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.
A straightforward plain-English guide to what members of all the services and their families need to know about the law while serving in the armed forces. Included are the laws of war, laws on military status, personal law, and more.
Presents all the information practitioners and scholars need to stay current in the field, with contributions by researchers, trainers and practitioners addressing a full range of essential topics, detailing the development of the theory behind mediation practice.
Updates to this edition include information on clozapine in treatment of schizophrenia, tardive dyskinesia, ECT, suicide risk assessment, violence risk assessment, numerous tables and an updated glossary of legal terms and new section on common terms and abbreviations in legal citations.
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.
This new annual review from Cato analyzes the 2001/2002 Supreme Court Term, specifically looking at the most important and far reaching cases of the year.
This essential collection by 13 leading U.S. experts sheds important new light on forensic guidelines for effective assessment and diagnosis and determination of disability, serving both plaintiffs and defendants in litigation involving PTSD claims.
Presents cases and the stories behind legal arguments, showing the ways that fat has become a courtroom topic. This book features an attorney who focuses on weight-related cases, detailing court attitudes toward weight in relation to disability law, civil rights, minorities, and public policy. It is intended for law courses and libraries.
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.
