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Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003
by William Jr Eskridge  Publisher Comments A fascinating one-of-a-kind history of the government's regulation of sexual behavior From the Pentagon to the wedding chapel, there are few issues more controversial today than gay rights. As William Eskridge persuasively demonstrates in Dishonorable...
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Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History
by Michael J. Klarman Publisher Comments Michael J. Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History, is one of the leading authorities on the history of civil rights law in the United States. In Unfinished Business, he illuminates...
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Evidence Law in Trial Process (99 Edition)
by Margaret T. Stopp Publisher Comments This new book by an experienced law professor and practicing attorney is an opportunity to understand the pivotal role of non-lawyers - paralegals, investigators, law enforcement personnel - in the trial process. It provides a comprehensive and practical...
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The Right to Protest: The Basic ACLU Guide to Free Expression (American Civil Liberties Union Handbook)
by Joel M Gora Publisher Comments Americans have a great many legal rights that government must respect and courts will enforce. This altogether new volume sets forth the rights of those people who become involved in the vital issues of our time and seek to effect—or perhaps resist&...
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Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment
by Christophe Slobogin Publisher Comments Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many of our daily activities, using closed circuit TV, global positioning systems, and a wide array of other sophisticated technologies. With just a few keystrokes,...
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Trial of the Century : the People of the State of California VS. Orenthal James Simpson (96 Edition)
by Frank M. Schmalleger Publisher Comments In "Trial of the Century," acclaimed author Frank Schmalleger provides a self-contained, accessible account of the criminal and judicial proceedings of the O.J. Simpson double murder trial. The text draws from the unrivaled documentation of this event to...
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The Law of Freedom of Information: First Cumulative Supplement
by John Macdonald Publisher Comments This supplement to The Law of Freedom of Information covers all of the key developments in the subject up to June 2005, and is an essential purchase for all who have already bought the main work. It includes full analysis of the guidance issued by the...
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Construction Forms and Contracts
by Craig Savage Publisher Comments Nearly every contract and form you're going to need is here ready for reproduction on your copy machine. The authors are construction contractors and have used these forms for many years. They're going to save you time and money day after day. With the...
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Tort and Insurance Law #22: Shifts in Compensation Between Private and Public Systems
by Willem H. (edt) Van Boom Publisher Comments Why have some legal systems abandoned tort law in some areas and replaced it with some form of no-fault compensation scheme or strict liability? What have been the effects? How should we evaluate these a shiftsa (TM)? Why have they not been adopted in...
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Most Fundamental Legal Right: Habeas Corpus in the Commonwealth
by David J. Clark Publisher Comments This collection of essays on habeas corpus throughout the Commonwealth explores the fortunes of the writ and the conditions under which it has either flourished or waned. Drawing on a wide range of commonwealth authorities, and including materials from...
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The Supreme Court on Church and State
by Robert S. Alley Publisher Comments In revising and updating Joseph Tussman's The Supreme Court on Church and State, Robert Alley has collected the major Supreme Court decisions on the separation of church and state to provide a comprehensive and non-partisan guide to the Court's opinions....
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Transfer Pricing and Valuation in Corporate Taxation
by Elizabeth A. King Synopsis This book analyzes the disparities both between federal statutes and regulations, and regulations and administrative practices, in two highly controversial areas of corporate tax policy: intra-company transfer pricing and intangible asset valuations. It...
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Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment
by Floyd Abrams Publisher Comments In the tradition of such bestselling authors on legal issues as F. Lee Bailey, Louis Nizer, and Alan Dershowitz, Abrams discusses seven of the most important cases of his career--landmark cases that upheld key First Amendment protections....
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Social Work After the Americans with Disabilities ACT: New Challenges and Opportunities for Social Service Professionals
by John T. Pardeck Publisher Comments The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law in 1990 and is often seen as "the emancipation proclamation for people with disabilities." The ADA has significant implications for social work professionals. Specifically the profession must...
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Great American Trials
by Edward W. (edt) Knappman Publisher Comments An extraordinary introduction for anyone contemplating a legal career; for the rest of us it is a fine reference and a delight to read. – Chicago Tribune. Two hundred historically significant, legally important, and notorious trials (and the...
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Paths to Justice: What People Do and Think about Going to Law
by Hazel Genn Publisher Comments Effective policy-making in the administration of justice requires a solid understanding of public behaviour. This book presents the results of the most wide-ranging survey ever conducted by an independent body or government agency into the experiences of...
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Updated and Expanded Edition
by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau Publisher Comments Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11 world of NSA wiretaps and demands for data retention. Although the 1990s...
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Asset Protection
by Jay D. Adkisson Publisher Comments A practitioner's guide to today's most effective asset protection strategies Shielding assets isn't easy to do in our increasingly litigious society. Yet all too often, business owners and high-net-worth individuals find it more difficult to protect...
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Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision Making (Constitutionalism and Democracy)
by Virginia A. Hettinger Publisher Comments Judging on a Collegial Court ] is theoretically rich and methodologically sophisticated. -- Law and Politics Book Review Using sophisticated state-of-the-art statistical techniques, the authors present convincing and often surprising answers to their...
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Beyond Busing : Reflections on Urban Segregation, the Courts, and Equal Opportunity (05 Edition)
by Dimond Publisher Comments A compelling insider's account of the fight for educational desegregation, from one of its most dedicated and outspoken heroes. A new afterword explains the author's controversial belief that the moment for litigating educational equality has passed...
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