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by Sean Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This latest Revised edition of Letting Property for Profit is written against the backdrop of a falling housing market, but also rising rents as buyers find it difficult to obtain finance. It will be particularly suited to new entrants to the buy-to-let investment market, providing a detailed analysis...
Reproductive Rights in New York and New Jersey
Abortion, the Empire, and the Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
New York and New Jersey maintain almost identical laws dealing with abortion, but the process for developing those laws differed in each state. Courts were heavily involved in New Jersey, whereas most policy decisions came from elected officials in New York. In this book, Parent argues that these...
by Telford Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
“The true quality of a judicial system is best measured by its resistance to stress, whether caused by community, racial, or other prejudice, or by the pressure of state political policies and interests.”
--Telford Taylor
Working in secret for the past several years, a group of distinguished...
by Michael E. Tigar
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Tigar draws compelling parallels between being a successful trial lawyer and living a purposeful life. The title examines the nine principles in detail: Courage; Rapport; Skepticism; Observation; Preparation; Structure; Candor; Empowerment; and Presentation. Unique and introspective, Tigar looks at...
A New, Objective, Pro-Objectivity Normative Theory
An Objective Basis for Morality, Society, Politics, Law, Education, Etc.-And for Liberty and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
A New, Objective, Pro-Objectivity Normative Theory tries to solve fundamental normative moral, social, political, educational, legal, etc. problems. It defends a uniquely evidence-based, objective theory. The theory argues it has one objective, primary end, and plural a-objective, secondary ends irrelevant...
by Roger W. Shuy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Much has been written about how criminal suspects, defendants, and the targets of undercover operations employ ambiguous language as they interact with the legal system. This book examines the other side of the coin, describing fifteen criminal investigations that demonstrate how police, prosecutors,...
Degradation
What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed when they were seen as lowering the status of humans, furthering our distance from the gods or God and moving us toward the animals. In the current era, when we recognize ourselves...
The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
A book about family law is necessarily a book both about family life and the role law can and should take in regulating family life. Individually and together, these are vast topics. American family law is ever-changing and affects every facet of our lives. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Family...
Documents of Native American Political Development
1933 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about staggering depopulation, loss of land, and cultural,...
By Honor Bound
State and Society in Early Modern Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these...
Going to the dogs
A history of greyhound racing in Britain, 1926-2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class. Though condemned as a dissipate and impoverishing activity, it was, in fact, a...
Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700
Micro-Studies in the History of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history. A selection of in-depth narrative micro-studies are featured to illustrate specific issues associated with the theme of...
by Stephen Daniels, Joanne Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Tort reform is a favorite cause for many business leaders and right-leaning politicians, who contend that out-of-control lawsuits throttle growth and inflate costs, particularly in healthcare. Less is said about how such reforms might affect the ability of individuals to recover damages for injuries...
Preferential Treatment
A Medical-Legal Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
West Virginia lawyer, Jack Fabian, is a battle-hardened, hard-drinking personal injury trial lawyer concentrating his practice in medical malpractice plaintiffs cases. Fabian, who has developed a penchant for big spending, expensive airplanes, top-shelf booze, and luxury vacations finds himself in...