This volume reviews the historical development of the discriminatory body of law that applies to the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, beginning with the papal bull Inter Caetera of 1493
Thinking about starting or running a business in Texas? Then this new editon of Your Texas Business is a must-have additon to your new business plan. It addresses everyday legal questions an dproblems
Rising land prices and the desire of individuals to enjoy the tax benefits of real estate ownership have given rise to an enormous expansion of the condominium form of real estate. With this expansion
Feminist Legal Theory is a carefully balanced and thoughtfully edited collection of classic and new papers from the exciting field of feminist legal thought. What makes current feminist legal theory s
Traditional theories of American political development depict the American state as a thoroughly liberal state from its very inception. In this book, first published in 1992, Karen Orren challenges that account by arguing that a remnant of ancient feudalism was, in fact, embedded in the American governmental system, in the form of the law of master and servant, and persisted until well into the twentieth century. The law of master and servant was, she reveals, incorporated in the US Constitution and administered from democratic politics. The fully legislative polity that defines the modern liberal state was achieved in America, Orren argues, only through the initiatives of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was finally ushered in as part of the processes of collective bargaining instituted by the New Deal. This book represents a fundamental reinterpretation of constitutional change in the United States and of the role of American organized labo
Winner of the American Bar Association's 1992 Silver Gavel Award "in recognition of an outstanding contribution to public understanding of the American system of law and justice.""Mr. Sobol has produc
The current products liability crisis is both familiar and puzzling: million-dollar awards for apparently frivolous claims, inadequate settlements for thousands of people with severe injuries, skyrock
Should a court order medical treatment for a severely disabled newborn in the face of the parents' refusal to authorize it? How does the law apply to a neighborhood that objects to a group home for de
The book presents different perspectives that explain the prohibition of insider trading and the way it affects various aspects of life on the stock market.
As a follow-up to the editors' Interactive Corporate Compliance, this collection of essays details efforts that have been made to resolve differences between business and government. It studies ways i
Examines the medical malpractice crisis, suggests shifting insurance responsibility from doctors to hospitals, and proposes a no-fault liability system
Examines the current crisis in bank regulation and the regulatory response and provides a series of recommendations for reforming the recommendations for reforming the system so that regulatory failur
"The book meets the highest standards of scholarly rigor, and treatment of disputed issues is informative without being esoteric. An excellent general survey and introduction." --Choice..". will be en
Uphoff studies negotiations between the United States and Southeast Asian nations concerning intellectual property protection. She analyzes case studies showing how each of the ASEAN governments respo
Presenting a comprehensive, critical examination of the claim that private property is one of the fundamental rights of humankind, Waldron here contrasts two types of arguments about rights: those bas
This forthright and provocative book offers a new perspective on copyright law and the legal rights of individuals to use copyrighted materials. Most Americans believe that the primary purpose of copy
