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Yale Law Journal, May 2013: Zoning, Eminent Domain, Nudges to Paternalism, and Patents
The 7th issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • “City Unplanning,” by David Schleicher • “Rethinking the Federal Eminent Domain Power,” by William Baude • “Behavioral Economics and Paternalism,” by Cass R. Sunstein • “The Continuum of Excludability and the Limits of Patents,” by Amy Kapczynski & Talha Syed In addition, the issue includes substantial contributions from student editors: • Note, “Should the Ministerial Exception Apply to Functions, Not Persons?,” by Jed Glickstein • Note, “How Do You Measure a Constitutional Moment? Using Algorithmic Topic Modeling To Evaluate Bruce Ackerman’s Theory of Constitutional Change,”…
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Alison Renteln’s Classic Study of the Relativity of Human Rights Norms; Adds New Foreword by Tom Zwart
A classic socio-legal study of the incompatibility and possible reconciliation of competing views of culture relativism and absolute fundamental human rights. It features prodigious research and insight that has often been cited by academics and human rights lawyers and activists over two decades. Originally published by Sage, the book is now available in Quid Pro's Classics of the Social Sciences Series, in new eBook and paperback editions; it remains one of the foundational works in human rights.
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Harvard Law Review‘s May 2013 Symposium on Privacy & Tech; Issue Adds Articles on Administrative Review and the OIRA
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, active URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 7 include scholarly articles and student case notes, as well as an extensive Symposium on Privacy and Technology. Subjects include: Article, “Agency Self-Insulation Under Presidential Review,” by Jennifer Nou Commentary, “The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Myths and Realities,” by Cass R. Sunstein SYMPOSIUM: PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY “Introduction: Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma,” by Daniel J. Solove “What Privacy Is For,” by Julie E. Cohen “The Dangers of Surveillance,” by Neil M. Richards “The EU-U.S. Privacy Collision: A Turn to Institutions…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel of lawyer Frank May proves where there’s a will there’s a death
Frank May practices law, but not the glamorous kind. His bread and butter is the sedate sort—writing wills and handling estates. Or more to the point, handling heirs. Even so, where there’s a will there’s a death. Try as he might, Frank just can’t avoid some of the more unsavory sides of human existence. And of heirs. There’s more than one unsavory side to the family Mobius, and Frank has front row seats to watch the quirks and squabbles of the various Mobiuses, after two older family members die. One, at least, was murdered in his squalid San Francisco apartment, while sitting on a family fortune that appears to be…
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Reinhard Bendix’s influential Work and Authority in Industry is now an eBook
Work and Authority in Industry is a high quality, Digitally Remastered™ republication of one of the classic works of social history and industrial relations. Reinhard Bendix’s foundational study of the rise of the capitalist class is now presented as an eBook. This book has been assigned, quoted, and referenced thousands of times since its original publication. Berkeley sociologist Reinhard Bendix explores how the emerging class of entrepreneurs increasingly attempted to create and manage an industrial work force. His analysis is comparative and historical, and applies across widely varying societal structures, particularly the United States, England, Russia, and East Germany. First published in 1956 and updated in a 1963 paperback release…
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Yale Law Journal, Apr. 2013: Rape-by-deception, abuse of property rights, civil rights lawyering, bankuptcy ride-through, and age & organ donors
The April 2013 issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 6th of Vol. 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law, legal theory and policy by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include an article analyzing rape-by-deception and the mythical idea of sexual autonomy, by Jed Rubenfeld; an essay on extortion and the principle of abuse of property right, by Larissa Katz; and a book review essay on the next generation of civil rights lawyers and the construction of racial identity, by Anthony Alfieri and Angela Onwuachi-Willig. The issue also features extensive student research, in the form of Notes and Comments, on such cutting-edge subjects as mandatory arbitration and…
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Harvard Law Review‘s April 2013 Issue features Developments on Immigration, Coase Theorem, and “Unwritten” Constitution
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student case notes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of emerging Developments in the Law. This year’s subject is immigration law and policy. Topics include legal representation of immigrants in removal proceedings, the applicability of the Fourth Amendment and its exclusionary rule, the application of DOMA to immigrant applicants, and the state-federal problem of immigration law and enforcement. The issue also includes an article by Lee Anne Fennell on transaction costs, Coase, and “resource access costs,” as well as a…
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University of Chicago Law Review‘s Symposium on Immigration Features Leading Scholars in the Field
This first issue of 2013 features articles from internationally recognized scholars on immigration and emigration, including an extensive Symposium on immigration and its issues of policy, law, administrative process, and institutional design in the United States. Topics include why “family” is special (Kerry Abrams), risks and rewards of economic migration (Anu Bradford), criminal deportees (Eleanor Marie Lawrence Brown), policing immigration (Adam Cox & Thomas Miles), detention reform (Alina Das), rights of undocumented aliens (John Eastman), free trade and free immigration (Richard Epstein), screening for solidarity in labor (Stephen Lee), temporary worker programs (Hiroshi Motomura), institutional structure of immigration law (Eric Posner), and international cooperation on migration (Alan Sykes). In addition,…
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Harvard Law Review, March 2013, features Louis Kaplow on multistage adjudication and Nicola Lacey on criminal justice
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 5 include: • Article, “Multistage Adjudication,” by Louis Kaplow • Book Review, “Humanizing the Criminal Justice Machine: Re-Animated Justice or Frankenstein’s Monster?,” by Nicola Lacey • Note, “Importing a Trade or Business Limitation into § 2036: Toward a Regulatory Solution to FLP-Driven Transfer Tax Avoidance” • Note, “The Benefits of Unequal Protection” • Note, “Diagnostic Method Patents and Harms to Follow-On Innovation” • Note, “Three Formulations of the Nexus Requirement in Reasonable Accommodations Law” In addition, student research explores Recent Cases on the intersection of age discrimination…
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Yale Law Journal‘s March 2013 Issue Features Antitrust, Federalism, and Burden of Proof
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 5th of Vol. 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal history. Contents include: • Article: “Commandeering and Constitutional Change,” by Wesley Campbell • Article: “Parallel Exclusion,” by C. Scott Hemphill & Tim Wu • Essay: “Reconceptualizing the Burden of Proof,” by Edward Cheng In addition, the March 2013 issue contains substantial student research in the form of Notes: one on administrative law, using a federal common law framework to fill a void for state agencies in implementing federal law; and another on evaluating attorney misconduct habeas claims after the Maples case, by analogy to civil claims…
