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Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism
by Austin (edt) Sarat  Publisher Comments Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural...
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Child Witness: Legal Issues & Dilemmas
by Nancy Walker Perry Publisher Comments Twenty years ago the issue of child sexual abuse was seldom discussed in the United States. Now reports of such abuses have become commonplace, and the arrests and trials of alleged abusers have become a staple of the evening television news reports...
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Perspectives in Law & Psychology #18: Parenting Evaluations for the Court Care and Protection Matters
by Lois Oberlander Condie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-383) and index....
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Legal Recognition of Same-sex Partnerships
by Synopsis Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry and have the same rights as different-sex couples with regard to pensions, housing, immigration, children and so forth? This text examines the theoretical and legal implications of these questions....
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Religion in Criminal Justice
by Monica K. Miller Synopsis Miller demonstrates how religion affects every aspect of the judicial system by focusing on religious appeals by attorneys in closing arguments of death penalty sentencing trials. She explores whether these appeals lead jurors to make legally...
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A Philosophical Theory of Citizenship: Obligation, Authority, and Membership
by Steven J. Wulf Synopsis A Philosophical Theory of Citizenship answers seminal questions about legal obligation, government authority, and political community. It employs an idiomatic theory of reality, ethical conduct, and the self to justify patriotic duty, classical liberty...
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Americans Without Law: the Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (06 Edition)
by Mark Stuart Weiner Publisher Comments Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls "juridical racialism." The book follows the history of...
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Commercial Fraud in Civil Practice
by Paul Mcgrath Publisher Comments The book provides clear and practical guidance on the complex issues that arise in commercial fraud claims. By bringing together all current sources of legal thinking the author presents a coherent and readily accessible guide for the busy practitioner....
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Silence and Freedom
by Louis M. Seidman Publisher Comments This thoughtful and iconoclastic book argues that silence can be an expression of freedom....
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Law in the American West #1: Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891
by Chriatian G. Fritz Publisher Comments For forty years Ogden Hoffman presided over the federal district court for the Northern District of California, disposing of more than nineteen thousand cases brought before him. Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891...
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Mediation : Appropriate Process and Problem-solving (06 Edition)
by Carrie J. Menkel-meadow Publisher Comments The book takes a distinctive new approach to the skills, processes, and applications of mediation: - comprehensive, current coverage of the world of mediation includes law and policy, case examples, practice guidelines for both mediators and attorney...
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Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
by Martha Nussbaum Publisher Comments In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people’s deeply held conscientious...
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Seven dirty words and six other stories :controlling the content of print and broadcast
by Matthew L. Spitzer Publisher Comments Why does the United States control the content of broadcast more strictly than it controls the content of print? In this provocative book, Matthew L. Spitzer explores the various rationales that support such different treatment and concludes that...
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Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace
by Bruce Barry Publisher Comments Reveals the severe — and surprising — limits on free speech in the American workplace Includes vivid examples illustrating just how restricted workplace speech has become Suggests ways to expand employee rights while protecting employers...
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How Patriotic Is the Patriot ACT?: Freedom Versus Security in the Age of Terrorism
by Amitai Etzioni Publisher Comments In his most recent State of the Union Address, President Bush called upon Congress to enact legislation that would extend the time-limited provisions of the controversial anti-terror law known as the Patriot Act (they are scheduled to expire on December...
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Fair, square & legal :safe hiring, managing & firing practices to keep you & your company out of court
by Donald H Weiss Book News Annotation A guide to safe, legal management practices, translating legal issues and precedents into a set of guidelines for managing employees. Offers definitions of key terms, advice, and case studies for problems in recruiting, hiring, sex and age...
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Servidumbres y Servent
by Rodr Publisher Comments Entre las diversas instituciones y figuras jurídicas que presentan un carácter especialmente problemático en el ámbito jurídico-civil gallego, se encuentran las servidumbres y serventías. Al análisis crítico de la actual regulación que de tales...
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Inalienable Rights #05: Is There a Right to Remain Silent?: Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11
by Alan Dershowitz Publisher Comments The right to remain silent, guaranteed by the famed Fifth Amendment case, Miranda v. Arizona, is perhaps one of the most easily recognized and oft-quoted constitutional rights in American culture. Yet despite its ubiquity, there is widespread...
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Biomedical-Ethical Issues: A Digest of Law and Policy Development
by Fank Harron Publisher Comments This handbook contains excerpts and summaries of influential court decisions, state and federal legislation, and federal guidelines, as well as policy statements from various religious and professional organizations, related to biomedical-ethical issues....
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Litigation Services Handbook, 2008 Supplement: The Role of the Financial Expert
by Roman L. Weil Publisher Comments The 2008 Supplement contains the following updates: Chapter 15. The authors of our chapter on Punitive Damages review the Supreme Court's decision in Philip Morris USA v. Williams and the implications of that decision for punitive damage claims going...
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