New Acquisitions

This book is a comprehensives guide to arbitration in 18 jurisdictions in the Middle East and North Africa. It describes the most salient features of the legal framework for arbitration and international arbitration in each jurisdiction.

This collection of essays presents a series of ethical discourses addressing same-sex marriage.  Using moral argumentation within the framework of equal liberty and citizenship regardless of one's sexual preferences or atypical family situation, the authors argue against the heteronormative establishment in the law and public policy that continues to work against sexual minorities.

This book illustrates the precarious position family members of capital offenders occupy in the criminal justice system. Showing that forgiveness and recovery are possible in the wake of even the most heinous crimes, this book bridges the pain of living in the shadow of death with the possibility of a reparative form of justice.

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.

This book explores the state of the nation's federal judicial selection system-a process beset by deepening partisan polarization, obstructionism, and deterioration of the practice of advice and consent.

This book reviews legal developments and behavioral science research concerning the effects of religion on legal practice, decision-making processes of various legal actors, and trial outcomes. Chapters address jury selection and bias, attorneys' use of religion in legal movements, judges' religious beliefs and its role in their appointment, and the treatment of religious figures or institutions as litigants in court.

Drawing from a wide range of material and socio-legal methods, this collection brings together original essays that investigate emerging patterns in the shape and form of the legal regulation of domestic relations.

In this volume, the author elaborates a particular version of economic justice rooted in the natural law tradition. He examines a range of case studies related to ownership, production, distribution, and consumption, using natural law theory as a basis for staking positions on a number of contested issues related to economic life.

In this empirical exploration of the effects of mass incarceration on poor places, this book demonstrates that in high doses incarceration contributes to the very social problems it is intended to solve: it breaks up family and social networks; deprives siblings, spouses, and parents of emotional and financial support; and threatens the economic and political infrastructure of already struggling neighborhoods.

Eyewitness testimony is highly compelling in a criminal trial, and can have an indelible impact on jurors. However, eyewitnesses are sometimes wrong, even when they are highly confident that they are making correct identifications. This book provides current overviews and critiques of key topics in eyewitness testimony.