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The Complete Law School Companion
How to Excel at America's Most Demanding Post-Graduate Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Offers complete, accessible information on every topic of concern to law students ranging from the LSAT, the Bar Exam, Law Review, computerized research and videotape study aids to obtaining that important clerkship or job. Includes recent data on demographics of law school applicants, current salaries...
by Anthony Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
This latest book in the Straightforward Guides is a comprehensive and clear updated guide to the legal framework governing the process of collection of debts from business and individuals. It will prove invaluable to those looking to understand more about this complex legal area.
Litigating Across the Color Line
Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
As a result of the violence, segregation, and disfranchisement that occurred throughout the South in the decades after Reconstruction, it has generally been assumed that African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South litigated few civil cases and faced widespread inequality in the suits they did...
The Decline of Justice, Fairness and Morality in Law Schools
Legal Education, Privatization and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Neoliberalism has come to shape every aspect of legal education, from the curriculum and classes to the students themselves.
Where once, law schools produced bastions of honourable and ethical practices, today's law schools produce bland enforcers of the law, incapable of questioning the very...
Laws of Image
Privacy and Publicity in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Americans have long been obsessed with their images—their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation of laws that protect your right to control your public image, to defend your image, and to feel...
Law School
A Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Whether you are an undergraduate contemplating your next step in life, or a hard-working professional contemplating a career change, the decision to go to law school is not one to be taken lightly. Far too many people stumble into the decision to go to law school without having any real idea of what...
Sweden the Extraordinary rendition Nation
The Road to Guantanamo
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Sweden the Extraordinary rendition Nation - From CIA flights to Julian Assange Extraordinary rendition flight from Sweden
The Road to Guantanamo Taxi to the Dark Side Standard Operating Procedure Torturing Democracy...
by Martin L. Friedland
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Since his call to the Bar in 1960, Martin L. Friedland has been involved in a number of important public policy issues, including bail, legal aid, gun control, securities regulation, access to the law, judicial independence and accountability, and national security. My Life in Crime and other Academic...
The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966—1978
Architects of Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In 1966, a group of UCLA law school professors sparked the era of affirmative action by creating one of the earliest and most expansive race-conscious admissions programs in higher education. The Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) served to integrate the legal profession by admitting large...
by Kenneth J. Lipartito, Joseph A. Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
As counsel for Pennzoil's successful effort to recover billions of dollars in damages from Texaco over the acquisition of Getty Oil Company, the Baker & Botts law firm of Houston, Texas, achieved wide public recognition in the 1980s. But among its peers in the legal and corporate worlds, Baker & Botts...
Imperial Justice
Africans in Empire's Court
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Imperial Justice explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial discourses...
Colonial Justice
Justice, Morality, and Crime in the Niagara District, 1791-1849
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
In 1791 when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this new study of early...
The Presidents and the Constitution
A Living History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama.
In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation’s foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of...
Gender and the Jubilee
Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo...