Jurisprudence and general issues

Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy over affirmative action.

Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool in contemporary peace processes.

The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy.

Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease.

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Presidents shape not only the course of history but also how Americans remember and retell that history.

From Moscow, the world looks different.

Is the government too secret or not secret enough?

From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools.

Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator.

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members?

Jump back in time with the help of this highly educational book.

2012 may be the most important year in history for tax planning.

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Toward an Islamic Reformation is an ambitious attempt to modernize Islamic law, calling for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law, commonly known as Shari'a that is perceived by many Muslims to be part of the Islamic faith.

Law is supposed to encourage innovation, morality, and conformity with societal expectations, yet it may provides perverse incentives causing individuals, or even the State, to act in discordant, inefficient, and even immoral ways.

A world expert's introduction to the controversial subject of Islamic lawProviding a comprehensive and accessible examination of Shariah Law, this well considered introduction examines the sources, characteristic features, and schools of thought of a system often stereotyped for its severity in the West.

Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular.

For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass.

This book records real-life experiences of transgender violence and victimisation, analysing the legal lacunae in granting protection to the historically vulnerable community and their perspective of the law and safety.

Women war criminals are far more common than we think.

This textbook provides clear, reliable, and comprehensive insights into key topics in comparative law and legal history.

Acquiring an understanding of evidence in law can be a confusing topic.

Throughout Latin America, the idea of "e;justice"e; serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes.

In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority.

The book discusses the subject and scope of evidence science and puts forward the new epistemological formula of "e;practice-evidence-knowledge-evidence-practice"e;, which applies to the problem of evidence reasoning and knowledge acquisition that exist in different disciplines.

If you've ever read a news story about radical Islam, you've probably seen "e;sharia law"e; mentioned.

This book shows how to use biopsychosocial assessment for crime prevention and to achieve more individualized treatment for those who commit crimes.

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day.

Despite some progress, women's share in senior management is still poor.

Investigations in Sex Estimation: A Comparison of Morphological and Metrical Methods is a collective comparison of the many morphological and metric methods currently used on adult and juvenile human remains.

Women in Nepal have long experienced poverty, social exclusion, and marginalization because of their gender, especially among ethnic minorities and low-caste groups.

Small claims court is a place where some look to level the playing field against individuals, businesses, or partnerships that have wronged them in the past.

The possibility of law in the absence of a nation would seem to strip law from its source of meaning and value.

One of the biggest buzzwords in the IT industry for the past few years, virtualization has matured into a practical requirement for many best-practice business scenarios, becoming an invaluable tool for security professionals at companies of every size.

Pediatric nursing is the niche area of nursing where one works solely with babies, toddlers and children.

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful for children's nursing students.

Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management covers the issue of child sexual abuse from several viewpoints.

There is a growing acknowledgment amongst professionals and academics that we need to develop new responses to crime.

This volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society brings together the work of scholars of several different generations and several different national contexts.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society focuses on the discourse of judging and the "e;language of judging"e; within many diverse legal scenarios.

Estimation of Time since Death in Australian Conditions collates data about decomposed bodies found in the eastern states of Australia from the years 2000 to 2010.

444 pages, 174 images, 64 contributorsThe Third Edition of Child Abuse Quick Reference is completely revised and expanded, with new and emerging science for the multidisciplinary response to child abuse.

The most basic assertions about our bodies--that they are ours and distinguish us from each other, that they are private and have boundaries, races, and genders--are all political theories, constructed in legal texts for political purposes.

The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them.

This collection focuses on Ukraine's ethno-cultural minorities who in recent years have undergone forced displacement, emigration, the destruction of familiar ways of life, and a transformation of identity and language behaviour.

One of the hottest topics in computer forensics today, electronic discovery (e-discovery) is the process by which parties involved in litigation respond to requests to produce electronically stored information (ESI).

This volume deals with various social-science perspectives on law and legal control pertaining to music in a variety of contexts.

Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems is a handy reference that shows students the essential tools needed to do computer forensics analysis at the crime scene.