Animal Law
Not on My Watch by
Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada." Here is her brilliant account of her thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon, inspiring in its own right but also a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was also lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her First Nations neighbors, whose people had depended on the bounty of wild salmon for 10,000 years, asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government protesting the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't recognize their own laws. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon--a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account: for their sake, as much as ours, they need to listen to the wisdom of the wild salmon and of the people who have lived with them for 10,000 years.
Call Number: QH91.3 .M678 2021ISBN: 9780735279667Publication Date: 2021-03-23
Animal Welfare and International Trade Law by
This thought-provoking book examines the rise of animal welfare as a serious policy concern in the international trade law regime. The central focus is an in-depth study of the background and legal analysis of the landmark EC - Seal Products case, which confirmed the importance of animal welfare in WTO law. The book explores how the WTO handled the relationship between trade disciplines and animal welfare, including the particularly challenging questions around Indigenous seal hunting rights. Katie Sykes argues that international trade law has made a significant contribution to global animal law. This is a notable development, considering that the WTO has long been seen as a threat to animal welfare. The book traces the evolution of animal welfare in the trade regime, the growth of global animal law, and the potential for new trade agreements to promote international cooperation on animal welfare. It offers a detailed account of animal welfare and animal conservation commitments in new trade agreements, as well as mechanisms for enforcement, cooperation, and citizen participation. Animal Welfare and International Trade Law will be a key resource for scholars and students of global animal law, international trade law, and trade and the environment. It will also prove valuable for legal practitioners, activists, advocates, and policymakers interested in how trade law tools can be used to improve international animal welfare standards.
Call Number: K3900.S4 S995 2021ISBN: 9781839109799Publication Date: 2021-05-21
Business, Investment, and Tax Law
Advanced Introduction to Law and Entrepreneurship by
This important Advanced Introduction considers the multiple ways in which law and entrepreneurship intertwine. Shubha Ghosh expertly explores key areas defining the field, including lawyering, innovation policy, intellectual property and economics and finance, to enhance both legal and pedagogical concepts.
Call Number: K1315 .G48 2021ISBN: 9781788978699Publication Date: 2021-03-26
Business and human rights : advising clients on respecting and fulfilling human rights by
In a globalized economy, business is conducted in jurisdictions where protection of human rights is compromised. This...guide is an introduction to key topics for those who counsel businesses on how they can effectively fulfill responsibilities to their stakeholders and society on how human rights should be respected in day-to-day operational activities and in transactional situations.
Call Number: K3240 .G87 2020ISBN: 9781641058360Publication Date: 2020
Civil Procedure
Mass Torts in the United States by
This book is intended to serve as an excellent resource on strategies for prosecuting and defending mass tort litigation. From class certifications and use of MDLs to discovery and experts; from emerging damage theories and related defenses to the conduct of trials, appeals and the formulation of exit strategies and settlements, this work will be highly instructive.
Call Number: KF1250 .M3275 2021ISBN: 9781641056656Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights on the Internet by
This book explores how the Internet impacts on the protection of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to freedom of speech and privacy. In doing so, it seeks to bridge the gap between Internet Law and European and Constitutional Law. The book aims to emancipate the debate on Internet Law and Jurisprudence from the dominant position, with specific reference to European legal regimes. This approach aims to inject a European and constitutional "soul" into the topic. Moreover, the book addresses the relationship between new technologies and the protection of fundamental rights within the theoretical debate surrounding the process of European integration, with particular emphasis on judicial dialogue. This innovative book provides a thorough analysis of the forms, models and styles of judicial protection of fundamental rights in the digital era and compares the European vision to that of the United States. The book offers the first comparative analysis in which the notion of (judicial) frame, borrowed from linguistic and cognitive studies, is systematically applied to the theories of interpretation and argumentation.
Call Number: K4345 .P65 2021ISBN: 9781849468053Publication Date: 2021-05-20
State Sponsored Cyber Surveillance by
This insightful book focuses on the application of mass surveillance, its impact upon existing international human rights and the challenges posed by mass surveillance. Through the judicious use of case studies State Sponsored Cyber Surveillance argues for the need to balance security requirements with the protection of fundamental rights.
The author makes a case for the adoption of a multilateral cyber surveillance treaty, together with a review of whether online privacy has yet become a rule of customary international law. Chapters provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the right to privacy of communications under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights, as well as guiding the reader through the taxonomy of cyber intelligence operations. Eliza Watt also offers insightful studies of the differences between cyber espionage, cyber electoral interference and mass cyber surveillance.
This innovative, thought-provoking book will greatly assist legal practitioners, policymakers and government advisers within the fields of international law and privacy. Students and academics will also be provided with a focused account and in-depth analysis of recent developments in the law around cyber.
Call Number: K3264.C65 W37 2021ISBN: 9781789900095Publication Date: 2021-04-23
Criminal Law
Law and the Visible by
If you take a video of police officers beating a Black man into unconsciousness, are you a witness or a bystander? If you livestream your friends dragging the body of an unconscious woman and talking about their plans to violate her, are you an accomplice? Do bodycams and video doorbells tell the truth? Are the ubiquitous technologies of visibility open to interpretation and manipulation? These are just a few of the questions explored in the rich and broadly interdisciplinary essays within this volume, Law and the Visible, the most recent offering in the Amherst Series for Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Individual essays discuss the culpability of those who record violence, the history of racialized violence as it streams through police bodycams, the idea of digital images as objective or neutral, the logics of surveillance and transparency, and a defense of anonymity in the digital age. Contributors include Benjamin J. Goold, Torin Monahan, Kelli Moore, Eden Osucha, Jennifer Peterson, and Carrie A. Rentschler.
Call Number: KF8947.5 .L39 2021ISBN: 9781625345875Publication Date: 2021-08-27
Representing Radicals by
Representing Radicals is a resource for defense attorneys. In it, the Tilted Scales Collective demystifies common practices like noncooperation, working with defense committees, and creating media narratives. The book offers attorneys a toolbox to better understand their clients' legal, personal, and political goals, and ways they can work as comrades to achieve them. Instead of prescriptive advice, this guide bridges common gaps between lawyers and radical defendants to foster understanding, shared goals, and priorities for resisting state repression.
Call Number: K5455 .R47 2021ISBN: 9781849354165Publication Date: 2021-06-29
Sorting Sexualities by
This book braves a juxtaposition that might at first raise some eyebrows: it examines the legal management of sex offenders in sexually violent predator (SVP) trials alongside that of LGBTQ people seeking asylum from persecution in their home countries. Though these legal settings are diametrically opposed (one a punitive assessment, the other a protective one) they present a similar and telling conundrum: how do we know someone's sexuality? In both cases, state institutions are tasked with determining subjects' 'true' sexualities, measuring the degree and type of 'underlying deviance,' and sorting the queer from the fraudulent. Stefan Vogler examines how and why the measurement and classification techniques that have emerged as a guide have come to diverge so dramatically. By delving into the histories behind these classification practices and analyzing their impact, Vogler shows how the science of sexuality is far more central to state power than we realize. Through legal analysis, interviews, and multi-sited ethnography, he examines how the state enrolls non-state experts (typically anthropologists, sociologists, and lawyers in asylum pleas, and psychiatrists and forensic psychologists in SVP trials) to help craft classificatory schemas that render sexual 'others' legible to and thus manageable by the state. These classifications have led to the extension of rights for LGBTQ people, on the one hand, and the escalation of punishment for sex criminals, on the other.
Call Number: KF9325 .V64 2021ISBN: 9780226769165Publication Date: 2021-05-17
Understanding Green Card Marriage Fraud by
Understanding Green Card Marriage Fraud explores the experiences of people who participated in Green Card marriage fraud, providing firsthand accounts of the social, individual and legal factors associated with this crime. This book uncovers deficient immigration procedures and offers insightful ways to improve upon them.
Call Number: KF4840 .Z83 2021ISBN: 9781793626370Publication Date: 2021-03-11
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Chiefs Now in This City by
A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarily to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even tourists. ... Based on primary accounts, Calloway's book illuminates in words and pictures what Native visitors to these cities both saw and how they were seen.
Call Number: E77 .C35 2021ISBN: 9780197547656Publication Date: 2021-05-11
Great Minds Think Differently by
This book aims to be ambitious in its approach. Lawyers are leaders in our communities and I expect it to be no different in the realm of neurodiversity. Neurodiversity might be a relatively new concept for some readers, but we interface with people who think differently than us each day. It is neither better nor worse, just different, and different can be extraordinary. We can be extraordinary in how we work with our neurodiverse colleagues, friends, family members, and clients. My hope is that this book makes including neurodiverse populations in our profession and interacting with us within the legal system becomes more natural and equitable.
Call Number: KF480 .M674 2021ISBN: 9781641058957Publication Date: 2021-06-01
In black and white : a young barrister's story of race and class in a broken justice system by
Alexandra Wilson was a teenager when her dear family friend Ayo was stabbed on his way home from football. Ayo's death changed Alexandra. She felt compelled to enter the legal profession in search of answers. As a junior criminal and family law barrister, Alexandra finds herself navigating a world and a set of rules designed by a privileged few. A world in which fellow barristers sigh with relief when a racist judge retires: 'I've got a black kid today and he would have had no hope'. In her debut book, In Black and White, Alexandra re-creates the tense courtroom scenes, the heart-breaking meetings with teenage clients, and the moments of frustration and triumph that make up a young barrister's life. Alexandra shows us how it feels to defend someone who hates the colour of your skin, or someone you suspect is guilty. We see what it is like for children coerced into county line drug deals and the damage that can be caused when we criminalise teenagers. Alexandra's account of what she has witnessed as a young mixed-race barrister is in equal parts shocking, compelling, confounding and powerful.
Call Number: KD632.W557 A3 2020ISBN: 9781913068288Publication Date: 2020
Integrating Doctrine and Diversity by
Drawing upon the experience of faculty from across the country, Integrating Doctrine and Diversity is a collection of essays with practical advice, written by faculty for faculty, on specific ways to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into the law school curriculum. Chapters will focus on subjects traditionally taught in the first-year curriculum (Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Property, Torts) and each chapter will also include a short annotated bibliography curated by a law librarian. With submissions from over 40 scholars, the collection is the first of its kind to offer reflections, advice and specific instruction on how to integrate issues of diversity and inclusions into first-year doctrinal courses.
Call Number: KF273 .I58 2021ISBN: 9781531017019Publication Date: 2021-04-27- Sorting Sexualities by
This book braves a juxtaposition that might at first raise some eyebrows: it examines the legal management of sex offenders in sexually violent predator (SVP) trials alongside that of LGBTQ people seeking asylum from persecution in their home countries. Though these legal settings are diametrically opposed (one a punitive assessment, the other a protective one) they present a similar and telling conundrum: how do we know someone's sexuality? In both cases, state institutions are tasked with determining subjects' 'true' sexualities, measuring the degree and type of 'underlying deviance,' and sorting the queer from the fraudulent. Stefan Vogler examines how and why the measurement and classification techniques that have emerged as a guide have come to diverge so dramatically. By delving into the histories behind these classification practices and analyzing their impact, Vogler shows how the science of sexuality is far more central to state power than we realize. Through legal analysis, interviews, and multi-sited ethnography, he examines how the state enrolls non-state experts (typically anthropologists, sociologists, and lawyers in asylum pleas, and psychiatrists and forensic psychologists in SVP trials) to help craft classificatory schemas that render sexual 'others' legible to and thus manageable by the state. These classifications have led to the extension of rights for LGBTQ people, on the one hand, and the escalation of punishment for sex criminals, on the other.
Call Number: KF9325 .V64 2021ISBN: 9780226769165Publication Date: 2021-05-17
We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us by
Examines how Native Americans created vast intertribal networks of communication to control their own sources of information, spread and reinforce ideas, and collectively discuss and mobilize resistance against government policies during the late nineteenth century.
Call Number: E98.C73 G34 2020ISBN: 9780806167251Publication Date: 2020-10-08
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
- Animal Welfare and International Trade Law by
This thought-provoking book examines the rise of animal welfare as a serious policy concern in the international trade law regime. The central focus is an in-depth study of the background and legal analysis of the landmark EC - Seal Products case, which confirmed the importance of animal welfare in WTO law. The book explores how the WTO handled the relationship between trade disciplines and animal welfare, including the particularly challenging questions around Indigenous seal hunting rights. Katie Sykes argues that international trade law has made a significant contribution to global animal law. This is a notable development, considering that the WTO has long been seen as a threat to animal welfare. The book traces the evolution of animal welfare in the trade regime, the growth of global animal law, and the potential for new trade agreements to promote international cooperation on animal welfare. It offers a detailed account of animal welfare and animal conservation commitments in new trade agreements, as well as mechanisms for enforcement, cooperation, and citizen participation. Animal Welfare and International Trade Law will be a key resource for scholars and students of global animal law, international trade law, and trade and the environment. It will also prove valuable for legal practitioners, activists, advocates, and policymakers interested in how trade law tools can be used to improve international animal welfare standards.
Call Number: K3900.S4 S995 2021ISBN: 9781839109799Publication Date: 2021-05-21
Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation by
It is the age of the Anthropocene. With far-reaching changes to economy and technology, society and the environment, humanity has gained the capacity to either foster or foreclose the quality of life for future generations. Through degradation of the earth's marine and terrestrial ecosystems and its climate, including the natural resources upon which all people depend, human civilization holds the potential to deprive billions of their rights to life, taking millions of other species as well. Growing recognition of the risks and threats is slowly changing perceptions of humankind's responsibility for its descendants. Since the 1972 UN Conference in Stockholm, numerous international policy declarations have reflected increasing concern for the need to promote a more sustainable development that can take into account the needs and interests of future generations, including the global adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 by Heads of State in New York.
Call Number: K3585 .I5823 2021ISBN: 9781108488020Publication Date: 2021-07-15- Not on My Watch by
Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada." Here is her brilliant account of her thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon, inspiring in its own right but also a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was also lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her First Nations neighbors, whose people had depended on the bounty of wild salmon for 10,000 years, asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government protesting the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't recognize their own laws. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon--a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account: for their sake, as much as ours, they need to listen to the wisdom of the wild salmon and of the people who have lived with them for 10,000 years.
Call Number: QH91.3 .M678 2021ISBN: 9780735279667Publication Date: 2021-03-23
Public Waters by
Wyoming’s colorful story of water management illuminates the powerful forces that impact water use in the rural American West. The state’s rich history of managing this valuable natural resource provides insights and lessons for the twenty-first-century American West as it faces drought and climate change. Public Waters shows how, as popular hopes and dreams meet tough terrain, a central idea that has historically structured water management can guide water policy for Western states today.
Drawing on forty years as a journalist with training in water law and economics, Anne MacKinnon paints a lively picture of the arcane twists in the notable record of water law in Wyoming. She maintains that other Western states should examine how local people control water and that states must draw on historical understandings of water as a public resource to find effective approaches to essential water issues in the West.
Call Number: TD223.6 .M33 2021ISBN: 9780826362414Publication Date: 2021-05-01
Family Law
- Understanding Green Card Marriage Fraud by
Understanding Green Card Marriage Fraud explores the experiences of people who participated in Green Card marriage fraud, providing firsthand accounts of the social, individual and legal factors associated with this crime. This book uncovers deficient immigration procedures and offers insightful ways to improve upon them.
Call Number: KF4840 .Z83 2021ISBN: 9781793626370Publication Date: 2021-03-11
Immigration Law
- Understanding Green Card Marriage Fraud by
Understanding Green Card Marriage Fraud explores the experiences of people who participated in Green Card marriage fraud, providing firsthand accounts of the social, individual and legal factors associated with this crime. This book uncovers deficient immigration procedures and offers insightful ways to improve upon them.
Call Number: KF4840 .Z83 2021ISBN: 9781793626370Publication Date: 2021-03-11
Indigenous Law
- The Chiefs Now in This City by
A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarily to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even tourists. ... Based on primary accounts, Calloway's book illuminates in words and pictures what Native visitors to these cities both saw and how they were seen.
Call Number: E77 .C35 2021ISBN: 9780197547656Publication Date: 2021-05-11
- Not on My Watch by
Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada." Here is her brilliant account of her thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon, inspiring in its own right but also a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was also lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her First Nations neighbors, whose people had depended on the bounty of wild salmon for 10,000 years, asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government protesting the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't recognize their own laws. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon--a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account: for their sake, as much as ours, they need to listen to the wisdom of the wild salmon and of the people who have lived with them for 10,000 years.
Call Number: QH91.3 .M678 2021ISBN: 9780735279667Publication Date: 2021-03-23
- We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us by
Examines how Native Americans created vast intertribal networks of communication to control their own sources of information, spread and reinforce ideas, and collectively discuss and mobilize resistance against government policies during the late nineteenth century.
Call Number: E98.C73 G34 2020ISBN: 9780806167251Publication Date: 2020-10-08
Innovation, Technology, & the Law
Algorithms and Autonomy by
Algorithms influence every facet of modern life: criminal justice, education, housing, entertainment, elections, social media, news feeds, work… the list goes on. Delegating important decisions to machines, however, gives rise to deep moral concerns about responsibility, transparency, freedom, fairness, and democracy. Algorithms and Autonomy connects these concerns to the core human value of autonomy in the contexts of algorithmic teacher evaluation, risk assessment in criminal sentencing, predictive policing, background checks, news feeds, ride-sharing platforms, social media, and election interference. Using these case studies, the authors provide a better understanding of machine fairness and algorithmic transparency. They explain why interventions in algorithmic systems are necessary to ensure that algorithms are not used to control citizens' participation in politics and undercut democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Call Number: K564.C6 R829 2021ISBN: 9781108795395Publication Date: 2021-05-20
The Alignment Problem by
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems-and the movement to fix them. Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. Algorithms decide bail and parole-and appear to assess black and white defendants differently. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. And autonomous vehicles on our streets can injure or kill. When systems we attempt to teach will not, in the end, do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge. Researchers call this the alignment problem. In best-selling author Brian Christian's riveting account, we meet the alignment problem's "first-responders," and learn their ambitious plan to solve it before our hands are completely off the wheel.
Call Number: Q334.7 .C47 2020ISBN: 9780393635829Publication Date: 2020-10-06- Business and human rights : advising clients on respecting and fulfilling human rights by
In a globalized economy, business is conducted in jurisdictions where protection of human rights is compromised. This...guide is an introduction to key topics for those who counsel businesses on how they can effectively fulfill responsibilities to their stakeholders and society on how human rights should be respected in day-to-day operational activities and in transactional situations.
Call Number: K3240 .G87 2020ISBN: 9781641058360Publication Date: 2020
- Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights on the Internet by
This book explores how the Internet impacts on the protection of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to freedom of speech and privacy. In doing so, it seeks to bridge the gap between Internet Law and European and Constitutional Law. The book aims to emancipate the debate on Internet Law and Jurisprudence from the dominant position, with specific reference to European legal regimes. This approach aims to inject a European and constitutional "soul" into the topic. Moreover, the book addresses the relationship between new technologies and the protection of fundamental rights within the theoretical debate surrounding the process of European integration, with particular emphasis on judicial dialogue. This innovative book provides a thorough analysis of the forms, models and styles of judicial protection of fundamental rights in the digital era and compares the European vision to that of the United States. The book offers the first comparative analysis in which the notion of (judicial) frame, borrowed from linguistic and cognitive studies, is systematically applied to the theories of interpretation and argumentation.
Call Number: K4345 .P65 2021ISBN: 9781849468053Publication Date: 2021-05-20
- Law and the Visible by
If you take a video of police officers beating a Black man into unconsciousness, are you a witness or a bystander? If you livestream your friends dragging the body of an unconscious woman and talking about their plans to violate her, are you an accomplice? Do bodycams and video doorbells tell the truth? Are the ubiquitous technologies of visibility open to interpretation and manipulation? These are just a few of the questions explored in the rich and broadly interdisciplinary essays within this volume, Law and the Visible, the most recent offering in the Amherst Series for Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Individual essays discuss the culpability of those who record violence, the history of racialized violence as it streams through police bodycams, the idea of digital images as objective or neutral, the logics of surveillance and transparency, and a defense of anonymity in the digital age. Contributors include Benjamin J. Goold, Torin Monahan, Kelli Moore, Eden Osucha, Jennifer Peterson, and Carrie A. Rentschler.
Call Number: KF8947.5 .L39 2021ISBN: 9781625345875Publication Date: 2021-08-27
Rebalancing copyright : considering technology's impact on libraries and the public interest by
With each new significant technology advance--photocopiers, videorecorders, the graphical web--copyright owners have pushed courts and legislators to protect their interests over the public's interest. Yet, the public interest was seen as more important by this nation's founders, as made it possible to educate the citizenry and encouraged innovation. Should this important aspect of copyright be narrowed, the public will see a decrease in innovation, caused by a forced reinvestment in the same content repeatedly (e.g., buying the same content in Beta, VCR, DVD, BluRay). This book reminds practitioners that their clients' short-term interests may be served by demanding strict compliance with the language of copyright law, but the cost may be damaging their long-term interests as those same laws are used to inhibit their own innovation. This book is divided into three sections. The first briefly familiarizes users with the historical context in which both copyright and libraries developed in the United States. The second to look at possible revisions to existing code sections that could be helpful to the public interest, whether in clarifying commonly confusing terms, incorporating judicial decisions into the text of statutes, or updating outdated provisions. The last section undertakes a more ambitious, theoretical overhaul of copyright principles and imagines how copyright might operate in such a reimagined environment.
Call Number: Z649.L53 W8 2021ISBN: 9780837741376Publication Date: 2021- State Sponsored Cyber Surveillance by
This insightful book focuses on the application of mass surveillance, its impact upon existing international human rights and the challenges posed by mass surveillance. Through the judicious use of case studies State Sponsored Cyber Surveillance argues for the need to balance security requirements with the protection of fundamental rights.
The author makes a case for the adoption of a multilateral cyber surveillance treaty, together with a review of whether online privacy has yet become a rule of customary international law. Chapters provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the right to privacy of communications under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights, as well as guiding the reader through the taxonomy of cyber intelligence operations. Eliza Watt also offers insightful studies of the differences between cyber espionage, cyber electoral interference and mass cyber surveillance.
This innovative, thought-provoking book will greatly assist legal practitioners, policymakers and government advisers within the fields of international law and privacy. Students and academics will also be provided with a focused account and in-depth analysis of recent developments in the law around cyber.
Call Number: K3264.C65 W37 2021ISBN: 9781789900095Publication Date: 2021-04-23
Intellectual Property Law
Fandom and the Law by
This book covers the intersection of fan-created content and intellectual property law. And this connection is valuable not only to lawyers and scholars who examine potential copyright and trademark infringement, right-of-publicity violations, fair use, and related legal issues, but to the content creators themselves.
Call Number: KF3020 .G74 2021ISBN: 9781641058858Publication Date: 2021-08-01- Rebalancing copyright : considering technology's impact on libraries and the public interest by
With each new significant technology advance--photocopiers, videorecorders, the graphical web--copyright owners have pushed courts and legislators to protect their interests over the public's interest. Yet, the public interest was seen as more important by this nation's founders, as made it possible to educate the citizenry and encouraged innovation. Should this important aspect of copyright be narrowed, the public will see a decrease in innovation, caused by a forced reinvestment in the same content repeatedly (e.g., buying the same content in Beta, VCR, DVD, BluRay). This book reminds practitioners that their clients' short-term interests may be served by demanding strict compliance with the language of copyright law, but the cost may be damaging their long-term interests as those same laws are used to inhibit their own innovation. This book is divided into three sections. The first briefly familiarizes users with the historical context in which both copyright and libraries developed in the United States. The second to look at possible revisions to existing code sections that could be helpful to the public interest, whether in clarifying commonly confusing terms, incorporating judicial decisions into the text of statutes, or updating outdated provisions. The last section undertakes a more ambitious, theoretical overhaul of copyright principles and imagines how copyright might operate in such a reimagined environment.
Call Number: Z649.L53 W8 2021ISBN: 9780837741376Publication Date: 2021
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
- Animal Welfare and International Trade Law by
This thought-provoking book examines the rise of animal welfare as a serious policy concern in the international trade law regime. The central focus is an in-depth study of the background and legal analysis of the landmark EC - Seal Products case, which confirmed the importance of animal welfare in WTO law. The book explores how the WTO handled the relationship between trade disciplines and animal welfare, including the particularly challenging questions around Indigenous seal hunting rights. Katie Sykes argues that international trade law has made a significant contribution to global animal law. This is a notable development, considering that the WTO has long been seen as a threat to animal welfare. The book traces the evolution of animal welfare in the trade regime, the growth of global animal law, and the potential for new trade agreements to promote international cooperation on animal welfare. It offers a detailed account of animal welfare and animal conservation commitments in new trade agreements, as well as mechanisms for enforcement, cooperation, and citizen participation. Animal Welfare and International Trade Law will be a key resource for scholars and students of global animal law, international trade law, and trade and the environment. It will also prove valuable for legal practitioners, activists, advocates, and policymakers interested in how trade law tools can be used to improve international animal welfare standards.
Call Number: K3900.S4 S995 2021ISBN: 9781839109799Publication Date: 2021-05-21
- Intergenerational Justice in Sustainable Development Treaty Implementation by
It is the age of the Anthropocene. With far-reaching changes to economy and technology, society and the environment, humanity has gained the capacity to either foster or foreclose the quality of life for future generations. Through degradation of the earth's marine and terrestrial ecosystems and its climate, including the natural resources upon which all people depend, human civilization holds the potential to deprive billions of their rights to life, taking millions of other species as well. Growing recognition of the risks and threats is slowly changing perceptions of humankind's responsibility for its descendants. Since the 1972 UN Conference in Stockholm, numerous international policy declarations have reflected increasing concern for the need to promote a more sustainable development that can take into account the needs and interests of future generations, including the global adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 by Heads of State in New York.
Call Number: K3585 .I5823 2021ISBN: 9781108488020Publication Date: 2021-07-15
Pre-Classical Conflicts of Laws by
In almost every textbook on private international law, there is a reference to the medieval and early modern jurists who, it is claimed, wrote on the conflict of laws. Such references are often very brief. Some appear to unveil the foundation stone of our whole doctrinal edifice, but many others may look and feel ornamental, of no importance to their author's argument. What matters the most is that, taken together these references constitute an integral aspect of our thinking about private international law - an aspect that, it will be argued in this book, is important, if neglected, and also misunderstood.
Call Number: K7030 .H38 2021ISBN: 9780521863025Publication Date: 2021-07-22
Remedies Before the International Court of Justice by
The book seeks to determine the manner in which the International Court of Justice interprets and applies the remedies generally accepted by the international community and codified by the International Law Commission in its Articles on State Responsibility. As such, it seeks to answer the following questions: i) Whether the International Court of Justice adopts a specific approach towards the remedies of international law? and ii) If yes, what are the justifications for this approach? The survey of theoretical perspectives, canvassing academic writings and subjective perspectives featured in the pleadings of the parties to the disputes, and the judgments of the Court, illustrates relevant results. The systematic analysis demonstrates that the Court has a distinct approach to the interpretation and application of remedies available in international law. While the Court is cautious in ordering precise actions from the parties, it appears to prioritize declarations regarding issues of legality.
Call Number: KZ6295 .S76 2021ISBN: 9781108490825Publication Date: 2021-03-11- State Sponsored Cyber Surveillance by
This insightful book focuses on the application of mass surveillance, its impact upon existing international human rights and the challenges posed by mass surveillance. Through the judicious use of case studies State Sponsored Cyber Surveillance argues for the need to balance security requirements with the protection of fundamental rights.
The author makes a case for the adoption of a multilateral cyber surveillance treaty, together with a review of whether online privacy has yet become a rule of customary international law. Chapters provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the right to privacy of communications under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights, as well as guiding the reader through the taxonomy of cyber intelligence operations. Eliza Watt also offers insightful studies of the differences between cyber espionage, cyber electoral interference and mass cyber surveillance.
This innovative, thought-provoking book will greatly assist legal practitioners, policymakers and government advisers within the fields of international law and privacy. Students and academics will also be provided with a focused account and in-depth analysis of recent developments in the law around cyber.
Call Number: K3264.C65 W37 2021ISBN: 9781789900095Publication Date: 2021-04-23
Legal Education
- Advanced Introduction to Law and Entrepreneurship by
This important Advanced Introduction considers the multiple ways in which law and entrepreneurship intertwine. Shubha Ghosh expertly explores key areas defining the field, including lawyering, innovation policy, intellectual property and economics and finance, to enhance both legal and pedagogical concepts.
Call Number: K1315 .G48 2021ISBN: 9781788978699Publication Date: 2021-03-26
- Integrating Doctrine and Diversity by
Drawing upon the experience of faculty from across the country, Integrating Doctrine and Diversity is a collection of essays with practical advice, written by faculty for faculty, on specific ways to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into the law school curriculum. Chapters will focus on subjects traditionally taught in the first-year curriculum (Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Property, Torts) and each chapter will also include a short annotated bibliography curated by a law librarian. With submissions from over 40 scholars, the collection is the first of its kind to offer reflections, advice and specific instruction on how to integrate issues of diversity and inclusions into first-year doctrinal courses.
Call Number: KF273 .I58 2021ISBN: 9781531017019Publication Date: 2021-04-27
Legal History
- Pre-Classical Conflicts of Laws by
In almost every textbook on private international law, there is a reference to the medieval and early modern jurists who, it is claimed, wrote on the conflict of laws. Such references are often very brief. Some appear to unveil the foundation stone of our whole doctrinal edifice, but many others may look and feel ornamental, of no importance to their author's argument. What matters the most is that, taken together these references constitute an integral aspect of our thinking about private international law - an aspect that, it will be argued in this book, is important, if neglected, and also misunderstood.
Call Number: K7030 .H38 2021ISBN: 9780521863025Publication Date: 2021-07-22
Practice of Law
- Business and human rights : advising clients on respecting and fulfilling human rights by
In a globalized economy, business is conducted in jurisdictions where protection of human rights is compromised. This...guide is an introduction to key topics for those who counsel businesses on how they can effectively fulfill responsibilities to their stakeholders and society on how human rights should be respected in day-to-day operational activities and in transactional situations.
Call Number: K3240 .G87 2020ISBN: 9781641058360Publication Date: 2020
- Great Minds Think Differently by
This book aims to be ambitious in its approach. Lawyers are leaders in our communities and I expect it to be no different in the realm of neurodiversity. Neurodiversity might be a relatively new concept for some readers, but we interface with people who think differently than us each day. It is neither better nor worse, just different, and different can be extraordinary. We can be extraordinary in how we work with our neurodiverse colleagues, friends, family members, and clients. My hope is that this book makes including neurodiverse populations in our profession and interacting with us within the legal system becomes more natural and equitable.
Call Number: KF480 .M674 2021ISBN: 9781641058957Publication Date: 2021-06-01
- Mass Torts in the United States by
This book is intended to serve as an excellent resource on strategies for prosecuting and defending mass tort litigation. From class certifications and use of MDLs to discovery and experts; from emerging damage theories and related defenses to the conduct of trials, appeals and the formulation of exit strategies and settlements, this work will be highly instructive.
Call Number: KF1250 .M3275 2021ISBN: 9781641056656Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Mediation Ethics by
This book is aimed at lawyer-mediators who care about their clients, professions, and the general public and want to conduct mediations ethically.
Call Number: KF9084 .M433 2021ISBN: 9781641059114Publication Date: 2021- Representing Radicals by
Representing Radicals is a resource for defense attorneys. In it, the Tilted Scales Collective demystifies common practices like noncooperation, working with defense committees, and creating media narratives. The book offers attorneys a toolbox to better understand their clients' legal, personal, and political goals, and ways they can work as comrades to achieve them. Instead of prescriptive advice, this guide bridges common gaps between lawyers and radical defendants to foster understanding, shared goals, and priorities for resisting state repression.
Call Number: K5455 .R47 2021ISBN: 9781849354165Publication Date: 2021-06-29
Other Subject Areas
The Perfect Alibi by
The "master of heart-pounding suspense"--New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin--returns with a new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes--which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now, the convicted athlete, joined by a new lawyer, is granted a new trial and bail. Shortly thereafter, his original lawyer disappears and his law partner is murdered. Robin Lockwood is a young lawyer with a prestigious small law firm and a former MMA fighter who helped pay for Yale Law School with her bouts. She is representing the victim of the first rape for her civil lawsuit against her rapist, who is now convinced the rapist is stalking her and trying to intimidate her. At the same time, another client is up on a murder charge--one that should be dismissed as self-defense--but the D.A. trying the case is determined to bring it to trial. Now she has to mastermind two impossible cases, trying to find the hidden truth that links the two of them. Phillip Margolin, the master of the legal thriller, returns in one of his twistiest, most compelling crime novels yet.
Call Number: PS3563.A649 P47 2019ISBN: 9781250117526Publication Date: 2019-03-05
A Reasonable Doubt by
Robin Lockwood joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request-- he's seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection for an illusion. Chesterfield is a professional magician and he has a major new trick he's about to debut. When Lockwood looks into his previous relationship with the firm, she learns that twenty years ago Chesterfield was arrested for two murders, one attempted murder, and was involved in the potentially suspicious death of his very rich wife. As he performs the debut of the Chamber of Death, Chesterfield is murders-- with dozens of witnesses and no one the wiser.
Call Number: PS3563.A649 R43 2020ISBN: 9781250117540Publication Date: 2020-03-10
