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What's Mine Is Mine, What's Yours Is Mine: The Usfspa an Illegal Law a Crime Against Veterans - Paperback

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by Andrew Anthony Bufalo (Author)The Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act is a law which divides the retainer pay of military retirees with former spouses for life, without regard to fault, merit or need. If you are affected by this law you need to understand how it was passed in direct contradiction of a U. S. Supreme Court ruling, and learn what you can do to fight for its modification and/or repeal. If you are married and contemplating a military career, or in the military and ...

$olo Contendere: How to Go Directly from Law School into the Practice of Law - Without Getting a Job - Paperback

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by Marc D. Garfinkle Esq (Author)"Lawyers don't need jobs. All we really need is work - we need clients to pay us for what we do." Writing for disillusioned new attorneys in a shrinking marketplace, law professor and trial attorney Marc Garfinkle shows how a newly admitted attorney can go into practice without any experience. Preaching a gospel of defensive practice, he offers warnings, tips, tricks of the trade, and some of those things that "all lawyers know." "Know your stuff and know your...

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by Edith a. Costanza (Author)Regrouping After Job Loss is a working guide that will: Show you how to gather your spiritiual, emotional, intellectual and physical resources; Encourage you to identify your own particular set of skills and qualities; Identify a variety of techniques to jumpstart your job search; Create pathways where your skills and qualities might transfer into a familiar type of work, or morph into something new; Help you structure and devote the time necessary to reflect upon...

The Minnesota Cabin Planning Guide & Workbook - Paperback

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by Kimberly M. Hanlon (Author)What will happen with your cabin after you're gone? In an ideal world, when you died you would give the cabin to your family and they would naturally work out among themselves who was going to be there when, how the bills were going to get paid, and how the upkeep was going to be managed. Even among family members that get along well, there's a ton of small, and not so small, disagreements that can arise when people have shared use and shared responsibility for a...

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by Marc J. Seifer (Author), Stephen Rosati (With)Stephen Rosati had it all. A former Mr. Rhode Island and owner of a posh health club, Stephen was the son of real estate mogul Carl Rosati. On an average September day, Stephen's world was shattered when a Rhode Island state trooper arrested him for the murder of a drug dealer named Joe Viscido, Jr., in Florida four years earlier. Though Stephen could prove he was 1,500 miles away at the time of the murder, Peter Dallas admitted to the crime an...

The Supreme Court vs. The Constitution: You don't have to be a lawyer to understand how Supreme Court Justices have recently substituted their own eli - Paperback

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by Gerald Walpin (Author)They're on a "rampage," writes Gerald Walpin, one of the country's top litigators, in his astonishing new book, The Supreme Court Vs. The Constitution. And it takes just five of them to lay waste to the rights of 300 million Americans. A mostly bare majority of justices of the United States Supreme Court, the only judicial body enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, have spent recent decades reversing, revoking and rescinding the fundamental guarantees of that sacred...

Hacking the LSAT: Full Explanations for Lsats 29-38 (Volume I: Lsats 29-33) - Paperback

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by Graeme Blake (Author)Hacking The LSAT is the first book to offer good, easy to read explanations for every LSAT in the Next Ten Actual Official LSATs (LSATs 29-38). Often, there are LSAT questions you just can't figure out. This book helps you read the minds of the test-writers, and see why each answer is right or wrong. You'll also find step by step diagrams for every Logic Game, and you'll see the conclusion and reasoning every argument in the Logical Reasoning Section. Whether you are a...

Practice Energy Healing in Integrity: The Joy of Offering Your Gifts Legally & Ethically - Paperback

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by Midge Murphy (Author)Recognized as the gold standard in ethics, legal issues and risk management strategies for practitioners of energy healing methods! Practice Energy Healing in Integrity continues to be an essential resource and reference guide for all practitioners who use energy healing methods. Energy healing methods are considered experimental by the mainstream health care industry, the legal system, licensing boards, and regulatory agencies. Consequently, practitioners who use thes...

Beyond Federation: Options to Renew Australia's 1901 Constitution - Paperback

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by Klaas Woldring (Editor)Australia has been a federation for more than a hundred years, and an independent country for more than seventy. But its system of government is still based on political compromises thrashed out in the late nineteenth century. In particular, the division of power between national and state governments is dysfunctional, irrelevant to the twenty-first century, and it costs us many billions of dollars every year. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN Publicat...

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Shadow Courts: The Tribunals That Rule Global Trade - Paperback

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by Haley Sweetland Edwards (Author)A detailed look at one little-known but powerful provision in most modern trade agreements. International trade deals have become vastly complex documents, seeking to govern everything from labor rights to environmental protections. This evolution has drawn alarm from American voters, but their suspicions are often vague. In this book, investigative journalist Haley Sweetland Edwards focuses on one crucial aspect of these massive agreements: a powerful pro...

Identity Theft Do's & Don'ts What You Need to Know Now What? - Paperback

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by Scott a. Merritt (Author)Identity theft strikes people from all walks of life...with devastating effects. Based on the author's true story, this book provides detailed guidance to recapture your identity and take your life back. It is packed with invaluable tools for correcting errors on your credit report. Personal credit is the first "brick" in your house of financial success. Learn how to protect it. #4 in addition to the code listed the two remaining codes are as follows 013000 and 020...

The Federalist: Excerpts with Commentary - Paperback

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by Roderick Saxey (Author)THE FEDERALIST PAPERS were a series of newspaper articles published by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay to persuade the citizens of 1787 and 1788 to vote for the newly proposed Constitution upon which our American government is based. They were so well done that Thomas Jefferson called them "The best commentary on the principles of government ever written." Despite the passage of years, the founders' insights are as fresh as the latest headlines and deal with such topics a...

Divorced, Bigamist, Bereaved? The Family Historian's Guide to Marital Breakdown, Separation, Widowhood, and Remarriage: from 1600 to the 1970s - Paperback

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by Rebecca Probert (Author)Most of our ancestors were wed only once, and after the death of a spouse did not remarry. Yet every family tree has individuals whose lives did not fit that pattern: a minority of the bereaved chose to take a second or even a third spouse, and with some marriages breaking down and divorce increasingly an option there were always bigamists and divorcees ready to find a new partner. In this follow-up to the bestselling Marriage Law for Genealogists, Rebecca Probert e...

How To Represent Yourself In Criminal Court - Paperback

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by Douglas Page (Author)How To Represent Yourself In Criminal Court is a practical guide for anyone facing representing themselves in court. With extremely clear guidelines and numerous step-by-step examples, this book will lead you through all stages of the criminal process in England & Wales from arrest to sentencing. Representing yourself in court can be a daunting and complex process. Putting legal jargon into plain English, and demystifying the process, you will learn what to expect ...

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Child Rights & Remedies: How the Us Legal System Affects Children - Paperback

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by Robert C. Fellmeth (Author), Jessica K. Heldman (Author)Child Rights and Remedies provides a comprehensive examination of how United States law and policy affects the lives and futures of children. This law school text covers a broad spectrum of major cases, statutes, and relevant empirical evidence that illustrate how children are faring in light of how our legal and political systems function. Uniquely among juvenile law texts, Child Rights and Remedies begins by delving into the underly...

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The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age - Paperback

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by Tim Wu (Author)From the man who coined the term "net neutrality," comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future. We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms--big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the "curse of bigness" can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers ...

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Today's Civil Rights and Liberties Issues: Democrats and Republicans - Hardcover

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by Kara E. Stooksbury (Author)This indispensable, one-stop resource examines where Democrats and Republicans stand on current civil rights and civil liberties issues related to voting, free speech, abortion and reproductive rights, guns, and other hot button topics. Both the Democratic and Republican parties claim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart, and they are equally adamant that they have the best policy solutions to address the nation's problems and ...

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Twilight of the American State - Paperback

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by Pierre Schlag (Author)The sudden emergence of the Trump nation surprised nearly everyone, including journalists, pundits, political consultants, and academics. When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke. Yet time showed it was instead the rise of a movement--angry, militant, revanchist, and unabashedly authoritarian. How did this happen? Twilight of the American State offers a sweeping exploration of how law and legal institutions helped prepare the grounds for th...

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by Ch (Author)In this unique book Lord Woolf recounts his remarkable career and provides a personal and honest perspective on the most important developments in the common law over the last half century. The book opens with a comprehensive description of his family background, which was very influential on his later life, starting with the arrival of his grandparents as Jewish immigrants to England in 1870. His recollections of his early years and family, education and life as a student lead ...

The Lawyer's Guide to Business Ethics - Paperback

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by Keith William Diener (Author)Legal practice is both a profession and, increasingly, a business. Lawyers are routinely confronted with a complex set of ethical questions due to the adversarial nature of legal practice and justice, and at the same time handle relationships with different stakeholders within their own practice, including clients, partners, and managers. This presents a unique set of challenges that are not experienced in other professions. This book provides a framework to gu...

The Reparable and the Irreparable: Being Human in the Age of Vulnerability - Hardcover

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by Johann Michel (Author)Since the mid-twentieth century, Western societies have seen an unprecedented increase in movements, demands, and policies in favor of reparations. The historical catastrophes that shook the last century are both the immediate origin of this groundswell and its founding paradigm. The Reparable and the Irreparable: Being Human in the Age of Vulnerability places reparation within a wider contemporary context and describes it in its full anthropological depth. Repair is ...

Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War - Paperback

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by Frances Butler (Author)"One of the most valuable contributions yet made to our knowledge of the state of the South." - Saturday Review Frances Butler Leigh (1838-1910) was the daughter of Pierce Mease Butler and famous English actress Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, who owned cotton, tobacco and rice plantations on Butler Island, among the largest in Georgia, just south of Darien, Georgia, and the hundreds of slaves who worked them. The family visited Georgia during the winter of 1838-39, w...

Intersections Between Corporate and Antitrust Law - Hardcover

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by Marco Corradi (Editor), Julian Nowag (Editor)Recent public debate on common ownership by institutional investors has brought awareness to one of the many intersections between the corporate and antitrust worlds. But the interplay between these two fields dates back to the dawn of US antitrust. This volume shines a light on the often underplayed and misunderstood connections between antitrust and corporate law and finance. It offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on highly trending issues...

Gunnery And Explosives For Field Artillery Officers (1911) - Paperback

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by United States General Staff Corps (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions...

The Law and Economics of Cybersecurity - Paperback

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by Mark F. Grady (Editor), Francesco Parisi (Editor)Cybersecurity is a leading national problem for which the market may fail to produce a solution because individuals often select less than optimal security levels in a world of positive transaction costs. The problem is compounded because the insecure networks extend far beyond the regulatory jurisdiction of any one nation or even coalition of nations. This book brings together the views of leading law and economics scholars on the nature of...

Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics - Paperback

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by Mark D. White (Editor)The economic approach to law, or "law and economics," is by far the most successful application of basic economic principles to another scholarly field, but most of the critical appraisal of the field has been scattered among law reviews and economics journals. Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics is the first original, book-length examination of the methodology and philosophy of law and economics, featuring new essays written by leading legal scholars, philos...

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by Lisa Schur (Author), Douglas Kruse (Author), Peter Blanck (Author)To what extent are people with disabilities fully included in economic, political, and social life? People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma, and discrimination, but have made impressive gains in the past several decades. These gains include the passage of major civil rights legislation and the adoption of the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This book provides an ...

Principle and Policy in Contract Law - Paperback

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by Stephen Waddams (Author)Although presented as being derived from the past, principles in contract law have been subject to constant reformulation, thereby facilitating legal change while simultaneously seeming to preclude it. Principle and policy have been mutually interdependent, propositions not usually being called principles unless they have been perceived to lead to just results in particular cases, and as likely to produce results in future cases that accord with common sense, commer...

The Challenge of Originalism: Theories of Constitutional Interpretation - Paperback

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by Grant Huscroft (Editor), Bradley W. Miller (Editor)Originalism is a force to be reckoned with in constitutional interpretation. At one time a monolithic theory of constitutional interpretation, contemporary originalism has developed into a sophisticated family of theories about how to interpret and reason with a constitution. Contemporary originalists harness the resources of linguistic, moral, and political philosophy to propose methodologies for the interpretation of constitutional texts...

Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in International Trade - Paperback

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by Kyle W. Bagwell (Editor), George A. Bermann (Editor), Petros C. Mavroidis (Editor)The book discusses the regulatory framework of contingent protection in the World Trade Organization - antidumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards - as well as an economic analysis of these instruments. The book's various chapters illuminate the basic functioning of all three. Number of Pages: 434 Dimensions: 0.97 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2014

Proportionality and the Rule of Law - Paperback

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by Grant Huscroft (Editor), Bradley W. Miller (Editor), Gregoire Webber (Editor)To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence of treaty-based legal systems such as the European Convention on Human Rights. Proportionality provides a common anal...

Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America: Effected by the Officers of the Hudson's Bay Company During the Years 1836 1839 - Paperback

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by Thomas Simpson (Author)In 1829, Thomas Simpson (1808-1840), born in Dingwall, Scotland, joined the fur-trading Hudson's Bay Company. Under its auspices, he was the junior officer of a successful survey expedition along the North-West Passage, beyond the limits of Franklin's disastrous 1819-22 attempt. The Royal Geographical Society awarded Simpson their Founder's Medal; however the Company refused his request immediately to lead an expedition further east along the coast. Simpson, ambitiou...