Challenging the Assumptions of Intellectual Property
Behind the scenes of the many artists and innovators flourishing beyond the bounds of intellectual property laws Intellectual property law, or IP law, is based on certain assumptions about creative behavior. The case for regulation assumes that creators have a fundamental legal right to prevent copying, and without this right they will ......
Challenging the Assumptions of Intellectual Property
Behind the scenes of the many artists and innovators flourishing beyond the bounds of intellectual property laws Intellectual property law, or IP law, is based on certain assumptions about creative behavior. The case for regulation assumes that creators have a fundamental legal right to prevent copying, and without this right they will ......
A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsense The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Schoeenberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" are "unquestionably shielded" by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all ......
TheRisale-i Nur Collection is full of "general principles," not only related to the Islamic Jurisprudence but also to all the fields of Islam or Islamic life and Islamic branches of knowledge. Based on or specially favored with profound wisdom having its source in the Divine Wisdom or the Divine Name of the All-Wise, the Risale-i Nur Collection ......
Reflections on the Construction of Contemporary American Legal Theory
Invites readers to enter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we understand and use theory in law today. It features conversations with legal intellectuals, interviewing them about their early lives as thinkers and scholars, their contributions to American legal theory, and more.
Many legal theorists and judges agree on one major premise in the field of law and religion: that religion clause jurisprudence is in a state of disarray and has been for some time. This work contends that both hard originalism and neutrality are illusory in religion clause jurisprudence.
Contains articles on the connection between morality and the law by such thinkers as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cass R Sunstein, and others. This book focuses on issues of morality and lawyering by looking at such questions as how lawyers should represent clients with whom they disagree ethically and how defence lawyers can represent guilty clients.
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance inLatin America
Judicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned their attention to “second generation” ......
