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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The essays in United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836–1960—one each for a judge and his decisions—come together to form a chronological history of the Arkansas judicial system as it grew from its beginnings in a frontier state to a modern institution.
The book begins...
Obscenity Rules
Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
For some, he was "America's leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both American...
Justice While Black
Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Justice While Black is a must-read for every young black male in America-and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. This is a first-of-its-kind essential guide for African-American families about how to understand the criminal justice system, and about why that system continues...
Why Do We do That?
Commentary on Lawyers and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
During her years of practicing law, writer and lawyer Roberta M. Gubbins observed her fellow lawyers at work, at home and out in the world. She recorded her observations in the form of essays, describing the legal world with humor, passion and clarity. The result is an entertaining, informative and engaging...
Ducktown Smoke
The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red...
by Jeffrey Toobin
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In January of 1987 Jeffrey Toobin is fresh out of Harvard Law School, and appointed the youngest lawyer on Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's team to investigate and try the leading figure in the Iran-Contra affair--Oliver North. For twenty-eight thrilling months, Toobin served on Walsh's staff and...
The Conscience of the Constitution
The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a forgotten truth: the word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in either the Constitution or the Declaration. But it is the overemphasis of democracy by the legal community–rather than the primacy...
by Cecil C. Kuhne III
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Discover the legal side of skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, and other types of snow sports with this fascinating, new addition to the ABA Little Books Series! In it, you'll find a variety of compelling questions, such as:• Is falling down an unmarked ravine near a ski run an "inherent danger and...
Law of the Land
The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The June 2017 issue, Number 8, features these extensive contents:
* Article, "The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise," by Anna Lvovsky
* Essay, "The Debate That Never Was," by Nicos Stavropoulos
* Essay, "Hart's Posthumous Reply," by Ronald Dworkin
* Book...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
'Peace' is often simplistically assumed to be war's opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of 'restoring peace' or 'keeping...
Associations and Law
The Classical and Early Christian Stages
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
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...
by Herbert C. Hallas
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Official court reporting in American courtrooms was brought about by the skill, dedication, and determination of a remarkable group of pioneer shorthand writers. Many of them were reformers, some were entrepreneurs, and others were inventors, writers, artists, and scientists. All of them were gifted...
Prohibition in Atlanta
Temperance, Tiger Kings & White Lightning
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
After the Civil War, state and national Prohibition galvanized in Atlanta the issues of classism, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. While many consider flappers and gangsters the iconic images of the era, in reality, it was marked with temperance zealotry, blind tigers and white lightning. Georgia's...