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Yale Law Journal‘s first issue of Vol. 123 explores racial disparity in sentencing, gun control, unions, and special juries
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (Volume 123, No. 1, Oct. 2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article, “Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity: Assessing the Role of Prosecutors and the Effects of Booker,” by Sonja B. Starr & M. Marit Rehavi • Article, “Firearm Localism,” by Joseph Blocher • Essay, “The Unbundled Union: Politics Without Collective Bargaining,” by Benjamin I. Sachs • Note, “Special Juries in the Supreme Court” • Comment, “There’s No Such Thing as a Political Question of Statutory Interpretation: The Implications of Zivotofsky v. Clinton” Quality eBook formatting includes fully linked footnotes and an…
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University of Chicago Law Review‘s issue 3 of 2013 explores tortfest, constitutionality, nudges and floodgates
The University of Chicago Law Review‘s third issue, 2013, features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research in the form of Comments. Contents are: ARTICLES • Tortfest, by J. Shahar Dillbary • Judging the Flood of Litigation, by Marin K. Levy • Unbundling Constitutionality, by Richard Primus • When Nudges Fail: Slippery Defaults, by Lauren E. Willis COMMENTS • The Firearm-Disability Dilemma: Property Insights into Felon Gun Rights • Pleading in Technicolor: When Can Litigants Incorporate Audiovisual Works into Their Complaints? • Fun with Numbers: Gall’s Mixed Message regarding Variance Calculations • The Availability of Discovery Sanctions for Violations of Protective Orders •…
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Jesse Choper’s powerful Judicial Review and the National Political Process available as an eBook
As constitutional scholar John Nowak noted when this classic book was first published, “Professor Choper’s Judicial Review and the National Political Process is mandatory reading for anyone seriously attempting to study our constitutional system of government. It is an important assessment of the democratic process and the theoretical and practical role of the Supreme Court.” That view is no less true today, as borne out by the countless citations to this landmark work over the decades. It is simply part of the foundational canon of constitutional law and political theory, an essential part of the library of scholars, students, and educated readers interested in considering the hard choices inherent in…
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Revolutionary, classic book Cybernetics: now in quality eBook, hardcover, and paperback editions
CYBERNETICS is on virtually everyone’s short list of the most important and influential nonfiction books of the last century. First published by MIT math professor Norbert Wiener in 1948, and later expanded in its Second Edition in 1961, this groundbreaking account of systems, thought processes, AI, and the use of “feedback” foreshadowed intelligent and replicating machines, complex organizational organisms, and the physiology and failure of the human nervous system. No small wonder this book has been widely read by scientists and lay readers alike, to understand the origins and future of computers, wider communication pathways, the use of feedback to refine actions and thought processes, and the logic and math…
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Stuart Scheingold’s Pathbreaking Study of European Integration by Law is a Digitally Remastered Book™
In the early days of what would become the European Union, the new entity had a weak and ill-defined legislature and executive. And the European Court of Justice, whose decisions, actions, and even inactions subtly paved the way to a continent's integration. "Scheingold showed that its efforts, deftly melding law and politics, were a success beyond mere dispute-resolution and development of legal doctrine," states the new introduction to this classic study. "He was well aware that he was present at the creation of a powerful new institution. Yet he stood virtually alone in seeing what such an institution, using its power this way, could realize in terms of political integration.…
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Harry Scheiber’s classic study of Wilson and civil liberties is back in print … and in eBooks
The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties, 1917-1921, is a Digitally Remastered™ reprint of one of the classic works of legal and social history. Harry Scheiber’s much-cited study of Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet explores the suppression of speech and print publication during an era of world war, the Red Scare, anti-foreign fervor, and unionism. Wilson’s notable achievements in social leadership and the progressive movement are questioned in light of his failure to protect civil liberties amidst the tide of war fever, nationalism, racism, and a protection of corporate interests. Worse, his own administration, through the Justice Department and the Postmaster General, took ruthless and often spurious actions to repress liberties,…
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Harvard Law Review‘s June 2013 Issue Covers Racial Capitalism, Shallow Signals, Heirs, and Civil Rights Lawyers
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents and URLs, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 8 include: • Article, “Racial Capitalism,” by Nancy Leong • Essay, “Shallow Signals,” by Bert I. Huang • Book Review, “All Unhappy Families: Tales of Old Age, Rational Actors, and the Disordered Life,” by Ariela R. Dubler • Book Review, “Lawyers, Law, and the New Civil Rights History,” by Risa Goluboff • Note, “Recasting the U.S. International Trade Commission’s Role in the Patent System” • Note, “Juvenile Miranda Waiver and Parental Rights” • Note, “The Province of the Jurist: Judicial Resistance to Expert Testimony on Eyewitnesses…
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Alison Renteln’s Classic Study of the Relativity of Human Rights Norms; Adds New Foreword by Tom Zwart
A classic socio-legal study of the incompatibility and possible reconciliation of competing views of culture relativism and absolute fundamental human rights. It features prodigious research and insight that has often been cited by academics and human rights lawyers and activists over two decades. Originally published by Sage, the book is now available in Quid Pro's Classics of the Social Sciences Series, in new eBook and paperback editions; it remains one of the foundational works in human rights.
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Harvard Law Review‘s May 2013 Symposium on Privacy & Tech; Issue Adds Articles on Administrative Review and the OIRA
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, active URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 7 include scholarly articles and student case notes, as well as an extensive Symposium on Privacy and Technology. Subjects include: Article, “Agency Self-Insulation Under Presidential Review,” by Jennifer Nou Commentary, “The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Myths and Realities,” by Cass R. Sunstein SYMPOSIUM: PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY “Introduction: Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma,” by Daniel J. Solove “What Privacy Is For,” by Julie E. Cohen “The Dangers of Surveillance,” by Neil M. Richards “The EU-U.S. Privacy Collision: A Turn to Institutions…
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Harvard Law Review‘s April 2013 Issue features Developments on Immigration, Coase Theorem, and “Unwritten” Constitution
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student case notes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of emerging Developments in the Law. This year’s subject is immigration law and policy. Topics include legal representation of immigrants in removal proceedings, the applicability of the Fourth Amendment and its exclusionary rule, the application of DOMA to immigrant applicants, and the state-federal problem of immigration law and enforcement. The issue also includes an article by Lee Anne Fennell on transaction costs, Coase, and “resource access costs,” as well as a…
