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Yale Law Journal, June 2015, on mandatory arbitration, constitutional proportionality review, and creditors’ partitioning
The contents of the 8th and final issue of academic year 2014-2015 (June 2015) are: Article, “The New Corporate Web: Tailored Entity Partitions and Creditors’ Selective Enforcement,” Anthony J. Casey Note, “A Reassessment of Common Law Protections for ‘Idiots,'” Michael Clemente Feature: Arbitration, Transparency, and Privatization: “Diffusing Disputes: The Public in the Private of Arbitration, the Private in Courts, and the Erasure of Rights,” Judith Resnik “Arbitration and Americanization: The Paternalism of Progressive Procedural Reform,” Amalia D. Kessler “Arbitration’s Counter-Narrative: The Religious Arbitration Paradigm,” Michael A. Helfand “Disappearing Claims and the Erosion of Substantive Law,” J. Maria Glover Feature, “Constitutional Law in an Age of Proportionality,” Vicki C. Jackson Quality…
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Eliezer Segal explores Jewish history and legends in his witty new collection of essays Chronicles and Commentaries
The controversial history of sermons, the physics and philosophy of rainbows, lions in the synagogue, hares in the Greek Bible, the gold standard, God in human disguise—these are but a few of the many topics that are introduced in this lively miscellany of glimpses into exotic frontiers of Jewish literature, history, and tradition. In the present compendium of short studies, Dr. Eliezer Segal once again introduces the public to the fruits of Judaic scholarship, while employing a charming style that combines learning and wit. Chronicles and Commentaries is the latest addition to the author’s distinguished series of collections that includes: Why Didn’t I Learn That in Hebrew School? (1999), Ask…
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New England Law Review, Volume 49, Nos. 1-2 (2014-2015): On confrontation clause, constitutional interpretation, outpatient commitment, and patent law
The New England Law Review now offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This second issue of Volume 49 (2015) contains articles by leading figures of the legal community. Contents include: Articles: “A Reliable and Clear-Cut Determination: Is a Separate Hearing Required to Decide When Confrontation Forfeiture by Wrongdoing Applies?,” by Tim Donaldson “Constitutional Interpretation and Technological Change,” by Allen R. Kamp Notes: “Defense Witnesses Need Immunity Too: Why the Supreme Court Should Adopt the Ninth Circuit’s Approach to Defense-Witness Immunity,” by Alison M. Field “Hacktivism — Political Dissent in The Final Frontier,” by Tiffany Marie Knapp Comment: “Morrow v. Balaski: When…
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Harvard Law Review, June 2015: Origins of low-value speech, legal change in the modern Supreme Court, and causation in toxic torts
The Harvard Law Review, June 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “Active Avoidance: The Modern Supreme Court and Legal Change,” by Neal Kumar Katyal and Thomas P. Schmidt • Article, “The Invention of Low-Value Speech,” by Genevieve Lakier • Book Review, “Crown and Constitution,” by Tara Helfman • Note, “Causation in Environmental Law: Lessons from Toxic Torts” … In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: corporate board of directors’ duties in mergers; the propriety of a Delaware corporation’s bylaws designating a non-Delaware exclusive forum; availability of habeas review for sentencing error as to ‘career offender’…
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Eliezer Segal’s new collection of fun, informative essays on the Jewish calendar: A Time for Every Purpose
A Time for Every Purpose continues the series of collections of Eliezer Segal’s beloved and witty articles about the Jewish sacred calendar — articles that originally appeared in his From the Sources column in the Calgary Jewish Free Press between 2011 and 2015. As always, the author strives to maintain a balance between accurate scholarship and entertaining readability as he introduces his readers to fascinating aspects of the Jewish festivals and holy days — and how they evolved in ongoing dialogue with historical changes, geographical diversity, and intellectual challenges. The articles are written from a sympathetic but non-dogmatic perspective by a recognized scholarly authority on the academic study of Judaism.…
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Yale Law Journal, May 2015 Issue 7: on punishing offenses under treaties, administrative severability clauses, judges citing scholarship, and Hobby Lobby
The contents of the May 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 7) are: Articles • Defining and Punishing Offenses Under Treaties, Sarah H. Cleveland & William S. Dodge • Administrative Severability Clauses, Charles W. Tyler & E. Donald Elliott Notes • Class Ascertainability, Geoffrey C. Shaw • The Right To Be Rescued: Disability Justice in an Age of Disaster, Adrien A. Weibgen • Expanding Conscience, Shrinking Care: The Crisis in Access to Reproductive Care and the Affordable Care Act’s Nondiscrimination Mandate, Elizabeth B. Deutsch Features • Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, Douglas NeJaime & Reva B. Siegel • Legal Scholarship for Judges, Diane P. Wood Book Review…
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Harvard Law Review, May ’15, on foreign relations law, changing family law, and bankrupt student loans
The Harvard Law Review, May 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “The Normalization of Foreign Relations Law,” by Ganesh Sitaraman and Ingrid Wuerth • Book Review, “The Family, in Context,” by Maxine Eichner • Note, “Forgive and Forget: Bankruptcy Reform in the Context of For-Profit Colleges” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: retroactive prosecution of conspiracy to commit war crimes at Guantanamo; holding a legislature in contempt for unconstitutional funding of education; bullying and criminal harassment law; first amendment implications of high school suppression of violent speech; using statistics to prove False Claims Act liability; first amendment problems of a requirement that sex offenders provide internet identifiers to police; BIA ruling that Guatemalan woman fleeing domestic violence meets asylum threshold; and FDA regulation on nutritional information under the Affordable Care Act. Finally, the issue features several summaries of Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive ebook publisher of the Review. … Available in leading formats: Kindle edition, at Amazon. NOOK, at Barnes & Noble. Apple iBooks and iTunes (see it directly on iPad and iPhone bookstores; previewed). At Google Play and Google Books. And in…
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Frank Zimring’s witty essays observing the modern condition and aging form the new book Memos from Midlife
“… It’s the most entertaining book I’ve read this year.” —Steve Chapman, Columnist and Editorial Writer, The Chicago Tribune There are no pretentious pronouncements about public policy or dry conclusions from social science in these pages … because it is a report from what Frank Zimring calls “my second career, and everybody else’s second career, the hard work of becoming an adult in the modern world.” Why is a piranha swimming in your pool a better illustration of how people get overcommitted than a giant man eating shark? (Consult chapter 3.) What should you say when your eight-year-old asks whether you would save him or his sister if the lifeboat…
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New devotional follows the seasons from a Christian point of view
Journey through a series of short stories based on real life experiences: soul searching, humorous, and all with the primary goal of promoting Christ. This devotional will take you through all four seasons of the year. You will be encouraged and filled with His hope as you read and grow in your faith. “What an amazing blessing to pull up a chair and join Cindy Childress at her kitchen table. Literally, as our families have enjoyed fellowship, and now figuratively through the pages of this devotional. I couldn’t help but read from story to story, spiritual truth to spiritual truth; presented in such a way as to think she and…
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Bert Kritzer’s Lawyers at Work: a recognized collection of studies and insights on the legal profession
This collection of articles and essays by Herbert Kritzer draws on his extensive research related to lawyers and legal practice conducted over the last 35 years. That research has applied existing theoretical frameworks and developed innovative ways of thinking about how to understand what it is that lawyers do. The chapters reflect the wide range of both qualitative and quantitative research methods he has employed, and draw on his work on the Civil Litigation Research Project, a massive study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice under the Carter administration, and continues through subsequent studies of lawyer-client relationships in Canada, contingency fee legal practice, and insurance defense practice. This book…
