Legal History
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Berkowitz [Berkowitz, Eric]

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace On the first page of her groundbreaking 1979 book Sexual Harassment of Working Women, Catharine MacKinnon placed rape and sexual harassment on the same continuum ...
( Category: Sexuality April 16,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-22 | Author:Thane Rosenbaum [Rosenbaum, Thane]

SEVEN WHEN SELF-HELP IS PERMISSIBLE Vengeance and justice are commonly understood as sharing the tortured history of sibling rivals. Justice is the wise child; vengeance is the wicked one. Justice ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 23,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Amar, Akhil Reed [Amar, Akhil Reed]

“the Heads of Departments” IN ALL THE WASHINGTON ADMINISTRATION EPISODES just canvassed, the president relied heavily on the advice of an inner circle of top executive-branch officials. This heavy reliance ...
( Category: Constitutions March 2,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:G. Edward White [White, G. Edward]

The twentieth century In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the federal government became more involved in the enforcement of criminal law. One reason for its increased presence ...
( Category: Legal History January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-02 | Author:Adrian Johns [Johns, Adrian]

from reform to abolition Agitation to reform the operation of patenting can be traced back a long way. As early as the 1780s, in the midst of fears aroused by ...
( Category: Legal History December 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 1977-10-23 | Author:Grant Gilmore [Gilmore, Grant]

Notes FOREWORD 1. The situation reminded me of the not wholly dissimilar case of Strunk and White. Will Strunk was a legendary English professor at Cornell University who, in 1919, ...
( Category: Legal History October 24,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Richard Gabriel

ENRON BROADBAND Rex Shelby is the only son of an air force sergeant who was a veteran of the Berlin Airlift and earned a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple ...
( Category: Rules & Procedures October 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-19 | Author:Nonie Darwish [Darwish, Nonie]

The Driving Force Behind Sharia The number one driving force behind Sharia is not the stability of the family; it is not human happiness; it is not even the happiness ...
( Category: Legal History July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Deborah E. Lipstadt [Lipstadt, Deborah E.]

After Servatius concluded his examination came the long-awaited confrontation—“the battle of wits”—which the spectators who packed the courtroom had been anticipating: Hausner’s cross-examination. The exchange—described by one observer as a ...
( Category: Criminal Law July 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Winkler, Adam [Winkler, Adam]

CHAPTER 8 BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY THE SEATING IN THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT DESIGNED well for spectators. The floor has no pitch, so when the courtroom is crowded you ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Lloyd Constantine [Constantine, Lloyd]

Double Jeopardy THE CLASS CERTIFICATION contest involved more work than the entirety of many large and complex commercial cases. But that effort was dwarfed by the battle over the summary ...
( Category: Business June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Adrian Johns

FIGURE ii.i. Henry C. Carey. H. C. Carey, Miscellaneous Works, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: H.C. Baird, 1883), vol. i, frontispiece. Courtesy of the University of Chicago Library. In Carey's hands, piracy ...
( Category: Legal History June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Leila Schneps [Schneps, Leila;Colmez, Coralie]

Lucia de Berk It was not enough for Lucia to be banned from her job and her livelihood, and to be under suspicion of unspeakable crimes. She was painted as ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics May 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Toobin, Jeffrey [Toobin, Jeffrey]

One Saturday in the spring of 1986, Justice Lewis Powell struck up an unusual conversation with one of his law clerks, Cabell Chinnis Jr., about Bowers v. Hardwick. As Chinnis ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges April 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Becker, Jo [Becker, Jo]

On a personal level, Eric Holder had never liked DOMA. Neither had Tony West. Both were African Americans who saw distinct parallels between the civil rights battles of the past ...
( Category: LGBT April 5,2015 )