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Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice (2018)
Mary Crock and Lenni Benson
With unprecedented numbers of children on the move in search of safety, Protecting Migrant Children explores the complex legal and human rights issues that arise when children cross borders as migrants. It critically examines the strengths and weaknesses of international and domestic laws with the aim of identifying best practice for migrant children.
The book brings together an interdisciplinary and multinational group of experts to assess the nature and root causes of child migration in different parts of the world, featuring national and comparative case studies in Australia, Canada, Europe, the United States and parts of Asia and Africa. The contributors address systematically the many challenges experienced and posed by young people who cross borders in search of protection, or a better quality of life. Identifying the many universal issues facing states who play host to these children, the book lays the foundations for new paradigms in law, policy and practice in the reception and management of child migrants, refugees and victims of trafficking.
Topical and engaging, this book is an important resource for academics and students in human rights law; migration and refugee law; the administrative and procedural issues of refugee law, and comparative law; as well as in the social sciences and health sciences. Policymakers and workers within the community sector will also find this book stimulating and informative. -
A Practical Companion to the Constitution: The Cumulative Supplement 2nd Series 2008-2017
Jethro K. Lieberman
This book serves as a supplement to A Practical Companion to the Constitution. It is a comprehensive update of constitutional topic from 2008-2017.
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DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington (2017)
David Schoenbrod
You think you know why our government in Washington is broken, but you really don't. You think it's broken because politicians curry favor with special interests and activists of the Left or Right. There's something to that and it helps explain why these politicians can't find common ground, but it misses the root cause. A half century ago, elected officials in Congress and the White House figured out a new system for enacting laws and spending programs--one that lets them take credit for promising good news while avoiding blame for government producing bad results. With five key tricks, politicians of both parties now avoid accounting to us for what government actually does to us.
While you understand that these politicians seem to pull rabbits out of hats, hardly anyone sees the sleight of hand by which they get away with their tricks. Otherwise, their tricks wouldn't work. DC Confidential exposes the sleights of hand. Once they are brought to light, we can stop the tricks, fix our broken government, and make Washington work for us once again.
The book explains the necessary reform and lays out an action plan to put it in place. Stopping the tricks would be a constructive, inclusive response to the anger that Americans from across the political spectrum feel toward what should be our government. -
Mental Disability Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd ed (2017)
Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo, and Alison Lynch
This comprehensive casebook covers all areas of civil commitment law, institutional rights law, community rights law, sex offenders law, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Mental Disability Law also explores all aspects of the criminal process, including all criminal competencies, the insanity defense, trial practice issues, sentencing and the death penalty. It is the only casebook available that considers the important factors that have shaped mental disability law — sanism, pretextuality, heuristics and false “ordinary common sense.” The third edition includes expanded new sections on therapeutic jurisprudence and international human rights law.
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Shaming the Constitution: The Detrimental Results of Sexual Violent Predator Legislation
Michael L. Perlin and Heather Ellis Cucolo
Convicted sexually violent predators are more vilified, more subject to media misrepresentation, and more likely to be denied basic human rights than any other population. Shaming the Constitution authors Michael Perlin and Heather Cucolo question the intentions of sex offender laws, offering new approaches to this most complex (and controversial) area of law and social policy.
The authors assert that sex offender laws and policies are unconstitutional and counter-productive. The legislation largely fails to add to public safety—even ruining lives for what are, in some cases, trivial infractions. Shaming the Constitution draws on law, behavioral sciences, and other disciplines to show that many of the “solutions” to penalizing sexually violent predators are “wrong,” as they create the most repressive and useless laws.
In addition to tracing the history of sex offender laws, the authors address the case of Jesse Timmendequas, whose crime begat “Megan’s Law;” the media’s role in creating a “moral panic;” recidivism statistics and treatments, as well as international human rights laws. Ultimately, they call attention to the flaws in the system so we can find solutions that contribute to public safety in ways that do not mock Constitutional principles. -
Gendered Law in American History (2016)
Richard Chused and Wendy Williams
Gendered Law in American History is a remarkable compendium of over thirty years of research and teaching in the field. It explores an array of social, cultural, and legal arenas from the turn of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth centuries, including concepts of citizenship at the founding of the republic, the development of married women’s property laws, divorce, child custody, temperance, suffrage, domestic and racial violence before and after the Civil War, protective labor legislation, and the use of legal history testimony in legal disputes. It is both an invaluable reference tool and an important new teaching text.
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Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Real Covenants and Equitable Servitudes - Third Edition (2016)
Gerald Korngold
Table of Contents Only
Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Real Covenants, and Equitable Servitudes - Third Edition is the most comprehensive and integrated treatment available on the interrelated areas of easements, covenant and servitudes. The book provide answers to both practical and theoretical issues, and is an essential resource for lawyers and others working in this field. This third edition follows the successful previous editions of the book which were hailed by practitioners and academics. Earlier editions were cited as an authority in numerous federal and state court decisions as well as over 25 times in the American Law Institute's Restatement of The Law Third, Property (Servitudes.) The third edition utilizes the same organization and approach of earlier editions, and covers new cases, emerging developments, and recent innovations. Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Real Covenants, and Equitable Servitudes is an important addition to the field and an essential part of the real estate lawyer's library.
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Sexuality, Disability, and the Law: Beyond the Last Frontier? (2016)
Michael L. Perlin and Alison Lynch
Sexuality, Disability, and the Law approaches issues of sexual autonomy and disability from multiple perspectives, including constitutional law, international human rights, therapeutic jurisprudence, history, cognitive psychology, dignity studies, and theories and findings on gender constructs and societal norms. Perlin and Lynch determine that if our society continues to assert that persons with mental disabilities possess a primitive morality, we allow ourselves to censor their feelings and their actions. By denying their ability and desires to show love and affection, we justify this disparate treatment. Our reliance on stereotypes has warped our attitudes and our policies, and has allowed us to avoid important issues of humanity and of dignity that should be at the basis of any policies that affect this population.
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Special Education Law and Practice: Cases and Materials (2016)
Deborah N. Archer and Richard D. Marsico
Special Education Law and Practice is an experientially-focused casebook that also serves as a reference for attorneys who practice special education law and anyone interested in learning about the special education process. The casebook covers substantive special education rights, racial disparities in special education, discipline, procedural protections, federal court litigation, remedies, and attorneys' fees. Each chapter begins with a problem, rich in facts and law, that places the student in the position of an attorney trying to resolve a problem for a client using that chapter's materials. Comprehensive notes expand the areas covered by featured cases.
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The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well (Third Edition) (2016)
Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman
In this critically acclaimed book, Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman demystify legal writing, outline the causes and consequences of poor writing, and prescribe easy-to-apply remedies to improve it. Reflecting changes in law practice over the past decade, this revised edition includes new sections around communicating digitally, getting to the point, and writing persuasively. It also provides an editing checklist, editing exercises with a suggested revision key, usage notes that address common errors, and reference works to further aid your writing. This straightforward guide is an invaluable tool for practicing lawyers and law students.
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The U.S.-Taiwan-China Relationship in International Law and Policy (2016)
Lung-chu Chen
For a country of its size, Taiwan has a tremendous influence on world affairs and U.S. policy. The U.S.-Taiwan-China Relationship in International Law and Policy describes the central issues animating the dynamic U.S.-Taiwan-China relationship and the salient international and domestic legal issues shaping U.S. policy in the Asia Pacific region. In this book, Lung-chu Chen gives particular attention to Taiwan's status under international law, and the role of the U.S. Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) in the formulation and execution of U.S. policy toward Taiwan. This book endorses the central purpose of the Taiwan Relations Act--achieving a peaceful resolution to the Taiwan question--while offering policy alternatives that will empower Taiwan to participate more actively in the international arena.
This book follows in the tradition of the New Haven School of international law. As such, it defines the common interests of the world community, which include demands for human dignity and security and the protection of human rights in accordance with bedrock norms such as the right to self-determination and the peaceful resolution of conflict. Chen proposes that in accordance with international law, historical trends, and contemporary political conditions, the people of Taiwan should ultimately determine a path to normalized statehood through a plebiscite under the supervision of the international community. -
An Introduction to Contemporary International Law: A Policy-Oriented Perspective 3rd Ed.
Lung-chu Chen
Dr. Lung-chu Chen is an internationally recognized scholar and Professor of Law at New York Law School, specializing in international law, human rights, and the United Nations.
This book introduces the reader to all major aspects of contemporary international law. It applies a policy-oriented perspective, a highly acclaimed approach developed by a group known as the New Haven School that views international law not as a fixed set of rules but as an ongoing process of decision making through which the members of the world community identify, clarify, and secure their common interests. Unlike conventional works in international law, this book is organized and structured in terms of the process of decision in the international arena and illustrated with numerous historical examples and events. In this new edition, Lung-chu Chen updates his text and bibliography with respect to topics involving the end of the Cold War, increased trade, economic sanctions, new powers of the Security Council, use of force, international criminal law and institutions, and human rights.
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Cases and Text on Property 6th Ed.
Susan F. French and Gerald Korngold
Cases and Text on Property, Sixth Edition, preserves the character of its esteemed predecessors with:
Introductory chapters that unveil the important historical perspective that infuses the book as the authors put contemporary property law in historical context; classic cases and absorbing text that match the high standard of quality established by the late Casner and Leach; problems that are seamlessly integrated with cases and notes; a broad scope of coverage that ranges from interests protected as property, to title transfers, landlord and tenant law, housing discrimination, and land-use regulation.
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Construction and Development Financing v1 & v2
Marshall E. Tracht and Alvin L. Arnold
Providing innovative strategies for financing land acquisitions, construction, and development, Construction and Development Financing covers every aspect of negotiating ADC financing. Allowing fast, easy and on-point research, this book covers:
• The consequences of default
• Environmental assessments
• ADA compliance
• New money sources
• Lender liability
• Stalled nonresidential construction
• New FHA rules for condominiums
• Mitigating construction fraud
• A new program of tax credits
Section titles discuss:
• Land loans
• Land development loans
• Construction loans: application, underwriting approval, and commitment
• Enforcement and workouts
• Other financing transactions
• Public policy
• Much more
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Examples and Explanations: Sales and Leases 7th Ed.
James Brook
This book is an approachable and practical study guide to sales law, specifically UCC Articles 2 and 2A, providing brief textual introductions to standard definitions and concepts, followed by provocative examples, questions, and analyses.
Relying on the standard examples-and-explanation pedagogy, Sales and Leases: Examples & Explanations is an accessible, clearly written study guide for any student studying sales law, commercial law, commercial transactions law and contract law.
It gives you an organized way of working through the various sections, definitions, concepts, and controversies that make up the modern law of sales and lease of goods as rendered in Article 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code.
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Immigrazione e Diritto alla Cittadinanza
LLoyd Bonfield
Sottotitolo: Immigration and Right to Nationality
Autori L. Bonfield, G. Cataldi, N. Parisi, P. Venturi (a cura di)
ISBN 978-88-6342-807-0 N.
Pagine XXII-342
Anno Pubbl. 2015
Collana Jus Gentium Europaeum.
Collana di studi comunitari
Numero 17
Materia Diritto comunitario
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Real Estate Transactions: Cases and Materials on Land Transfer, Development and Finance, 6th Ed.
Gerald Korngold
This casebook covers all the major aspects of real estate transactions, running the gamut from residential transactions to sophisticated commercial development. Highlights of the new edition include:
Revamped mortgage materials to reflect the subprime and mortgage finance crisis, ensuing foreclosure issues, and new regulation; new cases and materials on the core elements of the real estate transaction, including contract conditions, remedies, and the deed; new cases and materials in other sections of the book, including, among others, recording, condominiums, commercial development, and bankruptcy; a new subsection on green buildings; and a revised structure for the book, including consolidation and streamlining of all tax materials. Five brief drafting exercises allow students to apply their learning and to see how to reach better results for clients.
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The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law (Sterling)
Michael Roffer
The Law Book explores 250 of the most significant legal issues, cases, trials, and events that have profoundly changed our world. Although the heaviest emphasis is on American law it also touches on more than a dozen countries and the European Union, laws relating to Antarctica and Outer Space, and principles of international law. Among the topics it explores are the earliest legal codes, the role of juries, slavery and emancipation, civil rights, Native Americans, copyright, the press and free speech, immigration, censorship and obscenity, the environment, war and international relations, war crimes and trials, the insanity defense, taxation, prohibition, voting rights, women’s rights, labor unions and workers’ rights, Social Security, workers’ compensation laws, the securities laws, the origins of Legal Aid, surrogacy, the right of privacy, cameras in the courts, food and drug regulation, antitrust law, South Africa’s Constitution, assisted suicide, gun control, the death penalty, civil commitment, juvenile sentencing, legalization of marijuana, same-sex marriage, tort law, the Affordable Care Act, and many others.
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A Practical Companion to the Constitution: The Cumulative Supplement 2nd Series 2008-2014
Jethro K. Lieberman
This book serves as a supplement to A Practical Companion to the Constitution. It is a comprehensive update of constitutional topic from 2008-2014.
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Corporate Finance (Hornbook Series) (2014)
Jeffrey J. Haas
This Hornbook is an indispensable resource for both legal practitioners focusing on business and finance as well as students taking classes in business associations, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. The book expertly lays out the fundamentals of corporate finance from a legal and business perspective in a manageable, user-friendly manner. The author highlights how accounting, finance and corporate law intersect and operate synergistically. The book provides an in-depth analysis of how the law affects both equity securities (common stock and preferred stock) and debt securities (bonds, debentures and notes), as well as a company’s capital structure generally.
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Drafting New York Wills and Related Documents 4th ed.
William P. LaPiana, Mark Ira Bloom, and Harold D. Klipstein
A complete drafting system for New York wills, trusts, and advance directives. This 4th edition includes not only wills, but also revocable trusts, powers of attorney for property, directives on disposition of remains, health care proxies, living wills and directives against resuscitation (DNRs). Relevant tax considerations are included throughout the text.
Wills are still the primary subject of the work as the the first 17 chapters are devoted to the planning and drafting of wills. The non-wills area of practice is handled in Chapters 18-21.
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Examples & Explanations: Secured Transactions 6th Edition
James Brook
This workbook is designed to give you an organized way of working through various sections, definitions, concepts, and controversies that make up the modern law of secured transactions as rendered in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
The unique Examples & Explanations series gives you extremely clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the classroom throughout the semester. Use at the beginning and midway through the semester to deepen your understanding through clear explanations, corresponding hypothetical fact patterns, and analysis. Then use to study for finals by reviewing the hypotheticals as well as the structure and reasoning behind the accompanying analysis. It is designed to complement your casebook, and gets right to the point in a conversational, often humorous style that helps you learn the material each step of the way and prepare for the exam at the end of the course.
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