Administrative Law category: 861 books

The new third edition of Federal Bank Holding Company Law by Melanie Fein is a comprehensive revision of a work already hailed as the definitive treatise on the subject. Building on and updating the previous edition written by Ms. Fein and the late Pauline Heller, it features close examination of...

This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order. It argues that the mutual reflexivity of the different ways society perceives law and law perceives society eclipses the unique formal identity of written law. It advances a distinctive approach to the plural ways in which legal cultures...

As a result of resumption of sovereignty over Hong Kong and Macao as well as the uncertain relationship between the Mainland and Taiwan, China has become a country composed of peculiar political compounds, resulting in four independent jurisdictions. This makes inter-regional legal cooperation a complicated...

This book moves from the circumstance whereby currently the obligation to provide fair and equitable treatment (FET) to foreign investments is included in the majority of international investment agreements and has proved to be the most invoked standard in investor-State arbitration....

George Heiman has translated the discussion of classical and early Christian laws of association from the major works by Grotto Gierke, Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht. This work complements F.W. Maitland's translation of a later part under the title, The Political Theories of the Middle Ages, and...

Making sense of the nonstop parade of federal and state legislation, regulation and decisional law governing health care benefits is not an easy task. For professionals in the field, however, it is an essential one. Fortunately, there is a comprehensive and practical guide to this complex, evolving...

The November 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal (the second of academic year 2014-2015) features new articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: Article, "Agency Enforcement of Spending Clause Statutes: A Defense of the Funding Cut-Off," by...

The March 2014 issue (Volume 127, Number 5) features the following articles and review essays: * Article, "The Puzzling Presumption of Reviewability," Nicholas Bagley * Book Review, "Making the Modern Family: Interracial Intimacy and the Social Production of Whiteness,"...

The Harvard Law Review, January 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: * Article, "Uncovering Coordinated Interagency Adjudication," by Bijal Shah * Note, "Deference and the Federal Arbitration Act: The NLRB's Determination of Substantive Statutory Rights" *...

In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued...

The December issue of Yale Law Journal (the third of Volume 123, academic year 2013-2014) features new articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article, "The Interpretation-Construction Distinction in Patent Law," by Tun-Jen Chiang...

Exploring how the law can be used to influence the lives of the billions of individual animals we call wildlife, the approach that Wildlife Law & Ethics takes is first to present the law as a solid background and then provide social context regarding the circumstances facing the global community....

From the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights. The right to adequate housing, even though protecting one...

This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the 8th and final 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, "The President's Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control,"...