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The Civil Code of the Russian Federation
By Peter B. Maggs, A. N. Zhiltsov
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Publisher:M.E. Sharpe
Number Of Pages:536
Publication Date:1997-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0765601753
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780765601759
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Antidumping Laws and the U.S. Economy
By Greg Mastel
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Publisher:M.E. Sharpe
Number Of Pages:217
Publication Date:1998-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN:076560325X
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780765603258
Binding:Hardcover
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Summary: Why Free Trade Needs Fair Trade
Rating: 4
Mastel crafts a carefully researched look at one of the most controversial issues in international trade: antidumping (AD) laws. After presenting a well-documented history of AD laws in the U.S., he invokes economic analysis to obliterate the arguments against fair trade.
I think Mastel could have added significantly to his book by a more in-depth treatment of AD laws' less publicized cousin, countervailing duty (CVD) laws. He mentions CVD laws briefly in his section on subsidies, but the purpose of this section is mainly to illustrate another possible cause of dumping. Perhaps he should write a separate book on subsidies and countervailing measures....
Also, I would have liked a more in-depth discussion of foreign AD/CVD laws. Mastel relegates his discussion of these to an appendix, which may be appropriate considering the scope of his book. Again, maybe a separate book is needed....
Mastel could have added to his book considerably if he had included more of the mathematical computations behind AD margins (perhaps in an appendix). Admittedly, though, this would have hampered the accessibility of the book to non-professionals.
Overall, his work is very accessible to any interested reader, and I recommend it especially to students and legal or research assistants embarking on a possible career in international trade.
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The Evolution of Western Private Law
By Alan Watson
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Publisher:The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Pages:344
Publication Date:2000-10-25
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ISBN-13 / EAN:9780801864841
Binding:Hardcover
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In The Evolution of Western Private Law, renowned legal scholar Alan Watson presents a comprehensive overview of legal change in the Western world. Watson explains why and how such change occurs in mature systems, in underdeveloped systems, and when legal systems of different levels of sophistication and from different societal roots -- such as those of the Romans and of Germanic tribes -- come into contact.
Originally intended as a second edition of the author's widely acclaimed The Evolution of Law (1985), this expanded edition has been completely restructured with more than double the number of examples. The result is a work that incorporates all the ideas that Watson has put forward during his twenty-five years studying comparative law and the development of legal systems, combining a remarkable range of sources with superb insight.
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Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law
By Hal Gladfelder
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Publisher:The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Pages:296
Publication Date:2001-05-11
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ISBN-13 / EAN:9780801866081
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Stories of transgression--Gilgamesh, Prometheus, Oedipus, Eve -- may be integral to every culture's narrative imaginings of its own origins, but such stories assumed different meanings with the burgeoning interest in modern histories of crime and punishment in the later decades of the seventeenth century. In Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England, Hal Gladfelder shows how the trial report, providence book, criminal biography, and gallows speech came into new commercial prominence and brought into focus what was most disturbing, and most exciting, about contemporary experience. These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openness to discordant meanings and discrepant points of view which characterizes the later fictions of Defoe and Fielding.
Beginning with the various genres of crime narrative, Gladfelder maps a complex network of discourses that collectively embodied the range of responses to the transgressive at the turn of the eighteenth century. In the book's second and third parts, he demonstrates how the discourses of criminality became enmeshed with emerging novelistic conceptions of character and narrative form. With special attention to Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, Gladfelder argues that Defoe's narratives concentrate on the forces that shape identity, especially under conditions of outlawry, social dislocation, and urban poverty. He next considers Fielding's double career as author and magistrate, analyzing the interaction between his fiction and such texts as the aggressively polemical Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase in Robbers and his eyewitness accounts of the sensational Canning and Penlez cases. Finally, Gladfelder turns to Godwin's Caleb Williams, Wollstonecraft's Maria, and Inchbald's Nature and Art to reveal the degree to which criminal narrative, by the end of the eighteenth century, had become a necessary vehicle for articulating fundamental cultural anxieties and longings. Crime narratives, he argues, vividly embody the struggles of individuals to define their place in the suddenly unfamiliar world of modernity.
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The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang
By David C. Brotherton, Luis Barrios
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Publisher:Columbia University Press
Number Of Pages:464
Publication Date:2004-02-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0231114184
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780231114189
Binding:Hardcover
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From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in the United States into a social movement acting on behalf of the dispossessed, renouncing violence and the underground economy, and requiring school attendance for membership.
What caused the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation of New York City to make this remarkable transformation? And why has it not happened to other gangs elsewhere? David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios were given unprecedented access to new and never-before-published material by and about the Latin Kings and Queens, including the group's handbook, letters written by members, poems, rap songs, and prayers. In addition, they interviewed more than one hundred gang members, including such leaders as King Tone and King Hector. Featuring numerous photographs by award-winning photojournalist Steve Hart, the book explains the symbolic significance for the gang of hand gestures, attire, rituals, and rites of passage. Based on their inside information, the authors craft a unique portrait of the lives of the gang members and a ground-breaking study of their evolution.
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Double-Hull Tanker Legislation: An Assessment of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990
By National Research Council (U. S.)
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Publisher:National Academy Press
Number Of Pages:266
Publication Date:1997-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0309063701
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780309063708
Binding:Paperback
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Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously
By Paddy Hillyard
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Publisher:Pluto Press (UK)
Number Of Pages:332
Publication Date:2004-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1552661482
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781552661482
Binding:Hardcover
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Devastating Society: The Neo-Conservative Assault on Democracy and Justice
By Bernd Hamm
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Publisher:Pluto Press
Number Of Pages:328
Publication Date:2005-03-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0745323618
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780745323619
Binding:Paperback
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Book Description:
'Every American ought to read these indictments of the G. W. Bush administration's self-righteous attacks on honesty, fairness, decency, and the rule of law.' Wendell Bell, Yale University / 'This book is vital reading for those tired of media evasions, who wish to think for themselves and to gain clarity regarding the current global economic and geopolitical order.' Richard Slaughter, Foresight International, President, World Futures Studies Federation / The contributors to this book include some of the leading dissenting writers and thinkers of our time, including Noam Chomsky, William Blum and Michel Chossudovsky. United in their opposition to the neo-conservatism underpinning America's current political strategies, the contributors offer a grounded critique of the real impact that these policies make, at home and abroad. Starting with a close analysis of the Bush administration and the neo-conservative hold on power in Washington, they move on to a broader historical analysis. They set today's topical issues in the context of what they see as a gradual shift towards the right in American politics, and the creeping corporatisation of American society. The contributors show that September 11 was used by the Bush administration to clamp down on civil liberties at home and to step up an aggressive line in foreign policy. The impact on American society, and societies elsewhere, has been deeply damaging. Ranging over this and other topics including the US economy, corporate crime and anti-environmentalism, this book is ideal for anyone who wants a critical introduction to current affairs issues, set within the broader context of America's history of foreign interventions and global capitalism.
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Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use
By National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council
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Publisher:National Academies Press
Number Of Pages:44
Publication Date:1998-02-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0309060389
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780309060387
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Between Light and Shadow (Studies in International Law)
By Mac Darrow
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Publisher:Hart Publishing
Number Of Pages:372
Publication Date:2003-03-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1841133906
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781841133904
Binding:Hardcover
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An examination of the powers and responsibilities of the international financial institutions in respect of human rights.
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The Apology Ritual: A Philosophical Theory of Punishment
By Christopher Bennett
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:224
Publication Date:2008-10-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521880726
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521880725
Binding:Hardcover
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Product Description:
Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and making amends. He argues that offenders have a 'right to be punished' - that it is part of taking an offender seriously as a member of a normatively demanding relationship (such as friendship or collegiality or citizenship) that she is subject to retributive attitudes when she violates the demands of that relationship. However, while he claims that punishment and the retributive attitudes are the necessary expression of moral condemnation, his account of these reactions has more in common with restorative justice than traditional retributivism. He argues that the most appropriate way to react to crime is to require the offender to make proportionate amends. His book is a rich and original contribution to the debate over punishment and restorative justice.
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Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel
By Bernard M. Levinson
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:198
Publication Date:2008-08-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521513448
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521513449
Binding:Hardcover
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This book examines the doctrine of transgenerational punishment found in the Decalogue-that is, the idea that God punishes sinners vicariously and extends the punishment due them to three or four generations of their progeny. Though it was "God-given" law, the unfairness of punishing innocent people merely for being the children or grandchildren of wrongdoers was clearly recognized in ancient Israel. A series of inner-biblical and post-biblical responses to the rule demonstrates that later writers were able to criticize, reject, and replace this problematic doctrine with the alternative notion of individual retribution. From this perspective, the formative canon is the source of its own renewal: it fosters critical reflection upon the textual tradition and sponsors intellectual freedom. To support further study, this book includes a valuable bibliographical essay on the distinctive approach of inner-biblical exegesis showing the contributions of European, Israeli, and North American scholars. An earlier version of the volume appeared in French as L′Herméneutique de l′innovation: Canon et exégèse dans l′Isra?l biblique. This new Cambridge release represents a major revision and expansion of the French edition, nearly doubling its length with extensive new content. Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel opens new perspectives on current debates within the humanities about canonicity, textual authority, and authorship. Bernard M. Levinson holds the Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on biblical and cuneiform law, textual reinterpretation in the Second Temple period, and the relation of the Bible to Western intellectual history. His book Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (1997) won the 1999 Salo W. Baron Award for Best First Book in Literature and Thought from the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is also the author of "The Right Chorale" : Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (2008), and editor or coeditor of four volumes, most recently, The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance (2007). The interdisciplinary significance of his work has been recognized with appointments to both the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.
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Environmental Protection, Law and Policy: Text and Materials (Law in Context)
By Jane Holder, Maria Lee
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:818
Publication Date:2007-07-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521690269
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521690263
Binding:Paperback
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This book examines environmental law from a range of perspectives, emphasising the policy world from which environmental law is drawn and nourished. Those working within the discipline of environmental law need to engage with concepts and methods employed by disciplines other than law. The authors analyse the ways in which legal activities are supported and legitimated by work in traditional scientific or technical domains, as well as by certain more obscure but also influential cultural or philosophical assumptions. A range of regulatory techniques is explored in this book, through a close examination of both pollution control and land use. The highly complex nature of current environmental problems, demanding sophisticated and responsive legal controls, is illustrated by several in-depth case studies, including legal and policy analysis of the highly contested issues of genetically modified organisms and renewable energy projects.
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The United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944-1951
By Federico Romero
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Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Pages:292
Publication Date:1993-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0807820652
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780807820650
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Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI
By Kathryn S. Olmsted
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Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Pages:255
Publication Date:1996-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN:080782254X
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780807822548
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Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961 (Business, Society, and the State)
By Jonathan J. Bean
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Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Pages:281
Publication Date:1996-10
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0807822965
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780807822968
Binding:Paperback
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Product Description:
Focusing on anti-chain-store legislation beginning in the 1930s and on the establishment of federal small business agencies in the 1940s and 1950s, Jonathan Bean analyzes public policy toward small business. Beyond the Broker State challenges the long-accepted definition of politics as the interplay of organized interest groups, mediated by a broker state.
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Black Rage Confronts the Law (Critical America Series)
By Paul Harris
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Publisher:NYU Press
Number Of Pages:320
Publication Date:1997-05-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0814735274
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780814735275
Binding:Hardcover
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"Any lawyer who deals within the Black community needs to read it."
--New York Amsterdam News
"Within Harris's reasoned, cogent analysis lurks a legal strategy tethered to the nation's tattered and perennial traditions of white supremacy, which aims to acknowledge it, use it to explain its devastating effects on the black psyche, and provide a legal tool for some degree of amelioration. Ultimately, Black Rage Confronts the Law is more about U. S. power relations than law.
Therefore, it will be damned.
Therefore, it will be praised.
Therefore, it should be read."
--Mumia Abu-Jamal, Author of Live from Death Row
On a deeper and more profound level illustrates the degree to which social and economic hardship and deprivation can justify human misconduct.
--Library Journal
Paul Harris made an impact just two years out of law school with his innovative `black rage' defense. Harris convinced the jury that, in America, unemployment for a proud and talented black man can cause . . . a kind of temporary insanity. The theory not only gained Harris's client an acquittal, it left the man's integrity intact. --California Lawyer
In 1971, Paul Harris pioneered the modern version of the black rage defense when he successfully defended a young black man charged with armed bank robbery. Dubbed one of the most novel criminal defenses in American history by Vanity Fair, the black rage defense is enormously controversial, frequently dismissed as irresponsible, nothing less than a harbinger of anarchy. Consider the firestorm of protest that resulted when the defense for Colin Ferguson, the gunman who murdered numerous passengers on a New York commuter train, claimed it was considering a black rage defense.
In this thought-provoking book, Harris traces the origins of the black rage defense back through American history, recreating numerous dramatic trials along the way. For example, he recounts in vivid detail how Clarence Darrow, defense attorney in the famous Scopes Monkey trial, first introduced the notion of an environmental hardship defense in 1925 while defending a black family who shot into a drunken white mob that had encircled their home.
Emphasizing that the black rage defense must be enlisted responsibly and selectively, Harris skillfully distinguishes between applying an environmental defense and simply blaming society, in the abstract, for individual crimes. If Ferguson had invoked such a defense, in Harris's words, it would have sent a superficial, wrong-headed, blame-everything-on-racism message. Careful not to succumb to easy generalizations, Harris also addresses the possibilities of a white rage defense and the more recent phenomenon of cultural defenses. He illustrates how a person's environment can, and does, affect his or her life and actions, how even the most rational person can become criminally deranged, when bludgeoned into hopelessness by exploitation, racism, and relentless poverty.
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Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor?: Or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread? (Critical America Series)
By R. Wright
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Publisher:NYU Press
Number Of Pages:288
Publication Date:1996-04-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0814792944
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780814792940
Binding:Hardcover
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"This is a book that can help us think through the terrible choices created in a highly stratified society where an increasing number of people cannot legally obtain even the basic necessities of life. Can we, like Thomas Aquinas, accept the idea that stealing bread under such circumstances is no crime or must we live in a society where equal or greater punishment is imposed on the desperate?"
—Gary Orfield
Harvard University
Consider the horror we feel when we learn of a crime such as that committed by Robert Alton Harris, who commandeered a car, killed the two teenage boys in it, and then finished what was left of their lunch. What we don't consider in our reaction to the depravity of this act is that, whether we morally blame him or not, Robert Alton Harris has led a life almost unimaginably different from our own in crucial respects.
In Does Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?, author R. George Wright argues that while the poor live in the same world as the rest of us, their world is crucially different. The law does not recognize this difference, however, and proves to be inconsistent by excusing the trespasses of persons fleeing unexpected storms, but not those of the involuntarily homeless. He persuasively concludes that we can reject crude environmental determinism without holding the most deprived to unreasonable standards.
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Fair, Square & Legal: Safe Hiring, Managing & Firing Practices to Keep You and Your Company Out of Court
By Donald H. Weiss
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Publisher:AMACOM
Number Of Pages:380
Publication Date:1995-05-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0814402534
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780814402535
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The Rights of Public Employees, Second Edition: The Basic ACLU Guide to the Rights of Public Employees (ACLU Handbook)
By Robert M. O'Neil
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Publisher:Southern Illinois University
Number Of Pages:168
Publication Date:1993-10-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0809319276
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780809319275
Binding:Hardcover
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Product Description:
In this revised and updated edition of The Rights of Public Employees, Robert M. O’Neil broadens the focus from government employees to all public employees, emphasizing the public-service nature of the occupations and professions of such individuals. Using a question-and-answer format, O’Neil covers such topics as public employment and individual rights; initial qualifications of public employees; public employment and freedom of speech; politics, patronage, public service, and unions; the private lives of public employees; discrimination based on race, gender, and disability; and the procedural rights of public employees.
In the decade and a half between editions, some themes have remained constant: few changes have occurred in the areas of loyalty oaths, political and religious testing, public employees’ political involvement, and freedom of speech involving matters of general importance. This edition, however, does reflect substantial changes in the law of public employment.
Dramatic changes have taken place, for example, in the development of drug and AIDS testing in the workplace. Employers are demanding more information than they did in the 1970s—citizenship, age, height, weight, and criminal record are determined before making a hire. These and other important changes that have occurred in the area of physical privacy and race and gender discrimination have prompted Congress and the courts to call for a significant reexamination of current policy. Similarly, mandatory retirement and the issue of procedural rights of public employees have recently received close scrutiny from lawmakers and judges.
O’Neil emphasizes constitutional as well as statutory rights of people who work for the government. The rights of public employees are steadily expanding and being refined. At the same time, important differences remain (and probably will always remain) between the public and private sectors.
In defining the rights of public employees in the United States, O’Neil explains in detail the changes in policies and procedures that have taken place in recent years and that, in some cases, are currently under examination. With this valuable guide, public employees can gain a better understanding of their rights and thus be more confident in exercising those rights.