Carolina Academic Press

American labor struggles and law histories.

This collection of nineteen articles on American labor history and law explores the development of organized collective action, and reactions to it, from the Revolutionary War period to the present. Beginning with the earliest labor cases that marked labor organization as criminal conspiracy, essays address key topics in American labor history including the Lowell Mills actions, industrial unionism and the Pullman Strike, the IWW and western radicalism, unions and the unemployed, sit-down strikes, public worker organization, immigrant labor and outsourcing and current, Koch brothers directed anti-union legislation and responses from organized labor. Contributors include academics from a variety of US universities as well as labor leaders and journalists. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Autism and the law; cases, statutes, and materials.

For lawyers, policy makers, and disability advocates, this important and timely volume on disability law provides a comprehensive overview of statues and case law regarding autism and its relation to several major areas of law. The work is divided into sections covering insurance and Medicaid regulation and litigation, special education and service delivery, and autism in the context of disability, criminal, and public health law. Individual chapters outline relevant cases with detailed analysis in a variety of subcategories including historical perspectives, legislative histories, enforcement strategies, and procedural methodologies. The Unumbs are lawyers from South Carolina and are the parents of a child with Autism. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Climate change; a reader. (CD-ROM included)

This collection of articles, essays, documents, and scientific explanations offers a broad, but detailed introduction to climate change issues. Written as a textbook, the book is intended for courses in climate change, global warming, and climate justice. It addresses numerous issues, including: international law and policy of climate change; the US response to climate change; framing the debate; legal initiatives; planet health; and local, state, regional, tribal, and private climate change initiatives. Authors are Rodgers, Jr. (environmental law, U. of Washington School of Law), Robinson-Dorn (law, U. of California, Irvine School of Law), Moritz (public interest climate change law), and Barcelos (co-founder and co-director of Three Degrees, a multidisciplinary climate justice initiative at the U. of Washington School of Law). (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Comprehensive law practice; law as a healing profession.

Daicoff (law, Florida Coastal School of Law) combines her experiences as a lawyer with her education as a psychologist, stating in her introduction: "This book begins with the premise that the time is ripe for a `new model' for lawyering, adjudicating, and dispute resolution to fully emerge, one which might even become the dominant model for the future. It then attempts to begin to outline how this `new lawyer' might approach clients, witnesses, other parties, lawyers, judges, mediators, cases, and matters" with an expanded repertoire of "tools," such as those afforded by the comprehensive law movement, which began in the 1990s as a movement for reform of the conventional adversarial model. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Cybercrime; the investigation, prosecution and defense of a computer-related crime, 3d ed.

In this updated third edition, Clifford (law, U. of Massachusetts School of Law) presents five chapters that provide an overview of computer-related crime issues. Chapters review US federal and state law defining and penalizing cybercrime, describe practices in the investigation and prosecution of a cybercrime, discuss defenses in cybercrime cases along with relevant statutes, and review recent developments in the international law of cybercrime. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The empowered paralegal professionalism anthology.

This collection of writings on paralegals and professionalism examines the evolution of the field from entry level legal assistants to practitioners of complex legal services and functions. Topics discussed include professional identity and organizations, regulation, ethics, court recognition, and educational standards. The volume includes writing from the 1980s to the present and includes relevant case law citations. Mongue is a professor of legal studies at the University of Mississippi. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Feminist criminology through a biosocial lens.

Feminist criminology, with its exclusively sociological focus, has failed to explain a key problem for sociology: the question of why it is universally true that males commit more criminal acts than females, according to Walsh (criminal justice, Boise State U.). He argues that the biosocial perspective incorporating insights from sociology, anthropology, psychology, behavioral and molecular genetics, the neurosciences, and evolutionary biology that he presents here is necessary in order to truly solve the gender ratio problem, as well as the generalizability problem, which refers to the question of whether theories formulated from evidence of male criminality are applicable to females. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Henry T. King; a life dedicated to international justice.

Henry T. King, Jr. (1919-2009) was a legal academic and practitioner who, among other positions, served as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, a legal adviser of the Marshall Plan, a delegate to the Rome Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of the International Criminal Court, and Honorary Consul of Canada. The heart of this text dedicated to honoring King is a set of informal autobiographical talks (including question and answer sessions) given by King at Case Western Reserve U. in 2008 reflecting on his life and his work in the field of international law. Also included are a series of encomiums to King and five selected writings by King, largely focused on Nuremberg. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The Jefferson-Hemings controversy; report of the Scholars Commission.

Following a 1998 Nature article that argued that DNA evidence supported the contention that Thomas Jefferson was the father of his slave Sally Hemings' children, the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, still skeptical of the allegations, asked a group of scholars to re-examine all of the evidence and to issue a public report. The resulting Scholars Commission, chaired by Robert Turner (U. of Virginia School of Law) released the report casting doubt on the claims that Hemings' children were fathered by Jefferson to the press in April 2001. This volume reproduces the work of the commission by reprinting that public report, as well as the dissenting minority report issued by one of the of the 13 scholars and several statements of individual views of the Commission's members, the latter of which have been updated and expanded in light of new evidence and scholarship. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

A judge's advice; 50 years on the bench.

Aldisert (Chief Judge Emeritus, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit) presents this work to lawyers and law students as an "informal conversation on the anatomy and philosophical purposes of the law." His discussion emphasizes five themes, the importance of the common law, logic and the law, avoiding assembly line justice, quality writing in law, and how judges decide cases. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The law of gambling and regulated gaming; cases and materials.

Cabot (Lewis and Roca LLP) and Miller (Drake U. Law School) present an introductory treatment of the regulation of gaming law in the United States. Through the presentation of cases and some other materials, chapters address gambling, public policy, and regulatory models; fundamentals of regulatory oversight of casino gambling; casino licensing, gaming contracts, exclusions and problem gambling; casino crimes and advantage play; ethical issues and duties in the gaming world; history and pre-statutory development of Native American gambling; federal gaming law; Internet gambling; legal restrictions on gaming advertising; sports betting and poker; pari-mutuel gaming; and lotteries. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Mastering civil procedure, 2d ed.

Like others in the publishers "Mastering" series (initiated in 2008), this text is intended for law students seeking an efficient means of mastering core topics. With this second edition, Hricik (Mercer U.) brings coverage of civil procedure up to date, offering a systematic presentation with plenty of pedagogical tools (e.g. "roadmap" introductions and checkpoints summaries for each chapter, and a master checklist at the end of the book for reinforcement). (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Nanotechnology law and policy; cases and materials.

Sutton (Texas Tech U. School of Law) introduces the developing field of nanotechnology law in the United States (also covering international approaches for comparative purposes). She covers the few cases that have arisen, the laws and ordinances that continue to be developed on nanotechnology, policy statements and regulations promulgated from federal agencies, and the place of nanotechnology in existing statutory and regulatory frameworks. Her text incorporates numerous commentary materials by other authors throughout. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Poverty, health and law; readings and cases for medical-legal partnership.

This collection of essays examines how the law may be used to improve health and how lawyers and health care providers can encourage more effective and preventive medical treatments for patients. In addition to medical-legal partnerships, the writers also address the need to address the primary causes of illness and poor health — particularly for vulnerable segments of the population — and to find new approaches both within and outside the existing health care system. Editors Conroy (Harvard Medical School and staff pediatrician, Children's Hospital Boston), Lawton (executive director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership), Sandel (pediatrics, Boston U. School of Medicine), Tobin Tyler (public interest law, Roger Williams U. School of Law), Zuckerman (pediatrics, Boston U. School of Medicine), and 59 authors contributed to the book. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Separation of powers law; cases and materials, 3d ed.

Shane (Ohio State U. Moritz College of Law) and Bruff (U. of Colorado Law School) present the third edition of their text for students of law and political science on the application of law to separation of powers issues between Congress, the Presidency, and the Judiciary in the United States. Having switched from a chronological to a thematic approach for this edition, they offer chapters on the separation and confluence of powers, autonomy and mutual accountability among the branches, control of administration by the elected branches, foreign policy and national security, war powers, and power and institutional design in the case of the Presidency. The material has been updated to reflect developments since the mid-1990s, especially in relation to war powers and the invasion of Iraq and in relation to presidential election and succession and the case of Bush v. Gore. They also highlight ethical issues of presidential and congressional counsels, particularly in a new section on the "torture memos" drafted by Justice Department lawyers during the administration of George W. Bush. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Shareholder democracy; a primer on shareholder activism and participation.

Recent years have witnessed a surge in shareholder activism in which shareholders, often with the support of Congress, have sought to increase their power in corporate governance arrangements, frequently successfully. In this work, Fairfax (law, George Washington U. Law School) explores the development of the role of shareholders in corporations, discusses the ways shareholders can influence corporate affairs, and summarizes the cases for and against increasing shareholder power (with a focus on shareholder copyrights). Attention is primarily given to shareholder activism in defense of their own perceived interests, as opposed to the types of shareholder activism in which issue groups seek to pursue their agenda through access to shareholder meetings. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

A teacher's reflection book; exercises, stories, invitations.

This resource for university teachers and those who educate or mentor them can be used to facilitate retreats and workshops, or it can be used for individual reflection by pre- and in-service teachers. The stories, prompts, exercises, and examples presented lead teachers to analyze their teaching and their interactions with students on a day-to-day basis. The book presents a structure for the practice of mindful reflection and offers individual, pair, and group exercises and ideas for beginning the semester with a new group of students, listening to students, creating a nonjudgmental classroom culture, and using formative assessment. Peters teaches law at Yale Law School. Weisberg is emeritus professor of law at Queen's University. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Therapeutic jurisprudence and victim participation in justice; international perspectives.

The field of therapeutic jurisprudence, explain editors Erez (U. of Illinois at Chicago, US), Kilchling (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany), and Wemmers (U. de Montréal, Canada) in their introduction, "looks at various aspects of the law to determine whether or the extent to which substantive rules of law, legal procedures, and the roles or actions of legal actors are therapeutic [or anti-therapeutic]." In this work, they present 12 papers providing a therapeutic justice perspective on a range of issues arising from different national jurisdiction, with a particular focus on victim participation in criminal proceedings. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The Women's War of 1929; a history of anti-colonial resistance in eastern Nigeria.

In November of 1929, thousands of Igbo women rose up in protest against the warrant chiefs and Native Courts, instruments of indirect British rule in colonial Nigeria, forcing the resignation of many of the warrant chiefs and leading to the destruction of a number of the Native Courts and creating a catalyzing event in the history of the anti-colonial struggle of the African country. This volume, written and edited by a professor and a graduate student of history at the U. of Texas at Austin, aims to advance the research on what came to be called the Women's War by presenting a narrative of events that incorporates historical and cultural context and African perspectives on the meanings of the Women's War, an evaluation of how previous historians have interpreted the primary sources, and a wealth of primary source documents (occupying about 700 pages of the volume). The documents include messages sent between colonial officials as the Women's War unfolded, testimonies from collective inquiries the colonial government used to determine punishment for villages and Native Court districts, excerpts from a Commission of Inquiry held in the spring of 1930, and colonial correspondence related to post-1930 disturbances showing the lasting effects of the Women's War on the colonial administration and on continued protests by women. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Wrongful conviction; law, science, and policy.

Authors Acker and Redlich (criminal justice, U. at Albany) discuss law, science, and policy as it relates to wrongful conviction in the American criminal justice system. They cover correlates, causes, consequences, and the incidence of wrongful convictions, and offer recommendations for reform. Specific topics include eyewitness identification, false confessions, prosecutors and police, preservation of evidence, defense counsel, scientific and forensic evidence, informants, adjudication, capital cases, and clemency, innocence commissions, and compensation. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)