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Émile Durkheim’s classic study of the social core of religious belief and practice: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
The unabridged work on the sociology of religion by a founder of the modern social science of sociology--now presented in a quality centennial edition. Émile Durkheim examines religion as a social phenomenon, across time and geographic boundaries. Some of the most basic forms of social organization are analyzed, along with their religious beliefs and practice, to find the core of faith and rite.
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Lawrence Friedman’s Provocative The Human Rights Culture, Views the Modern Arc of Rights as a Social and Historical Phenomenon
New from the acclaimed legal historian Lawrence Friedman, professor at Stanford. He does not mind going against the grain of most writers on human rights, to ask questions about its origins and import that the previous literature sidesteps. Why, as a social and historical matter, is all the rights discourse so pervasive and near-global today?
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University of Chicago Law Review‘s Spring 2012 Issue 2: environmental science, class actions, suing courts, and bankrupt states
The second issue of 2012 features articles and essays from recognized legal scholars. They include Eric Biber, on variations in scientific disciplines, experts, and environmental law; Frederic Bloom & Christopher Serkin, on suing courts and takings of property; Myriam Gilles & Gary Friedman, on aggregating consumer suits after the AT&T Mobility decision on class actions; and David Skeel, Jr., on the possibility of bankruptcy for several U.S. states. In addition, the issue includes book review essays by Aziz Huq, concerning the power and limits of the executive branch; and by Laura Nirider, Joshua Tepfer and Steven Drizin, on convicting the innocent and false confessions. Finally, an extensive student contribution explores…
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Mitchell Smith, The Art of Caricaturing, now out in paperback and digitally remastered
One of the most downloaded classic books of all time gets a facelift and is available as a new and affordable paperback: Mitchell Smith’s The Art of Caricaturing. Smith’s comprehensive guide to creating caricature and cartoons is a classic book that today’s artists, both beginning and experienced, still read and consult to learn techniques, rules of thumb, and themes. The new Quid Pro Books edition of The Art of Caricaturing is a Digitally Remastered Book™ — like no other publisher’s reproduction. The process eliminates underlines, stray marks, printer artifacts, and other distracting errors found in other modern reprints. While other versions are copies of a used library book, this new…
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Stanford Law Review for June 2012 examines shareholder proxy access, DOMA and choice of law for gay marriages, and massive copyright infringement in a digital age
The June 2012 issue of the Stanford Law Review (the last for this academic year) contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the issue include: • “Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes” William Baude • “Does Shareholder Proxy Access Damage Share Value in Small Publicly Traded Companies?” Thomas Stratmann & J.W. Verret • Book Review, “Infringement Conflation” Peter S. Menell • Note, “Pinching the President’s Prosecutorial Prerogative: Can Congress Use Its Purse Power to Block Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Transfer to the United States?” Nicolas L. Martinez • Note, “The American…
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Yale Law Journal for June 2012 examines opt-out provisions, evaluating legal assistance, and the conflict between consumer protection and antitrust policy
This June 2012 issue of Yale Law Journal features articles by Ian Ayers on opt-out provisions and rule-altering, by James Greiner and Cassandra Pattanayak on randomized evaluation in legal assistance, and by Joshua Wright on a conflict between antitrust policy and consumer protection. Student work explores pretrial dismissal, fair mandatory arbitration, fair notice provisions, and corporate purposes.
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Roscoe Pound’s The Spirit of the Common Law: Now an ebook, exploring law and sociological jurisprudence
Pound’s classic 1921 study of what law means—and the concept and history of rules, judicial process, social engineering, and legal reasoning—from the Dean of Harvard Law School and given in lectures at Dartmouth College that year. It is finally available in a high-quality ebook edition. Digital reproductions of such classic texts are typically scanned and forgotten, with no proofreading or usable formatting. But the Legal Legends Edition from Quid Pro features quality formatting and careful reproduction of the original book into a proper, modern ebook. Includes active TOC, fully linked Index (keyed to original page numbers), and 2012 Notes of the Series Editor by Steven Alan Childress, law professor at…
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University of Chicago Law Review offers its Maroonbook style guide in eBook formats
For more than twenty years, the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review have offered a simple, clear, and efficient system of legal citation and referencing for use by lawyers, students, and judges. The Maroonbook, as it is commonly called, provides an alternative to cumbersome and detailed methods of legal citation and produces consistent, straightforward results in books, law journals, briefs, and judicial opinions. The Maroonbook is now presented in a convenient and quality eBook format for use as a handy, searchable reference book. The digital edition is properly formatted and features an extensive, active Table of Contents, as well as the full appendices of the print edition. Available…
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Harvard Law Review issue 8, June 2012: Developments on Presidential power, article on Spatial Diversity & redistricting, and review essay on Constitutional Originalism
The June 2012 issue features the Harvard Law Review‘s annual, extensive, and famous DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAW section; this year’s subject examines Presidential Authority. Issue 8 also includes an article by Nicholas Stephanopoulos, “Spatial Diversity,” which analyzes redistricting and other concepts of population dispersion, and a Book Review by Michael Dorf, “The Undead Constitution,” which explores originalism and constitutional interpretation in light of recent books by David Strauss and Jack Balkin. The issue begins with a series of In Memoriam contributions celebrating Bernard Wolfman. In its Developments survey on executive authority, the student-authors analyze the subjects of: * The President’s Role in the Legislative Process * Presidential Power and the…
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JM Review of IP Law special 2012 symposium issue explores IP and tech issues in China
Each spring, RIPL produces a symposium law review issue. The special symposium on APPLICATIONS OF LAW IP IN CHINA was held at John Marshall in April 2012, and brought together the leading voices on Sino-U.S. matters of IP law, innovation, and trade policy. In this important contribution, RIPL presents current articles on China and Asia--essentially a new book by experts in this emerging field. In Kindle, Apple, and Nook formats.
