Jurisprudence and general issues

In tracking the evolution of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clause doctrine through Key Supreme Court decisions on religious freedom, legal scholar Randall P.

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Whether it is doing a TEDx, presenting a podcast, sharing on social media, presenting at a conference, or pitching to a potential funder, engaging with storytelling and performance is now a prerequisite of an academics 'modus operandi.

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly.

AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, Third Edition, provides content required to deliver the best care for critically ill or injured children.

Winner: Bancroft PrizeWinner: Henry Adams PrizeWinner: Ohio History Association Book PrizeIn time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution.

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.

Since 1980, the number of people in U.

In 1993, Jose Medelln, an eighteen-year-old Mexican national who lived most of his life in the United States, was arrested for his participation in the gang rape and murder of two girls in Houston, Texas.

Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Africa.

Although there are legal norms to secure the uniform treatment of asylum claims in the United States, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that strategic and economic interests also influence asylum outcomes.

When, in Obergefell v.

Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years.

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

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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.

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.

Do you want to go to law school?

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.