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Messinger’s much-cited Strategies of Control is a Digitally Remastered™ Classic of Law & Society: in print and ebooks
This groundbreaking study of transitions and control in the California prison system has been extensively read, cited, and quoted in unpublished form—and is finally available worldwide. Already a compelling part of the canon of studies in penology, criminology, sociology, and organizational theory, this new edition of STRATEGIES OF CONTROL adds a 2016 foreword by Howard S. Becker and afterword by Jonathan Simon, both contributing substantive and meaningful views of this important work. Considered influential to two generations of scholars worldwide, Messinger’s thesis examining prison systems’ organization and reform—or in some ways, regression—is said to anticipate Erving Goffman’s and Michel Foucault’s writings on “total institutions” by many years, and raised themes that…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel The Late Doctor Savage proves where there’s a will there’s a murder
Frank May practices law in San Mateo, California. Much of his practice deals with estate planning—wills, trusts, and related matters. So dead people are very much on his mind and the mind of his clients. But not, for the most part, unnatural deaths. Yet mysterious deaths, for some odd reason, seem to creep inevitably into his practice. A young woman, Ashley Savage, is Frank’s newest client. Her birth father, whom she never met and who played no role in her upbringing, has suddenly entered her life—though very indirectly. He’s created a trust for her, worth millions of dollars but whose origins are, to say the least, questionable. Dr. Langley Savage,…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Issue 8 discusses OMB control of agencies, parental rights of dads & gay couples, plus civil forfeiture’s constitutionality
This issue of the Yale Law Journal includes: • Article, “The President’s Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control,” Eloise Pasachoff; • Article, “Foundling Fathers: (Non-)Marriage and Parental Rights in the Age of Equality,” Serena Mayeri; and • Feature, “The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture,” Caleb Nelson. The student research contributions are: • Note, “Founding-Era Jus Ad Bellum and the Domestic Law of Treaty Withdrawal,” Daniel J. Hessel; • Comment, “Reimagining Finality in Parallel Patent Proceedings,” Ben Picozzi; and • Comment, “Ideological Imbalance and the Peremptory Challenge,” Joshua Revesz. This is the 8th and final issue of academic year 2015-2016. Quality formatting includes linked notes and an active Table of Contents (including linked Contents for…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Issue 7 discusses sex discrimination and harassment in universities under Title IX
This issue of the Yale Law Journal include these contents: • Essay, “Fiduciary Political Theory: A Critique,” by Ethan J. Leib and Stephen R. Galoob • Note, “The Modification of Decrees in the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court,” by James G. Mandilk In addition, the issue includes an extensive collection of Features by leading scholars, entitled “A Conversation on Title IX,” growing out of an event sponsored by the Journal. Contributors include Michelle J. Anderson, Adele P. Kimmel, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Dana Bolger, Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, and Alyssa Peterson & Olivia Ortiz. Subjects of these essays include institutional liability, costs of liability and schools’ financial obligations, transparency in campus reporting, adjudicative…
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Yale Law Journal, April ’16: Administrative Forbearance, and The New Public
This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the sixth issue of academic year 2015-2016) features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. The issue’s contents include: • Article, “Administrative Forbearance,” by Daniel T. Deacon • Essay, “The New Public,” by Sarah A. Seo The student contributions are: • Note, “How To Trim a Christmas Tree: Beyond Severability and Inseverability for Omnibus Statutes,” by Robert L. Nightingale • Note, “Border Checkpoints and Substantive Due Process: Abortion in the Border Zone,” by Kate Huddleston • Comment, “The State’s Right to Property Under International Law,” by Peter Tzeng . . . Available at leading ebook sites: Amazon for Kindle. Barnes & Noble for Nook. Google for Google Play app, as…
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Harvard Law Review, May ’16: Searches and the 4th Amendment; Law as Force; and Agency Review of Due Process
The May 2016 issue, Number 7, features these contents: • Article, “The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment,” by William Baude and James Y. Stern • Essay, “Deference and Due Process,” by Adrian Vermeule • Book Review, “How to Explain Things with Force,” by Mark Greenberg • Note, “Free Speech Doctrine After Reed v. Town of Gilbert” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on the Affordable Care Act and the origination clause; statutory interpretation and the Video Privacy Protection Act; and commercial speech doctrine and the FDA’s power to prosecute non-misleading statements after modifying text. Other commentary examines South Carolina’s legislative effort to to disqualify companies who support BDS…
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Hirsch relives the academic life, warts and all, in his memoir Office Hours
Even a cursory glance at today’s headlines reveals that higher education is in crisis. Tuition outpaces inflation, states slash budgets, graduation rates decline, and technology threatens to reshape everything. Universities continue to crank out new PhDs, but many will become poorly paid members of a secondary, adjunct labor force teaching most of today’s college courses. Scholars lucky enough to be on the tenure track must publish more and more, while students at large universities sit in ever larger lectures, seldom interacting with professors. Yet every year, thousands of applicants from the world over apply to America’s most prestigious colleges and universities, and students and their families continue to spend huge…
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Yale Law Journal, March ’16: Municipal bankruptcy, professional speech, insider trading, and reproductive rights
This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the fifth issue of academic year 2015-2016) features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. Contents include: • “Governance Reform and the Judicial Role in Municipal Bankruptcy,” by Clayton P. Gillette & David A. Skeel, Jr. • “Professional Speech,” by Claudia E. Haupt • “Casey and the Clinic Closings: When ‘Protecting Health’ Obstructs Choice,” by Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegel • “Returning to Common-Law Principles of Insider Trading After United States v. Newman,” by Richard A. Epstein The student contributions are: • Note, “Will Putting Cameras on Police Reduce Polarization?,” by Roseanna Sommers • Note, “Federal Questions…
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Harvard Law Review, Apr. ’16, is special Developments in the Law issue, on Indian Law
The April 2016 issue is the annual Developments in the Law special issue. The topic of this extensive study is “Indian Law,” including specific focus on tribal executive branches, tribal authority to follow fresh pursuit onto non-tribal (state) land, reconsidering ICRA and rights, securing Native American voting rights, and indigenous people and extractive industries. In addition, the issue features these contents: • Article, “Reconstructivism: The Place of Criminal Law in Ethical Life,” by Joshua Kleinfeld • Essay, “Rule of Law Tropes in National Security,” by Shirin Sinnar • Book Review, “Coming into the Anthropocene,” by Jedediah Purdy Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on excessive force and SWAT raids after…
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Harvard Law Review, Mar. ’16, explores adoptions and parenthood after Obergefell, shareholder horizontal equity, and police abuse of poor and minority communities
The Harvard Law Review, March 2016, features these contents: • Article, “Marriage Equality and the New Parenthood,” by Douglas NeJaime • Essay, “Horizontal Shareholding,” by Einer Elhauge • Book Review, “Keeping Track: Surveillance, Control, and the Expansion of the Carceral State,” by Kathryne M. Young and Joan Petersilia • Note, “Constitutional Courts and International Law: Revisiting the Transatlantic Divide” • Note, “Defining the Press Exemption from Campaign Finance Restrictions” • Note, “Let the End Be Legitimate: Questioning the Value of Heightened Scrutiny’s Compelling- and Important-Interest Inquiries” In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on state abortion laws and precedent; expectation of privacy in pocket dial; tax deductions for medical marijuana…
