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Across the globe and particularly in America, basic democratic tenets supposedly stand on principles of fairness and equity, but almost everything we've done and are doing rejects that these ideals are important to us. Instead, we consciously or subconsciously embrace a predilection and desire for preferential treatment for preferred people. Nowhere is our support of preference starker than in the way "racial haves" sustain their mistreatment ...

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This book examines the important subject of the protection of women under international humanitarian law with particular reference to the Women of Iraq and Palestine. It discusses the most important international humanitarian legal documents and instruments that are relevant to the topic. A key focus point in the book is the discussion of the social, cultural and political conditions currently affecting the women of Iraq and Palestine. The con...

The third edition of Comparative Law: Law, Reality and Society does not deal with conventional comparative law. Rules and structures of one system are not set out against those of another for contrast. Rather, rules particular or general, are examined to explain why they are as they are, and how they came to be. The author does not accept that to a great extent law reflects society or the power of the ruling elite. Chapter one serves as both ...

As of late, many books and articles have been addressing the topic of human embryonic stemcell research. They all appear to run the regular gauntlet of touching upon familiar issues, but not daring to venture too deeply into territory held sacred by religion, science, and philosophy. This book moves sharply away from that well-worn path and is aimed to encourage the reader to approach this volatile and contentious topic from a new perspective....

This book about the Configurative, Law, Science and Policy Theories looks at law in a more futuristic manner. It involves examining the idea of law in terms of decision and policy rather than simply as rules and principles. The reader will be introduced to a technique known as "contextual mapping" which helps in understanding legal problems in context and in identifying which problems require authoritative and controlling solutions. The book u...

This book is written for anyone interested in the innocence cause. The problem of wrongful convictions is moving more and more into the public's eye every day. This book is specifically written to guide a student or participant through an innocence program step by step. It covers everything from how not to get too worried about the clients to how to conduct a client interview. It really is everything you need to know to participate in an innoc...

The goal of this book is to provide law students with an understanding of the major federal civil rights statutes. We begin with the Reconstruction Era laws, passed shortly after the Civil War, that remain an important part of the civil rights landscape even after Congress enacted additional statutes, beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The materials include Titles II and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in ...

Law is at once increasingly broad and increasingly specialized. Law in our complex, technical, regulatory state affects more people more frequently and more deeply than ever before. More federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations cover more trades, professions, and industries, control more lands, premises, and activities, and create more liability and risk, than the nation has ever known. At the same time, and consequently, the mi...

Criminal Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems, Third Edition, focuses on basic principles of Anglo-American criminal law and is designed for use in an introductory course in Criminal Law, either in a law school or an undergraduate program in Criminal Justice, taught by teachers who use the case method of instruction. The book includes cases and statutes from various jurisdictions, as well as excerpts from the Model Penal Code. In addition, the ...

The ever increasing demands by investment parties for access to international commercial arbitration have created a robust competitive market which has propelled this area of legal practice into a Golden Age. As a consequence, many countries and cities around the globe, desiring to capture a slice of this burgeoning market, have been competing to encourage investing parties to choose their jurisdictions as arbitration venues. As investment in ...

Cases on Constitutional Law represents a commitment to the case method as the ideal way of studying Constitutional Law and Constitutional Law as the ideal vehicle for mastering the case method. Students have the opportunity to read carefully selected opinions in full or near-full text, seeing the complexity of the cases, the mix of the issues presented, and the array of responses provided by the Justices. The book starts with the Constitutio...

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As the authorization for subject matter jurisdiction of U.S. District Courts, is principally constitutional and statutory in content, the U.S. Constitution, particularly Article III, 44 primary statutes, a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, and judicial decisions permitting the federal trial courts to entertain equity controversies, abstention, and matters they may not consider, have been analyzed in the 1, 376 cases presented in this book. The ...

The Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation is a peer-reviewed annual publication with a law review format, produced and edited by Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law, under the supervision of Prof. Thomas E. Carbonneau. With the law school's long-standing reputation in the international and domestic arbitration and ADR community, the Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation provides deserving and qualified PSU law students with a chall...

A LIFETIME OF PLEASANT WORK collects law review tributes to law professors and deans. Some are famous and others little-known, but all changed the character of their law schools and the lives of their students. When Samuel Williston retired from the Harvard Law School, he thanked the Harvard Corporation for "a lifetime of pleasant work." Those lucky enough to teach law students know what others only suspect: it is the best job in America. The ...

The Law of Torts is a subject of primary importance in the study and practice of the Common Law. This book is designed to provide a comprehensive guide to the general principles of the law of torts. The book has been written as a basic text for degree level students, particularly those reading for the LLB degree, the Common Professional Examination or the Diploma in Law. Also the book will appeal to those who simply wish to acquire some basic ...

The author designed this book on current education research. The book includes learner objectives, case studies, law summaries, skills and ethics paths, practice vignettes, court forms, sample pleadings and court papers, and career advice. Its design is to help you place civil procedure in its practice context, develop a professional identity, and give you greater control over your learning. In its report Educating Lawyers, the Carnegie Founda...

The editors, professors from Thomas M. Cooley Law School's Grand Rapids campus, produced this book in conjunction with the Grand Rapids Bar Association to celebrate the community impact in West Michigan of effective judges and courts. The Thomas M. Cooley Law School's Grand Rapids-campus Library has grown into the premier legal research center in West Michigan. The Library offers law students and practitioners over 40, 000 print volumes and ...

Why do you slow down when you pass an auto accident? While it may be for emergency personnel, the temptation is strong to look for carnage among the wreckage. We all have a natural if morbid curiosity regarding serious injury and its mechanism and effects. Drawing on more than two decades of experience as a personal-injury lawyer, the author addresses the reader's curiosity about death and serious injury by accident, with a wry account of mac...