software; incarcerating immigration detainees; the First and Fourteenth Amendments; Sixth Amendment implications of napping defense counsel; copyright under the first sale doctrine; war powers in Libya; and eyewitness identification evidence. The Harvard Law Review is a…
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Yale Law Journal‘s March 2012 Issue Features Articles on Tax Discrimination and the 26th Amendment
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 5th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Ruth Mason and Michael Knoll (an article on tax discrimination), and Michael Graetz and Alvin Warren, Jr. (a featured essay also analyzing tax discrimination, and in response). Student contributions discuss such issues as the 26th Amendment’s enforcement power, the Attestation Clause in United States history, and software licensing agreements. Ebook editions include active Contents for the issue and for individual articles, linked footnotes, linked cross-references in notes and text, active URLs in notes, and proper digital presentation from the original print edition. The…
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Stanford Law Review‘s 1st Issue of 2012 Explores Gun Rights, Federalism in Health Care Reform, Establishing Official Islam, and Lobbying
A leading law journal features a digital edition as part of its worldwide distribution, using quality ebook formatting and active links. In fact, Stanford Law Review, in January 2011, became the first general-interest law review to release current editions in ebook formats; six previous issues from volume 63 are available in Kindle, Nook and Apple formats. This current issue 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 this issue: • The Right Not to Keep or Bear Arms Joseph Blocher • The Ghost That Slayed the Mandate Kevin C. Walsh •…
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Scheingold’s The Law in Political Integration Explores Federalizing the Early Forms of the EU
Really, what became the EU, from a disparate mishmash of treaties, organizations, and economic groupings. And always law, before most people could imagine the extent of political integration it would engender. But Stuart A. Scheingold saw what it could become, what law could do for that process, and analyzed the state of that process from its early fragments. His monograph written for the Harvard Center for International Relations became a classic for those interested in this snapshot of data and time, and its careful analysis of early decisions in trade and governance. He explores the reasons that law and regional integration would lead the future of the Union, not a…
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Scovel’s 1962 The Chinese Ginger Jars spans two decades of tumult and transition in China
The true, captivating, and intensely personal account of an extraordinary American woman and nurse who lived, with her medical missionary husband and son, through more than two decades of transition in China. Eventually facing occupation by the Japanese, then forced to leave the newly Communist country, she provided an intimate portrait of a country peaceful and exotic, steeped in history—then fearful and suspicious of foreign influence. The book reads like a novel, with the intimacy and suspense of a story that spans the breadth of China. Originally published in 1962, this classic book is re-presented in a clean and correct reproduction. A compelling addition to the Journeys and Memoirs Series…
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Smelser and Content’s Introspective Account of Hiring at Berkeley in the Mid-1970s, The Changing Academic Market is Digitally Remastered™ and in Paperback
The Changing Academic Market: General Trends and a Berkeley Case Study is the inside story and scholarly analysis of a leading sociology department’s search, during the mid-1970s, to fill several faculty positions. This was attempted in the middle of the fundamental changes to the university market that began in the 1960s and was especially acute at the University of California at Berkeley. That sea change is exposed with candid self-awareness and examined in its practical effects on faculty hiring procedure, treatment of candidates, professors’ relations with each other and their political stances, and recommendations for other academics in a similar recruitment process throughout the United States. Quality eBook formatting from…
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Selznick’s Leadership in Administration Still a Management and Sociology Bestseller
Remarkable in its insight and staying power, Philip Selznick's Leadership in Administration is still read in droves by business and management students, sociologists, and political scientists -- and of course by interested individual readers within corporations, institutions, and governmental agencies who want to lead effectively. It forms the backbone of most accepted self-help or seminar-style management courses and guides. Quid Pro is the exclusive digital publisher of this fine book.
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Harvard Law Review‘s June Issue, in ebook formats, now available including memoriam to William Stuntz
Harvard Law Review: Volume 124, Number 8 – June 2011 is now available, beating the streets, as an ebook in leading formats. It features quality presentation, legible charts, active TOC (including that of the articles), linked notes and URLs, and complete and linked cross-referencing in text and notes. Its contents are: In Memoriam: William J. Stuntz Pamela S. Karlan Michael J. Klarman Martha Minow Daniel C. Richman Robert E. Scott David Skeel Carol Steiker ARTICLES: The Host’s Dilemma: Strategic Forfeiture in Platform Markets for Informational Goods Jonathan M. Barnett Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation John F. Manning NOTES: Interpreting Silence: The Roles of the Courts and the Executive Branch…
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New Stanford Law Review Issue 5 Is Available in Kindle, Nook, and iTunes Formats
Now available is Stanford Law Review‘s Issue 5 – May 2011. The Stanford Law Review is published six times a year by students of the Stanford Law School. Each issue contains material written by student members of the Law Review, other Stanford law students, and outside contributors, such as law professors, judges, and practicing lawyers. The current volume is 63, for the academic year 2010-2011, and the present compilation, in ebook form, represents Issue 5, May 2011. Contents for the issue: “The Objects of the Constitution,” by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz”; “The Lost Origins of American Fair Employment Law: Regulatory Choice and the Making of Modern Civil Rights, 1943-1972,” by David…
