Georgetown University Law Center. What do Catharine MacKinnon, the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, and Lani Guinier have in common? All have, in recent years, become flashpoints for different approaches to legal reform. In the last quarter century, the study and practice of law have been profoundly influenced by a number of powerful new ......
Most of us don’t want to think about estate planning, about what it would be like if we weren’t here to take care of our loved ones. As a business owner or entrepreneur, you have worked hard for your success and wealth, and this has helped ensure your loved ones are cared for. But what would happen if you became incapacitated or died?
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At a time when complaints are heard everywhere about the excesses of lawyers, judges, and law itself, the author focuses attention on the American legal mind and its urge to lay down the law. For him, legalism is a way of thinking that extends far beyond the customary official precincts of the law.
At a time when complaints are heard about the excesses of lawyers, judges, and law itself, the author focuses on the American legal mind and its urge to lay down the law. He prompts us to move beyond the facile self-congratulatory self-representations of the law so that we may think critically about its identity, effects, and limitations.
In 2002 Congress enacted the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), the first major revision of federal campaign finance law in a generation. In March 2001, after a fiercely contested and highly divisive seven-year partisan legislative battle, the Senate passed S.
Papke (law and liberal arts, Indiana U.) traces the lineage of legal heretics from 19th-century activists up to more recent radicals and to the contemporary rejection of legal authority by various militia and anti-abortion movements. He illuminates a tradition of American legal heresy, linked by a
How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law
The relationship between religion and the law is a hot-button topic in America, with the courts, Congress, journalists, and others engaging in animated debates on what influence, if any, the former should have on the latter. This book includes faiths that had an impact on American law, and immigrant faiths that have a growing influence.
How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law
Features legal scholars from sixteen different religious traditions who contend that religious discourse has an important function in the making, practice, and adjudication of American law, not least because our laws rest upon a framework of religious values. This book also includes topics such as abortion, gay rights, euthanasia, and free speech.
This book covers all of the core legal subjects including: constitutional law, company law, EU law, the Irish legal system, contract law, tort, criminal law, land law and equity, employment law, family law and jurisprudence.