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Classic Study of Solo Lawyers: Jerome Carlin’s Lawyers on Their Own Gets Digitally Remastered™
A classic study, in 2011 digital and paperback formats, with a new foreword by law professor William Gallagher. Carlin's LAWYERS ON THEIR OWN is a recognized, foundational study of lawyers in solo practice in an urban setting. It became the template for an important form of social science research into lawyers in action. The first frank, extensive and grounded study of individual practitioners, now back in print, plus nine quality digital formats.
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Classic legal history, adding new Foreword by Stewart Macaulay: Lawrence Friedman’s Contract Law in America
Contract law and legal history as applied in the real world and not just in the law books—a classic study of the social and economic realities of trade law, told through case studies and rich historical analysis, and comparing cases and legislation over three discrete historical periods. Lawrence Friedman's first book, with new introductions, is now in paperback and eight accessible digital formats.
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Auerbach’s Brothers at War Explores the Altalena and Today’s Implications: An Israeli Ship Destroyed By Israeli Soldiers
All-new in summer 2011: Jerold Auerbach's probing and poignant exploration of the tragedy of the Altalena, the doomed ship whose arrival in Israel ignited Jewish fratricidal conflict only weeks after the 1948 declaration of statehood. This new book is the first on the Altalena by a historian, the first to explore it within the context of ancient Jewish and contemporary Israeli history. In ebooks, hardcover, and paperback.
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Detailed Stanford Law Review Symposium on Patent Law After Bilski v. Kappos
This new issue is a special June 2011 Symposium, featuring cutting-edge articles on patent law and other IP issues related to genetic and biotech innovation and "business methods" — after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bilski and beyond: "The Future of Patents." Contributors include such internationally recognized IP scholars as John Duffy, Peter Menell, Mark Lemley, Michael Risch, Polk Wagner, Ted Sichelman, Rochelle Dreyfuss, and Robin Feldman.
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Neil Smelser explains Sociological Theory in a clear and pithy book on how to read, criticize, and do theory
Renowned sociologist Neil J. Smelser republishes his classic and clear guide, Sociological Theory -- A Contemporary View. It remains timeless because he uses foundational examples such as Durkheim, Marx and Parsons, examining still-applicable criteria. New Foreword by Arlie Hochschild, new Preface by the author.
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Stuart Scheingold’s classic The Politics of Law and Order reissued in print and digital with new Foreword by Malcolm Feeley
How crime and public fear of it are socially constructed -- not just a set reality to observe. Politicians and others use public anxiety for their purposes, and push a 'law and order' platform even as crime rates drop. As the foundational, supported study of the issue, it's often cited and used in later scholarship on crime and politics, from a legendary scholar in the field--an acclaimed follow-up to his landmark 'The Politics of Rights.' Available in ebook and print formats.
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Cardozo’s Classic Nature of the Judicial Process Adds Modern Foreword by Harvard’s Andrew Kaufman
Judges don’t discover the law, they create it. Justice Cardozo's premier biographer, Andrew L. Kaufman, brings the classic study of judicial decision-making to a new generation. New, affordable cloth hardback and paperback. Digital formats include Nook and Kindle. Has become the standard edition of this important book.
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Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government Gets Digitally Remastered, and New Paperback Edition
The only correct and properly formatted ebook version of Wilson's classic and frank study of how the U.S. government works from inside Congress and what role that creates for Presidents and others in the system. Takes seriously the legislative branch at a time when most political scientists saw the President as some sort of politically dominant force (before Wilson himself attempted that role). Now in paperback too.
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Did U.S. Judaism Lose its Way As it Became Led By Lawyers?
That is the provocative question posed by historian Jerold Auerbach in Rabbis and Lawyers: The Journey From Torah to Constitution. Most of the people he vividly describes are considered great or heroic, and the events all good, but by thorough research he reveals that the canonization is not always appropriate. Their devotion to law and assimilation may have cost plenty on issues of Zionism, the Holocaust, and founding an Israeli state. Their fundamental Americanization and accommodationist values may not have served history well. Auerbach examines the special contributions of rabbis and lawyers to American Jewish acculturation. Based on extensive research in U.S. and Israeli archives, his analysis of how lawyers…
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Adversarialism and Consensus? studies different styles of UK Solicitors and Divorce Mediators
Lisa Webley compares the professional styles and attitudes in the UK of the legal profession and mediators in handling divorce cases. Law and sociology presented in quality digital formats with active contents, linked footnotes, and formatted tables. Now also available in paperback at B&N etc., and for eight digital platforms.
