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Curious Case of Kiryas Joel
The Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle to Defend the Separation of Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Twenty years ago, in the middle of the night and on the last day of the legislative session, the New York State Legislature created a publicly funded school district to cater to the interests of a religious sect called the Satmar, an insular group of Hasidic Jews that objects to, among other things,...
by S.D. Thames
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
What happens when the housing business turns deadly?Real estate lawyer David Friedman was halfway up the career ladder when the crash of 2008 took down the housing market. Now he has just one year to prove himself as a potential partner before his job goes under. Ruthless real estate developer...
Point Taken
How to Write Like the World's Best Judges
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In Point Taken, Ross Guberman delves into the work of the best judicial opinion-writers and offers a step-by-step method based on practical and provocative examples. Featuring numerous cases and opinions from 34 esteemed judges - from Learned Hand to Antonin Scalia - Point Taken, explores what it...
Translating the Social World for Law
Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of "translation" as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of...
Traveling the Beaten Trail
Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822–1825
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait’s Charges to Federal Grand Juries 1822–1825, a concise and essential addition to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, authors Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham, and Sally E. Hadden capture the life, achievements, and legacy of federal...
The Grasping Hand
"Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for “public use,” the Court ruled that the transfer...
Fair Labor Lawyer
The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the nation's highest courts. Despite her beginnings in an orphanage and her rare position as a southern, Jewish...
by New England Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This third issue of Volume 49 (Spr. 2015) features an extensive and important Symposium on "Educational Ambivalence: The Story of the Academic Doctorate in Law," presented...
The Trust
Short Story Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Do you trust the person you’ve chosen to write the legal documents governing your estate?THE TRUST is a fictional slice of life centered around a traumatic series of events related to securing a family's wealth and property for the benefit of their children after their deaths.Everyone wants...
Law Mart
Justice, Access, and For-Profit Law Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
American law schools are in deep crisis. Enrollment is down, student loan debt is up, and the profession's supply of high-paying jobs is shrinking. Meanwhile, thousands of graduates remain underemployed while the legal needs of low-income communities go substantially unmet. Many blame overregulation...
by Pedro Malodorus Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, The University of Texas at El Paso, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the legal impossibility that exists when Law Enforcement introduces evidence of a violation of law. Where Law enforcement creates...
Law in American History, Volume III
1930-2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
In Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000, the eminent legal scholar G. Edward White concludes his sweeping history of law in America, from the colonial era to the near-present. Picking up where his previous volume left off, at the end of the 1920s, White turns his attention to modern developments...
Attorney by Day, Novelist by Night
Bring Your Book to Light While Still Practicing Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
An inspiring guide for lawyers—or any busy professionals—who want to pursue their literary dreams.
Are you an attorney working hard, sixty-plus-hour weeks to right the wrongdoings of the world? Are you enjoying a successful legal career, but still not wholly satisfied? Have you dreamed...
A Brief Guide to Brief Writing
Demystifying the Memorandum of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Briefs are a combination of legal reasoning and good story-telling. It is very important to be able to construct a persuasive legal argument in support of a client’s case while telling the client’s story. The aim of every brief is always the same: to persuade. This means that there are fundamentals...