Юриспруденция, право

500 кн. Подписаться на жанр

Сортировать по:

дате добавления

названию

году выхода

количеству скачиваний

The Supreme Court in the Intimate L...

Howard Ball

The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 Personal rights, such as the right to procreateor notand the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right to reproduce and to abort, and takes on the issue of auto-euthanasia and assisted suicide, from Karen Ann Quinlan through Kevorkian and just recently to the Florida case of the...

Автор

Howard Ball

The Measure of Injury

Martha Chamallas

The Measure of Injury

Tort law is the body of law governing negligence, intentional misconduct, and other wrongful acts for which civil actions can be brought. The conventional wisdom is that the rules, concepts, and structures of tort law are neutral and unbiased, free of considerations of gender and race.In The Measure of Injury , Martha Chamallas and Jennifer Wriggins prove that tort law is anything but gender and race neutral. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of case law ranging from the Jim Crow South to the...

Автор

Martha Chamallas

Buying a Bride

Marcia A. Zug

Buying a Bride

There have always been mail-order brides in America—but we haven’t always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called “Tobacco Wives” of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today’s modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It’s a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It’s also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and...

Автор

Marcia A. Zug

America's Jails

Derek Jeffreys

America's Jails

A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates [b][/b]Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts of time, and are often occupied by large populations of legally innocent people waiting for a trial. Jails often have deplorable sanitary conditions, and there are countless records of inmates being...

Автор

Derek Jeffreys

Climate Finance

Группа авторов

Climate Finance

Preventing risks of severe damage from climate change not only requires deep cuts in developed country greenhouse gas emissions, but enormous amounts of public and private investment to limit emissions while promoting green growth in developing countries. While attention has focused on emissions limitations commitments and architectures, the crucial issue of what must be done to mobilize and govern the necessary financial resources has received too little consideration. In Climate Finance , a...

Автор

Группа авторов

Stop and Frisk

Michael D. White

Stop and Frisk

Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Policing Section [/b][b] The first in-depth history and analysis of a much-abused policing policy No policing tactic has been more controversial than “stop and frisk,” whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and Frisk, the first authoritative history and analysis of...

Автор

Michael D. White

Trials Without Truth

William T. Pizzi

Trials Without Truth

Reginald Denny. O. J. Simpson. Colin Ferguson. Louise Woodward: all names that have cast a spotlight on the deficiencies of the American system of criminal justice. Yet, in the wake of each trial that exposes shocking behavior by trial participants or results in counterintuitive rulings—often with perverse results—the American public is reassured by the trial bar that the case is not «typical» and that our trial system remains the best in the world. William T. Pizzi here argues that what the...

Автор

William T. Pizzi

Toward a Unified Criminology

Robert Agnew

Toward a Unified Criminology

Why do people commit crimes? How do we control crime? The theories that criminologists use to answer these questions are built on a number of underlying assumptions, including those about the nature of crime, free will, human nature, and society. These assumptions have a fundamental impact on criminology: they largely determine what criminologists study, the causes they examine, the control strategies they recommend, and how they test their theories and evaluate crime-control strategies. In...

Автор

Robert Agnew

The Global Flow of Information

Группа авторов

The Global Flow of Information

The Internet has been integral to the globalization of a range of goods and production, from intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse and cultural symbols. Yet the ease with which it allows information to flow at a global level presents enormous regulatory challenges. Understanding if, when, and how the law should regulate online, international flows of information requires a firm grasp of past, present, and future patterns of information flow, and their political,...

Автор

Группа авторов

Reimagining Equality

Nancy E. Dowd

Reimagining Equality

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine [/b] A comprehensive examination of developmental inequality among children [b] Developmental equality–whether every child has an equal opportunity to reach their fullest potential–is essential for children’s future growth and access to opportunity. In the United States, however, children of color are disproportionately affected by poverty, poor educational outcomes, and structural discrimination, limiting their potential. In ...

Автор

Nancy E. Dowd

Trial by Jury

James Oldham

Trial by Jury

While the right to be judged by one's peers in a court of law appears to be a hallmark of American law, protected in civil cases by the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution, the civil jury is actually an import from England. Legal historian James Oldham assembles a mix of his signature essays and new work on the history of jury trial, tracing how trial by jury was transplanted to America and preserved in the Constitution. Trial by Jury begins with a rigorous examination of English civil...

Автор

James Oldham

Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and...

Juana María Rodríguez

Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association [/b][b]Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement...

Автор

Juana María Rodríguez

Crip Times

Robert McRuer

Crip Times

Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or “crip times.” Throughout Crip Times , McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture—activism, blogs, art, photography, literature,...

Автор

Robert McRuer

Race, Ethnicity, and Policing

Группа авторов

Race, Ethnicity, and Policing

From Rodney King and “driving while black” to claims of targeting of undocumented Latino immigrants, relationships surrounding race, ethnicity, and the police have faced great challenge. Race, Ethnicity, and Policing includes both classic pieces and original essays that provide the reader with a comprehensive, even-handed sense of the theoretical underpinnings, methodological challenges, and existing research necessary to understand the problems associated with racial and...

Автор

Группа авторов

Sex without Consent

Группа авторов

Sex without Consent

A group of men rape an intoxicated fifteen year old girl to «make a woman of her.» An immigrant woman is raped after accepting a ride from a stranger. A young mother is accosted after a neighbor escorts her home. In another case, a college frat party is the scene of the crime. Although these incidents appear similar to accounts one can read in the newspapers almost any day in the United States, only the last one occurred in this century. Each, however, involved a woman or girl compelled to have...

Автор

Группа авторов

Intersexuality and the Law

Julie A. Greenberg

Intersexuality and the Law

Winner of the 2013 Bullough Award presented by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality The term “intersex” evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex condition, or DSD (disorder of sex development), are men or women whose sex chromosomes, gonads, or sex anatomy do not fit clearly into the male/female binary norm. Until recently, intersex...

Автор

Julie A. Greenberg

Skateboarding LA

Gregory J. Snyder

Skateboarding LA

Inside the complex and misunderstood world of professional street skateboarding On a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, a crew of skaters and videographers watch as one of them attempts to land a “heel flip” over a fire hydrant on a sidewalk in front of the Biltmore Hotel. A staff member of the hotel demands they leave and picks up his phone to call the police.Not only does the skater land the trick, but he does so quickly, and spares everyone the unwanted stress of having to deal with the cops....

Автор

Gregory J. Snyder

Wedlocked

Katherine Franke

Wedlocked

The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement’s campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, but also what kind of freedom and equality the ability to marry can mobilize. Wedlocked turns to history to compare today’s same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they...

Автор

Katherine Franke

Interracial Justice

Eric K. Yamamoto

Interracial Justice

The United States in the twenty-first century will be a nation of so-called minorities. Shifts in the composition of the American populace necessitate a radical change in the ways we as a nation think about race relations, identity, and racial justice. Once dominated by black-white relations, discussions of race are increasingly informed by an awareness of strife among nonwhite racial groups. While white influence remains important in nonwhite racial conflict, the time has come for...

Автор

Eric K. Yamamoto

The Colorblind Screen

Sarah E. Turner

The Colorblind Screen

The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many therealization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer adefining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a“colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals ofintegration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality thisattitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privilegesby denying and minimizing the effects of...

Автор

Sarah E. Turner

By Heart

Judith Tannenbaum

By Heart

A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art. "A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between two gifted writers and poets. The result is By Heart a...

Автор

Judith Tannenbaum

The Life and Death of Latisha King

Gayle Salamon

The Life and Death of Latisha King

What can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity? The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of...

Автор

Gayle Salamon

Chicano Students and the Courts

Richard R. Valencia

Chicano Students and the Courts

In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Americans as one of the most poorly educated ethnic groups in the United States. Chicano Students and the Courts is a comprehensive look at this community’s long-standing...

Автор

Richard R. Valencia

Children, Sexuality, and the Law

Группа авторов

Children, Sexuality, and the Law

American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human development, law rarely contemplates the complex ways in which it interacts with children and sexuality. Just as the law circumscribes children to a narrow range of roles—either as entirely sexless beings or victims or objects of harmful adult sexual conduct—so too does society tend to discount the notion of children as agents...

Автор

Группа авторов

←
1
2
...
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
→
стр.

Для правообладателей и по всем вопросам knigism.info@yandex.ru