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by Jeremy Waldron (Author)Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech--except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. Causing offense--by depicting a religious leader as a terrorist i...

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Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning - Paperback

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by Frederick Schauer (Author)This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, statutory interpretation, legal realism, judicial opinions, legal facts, and burden of proof. In addressing the question whether legal reasoning is distinctive, Frederick Schaue...

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by Rebecca Wittmann (Author)In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the largest and most public trial to take place in the country and attracted international attention. Using the pretrial files and extensive trial audiotapes, Rebecca Wittmann offers a fascinating reinterpretation of Germany's first major attempt to confront its past. Evoking the courtroom atmosphere, Wittmann vividly recounts the testimony...

Defending American Religious Neutrality - Hardcover

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by Andrew Koppelman (Author)Although it is often charged with hostility toward religion, First Amendment doctrine in fact treats religion as a distinctive human good. It insists, however, that this good be understood abstractly, without the state taking sides on any theological question. Here, a leading scholar of constitutional law explains the logic of this uniquely American form of neutrality--more religion-centered than liberal theorists propose, and less overtly theistic than conservativ...

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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse - Paperback

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by Steve Bogira (Author)Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira's masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of ...

Economic Foundations of International Law - Hardcover

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by Posner (Author), Sykes (Author)The ever-increasing exchange of goods and ideas among nations, as well as cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime, pose urgent questions for international law. Here, two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these pressing legal problems from a rational choice perspective. The approach assumes that states are rational, forward-looking agents which use international law to address the actions of other states...

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The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information - Paperback

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by Frank Pasquale (Author)Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior--silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created are incredibly detailed, to the point of being invasive. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with this information? The Black Box Society argues that we all need to be able to do so--and to set limits on how big data affects our lives. Hidden algorithms can ma...

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by Cass R. Sunstein (Author)American constitutional law is at a crossroads. In a major new interpretation of the Constitution, Cass Sunstein offers a clear account of our present dilemmas and shows where we might go from here. As it is currently interpreted, the Constitution is partial, Sunstein asserts. It is, first of all, biased. Contemporary constitutional law treats the status quo as neutral and just, and any departure as necessarily partisan. But when the status quo is neither neutral n...

Exemptions: Necessary, Justified, or Misguided? - Hardcover

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by Kent Greenawalt (Author)Should laws apply equally to everyone, or should some individuals and organizations be granted exemptions because of conflicting religious or moral convictions? In recent years, this question has become intensely controversial in America. The Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage, in particular, has provoked barbed debates about legal exemptions. At the core of these debates lies the question of whether basic values of equality and nondiscrimination are at odd...

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Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-And Changed Thelaw of the United States - Paperback

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by Anthony Lewis (Author)The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.Front JacketA history of the landmark case of James Earl Gideon's fight for t...

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Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between - Hardcover

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by Linda Greenhouse (Author)In this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism. Just a few years ago, the mainstream press was wrestling with whether labeling waterboarding as torture violated important norms of neutrality and objectivity. Now, major American newspapers regularly call the president of the United States a liar. Clearly, something has changed as the old rules of "balance" and "two si...

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by Scott J. Shapiro (Author)What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart. Yet many others find it perplexing. How could we possibly know how to answer such an abstract question? And what would be the point of doing so? In Legality, Scott Shapiro argues that the question is not only meaningful but vitally important. In fact, many of the most pressing puzzles that lawyers confront--including who has legal authority over us and how we shoul...

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by Jonathan Harr (Author)#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - The true story of one man so determined to take down two of the nation's largest corporations accused of killing children from water contamination that he risks losing everything. "The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer Described as "a page-turner filled with greed, duplicity, heartache, and bare-knuckle legal brinksmanship" by The New York Times, A Civil Action is the searing, c...

What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States - Paperback

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by James F. Simon (Author)The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than one hundred fifty years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles. In this dramatic and fully accessible account of these titans of the early republic and their fiercely held ideas, James F. Simo...

Calculated Kindness: Refugees and America's Half-Open Door, 1945 to the Present - Paperback

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by Gil Loescher (Author), John a. Scanlan (Joint Author)From Simon & Schuster, Calculated Kindness is Gil Loescher and John A. Scanlan's exploration to refugees and America's half-open door from 1945 to present day. In Calculated Kindness, Gil Loescher and John A. Scanlan argue that government immigration policies have favored refugees from left-wing rather than right-wing regime. A must-have for any American historians.Author BiographyGilburt Damian Loescher was a political scientist. Nu...

Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars - Paperback

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by Cynthia Gorney (Author)Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Articles of Faith is a powerful exploration of one of the most divisive issues in our recent political history, and the only book to portray the passion of both sides of the abortion conflict. Drawing from more than five hundred interviews as well as previously unseen archival material, Cynthia Gorney has written a compelling narrative that explores the years between Roe v. Wade (1973) and William L. Webster v. Reprodu...

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The Substance of Representation: Congress, American Political Development, and Lawmaking - Paperback

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by John S. Lapinski (Author)Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation. Yet despite its importance, political scientists spend very little time studying the direct impact that the politics surrounding a particular issue has on lawmaking. The Substance of Representation draws on a vast range of historical and empirical data to better understand how lawmaking works across different policy areas. Specifically, John Lapinsk...

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A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before - Paperback

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by Cass R. Sunstein (Author)The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time. Exploring hot-button issues ranging from presidential power to same-sex ...

Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees During the Cold War - Paperback

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by Carl J. Bon Tempo (Author)Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents who at times successfully slowed admissions. The first comprehensive historical exploration of American refugee affairs from the midcentury to the present, Ameri...

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Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy - Paperback

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by Dani Rodrik (Author)An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economy Not so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled by a groundswell of populists around the world. In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken critic of economic globalization taken too far, goes beyond the populist b...

How to Change the Name of a Minor in Texas: All of the forms and instructions you need to change the name of a minor in Texas. - Paperback

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by Richard S. Granat (Author)All the necessary forms and step-by-step instructions you need to change the name of a minor in Texas. Your comprehensive resource on Texas name change laws, including Texas minor name change forms complete with detailed instructions on how to file a legal name change for a minor in Texas. Not happy with your given name? You can change your name without spending thousands of dollars in legal fees by using our Texas specific legal forms and detailed instructions. M...

A Cup Of Coffee With 10 Leading Chiropractors In The United States: Valuable insights you should know about how chiropractic care can improve your hea - Paperback

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by Randy Van Ittersum (Author), David Vandehey D. C. (Author), Daniel Grossman D. C. (Author)Today's chiropractor may be dubbed the "New Hero" in healthcare. Chiropractic care is about "preventive care" and helping your body do what it was designed to do, which is to take care of itself naturally. In this book, we have brought together ten of America's leading chiropractors to share with you their insights into chiropractic care and the effect it can have on your health. You will discover why...

2015 Edition - The practical guide to Health Care Advance Directives - Paperback

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by Jo Kline Cebuhar (Author)What you've heard is true. You need Health Care Advance Directives. Would you like to know why? In her award-winning 2006 book, "Last things first, just in case," attorney Jo Kline first addressed the approaching crisis surrounding aging and end-of-life care in America. The perfect storm she predicted is now peeking over America's horizon: - America's dramatically aging population- The dwindling financial and human resources available to address their needs- Our pe...

Counsel for the Accused Marine Corps Drill Sergeant - Paperback

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by Marie Costello-Inserra (Author)At 10:00 p.m. April 13, 1956, attorney Thomas Costello boarded a train at New York's Pennsylvania Station en route to Yemassee, South Carolina-the first leg of his voyage to the United States Marine Corps' training depot on Parris Island to defend his brother-in-law, Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon. Five days earlier, McKeon had led a training exercise that went tragically wrong, resulting in the drowning deaths of six recruits. McKeon was immediately arrested,...

Maxims of Equity, Collected From, and Proved By, Cases, Out of the Books of the Best Authority in the High Court of Chancery. Also, the Case of the Ea - Paperback

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by Multiple Contributors (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts a...

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The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene - Hardcover

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by Melinda Harm Benson (Author), Robin Kundis Craig (Author)The time has come for us to collectively reexamine--and ultimately move past--the concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality of the Anthropocene, which is creating a world characterized by extreme complexity, radical uncertainty, and unprecedented change. From a legal and policy perspective, we must ...

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When Lawyers Screw Up: Improving Access to Justice for Legal Malpractice Victims - Hardcover

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by Herbert Kritzer (Author), Neil Vidmar (Author)Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more. This in an industry, legal services, generating nearly $300 billion a year in revenue and touching every facet of American society. Yet, scant if any scholarly attention has been paid to the questions and consequences of lawyers' prof...

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Child Labor in America: The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children - Paperback

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by John A. Fliter (Author)Child labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country's legal landscape, involving issues settled in the distant past. But these laws, however self-evidently sensible they might seem, were the product of deeply divisive legal debates stretching over the past century--and even now are subject to constitutional challenges. Child Labor in America tells the story of that historic legal struggle. The book offers the first full account of child labor law in Am...

Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case and the Railroading of the Marlborough Five - Hardcover

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by J. Patrick O'Connor (Author)On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city's firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O'Connor, the facts--or a lack of them--didn't add up. Justice on Fire is O'Connor's detailed account of the terrible explosion t...

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Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private War - Hardcover

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by Kenneth B. Moss (Author)"Letters of marque" might suggest privateers of the Elizabethan era or the American Revolution. But such conventions are duly covered in the US Constitution, and the private military instruments they sanction are very much at work today in the form of mercenaries and military contractors. A history of such practices up to the present day, Marque and Reprisal by Kenneth B. Moss offers unique insight into the role of private actors in military conflicts and the reason...

Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech - Paperback

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by Frank Snepp (Author)Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an Agency eager to cut its losses. What he received instead was a cold shoulder from a CIA that in 1975 was already in turmoil over congressional investigations of its operations throughout the world.In protest, Snepp resigned to write a damning account of the agency's cynical neglect o...

Human Dignity: Lodestar for Equality in South Africa - Paperback

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by Laurie Ackermann (Author)About this Publication: Human Dignity: Lodestar for Equality in South Africa provides an in-depth analysis of human dignity and its relationship to equality in South African law. The author argues that human dignity is the attributive key that unlocks the constitutional meaning of equality and unfair discrimination. Equality cannot be usefully debated without first asking the vital question 'Equality of what?' The answer, it is contended, must be 'human dignity'. T...