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Alabama’s early history is brought to life, from settlement to the Civil War
Jim Lewis’ new book on antebellum Alabama joins the History & Heroes Series. The name Alabama comes from the Choctaw word meaning “clearers of the thickets,” inspiring the title of this fascinating new book. It examines Alabama’s early history beginning with the era of European colonization and culminating with the state’s controversial secession from the Union—after just 41 years as a state (recognizing, of course, that the actual history began long before this emigration, with Native American civilizations). In so doing, the author traces how Alabama emerged from a raw frontier of European settlement into a fully functioning state that provided much-needed order to its new citizens. The book begins…
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Harvard Law Review‘s Jan. 2014 issue explores public enforcement & motivation, tech issues with internet & broadband, sentencing review, trademark in fashion, and more
The January 2014 issue (Volume 127, Number 3) includes the following articles and student contributions: • Article, “For-Profit Public Enforcement,” by Margaret H. Lemos and Max Minzner • Book Review, “Technological Determinism and Its Discontents,” by Christopher S. Yoo • Note, “More than a Formality: The Case for Meaningful Substantive Reasonableness Review” • Note, “Appointing State Attorneys General: Evaluating the Unbundled State Executive” • Note, “The Devil Wears Trademark: How the Fashion Industry Has Expanded Trademark Doctrine to Its Detriment” In addition, student case notes explore recent cases on misleading law school employment data, the First Amendment religious rights of for-profit corporations, regulation of nuclear energy, forensic search of laptops…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Jan. 2014 No. 4: Bankruptcy, Shareholder Governance, Prosecutorial Vindictiveness, and Crowding Out Effects
The January 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. The contents for Volume 123, Number 4, include: • “Ice Cube Bonds: Allocating the Price of Process in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy,” by Melissa B. Jacoby & Edward J. Janger • “The Evolution of Shareholder Voting Rights: Separation of Ownership and Consumption,” by Henry Hansmann & Mariana Pargendler • Note, “Vindicating Vindictiveness: Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining, Past and Future,” by Doug Lieb • Note, “Why Motives Matter: Reframing the Crowding Out Effect of Legal Incentives,” by Emad H. Atiq As with previous digital editions of The Yale…
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Frank Zimring’s The Changing Legal World of Adolescence is Digitally Remastered™ in eBooks & in paperback
This work attempts to explain changes in the legal conception of adolescence as a stage of life and as a transition to adulthood. The intended audience includes lawyers and others—such as parents, professionals, and kids—puzzled by trends labeled “children’s liberation” and “the revolution in juvenile justice.” Much cited and long recognized as an authority, it is considered a classic of law & society. Changes in legal conceptions of youth are interesting in their own right. They are also a useful way of examining important social, political, and economic changes. It is said that legal studies, “properly pursued, lead to a fuller understanding of the larger world of which the law…
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Malcolm Feeley’s classic Court Reform on Trial on Innovation & Failure in the Criminal Process, now Digitally Remastered™
COURT REFORM ON TRIAL is a recognized study of innovation in the process of criminal justice, and why it so often fails—despite the best intentions of judges, administrators, and reformers. The arc of innovation to disappointment is analyzed for such ideas as bail reform, pretrial diversion, speedy trials, and determinate sentencing. A much-maligned system of plea bargaining shifts power to prosecutors away from judges, as formal trials recede in importance—but is that really the problem? Perhaps it lies in unrealistic expectations, splintered systems and decisionmaking, waning political will, unempowered constituencies, and reformers’ hubris. Feeley analyzes the persistent failure and proposes insightful pathways out of the cycle. First commissioned as a…
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Dingwall’s Social Organisation of Health Visitor Training Returns with New Preface by the Author
A book that was hard to find but much cited and well reviewed finds a new home at Quid Pro Books, in multiple digital formats, as a Digitally Remastered Book.™ Its digital edition features new material, too. Robert Dingwall’s classic and original study of the training of health visitors (public health nurses) in the UK is now available in a convenient ebook edition, featuring linked chapter endnotes, all tables from the print edition, linked and detailed subject Index, and active Contents. The new digital edition adds a substantive, explanatory 2014 Preface by the author. This book has not been easily available in print for many years, but it has long…
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University of Chicago Law Review, Fall 2013, studies bankruptcy, precedent, copyright, and judicial good faith, plus six Comments
The University of Chicago Law Review‘s 4th and final issue, Fall 2013, features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research in the form of Comments. Contents of Volume 80, Number 4, are: ARTICLES • Bankruptcy Law as a Liquidity Provider, by Kenneth Ayotte & David A. Skeel Jr. • Impeaching Precedent, by Charles L. Barzun • Copyright in Teams, by Anthony J. Casey & Andres Sawicki • Inside or Outside the System?, by Eric A. Posner & Adrian Vermeule REVIEW ESSAY • Francis Lieber and the Modern Law of War, by Paul Finkelman COMMENTS • Having Their Cake and Eating It Too? Post-emancipation…
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Harvard Law Review, #2, Dec. 2013: Honoring Dworkin, ‘Lost’ Essay by Hart on Discretion, Article on Media Leaks, and Notes & Recent Cases
The December 2013 issue of the Harvard Law Review is dedicated to the memory of Ronald Dworkin, with In Memoriam essays offered by Richard Fallon, Jr., Charles Fried, John C.P. Goldberg, Frances Kamm, Frank Michelman, Martha Minow, and Laurence Tribe. The issue features an article by David Pozen entitled “The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information.” The issue also includes essays by Nicola Lacey and Geoffrey Shaw examining a previously lost writing by H.L.A. Hart on discretion, as well as the publication of Hart’s essay, “Discretion,” itself, which he wrote while visiting at Harvard during 1956-1957. Student Notes explore such subjects as regulation of…
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Novel courtroom fiction by David Crump follows the law and reality of murder for hire in Texas
New from the author of CONFLICT OF INTEREST and THE HOLDING COMPANY: Law professor David Crump’s latest courtroom drama features Houston trial lawyer Robert Herrick, in a case that hits close to home. When his paralegal Brianna Edwards gets arrested for hiring a hit man, Herrick has to work the law and reality of murder for hire in the Lone Star state—in the toney city of Sugar Land, no less. Pitted against the toughest prosecutor around, who has marching orders to stamp out any threat of violent crime in the affluent community, Herrick will have to use all his courtroom wits and experience to make legal sense of the tangled…
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Yale Law Journal, Dec. 2013, Analyzes Patent “Construction,” Agencies vs. Litigation, Sexual “Tops,” and Religious Value
The third issue of The Yale Law Journal‘s Volume 123 (Dec. 2013) features articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article, “The Interpretation-Construction Distinction in Patent Law,” by Tun-Jen Chiang & Lawrence B. Solum • Article, “Agencies as Litigation Gatekeepers,” by David Freeman Engstrom • Essay,”Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles: What Straight Views of Penetrative Preferences Could Mean for Sexuality Claims Under Price Waterhouse,” by Ian Ayres & Richard Luedeman • Review, “Why Protect Religious Freedom?,” by Michael W. McConnell • Note, “The Case for Tax: A Comparative Approach to Innovation Policy,” by Shaun P. Mahaffy As with previous digital editions of The Yale Law…
