University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Inside Appellate Courts
The Impact of Court Organization on Judicial Decision Making in the United States Courts of Appeals
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Inside Appellate Courts is a comprehensive study of how the organization of a court affects the decisions of appellate judges. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy federal appellate judges and law clerks, Jonathan M. Cohen challenges the assumption that increasing caseloads and bureaucratization...
by Deborah Crusan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Assessment in the Second Language Writing Classroom is a teacher and prospective teacher-friendly book, uncomplicated by the language of statistics. The book is for those who teach and assess second language writing in several different contexts: the IEP, the developmental writing classroom, and the...
Physician Communication with Patients
Research Findings and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
We all have a good idea of how we want things to go when we visit a physician. We expect to be able to explain why we are there, and we hope the physician will listen and possibly ask questions that help us clarify our thoughts. Most of us hope that the physician will provide some expression of empathy,...
Regional Economic Institutions and Conflict Mitigation
Design, Implementation, and the Promise of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In addition to the explicit goal of advancing mutual economic interests, regional economic organizations (REOs) are intended to foster regional cohesion and peace. Drawing on a data set detailing the institutional features of 25 REOs established during the 1980s and 1990s, complemented by a case study...
Common Law Judging
Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Are judges supposed to be objective? Citizens, scholars, and legal professionals commonly assume that subjectivity and objectivity are opposites, with the corollary that subjectivity is a vice and objectivity is a virtue. These assumptions underlie passionate debates over adherence to original intent...
For the Civic Good
The Liberal Case for Teaching Religion in the Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Why teach about religion in public schools? What educational value can such courses potentially have for students?
In For the Civic Good, Walter Feinberg and Richard A. Layton offer an argument for the contribution of Bible and world religion electives. The authors argue that such courses can,...
by Jami K. Taylor, Donald P. Haider-Markel, Daniel C. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a “collective political identity” is a recent construct. Over the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the...
Early Start
Preschool Politics in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and...
Quick
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
Praise for Quick:
"T.M. McNally's stories are compact, complex, artful and truthful miracles of humanity and language-strong coffee for these narcoleptic times."
-Pam Houston, author of Waltzing the Cat
"Like good blues, these stories don't strain but seem to erupt from...
Borrowing Credibility
Global Banks and Monetary Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Nations with credible monetary regimes borrow at lower interest rates in international markets and are less likely to suffer speculative attacks and currency crises. While scholars typically attribute credibility to domestic institutions or international agreements, Jana Grittersová argues that when...
Appified
Culture in the Age of Apps
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be used on our smartphones and tablets? When...
Anatomy of a Civil War
Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Anatomy of a Civil War demonstrates the destructive nature of war, ranging from the physical to the psychosocial, as well as war’s detrimental effects on the environment. Despite such horrific aspects, evidence suggests that civil war is likely to generate multilayered outcomes. To examine the transformative...
Fraud and Misconduct in Research
Detection, Investigation, and Organizational Response
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In Fraud and Misconduct in Research, Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Amalya Oliver-Lumerman introduce the main characteristics of research misconduct, portray how the characteristics are distributed, and identify the elements of the organizational context and the practice of scientific research which enable...
The Politics of Expertise
Competing for Authority in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of experts by unveiling the politics of the ongoing competition...