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University of Chicago Law Review‘s Symposium on Immigration Features Leading Scholars in the Field
This first issue of 2013 features articles from internationally recognized scholars on immigration and emigration, including an extensive Symposium on immigration and its issues of policy, law, administrative process, and institutional design in the United States. Topics include why “family” is special (Kerry Abrams), risks and rewards of economic migration (Anu Bradford), criminal deportees (Eleanor Marie Lawrence Brown), policing immigration (Adam Cox & Thomas Miles), detention reform (Alina Das), rights of undocumented aliens (John Eastman), free trade and free immigration (Richard Epstein), screening for solidarity in labor (Stephen Lee), temporary worker programs (Hiroshi Motomura), institutional structure of immigration law (Eric Posner), and international cooperation on migration (Alan Sykes). In addition,…
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Harvard Law Review, March 2013, features Louis Kaplow on multistage adjudication and Nicola Lacey on criminal justice
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 5 include: • Article, “Multistage Adjudication,” by Louis Kaplow • Book Review, “Humanizing the Criminal Justice Machine: Re-Animated Justice or Frankenstein’s Monster?,” by Nicola Lacey • Note, “Importing a Trade or Business Limitation into § 2036: Toward a Regulatory Solution to FLP-Driven Transfer Tax Avoidance” • Note, “The Benefits of Unequal Protection” • Note, “Diagnostic Method Patents and Harms to Follow-On Innovation” • Note, “Three Formulations of the Nexus Requirement in Reasonable Accommodations Law” In addition, student research explores Recent Cases on the intersection of age discrimination…
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Three classic works by Neil Smelser return as quality eBook editions; two in new paperback
Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences: Even after teaching generations of social scientists, this classic book by Berkeley’s Neil J. Smelser remains the most definitive statement of methodological issues for all comparative scholars and in political science, anthropology, sociology, economics and psychology. Such issues are timeless and therefore Smelser’s lucid analysis remains timely and relevant. Smelser posits a methodological continuity between the comparative studies of past masters and the more recent flow of contemporary comparative work. To that end, he takes a pragmatic, critical look at the classic studies of Alexis de Tocqueville, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. His analyses respect the historical specifics and contexts of their work, but…
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Margaret Sanger’s 1926 manual Happiness in Marriage: now a convenient eBook
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was an iconic American feminist, sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. She founded Planned Parenthood and wrote numerous articles and books on controversial topics including birth control. She was arrested for espousing contraception and women’s freedom of control over their own bodies. Decades later, and in part from her prosecution and activism, the U.S. accepted the right to control birth as she promoted, and the Supreme Court struck down laws forbidding contraception as an invasion of marital privacy. Part of that activism is present in Happiness in Marriage, first published in 1926. But the book attempts to do more–to teach both men and women what a…
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Yale Law Journal, 2013, No. 4 Explores Second Amendment Analysis, Presidential Power to Appoint, Filibusters & Burqas
One of the world’s leading law journals is available as an eBook. This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the fourth of Vol. 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article: Text, History, and Tradition: What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second, by Darrell A.H. Miller • Essay: Can the President Appoint Principal Executive Officers Without a Senate Confirmation Vote?, by Matthew C. Stephenson • Note: The Majoritarian Filibuster • Note: Lawsuits as Information: Prisons, Courts, and a Troika Model of Petition Harms • Comment: Unveiling Inequality: Burqa Bans and Nondiscrimination Jurisprudence at…
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Harvard Law Review‘s Feb. 2013 issue explores unbundled legal aid, presidential power, preemption, human trafficking, and Indian canon
The Harvard Law Review is offered as an ebook, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper formatting. The contents of Issue 4 include: • Article, “The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future,” by D. James Greiner, Cassandra Wolos Pattanayak, and Jonathan Hennessy • Book Review, “Stochastic Constraint,” by Neal Kumar Katyal • Note, “Counteracting the Bias: The Department of Labor’s Unique Opportunity to Combat Human Trafficking” • Note, “Tilling the Vast Wasteland: The Case for Reviving Localism in Public Interest Obligations for Cable Television” • Note, “Preemption as Purposivism’s Last Refuge” • Note, “The Meaning(s) of ‘The People’…
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University of Chicago Law Review Fall 2012: statutory interpretation, immigration law, and is religion special?
A leading law review offers a quality ebook edition. This fourth issue of 2012 features articles from internationally recognized legal scholars, and extensive research in Comments authored by University of Chicago Law School students. Contents for the issue are: • Elected Judges and Statutory Interpretation by Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl & Ethan J. Leib • Delegation in Immigration Law by Adam B. Cox & Eric A. Posner • What If Religion Is Not Special? by Micah Schwartzman COMMENTS: • A Common Law Approach to D&O Insurance “In Fact” Exclusion Disputes • Taming the Hydra: Prosecutorial Discretion under the Acceptance of Responsibility Provision of the US Sentencing Guidelines • Are Railroads Liable…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Dec. 2012 issue covers the disappearing civil trial, grading restaurants’ cleanliness, paying witnesses, the Confrontation Clause in lower courts, and targeted killings
One of the world’s leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the third of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • John H. Langbein, “The Disappearance of Civil Trial in the United States” • Daniel E. Ho, “Fudging the Nudge: Information Disclosure and Restaurant Grading” • Saul Levmore & Ariel Porat, “Asymmetries and Incentives in Plea Bargaining and Evidence Production” The issue also includes extensive student research on targeted killings of international outlaws, Confrontation Clause jurisprudence as implemented in lower courts, and the implied license doctrine…
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Harvard Law Review‘s January 2013 issue explores politicians and redistricting, copyright reform, the independent status of the SEC, & recent cases
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders and pads, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 3, January 2013, include: • Article, “Politicians as Fiduciaries,” by D. Theodore Rave • Book Review, “Is Copyright Reform Possible?” by Pamela Samuelson • Note, “The SEC Is Not an Independent Agency” In addition, student research explores Recent Cases on the Fourth Amendment implications of “pinging” a GPS signal on a cellphone, the First Amendment and mandatory tobacco graphic warnings, the First Amendment and police impersonation statutes, whether software method claims are patent ineligible, defamation law and the changing “per se” status of…
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Yale Law Journal Issue 2, Nov. 2012, features new articles by Karen Tani, Adrian Vermeule and Andrew Coan
One of the world’s leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats for ereader devices and apps. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the second issue of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory, and in particular examines: the language of rights discourse, even before the expansion of welfare in the 1960s (Karen Tani); impartiality of judges and legislators and its limits (Adrian Vermeule); and constitutional law and judicial capacity (Andrew Coan). The issue also features substantial student contributions on bankruptcy-proof financing, as well as recoupment from financial executives under Dodd-Frank. Ebook formatting includes linked notes and active Contents (including…
