As I write this, the nation is still reeling from multiple shocks in July 2016. First, as the month began, came yet two more videotaped incidents of police shooting to death black arrestees after many other such widely-publicized incidents over the previous several years. The day after the Fourth of July holiday, disturbing footage went viral of Baton Rouge police outside a convenience store firing repeatedly at 37-year-old Alton Sterling while two white policemen already had Sterling pinned...
Lise Pearlman’s With Justice for Some: Politically Charged Criminal Trials in the Early 20th Century that Helped Shape Today’s America takes a fascinating look back at headline-grabbing criminal trials from the early 1900s as a cultural backdrop for contentious issues we face as a nation today. In her first book The Sky’s The Limit: People v. Newton, The REAL Trial of the 20th Century? these early trials were compared to the 1968 death penalty trial of Black Panther leader Huey Newton, which the...
California NORML Guide to Drug Testing is the authorative and indispensable guide to: dealing with drug testing on short notice; drug test detection times; medical marijuana and drug tests; drug tests and DUI, and what’s wrong with drug testing. Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML writes, “This booklet arms cannabis consumers with the knowledge they need to protect themselves from discrimination in the workplace and provides activists with the information they need to effectively lobby...
Who was Fay Abrahams Stender? A giant among Movement lawyers from the McCarthy Era to the 1970s intent on forcing society to change. Friends could easily picture her as the heroine of a grand opera. A child prodigy, she abandoned the concert piano to become a zealous advocate for society’s most scorned and vilified criminal defendants: from the Rosenberg espionage case during the Cold War to militant black clients, Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton and revolutionary prisoner George Jackson...
Transformative Years is Daniel Meador's account of his four years as dean of the School of Law at the University of Alabama from 1966 to 1970. Those were indeed transformative years, bridging the Law School of the past to the Law School of the future. Working on the premise that this institution was a crucial training ground for the state’s future legal and political leadership, the author, with the backing of university president Frank Rose, moved rapidly to build the school up in every...
This book presents in-depth yet practical information on the most important issues concerning international residence and citizenship planning for private clients. <p>It is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also an invaluable guide for private individuals and families, business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their...
Global Residence and Citizenship Programs 2016 provides a comprehensive, systematic analysis and benchmarking of the world’s most relevant investor immigration and citizenship-by-investment programs. A distinguished panel of independent experts – immigration and citizenship lawyers, economists, country risk experts, academic researchers and other specialists – have created the Global Residence Program Index and the Global Citizenship Program Index as part of the Report. These two Indexes...
Current and future managers are regularly confronted with decisions that create risk in the legal environment of business. This book provides a framework for qualifying legal risk and then determining if the legal risk is worth taking. This framework begins by looking at the relationship between the firm, its suppliers, customers, owners, agents, and others in society as a whole to understand specific risks in personal injury, agreements, products, borrowing money, employees, independent...
Maßgeschneidert für die Bundespolizei Dieses Lernbuch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung des Beamtenrechts aus der Sicht von Bundespolizeibeamtinnen und -beamten. Es basiert auf der Lehrtätigkeit der beiden Verfasser am bislang größten Aus- und Fortbildungszentrum der Bundespolizei (BPOLAFZ) in Bamberg. Die Autoren erläutern die Thematik anhand praxisnaher Beispiele mit bundespolizeilichem Bezug. Zusammenfassende Übersichten und Hinweise zu einschlägigen Gerichtsurteilen vermitteln anschaulich...
Ein parapsychologisches Forscherteam verbringt einige Tage im legendären Schweizer Spukhaus der Familie Lufer und verschwindet daraufhin spurlos. Die unheimliche Geschichte des Orts und die dunklen Geheimnisse der Forscher vermischen sich zu einem Strudel unvorhersehbarer Ereignisse. Lediglich die kürzlich aufgefunden Tonaufnahmen der Expeditionliefern ein verstörendes Zeugnis der Geschehnisse. Schonungslos, real, authentisch – und definitiv nicht zum Einschlafen geeignet! U. a. mit Oliver...