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Intellectual Property: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
By Aaron Schwabach
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Publisher:ABC-CLIO
Number Of Pages:318
Publication Date:2007-04-26
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1598840452
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781598840452
Binding:Hardcover
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Summary: A solidly written, accessible and useful guide
Rating: 5
Part of the Contemporary World Issues series, Intellectual Property is an in-depth, no-nonsense reference handbook to the politics, law, and government procedures pertaining to intellectual property. Chapters cover the history of intellectual property as a concept, worldwide perspectives, a chronology, reproductions of key documents such as different copyright and patent laws, a directory of organizations concerning intellectual property, recommended resources, and much more. A solidly written, accessible and useful guide strongly recommended for anyone considering a career in intellectual property realms from writing to inventing.
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The Limits of International Law
By Jack L. Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner
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Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:272
Publication Date:2005-01-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195168399
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195168396
Binding:Hardcover
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International law is much debated and discussed, but poorly understood. Does international law matter, or do states regularly violate it with impunity? If international law is of no importance, then why do states devote so much energy to negotiating treaties and providing legal defenses for their actions? In turn, if international law does matter, why does it reflect the interests of powerful states, why does it change so often, and why are violations of international law usually not punished?
In this book, Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner argue that international law matters but that it is less powerful and less significant than public officials, legal experts, and the media believe. International law, they contend, is simply a product of states pursuing their interests on the international stage. It does not pull states towards compliance contrary to their interests, and the possibilities for what it can achieve are limited. It follows that many global problems are simply unsolvable.
The book has important implications for debates about the role of international law in the foreign policy of the United States and other nations. The authors see international law as an instrument for advancing national policy, but one that is precarious and delicate, constantly changing in unpredictable ways based on non-legal changes in international politics. They believe that efforts to replace international politics with international law rest on unjustified optimism about international law's past accomplishments and present capacities.
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The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review
By Larry D. Kramer
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Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:376
Publication Date:2004-06-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195169182
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195169188
Binding:Hardcover
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The United States Constitution is the foundation of the longest and most successful democratic experiment in modern human history. It serves not only as legal bedrock for the world's most powerful nation-state, but also, more broadly, it reflects that nation's fundamental aspirations and commitments as a society.
Who then has the authority to interpret a blueprint of such extraordinary influence? Americans have come to treat the Constitution as something beyond their competence, something whose meaning should be decided by judges, assisted by a cadre of trained lawyers and academics. Yet this submission to a lawyerly elite is a radical and troublesome departure from what was originally the case. For America's founding generation celebrated the central role of "the people" in supplying government with its energy and direction.
In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and its concept of constitutionalism, Larry Kramer reveals how the first generations of Americans fought for and gave birth to a very different system from our current one and held a very different understanding of citizenship from that of most Americans today. "Popular sovereignty" was more than an empty abstraction, more than a mythic philosophical justification for government, and the idea of "the people" was more than a flip rhetorical gesture to be used on the campaign trail. Ordinary Americans exercised active control and sovereignty over their Constitution. The constitutionality of governmental action met with vigorous public debate in struggles whose outcomes might be greeted with celebratory feasts and bonfires, or with belligerent resistance. The Constitution remained, fundamentally, an act of popular will: the people's charter, made by the people. And it was "the people themselves" who were responsible for seeing that it was properly interpreted and implemented.
With this book, Larry Kramer vaults to the forefront of constitutional theory and interpretation. In the process, he rekindles the original spark of "We, the People," inviting every citizen to join him in reclaiming the Constitution's legacy as, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's words, "a layman's instrument of government" and not "a lawyer's contract."
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Speaking out: Women, poverty, and public policy : proceedings of the twenty-third annual Women's Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Consortium, October 29-31, 1998
Publisher:University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian
Number Of Pages:266
Publication Date:1999
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0967707102
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780967707105
Binding:Unknown Binding
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The Nearest Relative Handbook
By David Hewitt
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Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number Of Pages:191
Publication Date:2007-07-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1843105225
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781843105220
Binding:Paperback
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The Journal of World Intellectual Property Vol.10 (2007)
by Blackwell Publishing (Edited by Professor Daniel Gervais)
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The Journal of World Intellectual Property is the authoritative journal for intellectual property questions in relation to trade and investment, with particular focus on the WTO and TRIPS (the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).
More than any other journal, it discusses in depth all TRIPS-related developments, the decisions on TRIPS rendered by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body, and the efforts made by each country to adjust their legislation to TRIPS requirements. However, it also provides much more, and publishes articles by the best experts on a wide range of subjects, such as antitrust and IP rights, encryption, security and privacy in electronic commerce, patents and the copyright exhaustion doctrine, and parallel imports.
The Journal of World Intellectual Property is a refereed journal.
This volume (Vol.10) contains 6 issues.
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Economic Analysis of Law in China
By Thomas Eger, Michael Faure, Zhang Naigen
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Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages:324
Publication Date:2007-09-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1847200362
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781847200365
Binding:Hardcover
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Book Description:
`This is an extremely valuable collection of essays on modern Chinese law viewed through the lens of the law and economics movement. China is developing very rapidly and law is now understood to provide the essential framework for economic development - provided the law itself is economically rational. The essays in this volume are excellent examples of how economics can be used to clarify and guide the law applicable to the essential dimensions of the economy. I recommend it wholeheartedly and without reservations.'
- Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and University of Chicago Law School, US
`This book brings together important applications of law and economics to China and covers a wide range of issues, including such basic concerns as property rights, intellectual property, and taxation, as well as competition law and corporate and securities law. Because of its breadth of coverage, its focus on the particulars of Chinese law, and the expertise of its scholars - both Western and Chinese - it should serve as a valuable reference work for years to come.'
- Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School, US
`This book is an important step toward a Chinese scholarship in law and economics, written by leading law and economics researchers from China and Europe.'
- Hans-Bernd Schaefer, Universit谩鑤 Hamburg, Germany
`In China everything is different, you cannot apply ordinary economics and the legal framework is idiosyncratic. In the course of time, such statements turned out to be prejudices, and the Eger/ Faure/ Zhang volume makes perfectly clear that, for instance, a law and economics approach can shed new light into the intricacies and complexities of Chinese institutional arrangements. Indeed, China creates new puzzles for economic and legal analysis. On the other hand, however, the Chinese need not invent the wheel anew - and they do not try it. The book shows instances where a sophisticated law and economics approach can help to develop the legal framework which is appropriate for the transition from a planned into a market economy. The Chinese economic system is not (yet) a normal capitalist market economy, neither is the legal system adapted to a normal private property economy. Nevertheless the chapters of the book apply fruitfully law and economics theories and thus prove their general applicability. One of the outstanding achievements of the volume can be seen in the fact that it recruited more than half of its contributors with a Chinese background. They learn eagerly western approaches and they learn fast. And, of course, they have no problems with understanding Chinese culture and society. So the book combines most profitably the look from the outside and the look from within with a common theoretical framework.'
- Hans-J眉rgen Wagener, Europa Universit谩鑤 Viadrina, Germany
This book comprises contributions on recent developments in China from a law and economics perspective. For the first time Chinese and European scholars jointly discuss some important attributes of China's legal and economic system, and some recent problems, from this particular viewpoint.
The authors apply an economic analysis of law not only to general characteristics of China's social order, such as the specific type of federal competition, the efficiency of taxation and regulation, and the importance of informal institutions (Guanxi), but also to distinct areas of Chinese law such as competition policy, professional regulation, corporate governance and capital markets, oil pollution, intellectual property rights and internet games. The contributors discuss to what extent the law and economic models that have so far been employed within the context of developed countries can be applied to a country like China as well. The European scholars use law and economics in order to determine what China could learn from the European experience. The Chinese scholars discuss whether law and economics can be of any use in analysing the particular features of the Chinese legal system today.
Economic Analysis of Law in China will appeal to lawyers, economists and social scientists in China interested in developing legal institutions with an eye on economic efficiency. Scholars generally interested in the economic analysis of law, as well as in the comparison and transition of economic systems, will also find much in this book that will be of interest to them.
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Eu Corporate Law And Eu Company Tax Law (Corporations, Globalisation and the Law)
By Luca Cerioni
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Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing
Number Of Pages:263
Publication Date:2007-07-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1845427742
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781845427740
Binding:Hardcover
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Book Description:
With the European Union striving to become the world's most competitive economy, the developments in the two closely interconnected areas of European corporate law and European company tax law are of utmost importance. This book focuses on the crucial issues raised by these developments, on their far-reaching implications and on the key challenges to the future legislative choices.
The book illustrates the key developments in EU corporate law and EU company tax law, the EU planned initiatives in these areas, and - at a time when member states increasingly tend to use company law and company tax provisions to attract businesses and investments - it suggests how future developments can contribute to the undistorted functioning of the internal market and to the strategic `Lisbon-objective'. The explanation of these legislative and case-law developments is of use to students and indicates new opportunities for business expansion strategies throughout the European Community. The book concludes that new optional, but attractive, EU company law vehicles and company tax regimes would be, in these two areas, the only legal and effective means towards an undistorted functioning of the internal market and towards the Lisbon-objective. This ultimately gives rise to a far-reaching challenge for all debates on the future patterns of European integration. Luca Cerioni introduces new themes for academic research and discussion subjects for decision-makers and at the same time, uniquely, makes these accessible to a much wider international public of students, businesses and practitioners.
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Dictionary of Genocide
By Samuel Totten, Paul R. Bartrop
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Publisher:Greenwood Press
Number Of Pages:576
Publication Date:2007-11-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0313329672
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780313329678
Binding:Hardcover
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Over 600 terms identify and explain the history and suffering of ethnic and religious groups experiencing genocide throughout the world. The people, places, governments, agencies, documents, legal terms, and all other aspects of genocide are defined for new students and scholars alike. *Afghanistan *Amnesty International *Concentration Camps *Conflict Resolution *Darfur *Holocaust *Indonesia *International Criminal Court *Kosovo *Language of Genocide *Rwanda Entries include: BLAfghanistan Genocide BLArmenian Genocide BLUN Definition of Genocide BLThe Great Terror BLHutu Power BLThe Janjaweed BLKim il-sung BLKurdish Genocide in Northern Iraq BLLeopold II, King of the Belgians BLMao Tse-tung BLMass Rape BLMechanisms of Genocide BLMiddle Ages and Genocide BLSlobodan Milosevic BLGenocide of Native Americans BLNazi Ideology BLNuremberg Trials and Principles BLOperation Condor BLPol Pot BLSocial Darwinism BLStolen Generation of Aborigines BLVendean Massacres
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Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive Views
By Margaret Pabst Battin, Erik Luna, Arthur G. Lipman, Paul M. Gahlinger, Douglas E. Rollins
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Publisher:Oxford University Press
Number Of Pages:279
Publication Date:2007-10-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195321014
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195321012
Binding:Paperback
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This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs. Drugs generally fall into one of seven categories: prescription, over the counter, alternative medicine, common-use drugs like alcohol, tobacco and caffeine; religious-use, sports enhancement; and of course illegal street drugs like cocaine and marijuana. Our thinking and policies varies wildly from one to the other, with inconsistencies that derive more from cultural and social values than from medical or scientific facts. Penalties exist for steroid use, while herbal remedies or cold medication are legal. Native Americans may legally use peyote, but others may not. Penalties may vary for using different forms of the same drug, such as crack vs. powder cocaine. Herbal remedies are unregulated by the FDA; but medical marijuana is illegal in most states. Battin and her contributors lay a foundation for a wiser drug policy by promoting consistency and coherency in the discussion of drug issues and by encouraging a unique dialogue across disciplines. The contributors are an interdisciplinary group of scholars mostly based at the University of Utah, and include a pharmacologist, a psychiatrist, a toxicologist, a trial court judge, a law professor, an attorney, a diatary specialist, a physician, a health expert on substance abuse, and Battin herself who is a philosopher. They consider questions like the historical development of current policy and the rationales for it; scientific views on how drugs actually cause harm; how to define the key notions of harm and addiction; and ways in which drug policy can be made more consistent. They conclude with an examination of the implications of a consistent policy for various disciplines and society generally. The book is written accessibly with little need for expert knowledge, and will appeal to a diverse audience of philosophers, bioethicists, clinicians, policy makers, law enforcement, legal scholars and practitioners, social workers, and general readers, as well as to students in areas like pharmacy, medicine, law, nursing, sociology, social work, psychology, and bioethics.
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The Journal of World Intellectual Property 2006 (Vol.9)
by Blackwell Publishing (Edited by: Professor Daniel Gervais)
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The Journal of World Intellectual Property is the authoritative journal for intellectual property questions in relation to trade and investment, with particular focus on the WTO and TRIPS (the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).
More than any other journal, it discusses in depth all TRIPS-related developments, the decisions on TRIPS rendered by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body, and the efforts made by each country to adjust their legislation to TRIPS requirements. However, it also provides much more, and publishes articles by the best experts on a wide range of subjects, such as antitrust and IP rights, encryption, security and privacy in electronic commerce, patents and the copyright exhaustion doctrine, and parallel imports.
The Journal of World Intellectual Property is a refereed journal.
This volume contains 6 issues.
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Who Decides?: The Abortion Rights of Teens (Reproductive Rights and Policy)
By J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
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Publisher:Praeger Publishers
Number Of Pages:224
Publication Date:2006-04-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0275983218
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780275983215
Binding:Hardcover
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The question of whether a young woman should be allowed to terminate a pregnancy without her parents' knowledge has been one of the most contentious issues of the post Roe v. Wade era. Parental involvement laws reach to the core of the parent-teen relationship in the highly contested realm of adolescent sexuality. This is the first book to examine in thorough detail the decision-making experiences of teens considering abortion. Shoshanna Ehrlich evaluates the Supreme Court's efforts to reconcile the historically based understanding of teens as dependent persons in need of protection with a more contemporary understanding of them as autonomous individuals with adult-like claims to constitutional recognition. Arriving at a compromise, the Court has made clear that, like adult women, teens have a protected right of choice, but that states may impose a parental involvement requirement. However, so that parents are not vested with veto power over their daughters' decisions, young women must be allowed to seek a waiver of the requirement. Integrating a wealth of social science literature, including in-depth interviews with 26 young women from Massachusetts who obtained court authorization for an abortion, the book raises important questions about the logic of a legal approach that requires young women to involve adults when they seek to terminate a pregnancy, but that allows them to make a decision to become mothers on their own.
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Methodological Issues and Practices in Ethnography, Volume 11 (Studies in Educational Ethnography) (Studies in Educational Ethnography)
By Geoff Troman, Bob Jeffrey, Geoffrey Walford
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Publisher:JAI Press
Number Of Pages:232
Publication Date:2005-12-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0762312521
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780762312528
Binding:Hardcover
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What counts as ethnography and what counts as good ethnography are both highly contested. This volume brings together chapters presenting a diversity of views on some of the current issues and practices in ethnographic methodology. It does not try to present a single coherent view but, through its heterogeneity, illustrates the strengths and impact of the debate.
The collection includes chapters on the ethnographic research process; the use of photographic diaries; the idea of toleration in the research process; and the personal aspects of research. It has chapters that question generalisation; perceive ethnography as a potential form of surveillance; analyse the notion of display in ethnography; critique the way culture is commonly theorised; and examine the possibilities of comparative ethnographic work. It also includes
and exchange of views between Martyn Hammersley and Barbara Korth on partisan research.
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Indian Labour Law Compendium
by Dipen Chatterjee
This Book is on Pro-bono basis and it is created for imparting free knowledge of labour laws as well as incidental matters connected therewith, which are of public interest. The Book will be mainly useful to Judges, Labour Advocates, Trade Union Leaders, HR Professionals, Labour Law Consultants and Industrial Relation Officers, etc.
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Economic Analysis of the Law: Selected Readings
By Donald A. Wittman
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Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
Number Of Pages:352
Publication Date:2002-10-29
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0631231579
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780631231578
Binding:Hardcover
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Providing students with a solid grounding in the economic analysis of the law, this reader brings together edited versions of diverse and challenging journal articles into a unified collection. Chosen to provoke thought and discussion, these carefully streamlined articles apply economic theories to many aspects of the law, from intellectual property, corporate finance, and contracts to property rights, family law, and criminal law.
Provides real-life examples and implications of economic theory.
Creates a unified vision of the law, showing the interconnections between the various fields.
Covers a broad range of topics, from intellectual property and corporate finance to family and criminal law.
Encourages intuitive understanding and applications of the economic principles, due to reduced mathematical content.
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Lessons Learned: Risk Management Issues in Genetic Counseling
By Susan Schmerler
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Publisher:Springer
Number Of Pages:152
Publication Date:2007-10-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0387721746
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780387721743
Binding:Hardcover
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No one wants to be sued. A lawsuit is an assault on one’s self-image, reputation, and livelihood. It is physically, mentally, and financially draining. Professionals get sued because an individual believes she has been harmed or thinks there is enough evidence to convince a jury that she has been harmed. An accusation of harm can be expressed in different legal terms, such as breach of contract or negligence. The profession of genetic counseling has developed within the field of medicine, so that a medical model usually applies. Therefore, a formal complaint by a patient about a genetic counselor would come under the laws that apply to medicine as opposed to business. Most commonly, these complaints take the form of a malpractice lawsuit that claims malpractice or negligence.
The purpose of this book is (1) to provide genetic counselors with varying levels of experience and expertise with heightened awareness of the sources and processes of the law as it can affect their practice; (2) to offer them strategies for minimizing the potential for their being named in a lawsuit; and (3) to provide guidance for the management of current and emerging situations. The book discusses the day-to-day practices of genetic counselors and identifies areas in which possible causes of liability can be found. It looks closely at a negligence lawsuit as it would concern a genetic counselor, so that readers may learn where the potholes hazards and how to avoid them.
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Global Democracy: For and Against. Ethical Theory, Institutional Design, and Social Struggles (Democratization Studies)
By Raffaele Marchetti
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Publisher:Routledge
Number Of Pages:212
Publication Date:2008-03-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415437199
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415437196
Binding:Hardcover
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This book defends the case for the expansion of the democratic model to the global political sphere. Concentrating on the democratic deficit of international affairs, it examines the nexus between the phenomenon of international exclusion and the political response of global democracy. Its aim thus rests not so much in providing another theory of moral cosmopolitanism, but in producing an engaged text that deals with the normative and institutional aspects of the discussion on democratic global order.
Global Democracy develops its distinctive position through a survey of the principal theories for and against global democracy. Among rival positions, two sets of democratic theories are criticized for being unable to cope with the demand for global justice and the subsequent need for global inclusion. While realism, nationalism and liberal internationalism are disapproved for their domestic centricity, other global theories, such as the project for cosmopolitan global governance, are disputed for their issue centricity. Going beyond these exclusionary paradigms, the study defends a theory able to encompass a consistent and all-inclusive extension of the democratic paradigm at the global level: world federalism.
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Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights
By Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose
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Publisher:Random House
Number Of Pages:240
Publication Date:2007-10-23
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1400062861
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781400062867
Binding:Hardcover
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Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was working to protect the freedoms we all value. Sadly, today we’re living in a time when dissent is equated with giving aid to terrorists, when any of us can be held in prison without even knowing the charges against us, and when our constitutional rights are being interpreted by a president who calls himself “The Decider.”
Ivins got the idea for Bill of Wrongs while touring America to honor her promise to speak out, gratis, at least once a month in defense of free speech. In her travels Ivins met ordinary people going to extraordinary measures to safeguard our most precious liberties, and when she first started writing this book, she intended it to be a joyous celebration of those heroes. But during the Bush years, the project’s focus changed. Ivins became concerned about threats to our cherished freedoms–among them the Patriot Act and the weakening of habeas corpus–and she observed with anger how dissent in the defense of liberties was being characterized as treason by the Bush administration and its enablers.
From illegal wiretaps, the unlawful imprisonment of American citizens, and the undermining of freedom of the press to the creeping influence of religious extremism on our national agenda and the erosion of the checks and balances that prevent a president from seizing unitary powers, Ivins and her longtime collaborator, Lou Dubose, co-author of Shrub and Bushwacked, describe the attack on America’s vital constitutional guarantees. With devastating humor and keen eyes for deceit and hypocrisy, they show how severe these incursions have become, and they ask us all to take an active role in protecting the Bill of Rights.
In life and on the printed page, Molly Ivins was too cool to offer a posthumous valedictory (or even to take a victory lap for her many triumphs over inane, vainglorious, and addlepated politicos). But in Bill of Wrongs, her final and perhaps greatest book, the irrepressible Molly Ivins really does have the last word.
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Encyclopedia of White-Collar Crime
By Jurg Gerber, Eric L. Jensen
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Publisher:Greenwood Press
Number Of Pages:336
Publication Date:2006-12-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0313335249
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780313335242
Binding:Hardcover
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The high profile collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Arthur Andersen are recent examples of corporate scandals that have rocked the business world. This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the history and current state of major corporate and other forms of white-collar crime. While emphasis is placed on contemporary events, the most significant events from the history of white-collar crime are included as well. Geographic coverage focuses on events in English speaking parts of the world, but major cases in other countries are also included. From Union Carbide's deadly man-made disaster at Bhopal, to the oily mess caused by the Exxon Valdez, to the financial shennanigans that brought down Barings Bank, to Jim Bakker's daliances and the fall of the PTL empire, this no-holds-barred comprehensive encyclopedia of white-collar crime leaves no stone unturned in its exhaustive inventory of malfeasance committed by the wealthy. After an essay on the historiography of white-collar crime, roughly 200 alphabetically arranged entries (written by leading scholars in the field) provide an in-depth look into the various aspects of white-collar crime, describing people, laws, companies, types of crimes, and events. Entries include: BLMoney Laundering BLTobacco Hearings BLEnron BLKaren Silkwood BLThree Mile Island BLWorldCom BLDalkon Shield BLInsider Trading BLComputer Crime BLAsbestos BLIvan Boesky BLAdulterated Food BLIdentity Theft BLInfant Formula BLCharles Ponzi
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Gypsy Law: Romani Legal Traditions and Culture
By Walter O. Weyrauch
* Publisher:University of California Press
* Number Of Pages:310
* Publication Date:2001-09-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0520221869
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780520221864
* Binding:Paperback
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Approximately one thousand years ago Gypsies, or Roma, left their native India. Today Gypsies can be found in countries throughout the world, their distinct culture still intact in spite of the intense persecution they have endured. This authoritative collection brings together leading Gypsy and non-Gypsy scholars to examine the Romani legal system, an autonomous body of law based on an oral tradition and existing alongside dominant national legal networks.
For centuries the Roma have survived by using defensive strategies, especially the absolute exclusion of gadje (non-Gypsies) from their private lives, their values, and information about Romani language and social institutions. Sexuality, gender, and the body are fundamental to Gypsy law, with rules that govern being pure (vujo) or impure (marime). Women play an important role in maintaining legal customs, having the power to sanction and to contaminate, but they are not directly involved in legal proceedings.
These essays offer a comparative perspective on Romani legal procedures and identity, including topics such as the United States' criminalization of many aspects of Gypsy law, parallels between Jewish and Gypsy law, and legal distinctions between Romani communities. The contributors raise broad theoretical questions that transcend the specific Gypsy context and offer important insights into understanding oral legal traditions. Together they suggest a theoretical framework for explaining the coexistence of formal and informal law within a single legal system. They also highlight the ethical dilemmas encountered in comparative law research and definitions of "human rights."