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Cover of Contract Law in America: A Social and Economic Case Study
by Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011

Contract law as applied in the real world and not just in the books. A classic study of the social and economic realities of commercial and trade law, told through cases and rich historical analysis. Comparing law over three distinct historical eras, Friedman shows that contracts law is more contingent...
Cover of Clearing the Thickets: A History of Antebellum Alabama
by Herbert James Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014

The name Alabama comes from the Choctaw word meaning “clearers of the thickets,” inspiring the title of this fascinating new book. Its purpose is to examine Alabama's early history beginning with the era of European colonization and culminating with the state's controversial secession from the...
Cover of Harvard Law Review: Volume 125, Number 4 - February 2012
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014

Featured articles in this Feb. 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Amanda Tyler, on the core meaning of the Suspension Clause, and Kenneth Mack, reviewing Tomiko Brown-Nagin's recent book on the grass roots origins of the civil rights movement. Also, several scholars contribute to a tribute...
Cover of Harvard Law Review: Volume 126, Number 3 - January 2013
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013

The contents of Issue 3, January 2013, include: Article, "Politicians as Fiduciaries," by D. Theodore Rave Book Review, "Is Copyright Reform Possible?" by Pamela Samuelson Note, "The SEC Is Not an Independent Agency" In addition, student research explores...
Cover of Representing the Poor: Legal Advocacy and Welfare Reform During Reagan's Gubernatorial Years
by Mark N. Aaronson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

The empirical focus of this book is the contentious political and legal battle over California welfare reform in the early 1970s. It is an extended, multifaceted case study of a kind not much found in the literature on social cause lawyering. The narrative highlights the forceful presence of Ronald...
Cover of Freedom of Speech: The Supreme Court and Judicial Review
by Martin Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011

One of the great continuing disputes of U.S. politics is about the role of the Supreme Court. Another is about the First Amendment. This book is about both. A classic defense of the openly political role of the Court, this book belies the notion reasserted recently by Chief Justice Roberts that judges...
Cover of Securing Religious Liberty: Principles for Judicial Interpretation of the Religion Clauses
by Jesse H. Choper
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013

Although the Constitution of the U.S. states that there shall be no laws that either establish or prohibit religion, the application of the Religion Clauses throughout history has been fraught with conflict and ambiguity. In this classic book, a leading constitutional scholar (and former Dean of Berkeley...
Cover of Discretion to Disobey: A Study of Lawful Departures from Legal Rules
by Mortimer & Sanford Kadish
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010

A recognized study by a philosophy professor and a law professor is a truly interdisciplinary inquiry into the idea of departing from the strict letter of the law in a way that, they argue, actually comports with both law and morality. Part of the basic canon of law and philosophy, and much debated since first published by Stanford Press. Sometimes you have to break the law to make the law.
Cover of Hot Topics in the Legal Profession 2010
by Steven Alan Childress
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2010

Current important events in legal ethics, with up-to-the-minute research, are explored by Tulane students and a legal ethics professor in his Foreword. Purchase of this book benefits Tulane PILF, a nonprofit student group which funds public interest and indigent client representations. Topics include...
Cover of Yale Law Journal: Volume 123, Number 7 - May 2014
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

The May 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: Article, "Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation," by Kristin Collins Article,...
Cover of Yale Law Journal: Volume 122, Number 3 - December 2012
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013

One of the world's leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the third of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: John H. Langbein,...
Cover of Yale Law Journal: Volume 123, Number 5 - March 2014
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2014

The March 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. The contents for Volume 123, Number 5, include: Articles: The New Minimal Cities, Michelle Wilde Anderson The Separation of Funds and Managers: A Theory...
Cover of Yale Law Journal: Volume 125, Number 8 - June 2016
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the 8th and final issue of academic year 2015-2016) features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. The issue's contents include: * Article, "The President's Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control,"...
Cover of Yale Law Journal: Volume 125, Number 2 - November 2015
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

The contents of the November 2015 issue (Vol. 125, No. 2) are: Articles: "The Un-Territoriality of Data," by Jennifer Daskal; and "Political Entrenchment and Public Law," by Daryl Levinson & Benjamin I. Sachs Review: "18 Years On: A Re-Review," by Richard...
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