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Jay Jacobs’ novel-like The Widow Wave offers exciting account of wrongful death trial from shipwreck
Will anyone ever know what happened to the Aloha, a sport fishing boat that vanished with all onboard in the Pacific off San Francisco’s coast? ‘Knowing’ may be a complex, inexact business. There’s real truth and then there’s courtroom truth; a jury’s verdict may or may not approach what actually happened. Nor can someone reading about such an event—one that had no witnesses or hard evidence to explain it—be sure where the truth lies. But trials, judges, and juries are what we use in our legal system to find truth. The Widow Wave explores this alternate reality. It is a fascinating true-life mystery and lawyer procedural rolled into one. Jay Jacobs…
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Yale Law Journal, Dec. 2014: Rules about Rules, Constitutional Enumeration, and Too Much Democracy?
The December 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal (the third of academic year 2014-2015) features new articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article, “The Limits of Enumeration,” by Richard Primus • Article, “Rules Against Rulification,” by Michael Coenen • Feature, “Romanticizing Democracy, Political Fragmentation, and the Decline of American Government,” by Richard H. Pildes • Note, “A ‘Full and Fair’ Discussion of Environmental Impacts in NEPA EISs: The Case for Addressing the Impact of Substantive Regulatory Regimes,” by Sarah Langberg • Note, “Civil Servant Suits,” by Alex Hemmer • Comment, “Jagged Edges,” by Matthew Sipe • Comment, “Essential Data,” by Zachary Abrahamson…
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Harvard Law Review, Dec. 2014: Are Supreme Court Opinions Final? Also: Laws of Capitalism, Citizens United, Bondage & Data Mining
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders. The contents of Issue 2 include: • Article, “The (Non)Finality of Supreme Court Opinions,” by Richard J. Lazarus • Book Review, “The Laws of Capitalism,” by David Singh Grewal • Note, “Citizens United at Work: How the Landmark Decision Legalized Political Coercion in the Workplace” • Note, “Data Mining, Dog Sniffs, and the Fourth Amendment” • Note, “Nonbinding Bondage” The issue includes In Memoriam contributions about the life, scholarship, and teaching of John H. Mansfield. The contributors are Anthony D’Amato, Robert W. Gordon, Martha Minow, Frederick Schauer, and James A. Sonne. In addition, the issue features student commentary…
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New University of Chicago Law Review, #4, on tax law, insurance risk, constitutions, and contract theory
The fourth issue of 2014 features articles and essays from recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research. Contents include: Articles: • The Legal Salience of Taxation, by Andrew T. Hayashi • Tax-Loss Mechanisms, by Jacob Nussim & Avraham Tabbach • Regulating Systemic Risk in Insurance, by Daniel Schwarcz & Steven L. Schwarcz • American Constitutional Exceptionalism Revisited, by Mila Versteeg & Emily Zackin Comments: • Bursting the Speech Bubble: Toward a More Fitting Perceived-Affiliation Standard, by Nicholas A. Caselli • Payments to Not Parent? Noncustodial Parents as the Recipients of Child Support, by Emma J. Cone-Roddy • Too Small to Fail: A New Perspective on Environmental Penalties for…
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Harvard Law Review Nov. 2014: Annual Supreme Court Review and Essays for Justice Breyer
The November issue is the special annual review of the U.S. Supreme Court’s previous Term. Each year, the issue is introduced by noteworthy and extensive contributions from recognized scholars. In this issue, for the 2013 Term, articles include: • Foreword: “The Means of Constitutional Power,” by John F. Manning • Comment: “Slipping the Bonds of Federalism,” by Heather K. Gerken • Comment: “The Supreme Court as a Constitutional Court,” by Jamal Greene • Comment: “The Hobby Lobby Moment,” by Paul Horwitz In addition, the first issue of each new volume provides an extensive summary of the important cases of the previous Supreme Court docket, covering a wide range of legal,…
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Yale Law Journal, Nov. 2014, on funding cut-offs, bounded discretion, Citizens United, Using Dictionaries, and Discrimination Law
The November 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal (the second of academic year 2014-2015) features new articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article, “Agency Enforcement of Spending Clause Statutes: A Defense of the Funding Cut-Off,” Eloise Pasachoff • Essay, “Bounded Institutions,” Yair Listokin • Book Review, “Constitutions of Hope and Fear,” Frederick Schauer • Note, “Price‘s Progress: Sex Stereotyping and Its Potential for Antidiscrimination Law,” Zachary Herz • Note, “Dual Sovereignty, Due Process, and Duplicative Punishment: A New Solution to an Old Problem,” Adam Adler • Note, “Measuring the Fortress: Explaining Trends in Supreme Court and Circuit Court Dictionary Use,” John Calhoun…
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New England Law Review‘s Symposium on Judicial Benchmarks: Measuring Adjudicative Productivity and Success
The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient and modern ebook formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This third issue of Volume 48, Spring 2014, contains articles and presentations from leading figures of the academy and the legal community. Contents of this issue include a Symposium on “Benchmarks: Evaluating Measurements of Judicial Productivity,” featuring such recognized legal scholars as Jordan Singer, Hon. William Young, Hon. Lee Rosenthal, Steven Gensler, Chad Oldfather, John Spottswood, Carolyn Dubay, and Malia Reddick. Both trial and appellate courts are considered. In addition, extensive student research explores such fields as copyright infringement by YouTube, corporate crimes and jury findings, employees’ remedies…
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Lawrence Friedman’s mystery A Heavenly Death asks whether there is murder in the afterlife
Frank May is back and more hesitant than ever to get involved. But a mystery finds him anyway, too bizarre for him to ignore. Many people believe in life after death, but how many believe in murder after death? Or at least the revelation of a murder from a dead mother? Frank’s rich client Morris Gross firmly believes he had an out-of-body experience and went to heaven, where he met his dead mother. She makes the startling statement that somebody killed her—that she didn’t die a natural death like everyone thought. Morris freely shares his story with a polite but skeptical Frank May. If that isn’t strange enough, Morris soon…
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Yale Law Journal‘s 1st issue, Oct. 2014, explores Separation of Powers Self-Help and Criminal Attempts
The October 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal (the first for academic year 2014-2015) features new articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: * Article, “Self-Help and the Separation of Powers,” by David E. Pozen * Article, “Criminal Attempts,” by Gideon Yaffe * Note, “The Rise of Institutional Mortgage Lending in Early Nineteenth-Century New Haven,” by Steven J. Kochevar * Comment, “SEC ‘Monetary Penalties Speak Very Loudly,’ But What Do They Say? A Critical Analysis of the SEC’s New Enforcement Approach,” by Sonia A. Steinway * Comment, “Contract After Concepcion: Some Lessons from the State Courts,” by James Dawson This quality ebook edition…
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Selznick’s The Organizational Weapon is Digitally Remastered,™ adding extensive new foreword by Martin Krygier
The Organizational Weapon is a classic study of the methods, propaganda, and institutions which create infiltration and eventually cooptation of organizations from within. The study applies its theory to communist techniques, but its analysis and insights have, over the years, become extremely useful in identifying and combating such methods in jihadist cells, terrorist organizations, and political groups of many varieties, not only from the Left. Its utility is demonstrated in how it has influenced and been cited by current writers on how extremist and politically astute groups recruit and infiltrate more benign organizations to make them tools of further expansion in power and action. The book is also considered excellent…
