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Alternative Dispute Resolution in Civil Justice Systems |
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Roger E. Hartley |
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Studying a single court system in Georgia, Hartley examines the effect of mediation
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Congressional Participation as Amicus Curiae before the U.S. Supreme Court |
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Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan |
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Scourfield McLauchlan studies the methods and implications of the growing Congressional
participation in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.More...
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The Corporate Free-Speech Movement: Cognitive Feudalism and the Endangered Marketplace of Ideas |
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Robert L. Kerr |
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Kerr examines the historical development of the corporate free-speech movement and its role in shaping the latter decades of the twentieth century into what he describes as an age of cognitive feudalism.More...
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Courts as Policymakers: School Finance Reform Litigation |
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Anna Lukemeyer |
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Exploring how judges play an important role in developing school funding policies,
Lukemeyer examines the role of policy issues in legal decision-making on school
finance suits. More...
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The Development Dilemma: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights in the
International System
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Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. |
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Ostergard demonstrates that the expansion of international property rights protection
in developing countries results from a response to external political pressure and
not from a concern for economic growth.
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Equal Educational Opportunity: Brown's Elusive Mandate |
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Mary F. Ehrlander |
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Ehrlander traces the failure of the Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board
of Education to effect desegregation in American schools and to create genuine
equal opportunity. More...
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Experts in Civil Cases: An Inside View |
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Fred Prichard |
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Prichard's work explores the partnership between expert witnesses and attorneys in defining
product liability cases. More...
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Faith, Reason, and Consent: Legislating Morality in Early American States |
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Wm. G. Miller |
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Americans commonly insist that government should not "legislate morality." The early American state founders, revolutionaries known for their commitment to liberty, were equally concerned about what kind of morality both should and should not be legislated. More...
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Federal Dataveillance: Implications for Constitutional Privacy Protections |
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Martin Kuhn |
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Kuhn explains how new data technologies, particularly knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) applications, will force courts to reconceptualize constitutional privacy rights. More...
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From Winning Elections to Influencing Policy: The Electoral-Policy Link for Minority Voters |
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Liza Abram Benham |
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Democrats have worried about a voting minority under majority rule. Even as Americans have gained more influence over election results, questions persist about which voters exert influence, and how. More...
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Human Rights Litigation Promoting International Law in U.S. Courts |
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Ying-Jen Lo |
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Lo studies the influence of human rights activists on American courts and charts an agenda for the activists' future work.
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Initiative and Referendum Voting: Governing Through Direct Democracy in the United States |
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Rich Braunstein |
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Braunstein�s work challenges the perception that direct democracy is hostage to special
interests, professional consultants, and governing elites.
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Journalism Ethics by Court Decree: The Supreme Court on the Proper Practice of Journalism |
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John C. Watson |
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Watson concludes that journalism practice is guided and defined by law and ethics. More...
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Lawyers and Immigrants, 1870-1940: A Cultural History |
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Louis Anthes |
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Anthes' work uncovers the legal strategies of immigrants in New York between 1870 and
1940 and their often conflicted relationship with the established legal community.
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Learned in the Law and Politics: The Office of the Solicitor General and Executive Power |
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Peter N. Ubertaccio III |
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Ubertaccio documents the creation, growth, and significance of the Office of the Solicitor General.
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Libel Law, Political Criticism, and Defamation of Public Figures: The United States, Europe, and Australia |
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Peter N. Amponsah |
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Amponsah argues that political defamation laws in the United States, Europe and Australia are converging. In each area
political speech is privileged by reference to liberal ideals, the marketplace of ideas,
self-fulfillment, and democratic principles.
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Liberty and Authority in Free Expression Law: The United States and Canada |
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Karla K. Gower |
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Gower studies the degree of freedom of speech accorded individuals in relationship
to society's concept of the relationship between the individual, society as a whole,
and the state. More...
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News Piracy and The Hot News Doctrine: Origins in Law and Implications for the Digital Age
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Victoria Smith Ekstrand |
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Ekstrand explores the legal protections for the newsman�s scoop, the hot news doctrine.
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Perspectives on Disability, Discrimination, Accommodations, and Law: A Comparison of the
Canadian and American Experience |
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Wayne Thomas Oakes |
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Oakes compares disability discrimination laws in Canada and the United States, underscoring
the limitations of current U.S. law and the broader basis of Canadian legal practice.
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The Preeminence of Politics: Executive Orders from Eisenhower to Clinton |
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Ricardo Jose Pereira Rodrigues |
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Rodrigues finds that Presidents do not have complete freedom in issuing executive orders and usually stay within the confines of Congressional intent.
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Race, Law, and the Desegregation of Public Schools |
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Peter William Moran |
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Using Kansas City, Missouri, as a case study, Moran considers the full spectrum of social,
political, legal, and economic factors affecting school desegregation over a 50-year period
and draws conclusions for the nation as a whole.
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Resistance to Public School Desegregation: Little Rock, Arkansas, and Beyond |
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Frances Lisa Baer |
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The Supreme Court's Brown rulings in 1954 and 1955 gave rise to a program of "massive resistance" in the American South that included the resurrection of the doctrine of interposition.
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Sorting Out Deregulation: Protecting Free Speech and Internet Access in The United States, Germany, and Japan
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Jae-Young Kim |
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As governments juggle their role in the market with the demands of universal service
and free speech, they find the limits of deregulation and that their goals demand an
activist role for governmentMore...
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A Theory of Direct Legislation
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Harel Arnon |
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Arnon offers a coherent legal theory to direct legislation, a.k.a. initiatives, in the United States.More...
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This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: The Property Rights Movement and
Regulatory Takings |
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Alfred M. Olivetti, Jr., and Jeff Worsham |
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Olivetti and Worsham explore the legal and legislative efforts of the property
rights movement to oppose governmental regulatory taking, in particular those
motivated by environmental protection and land conservation policy.
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Unhealed Wounds: Medical Malpractice in the Twentieth Century |
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Neal C. Hogan |
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Hogan explores the roles of juries, courts, physicians, hospitals, medical societies,
insurance firms, and legislators in developing medical malpractice law during the 20th
century.More...
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The United States and the United Nations: Congressional Funding and U.N. Reform |
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Benn L. Bongang |
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Bongang reveals that the United States Congress determined the content of United Nations through a coercive funding strategy including withholding dues until reforms were implemented.More...
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Universal Human Rights: Origins and Development |
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Stephen James |
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James offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the origins and development of universal human rights from the earliest days to 1966, when the Covenants were added to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. More...
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Women's Rights in Native North America: Legal Mobilization in the U.S. and Canada |
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Judith H. Aks |
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Indigenous women have great difficulty making political and legal claims. Available strategies
speak only to their indigenous identity or their gender, but not to both simultaneously. This
book urges legal scholars to interrogate the problematic of intersectional power, or the
combined effects of race and gender domination. More...
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