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Speak Now
Marriage Equality on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
**A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that stands as the most potent argument for marriage equality
*Speak Now *tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex...
Meeting the Enemy
American Exceptionalism and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Since its founding, the United States has defined itself as the supreme protector of freedom throughout the world, pointing to its Constitution as the model of law to ensure democracy at home and to protect human rights internationally. Although the United States has consistently emphasized the importance...
by Goodwin Liu ; Pamela S. Karlan
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's...
Jiu Jitsu Jurisprudence
A Guide to Balancing Your Law Practice and Your Life Practice through the Art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Jiu Jitsu Jurisprudence introduces something new into your life that will revolutionize every aspect of your being: your body, your mind, and your soul. It will help you find purpose outside of the office and beyond the courtroom. You will feel better, think clearer, be happier, and above all, find...
Colonial Copyright
Intellectual Property in Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
When the British Empire enacted copyright law for its colonies and called it colonial, or Imperial, copyright, it had its own interests in mind. Deconstructing the imperial policy regarding copyright offers a startling glimpse into how this law was received in the colonies themselves. Offering the...
Legal Emblems and the Art of Law
Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition...
by Billy F. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Who is your lawyer, and what does he or she really do? Thats a question thats not easy to answerunless you go the source. And unfortunately, most lawyers wont give you a straight answer.
In What Your Lawyer May Not Want You to Know, Billy F. Brown unveils the mystery of how lawyers work and...
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges critical links between histories of migration and dispossession. The...
Becoming a Law Professor
A Candidate's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
This book is a soup-to-nuts guide, taking aspiring legal academics from their first aspirations on a step-by-step journey through the practicalities of the Association of American Law School's hiring conference, on-campus interviews, and preparing for the first semester of teaching
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human resource for the state, and legal theory provides the most suitable base from which to theorize on the...
Taming Alabama
Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to...
Without Precedent
The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession. When she retired in 1979, she left a legacy burnished by her tireless...
The Practice
Brutal Truths About Lawyers and Lawyering
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
In The Practice, Tannebaum riffs on everything from asking yourself what type of lawyer you want to be, to the most effective way to market yourself in an industry where lawyers increasingly over-rely on social media to prove their relevance. It also discusses other important topics, including the...
Islam and the Rule of Justice
Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientations, images of binding doctrine and unbounded choice...