New Acquisitions

Illustrating essential key concepts of the legal profession, this book covers writing style, professional responsibility, and legal ethics.

In this study, the authors learned that life-or-death asylum decisions in the United States are too frequently influenced by random factors relating to the decision makers. The system, in its current state, is like a game of chance. This book analyzes decisions at all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: the Department of Homeland Security, the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the United States Courts of Appeals.

This book provides a systematic conceptual development of products liability, in which Geistfeld addresses the rules for determining defects, the requirement of causation, the determination of damages, defenses based on consumer conduct, and the rules concerning who can sue and be sued.

This book covers principles of the subsequent more formal parts of the criminal process, including post-conviction review.

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.

Through a combination of field work and archival research, the author offers an overview of the evolution of water law and agricultural policies in the Canadian west. By incorporating the history of water law philosophies, water development technologies, agricultural policies, and cross-cultural theories, Matsui constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how both Native peoples and non-native stakeholders struggled for better rights and livelihood through litigation, political campaigns, and direct actions.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of contemporary admiralty and maritime law, as applied internationally. It brings together the substantive law, jurisdictional issues, and international aspects of maritime liabilities and compensation with a practical discussion of modern risk management.

Finding the right long-term care often means making difficult decisions during difficult times. This book helps you understand the alternatives to nursing facilities and shows you how to find the best care you can afford.

What legal principles apply when courts in different jurisdictions are simultaneously seized with the same dispute? In this wide-ranging survey, McLachlan analyses the problems of parallel litigation in private and public international law and international arbitration. He argues that we need to develop a more sophisticated set of rules of conflict of litigations, guided by a cosmopolitan conception of the rule of law.

Using new theoretical insights and empirical data, the contributors develop a model to analyze the transitional processes of Romania, Turkey, Serbia and Ukraine. The book examines: the adoption, implementation and internalization of the rule of law, the rule of law as a central dimension of liberal and substantive democracy, and  the interaction between external and domestic structures and agents.