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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Hardcover

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by Bryan Stevenson (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. " Bryan Stevenson's] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and made a lasting impact on our country."--John Legend NAMED ONE OF THE MOS...

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by Irwin Berent (Author)Should drugs be legalized? This collection gives both sides of the argument, with 24 selected articles by 23 well-known participants in the great debate. All the relevant issues are covered, including: comparisons with legal drugs like alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine; law enforcement problems, addiction rates; moral dilemmas, and the results of practical experience with Prohibition and other anti-drug policies. Number of Pages: 331 Dimensions: 0.98 x 8.93 x 5.99 IN Pub...

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Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property - Paperback

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by David R. Koepsell (Author)Is software a creation to be patented, like an invented machine or process, or an original expression to be copyrighted, like drawings and books? This distinction is artificial, argues Koepsell, and is responsible for the growing legal problems related to intellectual property law. Computer-mediated objects are no different from books, songs, or machines and do not require any special treatment by the law. The author suggests revisions to the legal framework itsel...

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No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement - Paperback

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by Joseph P. Shapiro (Author)Now available in paperback and the winner of numerous awards, this is the first popular history of the disability rights movement. Includes conversations with couragous people who fight for freedom of movement, meaningful employment, and a life of dignity and promise.Front JacketPeople with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.Author BiographyJoseph P. Shapiro is an award-winning journalist who is an NPR news investigations...

The Coutumes de Beauvaisis of Philippe de Beaumanoir - Hardcover

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by Philippe de Beaumanoir (Author), F. R. P. Akehurst (Translator)F. R. P. Akehurst provides the first English translation of the complete text of Coutumes, the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region as it was practiced and understood in the late thirteenth century. The Coutumes de Beauvaisis provides a unique perspective on thirteenth-century civil and criminal trials.Author BiographyF. R. P. Akehurst is Professor of French at the University of Minnesota and translator of The Etabl...

The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales - Hardcover

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by Robin Chapman Stacey (Author)Examines the institution of personal suretyship through the remarkable rich sources extant from medieval Ireland and Wales.Author BiographyRobin Chapman Stacey is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Number of Pages: 368 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 29, 1994

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by Nelson L. Dawson (Editor)Louis D. Brandeis is a figure of perennial significance in American history. Brilliant lawyer, innovative reformer, seminal thinker, and judicial giant, he left few significant issues in American society untouched during the course of his long and productive career. The last several decades have been particularly rich in Brandeis historiography, creating the need for a work surveying current scholarship and addressing critical issues. Brandeis and America more than...

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America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System - Paperback

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by Steven Brill (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "A tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking."--The New York Times America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare ind...

State Crime: Current Perspectives - Paperback

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by Dawn Rothe (Editor), Christopher Mullins (Editor), M. Cherif Bassiouni (Introduction by)Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For the past two decades, scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be done to reduce or prevent these injustices. Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Cr...

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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street - Paperback

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by Matt Taibbi (Author)A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police--from the bestselling author of The Divide NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has been described as an illegal chokehold during an arrest for selling bo...

Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic - Paperback

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by Emily Russell (Author)Liberal individualism, a foundational concept of American politics, assumes an essentially homogeneous population of independent citizens. When confronted with physical disability and the contradiction of seemingly unruly bodies, however, the public searches for a story that can make sense of the difference. The narrative that ensues makes "abnormality" an important part of the dialogue about what a genuine citizen is, though its role is concealed as an exception to t...

Sponsors at Baptism According to the Code of Canon Law - Hardcover

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by Richard Kearney (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infertili...

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by Joseph Quigley (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infertilit...

The Canonical Status of the Orientals in the United States - Hardcover

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by John A. Duskie (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infertilit...

The Approbation of Religious Institutes - Hardcover

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by Clement Raymond Orth (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infe...

Presumptions of Law in Marriage Cases - Hardcover

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by John Joseph Manning (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infer...

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by Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and i...

Canonical Limitations on the Alienation of Church Property - Hardcover

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by Joseph F. Cleary (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infertil...

Supplied Jurisdiction According to Canon 209 - Hardcover

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by Francis Sigismund Miaskiewicz (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication,...

The Concept of Clerical Immunity - Hardcover

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by John Emmanuel Downs (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infer...

Contracts Between Bishops and Religious Congregations - Hardcover

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by Timothy Lynch (Author)CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommunication, and infertility...

The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators - Paperback

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by Edward Steers (Editor)On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in what he envisioned part of a scheme to plunge the federal government into chaos and gain a reprieve for the struggling Confederacy. The plan failed. By April 26, Booth was killed resisting capture and eight of the nine conspirators eventually charged in Lincoln's murder were in custody. Their trial would become one of the most famous and most controversial in U.S. history. New ...

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The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer - Paperback

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by Michael Meltsner (Author)"It was not until I arrived at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund that I learned my profession, how to work with colleagues and clients, and how it might feel to grow up in the law." So begins Michael Meltsner's vivid account of how as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of death row inmates he became such a deeply involved activist in the civil rights movement. Part memoir and part critical ...

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Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision Making - Paperback

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by Virginia A. Hettinger (Author), Stefanie A. Lindquist (Author), Wendy L. Martinek (Author)in the professional world as a starting point for collaboration; rather than leaving decisions to just one person, dissent offers the opportunity to rethink or reinvent an idea, leading, one hopes, to a better result. When dissensus occurs in a federal court, however, it raises the question of whether this difference of opinion maintains the integrity of the judiciary or undermines its legitimacy. In ...

Violence Against Women in Kentucky: A History of U.S. and State Legislative Reform - Hardcover

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by Carol E. Jordan (Author)For more than two centuries, Kentucky women have fought for the right to vote, own property, control their wages, and be safe at home and in the workplace. Tragically, many of these women's voices have been silenced by abuse and violence. In Violence against Women in Kentucky: A History of U.S. and State Legislative Reform, Carol E. Jordan chronicles the stories of those who have led the legislative fight for the last four decades to protect women from domestic viol...

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The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community - Hardcover

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by Kevin T. McGuire (Author)Who represents litigants in the Supreme Court of the United States? Kevin T. McGuire shows that the most sophisticated of them have the advantage of representation by an elite counsel made up of former clerks to the justices, alumni of the Office of the Solicitor General, partners in powerful Washington law firms, and public interest lawyers, all of whom serve as gatekeepers to the Court.In this study, the first to characterize the bar of the Supreme Court as a who...

The View from the Bench and Chambers: Examining Judicial Process and Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Barnes Bowie (Author), Donald R. Songer (Author), John Szmer (Author)For most of their history, the U.S. courts of appeals have toiled in obscurity, well out of the limelight of political controversy. But as the number of appeals has increased dramatically, while the number of cases heard by the Supreme Court has remained the same, the courts of appeals have become the court of last resort for the vast majority of litigants. This enhanced status has been recognized by important po...

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The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain - Hardcover

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by Marlene Tromp (Author)Sensation novels, a genre characterized by scandalous narratives and emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots, had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s, in the midst of growing concern about codes of behavior in marriage. Largely excluded from the academic canon of the late twentieth century, sensation novels had an impact on Victorian culture that we have only recently begun to evaluate.Exploring the central metaphor of marital violence in th...

The Rights of Women: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Women's Rights, Fourth Edition - Paperback

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by Lenora M. Lapidus (Author), Emily J. Martin (Author), Namita Luthra (Author)The Rights of Women is a comprehensive guide that explains in detail the rights of women under present U.S. law, and how these laws can be used in the continuing struggle to achieve full gender equality at home, in the workplace, at school, and in society at large. The Rights of Women explores the concept of equal protection and covers topics including employment, education, housing, and public accommodations. This...

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Esteemed Bookes of Lawe and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia - Hardcover

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by Warren M. Billings (Editor), Brent Tarter (Editor)Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history of the book and the intellectual history of early America. It also addresses essential questions of how English culture migrated to the American...

Negotiating Justice: Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change - Paperback

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by Corey S. Shdaimah (Author)While many young people become lawyers for the big bucks, others are motivated by the pursuit of social justice, seeking to help people for whom legal services are financially, socially, or politically inaccessible. These progressive lawyers often bring a considerable degree of idealism to their work, and many leave the field due to insurmountable red tape and spiraling disillusionment. But what about those who stay? And what do their clients think? Negotiating Ju...

Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action - Paperback

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by Bryan K. Fair (Author)The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks. In this provocative and important book, Fair, the eighth of ten children born to a single mother on public assistance in an Ohio ghetto, combines two histories--America's and his own- -to of...