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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right
Author: Sophia Z. LeePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316061191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Today, most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job. Instead of enjoying free speech or privacy, they can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all. This book uses history to explain why. It takes readers back to the 1930s and 1940s when advocates across the political spectrum - labor leaders, civil rights advocates and conservatives opposed to government regulation - set out to enshrine constitutional rights in the workplace. The book tells their interlocking stories of fighting for constitutional protections for American workers, recovers their surprising successes, explains their ultimate failure, and helps readers assess this outcome.
Taming the Past
Author: Robert W. GordonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107193230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.
The Liability Century
Author: Kenneth S. AbrahamPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265548
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Kenneth Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond, including the events of September 11, 2001. From its beginning late in the nineteenth century, the availability of liability insurance led to the creation of new forms of liability, heavily influenced expansion of the liabilities that already existed, and continually promoted increases in the amount of money that was awarded in tort suits. A “liability-and-insurance spiral” emerged, in which the availability of liability insurance encouraged the imposition of more liability, and, in turn, the imposition of liability encouraged the further spread of insurance. Liability insurance was not merely a source of funding for ever-greater amounts of tort liability. Liability insurers came to dominate tort litigation. They defended lawsuits against their policyholders, and they decided which cases to settle, fight, or appeal. The very idea behind insurance––that spreading losses among large numbers of policyholders is desirable––came to influence the ideology of tort law. To serve the aim of loss spreading, liability had to expand. Today the tort liability and insurance systems constantly interact, and to reform one the role of the other must be fully understood.
States of Dependency
Author: Karen M. TaniPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107076846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.
The American Law Register and Review
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Author: University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register
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Category : Electronic journal.s
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Search for Truth
Author: Marvin E. FrankelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Military Justice
Author: Eugene R. FidellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199303495
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This book presents an accessible and honest assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of military justice around the world, with particular emphasis on the US, UK, and Canada.
Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood
Author: Pollman, ElizabethPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1789902916
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This insightful Research Handbook contributes to the theoretical and practical understanding of corporate purpose and personhood, which has become the central debate of corporate law. It provides cutting-edge thoughts on the role of corporations in society and the nature of their rights and responsibilities.
