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Harvard Law Review, Feb. 2015: changing rate of innocent incarceration, government as business, privileges & immunities, and early voting after Shelby
The Harvard Law Review, February 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice,” Daniel Epps • Book Review, “Running Government Like a Business … Then and Now,” Jon D. Michaels • Note, “International Norms and Politics in the Marshall Court’s Slave Trade Cases” • Note, “Congress’s Power to Define the Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship” • Note, “It’s About Time (Place and Manner): Why and How Congress Must Act to Protect Access to Early Voting” • Note, “The Psychology of Cruelty: Recognizing Grave Mental Harm in American Prisons” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases, Legislation, and…
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I Saw Them Die: historical and occasionally bizarre account from a WWI nurse
Shirley Millard's harrowing and fascinating account of her MASH-like experience in WWI France gives insights she intends and many more that she does not. Reading it is an experience on several levels. One of the most fascinating personal accounts of the Great War from just behind the lines, first published in 1936, and updated by Prof. Elizabeth Townsend Gard.
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Book Club Questions for Aviva Orenstein’s 2016 novel Fat Chance
The main information page for this book is found here. This page is dedicated to questions and themes raised by the novel, suggested for classroom use and, especially, book clubs. For more information and interaction with the author, contact Aviva at aorenste [at] indiana [dot] edu. Discussion Questions for Fat Chance 1. Claire struggles with her weight and her body image. Why does she feel so bad about her body? Is her attitude typical? How does her self-image affect her life? How does it change over the course of the book? 2. At the end of Chapter 29, Claire asks herself: “Really, why was I so angry all the time?”…
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Yale Law Journal, Jan.-Feb. ’15, on jurisprudence’s end, cost-benefit analysis, Indian ‘commerce,’ & the Wonder Woman origins of the Frye test
The contents of Yale Law Journal‘s January-February 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 4) are: Articles: * “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Case Studies and Implications,” John C. Coates IV * “Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause,” Gregory Ablavsky Essays: * “On Evidence: Proving Frye as a Matter of Law, Science, and History,” Jill Lepore * “The End of Jurisprudence,” Scott Hershovitz Notes: * “Against the Tide: Connecticut Oystering, Hybrid Property, and the Survival of the Commons,” Zachary C.M. Arnold * “Perceptions of Taxing and Spending: A Survey Experiment,” Conor Clarke & Edward Fox Comments: * “The Psychology of Punishment and the Puzzle of Why Tortfeasor Death Defeats Liability for Punitive Damages,”…
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Rutgers CompTech, 2015 #1, on teleradiology, ‘next gen’ research, guns & 3D printers, and privacy & tech
The Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal offers its issues in convenient and modern ebook formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This first issue of Volume 41, 2015, features new articles and student contributions on cutting-edge topics related to: teleradiology, jurisdiction, and malpractice; teaching ‘next gen’ research methods such as Ravel and Casetext to law students; regulating 3D-printing as firearms creators; employment, privacy, and social media; and privacy issues of cell phone tracking. The Journal is edited and produced by students at Rutgers University School of Law – Newark and features contributions by leading scholars and professionals in the field. Founded in 1969, the Journal is the…
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John Logue’s 4 Dell paperback murder mysteries are now Quid Pro ebooks
Classic mystery writer John Logue has contributed some of his most acclaimed fiction to the growing eBook library of QP fiction. Now available are four suspense novels set in the world of high-stakes golf. Originally published by Dell Publishing of Random House, these books formed part of the Morris & Sullivan Mystery series. These books are fun, and presented digitally with active Table of Contents. MURDER ON THE LINKS. ISBN 9781610272902 (eBook); list price: $4.99 At Augusta National, home of the Masters, the spring grass is green and the world’s most famous golfers are gathered. It looks as if it’s going to be another splendid tournament. Until Melvin Newton’s body is…
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Harvard Law Review, Jan. 2015: Resolving Interagency Conflicts in Administrative Law, Abortion Restrictions as Searches, Copyright Reform as Takings, and More
The Harvard Law Review, January 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: * Article, “Uncovering Coordinated Interagency Adjudication,” by Bijal Shah * Note, “Deference and the Federal Arbitration Act: The NLRB’s Determination of Substantive Statutory Rights” * Note, “Education Policy Litigation as Devolution” * Note, “Physically Intrusive Abortion Restrictions as Fourth Amendment Searches and Seizures” * Note, “Copyright Reform and the Takings Clause” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy resolutions, including such subjects as constitutional protection for teacher tenure, suspicionless street stop of suspect’s companion, the necessity of warrants to search foreign emails, confrontation clause in sentence selection phase of capital cases,…
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Cicero’s On Old Age is adapted and illustrated for today’s reader, with commentary and humor
Richard Gerberding, retired Professor of History and Director of Classical Studies at Alabama-Huntsville, adapts On Old Age for a new generation of readers. Illustrator Lance Rossi of Salem, Oregon, contributes over 60 clever drawings and sketches. The Wall Street Journal named it one of the year’s six “Best Books on Making the Most of Later Life.” There’s no edition paying homage to Cicero anywhere like this. (If link to WSJ above does not reveal the entire Feature Story, click on the first entry at this search.) Cicero’s classic essay is now adapted, explained, and updated to today’s world. “Getting old is not for sissies”: the mortal words of Bette Davis. And…
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New England Law Review Holds Symposium on the History of the Death Penalty at the U.S. Supreme Court
This issue is a contemporary look at the development of death penalty law and historical figures in this process, as part of the Symposium held at New England Law School, entitled “A Look Back at the History of Capital Punishment.” The New England Law Review‘s final issue of Volume 48, Summer 2014, contains articles by leading figures of the academy. Contents of this issue include a Symposium on the history of U.S. capital punishment, featuring such recognized legal scholars as Evan J. Mandery, Michael Meltsner, Phyllis Goldfarb, and Zachary Baron Shemtob. The history and anomalies of the development of capital punishment law in the U.S. Supreme Court is explored, as…
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Costigan’s new novel The Rat-Taker is a mystery and period piece, of plague and 1300s London
Set in 14th Century London during the time of the Great Pestilence, THE RAT-TAKER is about an obsessive love and a tragic event coiled into one mystery. Simon the Rat-Taker, or, as he came to called, Simon Ratiker, is a man obsessed by a terrible event that he cannot wholly remember. Driven by the question, “What did happen?” Simon attempts to recall the truth by dictating to his scribe the events of the day that became the cross point of his life: “the day the rats began to die.”
