New Acquisitions

Here is a compilation of trial skills presented in a uniquely understandable way with the inclusion of two DVDs containing footage of trial techniques as they were executed in actual noteworthy trials.

From stories of the Japanese American internment camps to her reactions to racist images in movies, Matsuda explores what identity politics can contribute to a vision of a more just society. She argues that we must consider the histories of oppressed groups in imagining new principles of law.

Should the law generally ignore a victim's behavior in determining a defendant's liability? This book criticizes the current criminal law approach of not blaming the victim and outlines a more fair, coherent, and efficient set of rules to recognize that victims sometimes co-author their own losses or injuries.

Here is a concise guide to the essentials of tort law, from its historical development to the important concepts and essential doctrines.

n this witty yet troubling book, Gajda shows that litigation is now common on campus, and perhaps even more commonly feared.  She explores the origins and causes of this litigation trend, its implications for academic freedom, and what lawyers, judges, and academics themselves can do to limit the potential damage.

Do Asian values and traditions support capital punishment, or will development and democratization end executions in the world's most rapidly developing region? In this book, the authors combine detailed case studies of the death penalty in Asian nations with cross-national comparisons to identify the critical factors for the future of Asian death penalty policy.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh was leading the nation in glass production, and glass bottle plants in particular relied heavily on 'glass house boys' for their manufacturing process. As a result, Pennsylvania lawmakers lagged far behind the rest of the nation in enacting laws to reduce the use of children in industry. Here, Flannery reveals the many societal, economic, and political factors at work that allowed for the perpetuation of child labor in this industry and region.

The thirteen essays in this volume provide thematic assessments of the current state of global human rights programs as well as prescriptions for once again making the United States a respected and forceful proponent of human rights.

This work establishes that Islamic law is a corpus of accretive ascription fundamentally informed by authoritative precedents and practically preserved in the adaptive oral discourse. The transformed legal tradition, while aspiring to keep the connection between the past (Qur'an and Sunnah) and present (ijtihadic opinions), has remained dependant on orality which ascertained the preservation of the singularly specific and characteristic traits of each school of thought.

This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s. Drawing on interviews and prison access, Shalev provides a holistic view of the theory, practice and consequences of these prisons.