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Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age - Paperback

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by Michael Chertoff (Author)In this bracing book, the second Secretary of Homeland Security makes clear that personal data has become one of the most valuable assets of the modern age--and yet our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information are completely out of date and need to be overhauled in the digital era. While the collection of data--more widespread even by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for...

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Giantkillers: The Team and the Law That Help Whistle-Blowers Recover America's Stolen Billions - Paperback

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by Henry Scammell (Author)In 1986, with contractors stealing an estimated 10 percent of the total federal budget by fraud, Congress passed a newly strengthened anticorruption law. Ordinary citizens could file lawsuits on behalf of the government to recover money stolen from the public treasury, and they would share in the result. In the years since, the False Claims Act has emerged as one of the nation's most potent weapons against corporate greed. Giantkillers is the story of that law: why i...

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Splitting Heirs: Giving Your Money and Things to Your Children Without Ruining Their Lives - Paperback

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by Ron Blue (Author), Jeremy White (Contribution by)The financial wealth you leave behind could be the best thing that ever happened to your loved ones--or the worst. By approaching these important topics with clarity, conviction, and a little bit of humor, financial advisor Ron Blue explains why it is important to make these decisions now, instead of forcing your heirs to do it later. Even if your nest egg is small, it can have a huge impact on the next generation. With practical tips, tools...

Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues - Paperback

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by David Mamet (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, here is a collection of thirty-two one-act plays and short dramatic pieces that David Mamet himself considers to be some of the best writing he has ever done. In this single volume are all seven plays that makeup Vermont Sketches, which Frank Rich of The New York Times has called 'remarkable . . . as terrifying as a stranglehold." Here also are the six plays that The Blue Hour, The Spanish Prisoner, and Gold...

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Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press - Hardcover

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by Gordon Morris Bakken (Author), Brenda Farrington (Author)The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 to 1958. The fascinating details of these murder trials, documented in court records and embellished newspaper coverage, mirrored the chan...

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Called to Justice: The Life of a Federal Trial Judge - Hardcover

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by Warren K. Urbom (Author), William Jay Riley (Foreword by)Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. In Called to Justice Urbom provides the first behind-the-scenes look at what quickly became one of the most significant series of federal trials of the twentieth century. Yet Woun...

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town - Paperback

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by Jon Krakauer (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A devastating exposé of colleges and local law enforcement.... A substantive deep dive into the morass of campus sex crimes, where the victim is too often treated like the accused." --Entertainment Weekly Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the ...

Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture - Paperback

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by William P. MacNeil (Author)This is a book about jurisprudence--or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are--to say the least--unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Legally Blonde, and others are referenced as instances of what the author calls lex populi--"pop law". Here, however, issues of legal philosophy are heavily coded, for few of these pop cultural texts announce themselves as expressly legal. Lex Populi reads these texts "jurisp...

Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice - Paperback

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by Neil J. Diamant (Editor), Stanley B. Lubman (Editor), Kevin J. O'Brien (Editor)This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the individual chapters attempt, for the first time, to bring to bear on the study of Chinese law the law-and-society scholarship that has enriched Western legal studies.Author BiographyNeil J. Diamant is Associate Professor ...

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by Austin Sarat (Editor), Lawrence Douglas (Editor), Martha Merrill Umphrey (Editor)This collection brings together well-established scholars to examine the limits of law, a topic that has been of broad interest since the events of 9/11 and the responses of U.S. law and policy to those events. The limiting conditions explored in this volume include marking law's relationship to acts of terror, states of emergency, gestures of surrender, payments of reparations, offers of amnesty, and invocati...

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by Bruce Allyn Findlay (Author), Esther Blair Findlay (Author)When Your Rugged Constitution was first published, Harry S Truman was President. It quickly became a go-to resource for generations of young Americans (and some older ones too) who wanted to understand the guiding principles of our nation. Now in reissue, this truly rugged and much-admired classic is sure to inform, and also delight readers with its retro 1950s ethos. Your Rugged Constitution proceeds through the text of the Consti...

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by Neil Maccormick (Author)In this substantially revised second edition, Neil MacCormick delivers a clear and current introduction to the life and works of H.L.A. Hart, noted Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University from 1952 to 1968. Hart established a worldwide reputation through his powerful philosophical arguments and writings in favor of liberalizing criminal law and applying humane principles to punishment. This book demonstrates that Hart also made important contributions to an...

Legal Realism Regained: Saving Realism from Critical Acclaim - Hardcover

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by Wouter De Been (Author)Legal Realism Regained presents a comparison between the legal realists, a group of pragmatic legal theorists from the 1920s and 1930s, and critical legal studies, a movement of postmodern legal theory during the end of the twentieth century. The book argues for a return to legal realism and the classical pragmatism of John Dewey and William James and for a rejection of the postmodern critique of critical legal studies. It discusses the two movements with respect to ...

Shaping the Common Law: From Glanvill to Hale, 1188-1688 - Hardcover

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by Thomas Garden Barnes (Author), Allen D. Boyer (Editor)In a series of fifteen vivid essays, this book discusses the contributions of great common-law jurists and singular documents-namely the Magna Carta and the Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts-that have shaped common law, from its origins in twelfth-century England to its arrival in the American colonies. Featured jurists include such widely recognized figures as Glanvill, Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Coke, and John Selden, as well as less...

Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a New Century: How Terrorism, Governments, and Culture Wars Impact Free Speech - Paperback

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by Evan Gerstmann (Editor), Matthew J. Streb (Editor), David M. Rabban (Introduction by)This volume explores the state of academic freedom in the United States and abroad. What impact have the attacks of September 11th and the ensuing war on terrorism had on free speech, access to information, government funding of the sciences, and other cornerstones of freedom of inquiry at American universities? How has the renewed emphasis on patriotism affected the "culture wars" that aroused so much con...

Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law - Hardcover

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by Jason Mazzone (Author)Intellectual property law in the United States does not work well and it needs to be reformed-but not for the reasons given by most critics. The issue is not that intellectual property rights are too easily obtained, too broad in scope, and too long in duration. Rather, the primary problem is overreaching by publishers, producers, artists, and others who abuse intellectual property law by claiming stronger rights than the law actually gives them. From copyfraud-like p...

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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age - Paperback

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by Kevin Boyle (Author)An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto...

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Law in the Western United States, Volume 6 - Hardcover

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by Gordon Morris Bakken (Author)In this volume, Gordon Morris Bakken traces the distinctive development of western legal history. The contributors' essays provide succinct descriptions of major cases, legislation, and individual western states' constitutional provisions that are unique in the American legal system. To assist the reader, the volume is organized by subject, including natural resources, municipal authority, business regulation, American Indian sovereignty and water rights, women...

Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist Volume 10 - Hardcover

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by Amina Hassan (Author) Loren Miller was one of the nation's most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions effectively abolished racially restrictive housing covenants. One of these cases, Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), is taught in nearly every American law school today. Later, th...

Indiana Land Entries. Volume I: Cincinnati District, 1801-1840 - Paperback

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by Margaret R. Waters (Author)Prior to the original appearance of this work in 1948, the land records for Indiana had never been published, copied, or indexed by name, and unless you knew the exact location of the land on which your ancestors settled, the records were impossible to use. So in 1948 professional genealogist Margaret R. Waters copied and published the records to enable researchers to determine if an ancestor did locate in Indiana, and if so, where and when. The records copied he...

Ages from Court Records, 1636-1700. Volume I: Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk Counties, Massachusetts - Paperback

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by Melinde Lutz Sanborn (Author)From thousands of court cases in Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk Counties, Massachusetts, dating from 1636 to 1700, Melinde Sanborn has extracted the names of all deponents and witnesses whose ages are given in the court records of those counties. Depositions provided in early court records are among the richest sources of personal information surviving from New England's first century, and Ms. Sanborn argues that "so many people in early New England were deponen...

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The Erosion of Tribal Power: The Supreme Court's Silent Revolution - Hardcover

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by Dewi Ioan Ball (Author) For the past 180 years, the inherent power of indigenous tribes to govern themselves has been a central tenet of federal Indian law. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's repeated confirmation of Native sovereignty since the early 1830s, it has, in the past half-century, incrementally curtailed the power of tribes to govern non-Indians on Indian reservations. The result, Dewi Ioan Ball argues, has been a "silent revolution," mounted by particular justices so gradually an...

North American Wills Registered in London, 1611-1857 - Paperback

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by Peter Wilson Coldham (Author)Although The National Archives (TNA) in London has published digitized copies of all Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) wills on their website, a difficulty remains in that the movement of emigrants between two continents and within their chosen destination--coupled with a wide variation in spelling--can obscure their true identity and place of residence. Dr. David Dobson has written this is a completely revised and comprehensive edition of his book "America...

Peyote vs. the State: Religious Freedom on Trial - Paperback

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by Garrett Epps (Author)The story of the constitutional showdown over Native Americans' religious use of peyote With the grace of a novel, this book chronicles the six-year duel between two remarkable men with different visions of religious freedom in America. Neither sought the conflict. Al Smith, a substance-abuse counselor to Native Americans, wanted only to earn a living. Dave Frohnmayer, the attorney general of Oregon, was planning his gubernatorial campaign and seeking care for his des...

Diminishing the Bill of Rights, Volume 3: Barron V. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty - Hardcover

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by William Davenport Mercer (Author) The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig sued the city for damages after Baltimore's rebuilt drainage system diverted water and sediment into the harbor, preventing large ships from tying up at Barron and Craig's wharf. By the time the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1833, the issue had become whether the city's actions constituted a taking of pro...

Original Patentees of Land at Washington Prior to 1700 - Paperback

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by Bessie Wilmarth Gahn (Author)Originally published in 1936, this book is an important contribution to the early history of Washington, D.C., the land for which was taken from Virginia and Maryland in 1791.The most important section of the book, Part II, is devoted to a description of the eighteen original plantations, with histories of the owners and their families, including considerable biographical and genealogical data on each of them. Even more valuable in this section is a list of all...

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Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers, Selected Trial Records and Aftermath - Hardcover

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by Richard E. Turley (Editor), Janiece L. Johnson (Editor), Lajean Purcell Carruth (Editor)On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote region of southwestern Utah. Within weeks, news of the atrocity spread across the United States. But it took until 1874--seventeen years later--before a grand jury finally issued indictments against nine of the perpetrators. Mountain Meadows Massacre chronicles...

Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790: Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania Prior to 1790 - Paperback

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by John B. Linn (Editor), William H. Egle (Editor)Among the laws agreed upon in England for the governing of the Province of Pennsylvania was one providing for a registry of marriages, births, and deaths. Marriage licenses were issued from the Office of the Provincial Secretary, those listed in this work dating from 1742. Some earlier registers of licenses and some kept at a later date are missing, yet this work still features a base list of 6,500 marriages, to which we have added a further 3...

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Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal - Paperback

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by Aviva Chomsky (Author)A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American--revealing the ever-shifting nature of status in the U.S.--in this "impassioned and well-reported case for change (New York Times) In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how "illegality" and "undocumentedness" are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Ameri...

Hanover County Chancery Wills and Notes - Paperback

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by William Ronald Cocke (Author)Hanover County, Virginia was erected from New Kent in 1720, which itself had been formed from York County in 1654. (In 1742 Hanover lost that portion now embraced by Louisa County.) Most of the records of the Hanover County Court were destroyed at the end of the Civil War, which is why those that did survive, the subject of this book, are of the utmost importance. Confining itself to Chancery Wills and Notes, this work consists of copies or abstracts of bills a...

English Estates of American Colonists. American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1700-1799 - Paperback

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by Peter Wilson Coldham (Author)The aim of this volume is to present the genealogist with a comprehensive set of abstracts to the wills and grants of administration registered in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) between 1700 and 1799 and relating to Americans who left estates in England. Number of Pages: 154 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 16, 2012

Abstracts of Wills, Inventories...Frederick Co., Va (An Improved) - Paperback

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by Junie Estelle Stewart King (Author)The probate records which comprise the bulk of this work cover the period 1743 to 1800 (Will Books I through V). Data provided in the abstracts include the name of the testator, dates of instrument and probate, names of spouse, children and other family members, names of executors and witnesses, and detailed references to the disposition of the estate. Also includes the Rent Roll of 1746, cemetery inscriptions (Winchester), a brief list of survey warrants...