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Yale Law Journal‘s Jan. 2014 No. 4: Bankruptcy, Shareholder Governance, Prosecutorial Vindictiveness, and Crowding Out Effects
The January 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. The contents for Volume 123, Number 4, include: • “Ice Cube Bonds: Allocating the Price of Process in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy,” by Melissa B. Jacoby & Edward J. Janger • “The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption,” by Henry Hansmann & Mariana Pargendler • Note, “Vindicating Vindictiveness: Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining, Past and Future,” by Doug Lieb • Note, “Why Motives Matter: Reframing the Crowding Out Effect of Legal Incentives,” by Emad H. Atiq As with previous digital editions of The Yale…
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Malcolm Feeley’s classic Court Reform on Trial on Innovation & Failure in the Criminal Process, now Digitally Remastered™
COURT REFORM ON TRIAL is a recognized study of innovation in the process of criminal justice, and why it so often fails—despite the best intentions of judges, administrators, and reformers. The arc of innovation to disappointment is analyzed for such ideas as bail reform, pretrial diversion, speedy trials, and determinate sentencing. A much-maligned system of plea bargaining shifts power to prosecutors away from judges, as formal trials recede in importance—but is that really the problem? Perhaps it lies in unrealistic expectations, splintered systems and decisionmaking, waning political will, unempowered constituencies, and reformers’ hubris. Feeley analyzes the persistent failure and proposes insightful pathways out of the cycle. First commissioned as a…
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Dingwall’s Social Organisation of Health Visitor Training Returns with New Preface by the Author
A book that was hard to find but much cited and well reviewed finds a new home at Quid Pro Books, in multiple digital formats, as a Digitally Remastered Book.™ Its digital edition features new material, too. Robert Dingwall’s classic and original study of the training of health visitors (public health nurses) in the UK is now available in a convenient ebook edition, featuring linked chapter endnotes, all tables from the print edition, linked and detailed subject Index, and active Contents. The new digital edition adds a substantive, explanatory 2014 Preface by the author. This book has not been easily available in print for many years, but it has long…
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University of Chicago Law Review, Fall 2013, studies bankruptcy, precedent, copyright, and judicial good faith, plus six Comments
The University of Chicago Law Review‘s 4th and final issue, Fall 2013, features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research in the form of Comments. Contents of Volume 80, Number 4, are: ARTICLES • Bankruptcy Law as a Liquidity Provider, by Kenneth Ayotte & David A. Skeel Jr. • Impeaching Precedent, by Charles L. Barzun • Copyright in Teams, by Anthony J. Casey & Andres Sawicki • Inside or Outside the System?, by Eric A. Posner & Adrian Vermeule REVIEW ESSAY • Francis Lieber and the Modern Law of War, by Paul Finkelman COMMENTS • Having Their Cake and Eating It Too? Post-emancipation…
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Harvard Law Review, #2, Dec. 2013: Honoring Dworkin, ‘Lost’ Essay by Hart on Discretion, Article on Media Leaks, and Notes & Recent Cases
The December 2013 issue of the Harvard Law Review is dedicated to the memory of Ronald Dworkin, with In Memoriam essays offered by Richard Fallon, Jr., Charles Fried, John C.P. Goldberg, Frances Kamm, Frank Michelman, Martha Minow, and Laurence Tribe. The issue features an article by David Pozen entitled “The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information.” The issue also includes essays by Nicola Lacey and Geoffrey Shaw examining a previously lost writing by H.L.A. Hart on discretion, as well as the publication of Hart’s essay, “Discretion,” itself, which he wrote while visiting at Harvard during 1956-1957. Student Notes explore such subjects as regulation of…
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Yale Law Journal, Dec. 2013, Analyzes Patent “Construction,” Agencies vs. Litigation, Sexual “Tops,” and Religious Value
The third issue of The Yale Law Journal‘s Volume 123 (Dec. 2013) features articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article, “The Interpretation-Construction Distinction in Patent Law,” by Tun-Jen Chiang & Lawrence B. Solum • Article, “Agencies as Litigation Gatekeepers,” by David Freeman Engstrom • Essay,”Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles: What Straight Views of Penetrative Preferences Could Mean for Sexuality Claims Under Price Waterhouse,” by Ian Ayres & Richard Luedeman • Review, “Why Protect Religious Freedom?,” by Michael W. McConnell • Note, “The Case for Tax: A Comparative Approach to Innovation Policy,” by Shaun P. Mahaffy As with previous digital editions of The Yale Law…
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Peter Gabel’s new book Another Way of Seeing: in hardcover, paperback and eBooks
In ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING, critical legal studies scholar Peter Gabel argues that our most fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for authentic mutual recognition. Because we live in a world in which this desire is systematically denied due to the legacy of fear of the other that has been passed on from generation to generation, we exist as what he calls ‘withdrawn selves,’ perceiving the other as a threat rather than as the source of our completion as social beings. Calling for a new kind of ‘spiritual activism’ that speaks to this universal interpersonal longing, Gabel shows how we can transform law, politics, public policy, and…
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Exploring Disaster from a global and sociological perspective; new book joins the Contemporary Society Series
Legal governance of disaster brings both care and punishment to the upending of daily life of place-based disasters. National states use disasters to reorganize how they govern. The collection in Disaster and Sociolegal Studies, edited by Denver University professor Susan Sterett, considers how law is implicated in disaster. The late modern expectation that states are to care for their population makes it particularly important to point out the limits to care—limits that appear less in the grand rhetoric than in the government reports, case-level decisionmaking, administrative rules, and criminalization that make up governing. These insightful essays feature leading scholars whose perspectives range across disasters around the world. Their findings point…
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David Nelken adds new preface, and paperback and ebooks, to his award-winning study The Limits of the Legal Process
This classic and path-breaking study in the sociology of law has won multiple academic awards for its insight, clarity, and broad import in examining the UK’s Rent Acts and landlord behavior over a period of time in the 1960s and 1970s. Not just a revelation of the unintended consequences of well-meaning tenant reforms–though it certainly does lay bare the bizarre side-effects of a law presented as protecting tenants from unscrupulous landlords–the book is a deeper penetration into the very notion of reform legislation, class dominance, competing interests, and the counter-use of reformist law as a weapon by those intended to be regulated. The study even questions the very notion of…
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Joseph Story’s Constitutional Commentaries Returns (Hardcover, Paperback & eBook); Adds New Intro by Penn’s Kermit Roosevelt
Justice Joseph Story’s famous and influential review of the origins, influences, and early interpretations of the Constitution is now presented in the author’s own 1833 Abridged Edition—considered the most useful and readable version of this important work, written by the Supreme Court’s youngest member. No other ebook version offers the accessible abridged form, and in proper digital format no less. The new hardcover and paperback use modern, legible font. Plus in print or digital, this edition adds an extensive 2013 introduction by Kermit Roosevelt III. One of the United States’ most influential legal scholars and jurists wrote his landmark treatise before the Civil War, describing federalism, states’ history, freedoms, and…
