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Spying

Ronald Griffin
Book Chapter

Ronald C. Griffin’s paper Spying, which is the third paper in the book Selected Issues in Modern Jurisprudence, edited by David A. Frenkel, begins with the finding in the Church Committee Report in the USA. It spotlights Edward Snowden’s disclosure about the NSA, reviews pertinent laws about spying and parades some suggestions and recommendation to curb government excesses.
Human Trafficking

Cheryl Page
Book

Slavery has not been eradicated. Human Trafficking explores the legal, moral, and political attempts to contain sex and labor trafficking. The authors bring unique perspectives to these topics. Professor Page, an African-American woman all too familiar with the vestiges of slavery, has written and lectured internationally on trafficking. Professor Piatt, a Hispanic law professor and former law school dean, brings his international experience as an educator, author, and advocate regarding immigration and human rights matters to bear. The book considers efforts at containment, including controversial topics such as whether prostitution should be legalized. It concludes with specific approaches to eliminate trafficking.
A Student Electronic Discovery Primer: An Essential Companion for Civil Procedure Courses

Jennifer M. Smith and William F. Hamilton
Book

A Student Electronic-Discovery Primer supplements the traditional civil procedure textbook. The Primer is specifically designed as a practical and accessible guide for the first-year law student. Traditional civil procedure textbooks have given short shrift to what has emerged as a foundation of modern civil litigation—electronic discovery. This concise text introduces students to the new and often troubling themes of electronic discovery: preservation, search, metadata, and forms of production, touching upon the major issues that confront the use of digital data in litigation. It also includes sample electronic discovery practice forms and outlines the key 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to electronic discovery. This Primer is an excellent electronic discovery introduction for students and a handy guide for civil procedure professors.
Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law: U.S. and International Perspectives

Randall S. Abate
Book and Chapter

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law. The protection of oceans has received increased attention in the past decade because of sea-level rise, ocean acidification, the global overfishing crisis, widespread depletion of marine biodiversity such as marine mammals and coral reefs, and marine pollution. Paralleling the growth of ocean and coastal law, climate change regulation has emerged as a focus of international environmental diplomacy, and has gained increased attention in the wake of disturbing and abrupt climate change related impacts throughout the world that have profound implications for ocean and coastal regulation and marine resources.

Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law effectively unites these two worlds. It raises important questions about whether and how ocean and coastal law will respond to the regulatory challenges that climate change presents to resources in the oceans and coasts of the U.S. and the world. This comprehensive work assembles the insights of global experts from academia and major NGOs (e.g., Center for International Environmental Law, Ocean Conservancy, and Environmental Law Institute) to address regulatory challenges from the perspectives of U.S. law, foreign domestic law, and international law.
What Can Animal Law Learn From Environmental Law?

Randall S. Abate
Book

This book seeks to fill the gap between the complex legal issues that matter most to the environmental law and animal law movements. Environmental law, with its intricate layers of international, federal, state, and local laws, has a longer history and is more established than its animal law counterpart. Yet, animal law faces many of the same legal and strategic challenges that environmental law faced in seeking to establish a more secure foothold in the United States and abroad. As such, animal law stands to gain valuable insights from the lessons of the environmental law movement’s experience in confronting those challenges.
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Mark Dorosin
Book

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow provides a compelling analysis of the forces and choices that have shaped the trend toward the resegregation of public schools. By assembling a wide range of contributors—historians, sociologists, economists, and education scholars—the editors provide a comprehensive view of a community’s experience with desegregation and economic development. Here we see resegregation through the lens of Charlotte, North Carolina, once a national model of successful desegregation, and home of the landmark Swann desegregation case, which gave rise to school busing.

This book recounts the last forty years of Charlotte’s desegregation and resegregation, putting education reform in political and economic context. Within a decade of the Swann case, the district had developed one of the nation’s most successful desegregation plans, measured by racial balance and improved academic outcomes for both black and white students. However, beginning in the 1990s, this plan was gradually dismantled. Today, the level of resegregation in Charlotte has almost returned to what it was prior to 1971. At the core of Charlotte’s story is the relationship between social structure and human agency, with an emphasis on how yesterday’s decisions and actions define today’s choices.
Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions

Jeremy I. Levitt
Book and Chapter

From Compton to Cairo, Bahia to Brixton, black women have been disproportionally affected by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, discrimination and violence. Despite being one of the largest and geographically dispersed groups in the world, they are rarely referenced or considered as a subject of analysis in international law literature. Thus, it is vital that scholars refashion global discourse by re-conceptualizing international law and relations from their unique experiences and perspectives. This collection covers a broad range of topics and issues that examine the complex interactions - as subjects and objects - between black women and international law. The book critically explores the manifold relationship between them with a view toward highlighting the historic and contemporary ways in which they have influenced and been influenced by transnational law, doctrine, norms, jurisprudence, public policy, public discourse and global governance. It purports to unearth old law and fashion new paradigms born out of the experiences of black women.
How to Achieve Success After the Bar Exam: A Step-by-Step Action Plan

Joan R. M. Bullock
Book

So you’ve taken the bar exam. Now what? How to Achieve Success After the Bar Exam will guide recent law-school graduates as they make the crucial transition from student to lawyer. Through week-by-week activities and practical advice, this book will help recent grads define their career vision, seek out networking opportunities, demonstrate their value to potential clients, develop accountability, and think like a businessperson. How to Achieve Success After the Bar Exam will help you:

Create an eight-week action plan to jumpstart your legal career

Become the CEO of your life

Build a network and forge alliances that can help you

Develop professional expertise

Learn the basics of law practice management

Understand how to work with your future clients

Learn the business aspects of law, including marketing and profitability

Plan strategically for the future
Florida Family Law: Skills and Practice Workbook

Ann Marie Cavazos, Patricia A. Broussard, Nise` Nekheba, and Nikie N. Lomax
Book

Today's legal landscape is increasingly demanding practical skills from recent law school graduates and new attorneys. In light of this, the authors realized that there was a gap between theory and praxis with regard to family law in Florida. This workbook bridges this gap by designing an easily accessible book that better equips students and attorneys with the skills, confidence, and experience needed to serve the community with the highest level of professionalism.

As a result, this workbook has multiple uses and benefits. It can serve as a teaching tool for professors. It also may be used by individuals who plan to take the Florida Bar and wish to use it as a study guide. Furthermore, this workbook can serve as a valuable legal resource for new attorneys who plan to practice family law in Florida.

In an effort to accelerate and optimize the users' learning process, this workbook utilizes a fictional community of families that provide the scenarios for hypothetical exercises that are integral to the honing of practical legal skills. In the exercises, users will be required to perform real-life legal tasks for one or more families from this fictional community. The workbook includes relevant statute(s), case law, and internet links for the user who needs to act on or resolve a family law issue. Each chapter also includes a checklist, though not exhaustive, of key interview questions to ask a client.
Black's Law Dictionary, Tenth Edition

Bryan A. Garner
Book
Entertainment Careers for Lawyers, Third Edition

William D. Henslee
Book

Entertainment law is a popular area of study for law students and a desired career path for practitioners. Yet the glamour of working with actors, production companies, musicians, writers, and others to create works of art comes with long hours, hard work, and fierce competition for jobs. Entertainment Careers for Lawyers, Third Edition, will dispel many of the myths surrounding the practice and help lawyers and law students gain an understanding of the realities of entertainment law. This book will help you:

Gain an overview of the substantive law areas included in entertainment law, from intellectual property and litigation to contract negotiations and estate planning
Understand the pros and cons of specializing in entertainment law
Learn about the career trajectories available in four major entertainment genres: music, theater, film, and television
Get the academic and work experience you need to succeed in this specialty
Land your first job as an entertainment lawyer as a law student
Successfully transition to entertainment law as a mid-career attorney
Explore non-legal career options in the entertainment field
Understand the day-to-day realities of working as an entertainment lawyer
Illegal Peace in Africa: An Inquiry into the Legality of Power Sharing with Warlords, Rebels, and Junta

Jeremy I. Levitt
Book

African states have become testing grounds for Western conflict-resolution experiments, particularly power-sharing agreements, supposedly intended to end deadly conflict, secure peace, and build democracy in divided societies. This volume examines the legal and political efficacy of transitional political power-sharing between democratically constituted governments and the African warlords, rebels, or junta that seek to violently unseat them. What role does law indicate for itself to play in informing, shaping, and regulating peace agreements? This book addresses this question and others through the prism of three West African case studies: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau. It applies the Neo-Kadeshean Model of analysis and offers a framework for a 'Law on Power-sharing.' In a field dominated by political scientists, and drawing from ancient and contemporary international law, this book represents the first substantive legal critique of the law, practice, and politics of power sharing.
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies

Randall S. Abate
Book

Indigenous peoples occupy a unique niche within the climate justice movement, as many indigenous communities live subsistence lifestyles that are severely disrupted by the effects of climate change. Additionally, in many parts of the world, domestic law is applied differently to indigenous peoples than it is to their non-indigenous peers, further complicating the quest for legal remedies. The contributors to this book bring a range of expert legal perspectives to this complex discussion, offering both a comprehensive explanation of climate change-related problems faced by indigenous communities and a breakdown of various real world attempts to devise workable legal solutions. Regions covered include North and South America (Brazil, Canada, the US and the Arctic), the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Tuvalu and the Federated States of Micronesia), Australia and New Zealand, Asia (China and Nepal) and Africa (Kenya).
Public Law and Social Human Rights

Areto A. Imoukuede
Book Chapter

This paper argues that public education is an international human right that the U.S. ought to recognize and protect. Recognizing a right to public education would correct a major inconsistency in U.S. law by bringing education rights doctrine more in line with international human rights law. This piece discusses how current U.S. education rights doctrine is inconsistent with U.S. tradition and legal precedent. It then demonstrates how international law recognizes public education as a fundamental duty of government before arguing for why the U.S. is obligated to follow international law regarding the right to public education.
Beyond Economic Efficiency in United Tax Law

Darryll K. Jones
Book

A collection of unconventional voices, Beyond Economic Efficiency in United States Tax Law articulates alternative approaches to traditional economic analysis that provide a fuller understanding of tax law.
Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia

Deleso A. Alford
Book

This reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War. Through essays, photos, and primary source documents, the female experience is explored, and women are depicted as central, rather than marginal, figures in history.
Slavery in the history of the United States continues to loom large in our national consciousness, and the role of women in this dark chapter of the American past is largely under-examined. This encyclopedia focuses on the daily experiences and roles of female slaves in the United States, from colonial times to official abolition provided by the 13th amendment to the Constitution in 1865. Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia contains 100 entries written by a range of experts and covering all aspects of daily life.

Topics include culture, family, health, labor, resistance, and violence. Arranged alphabetically by entry, this unique look at history features life histories of lesser-known African American women, including Harriet Robinson Scott, the wife of Dred Scott, as well as more notable figures.
Voices in Medical Sociology: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Patricia A. Broussard
Book Chapter

Voices in Medical Sociology: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a reader for students of health care. The collection of articles written by sociologists, health care providers, public health professionals, lawyers, and students addresses the most salient issues in the field of medical sociology today. These readings cover epidemiology, maternal health, children's health, legal aspects of health care reform, and the lack of health care for incarcerated women. Additionally, the book addresses controversial topics such as fracking, female genital mutilation, alternative medicine, and the social construction of illness. This material familiarizes students with long-standing concerns in the field of health care, and also exposes them to new issues that are relevant today.

Voices in Medical Sociology is an interdisciplinary text that provides important information for students without relying on the standard textbook form. Rather, it makes use of diverse materials including legal cases, personal memoirs, and book reviews. It also includes previously published and new articles. The variety of the original writings and the different voices of the writers serve to discuss and define the many diverse aspects of contemporary health care.
Justice Carter's Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess

Markita D. Cooper
Book Chapter

Jesse W. Carter served as a justice on the California Supreme Court from 1939-1959, where he was known as “The Lone Dissenter” because he wrote so many solo dissents. Many of these opinions were in passionate defense of civil rights, civil liberties, and the rights of labor, criminal defendants, and personal injury victims. Several of the cases were reversed by the United States Supreme Court, or by later decisions of the California Supreme Court, adopting Justice Carter’s reasoning. Professor Cooper points out in her essay that not all of Justice Carter’s dissenting positions were later vindicated by these courts. In Justice Carter’s Dissent in Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co.: Foreshadowing Privacy Concerns for an Age of Digital Cameras, Video Voyeurism, and Internet Excess, she discusses Justice Carter’s views on privacy rights in public places noting that Justice Carter saw privacy as a “matter of dignity, not just a matter of location” and suggesting that his view is instructive in an age of digital cameras, advanced technology, and the Internet.
Bender's State Taxation: Principles & Practice

Darryll K. Jones
Book Chapter

Full insight into the often detailed and always complex principles governing state tax law, compliance, and planning.
Hurricane Katrina: America's Unnatural Disaster

Jeremy I. Levitt
Book

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm devastated the region and its citizens. But its devastation did not reach across racial and class lines equally. In an original combination of research and advocacy, Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina’s central victims, African Americans. This collection of polemical essays explores the extent to which African Americans and others were, and are, disproportionately affected by the natural and manmade forces that caused Hurricane Katrina. Such an engaged study of this tragic event forces us to acknowledge that the ways in which we view our history and life have serious ramifications on modern human relations, public policy, and quality of life.
Model Jury Instructions: Copyright, Trademark and Trade Dress Litigation Model Jury Instructions: Copyright, Trademark and Trade Dress Litigation

Deidre Keller
Book Chapter

This addition to the Model Jury Instructions series, published by the ABA Section of Litigation, provides clear and balanced instructions for presentation to juries in copyright, trademark and trade dress litigation. These models accurately and impartially present the elements and critical definitions of copyright, trademark and trade dress law in language that is understandable and familiar to the average juror. The book includes a CD-ROM of the jury instructions that allows for easy adaptation to particular cases or points. Chapter introductions give overviews of the current state of the law, including the major recent cases in most jurisdictions, with discussions of the practical issues you might have to consider. Individual instructions are followed by commentary that includes discussion of the cases from which the instruction was derived, as well as how and when to adapt the instruction to particular cases, to the laws of particular states, to the requirements of particular jurisdictions, or in the light of inconsistent authority. Besides making it easy to present first-rate instructions, the models and supporting citations give you an excellent starting place from which to investigate the nuances of a particular jurisdiction. This book gives you the framework for preparing and trying your case, from analyzing the fact situation and planning strategy to preparing your final argument.
Scientific Evidence Review: Admissibility and Use of Expert Evidence in the Courtroom

Deidre Keller
Book Chapter

This book offers a complete update of Monograph No. 6 focusing entirely on state and federal court expert evidence issues. The easy-to-read format provides quick access to the governing expert evidence rules in federal and state courts throughout the United States. The monograph consists of papers from each of the federal circuits. These papers analyze and summarize the key cases in each circuit and the state courts within the circuit. The book also includes in-depth commentary on the qualifications and increased scrutiny of experts, and the jurors' perception of expert testimony.
Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law

Jeremy I. Levitt
Book

The principal aim of this work is to provide a forum for leading international lawyers with experience and interest in Africa to address a broad range of intellectual challenges concerning the contribution of African states and peoples to international law. As such, the volume addresses orthodox topics of international law - such as jurisdiction and intervention - but tackles them from an African perspective, and seeks to ask whether, in each case, the African perspective is unique or affirms existing arrangements of international law. The book cannot come at a more important time. While international legal discourse has been captured by the challenge of terrorism since September 11, 2001, there are clear signs that other issues are returning to the fore. Political interest in Africa has undergone a global revival, and the OAU has been transformed into the African Union. Infrastructural challenges, along with those taking place in regional contexts, have effectively mapped a new politico-legal landscape for Africa. This, and more, is explored, and the key normative questions are addressed in a series of essays by leading Africanist scholars.
The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation, Second Edition

Darryll K. Jones
Book

This text has two specific goals. One goal is that students learn an existing scheme of taxation, whether the course involves individual, partnership, corporate, or estate and gift taxation. The second goal is that students learn the theory language and syntax of the Code and regulations so that they can teach themselves, clients, judges, and legislators new schemes of taxation as the need arises. The second goal also provides students with the tools to fix or intelligently apply existing schemes as unfamiliar situations arise in their lives as tax professionals. This text focuses almost exclusively on primary sources--the code and regulations--to achieve both pedagogical goals.
Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers, 5th Edition

William D. Henslee
Book

Whether you are a law student who realizes that practicing law is not what you want to do or a practicing lawyer who no longer feels satisfied with your work, this newly revised guidebook will show you what you can do with your law degree, besides practice law, and will illustrate how to use your legal skills to rise above the competition. Learn in detail what opportunities exist in these fields:

-Business and Industry--jobs in corporations; accounting firms; media companies; health care and pharmaceutical companies; engineering firms; real estate sales; high-tech companies; and more. -Government and Public Service--positions in the executive, judicial and legislative branch. -Associations and Institutions--careers in professional associations; PACS, lobbying, and campaigns; national and international service organizations, publishing companies; educational institutions; unions; and more. -Entrepreneurial Ventures--opportunities for consultants, agents, writers, counselors, investigators, informational technology specialists, and more.

In this guide, the authors lead you step by step through the process of assessing the special skills that legal training provides, choosing a nonlegal career, and conducting a nonlegal job search. In addition, they provide you with essential information about a variety of careers in business and industry, government and public service, associations and institutions, and entrepreneurial ventures. To help you with the task of locating additional useful information on nonlegal careers, the book also contains a valuable resource section featuring surveys, descriptions of nonlegal careers, and a listing of publishers and publications, as well as suggested readings on nonlegal careers.