New Books: November 2021

Military Discharge Upgrade Legal Practice Manual by Margaret Kuzma; Dana Montalto; Betsy Gwin; Daniel Nagin This Manual addresses a practice area of great importance to hundreds of thousands of individuals who have served in the United States armed forces, but are often denied the title of "veteran" and excluded from the benefits and services usually offered to veterans.

Sustainability For Small Businesses by Alan S Gutterman Small businesses comprise the majority of businesses in the U.S. and they play an integral role in local communities by creating jobs and giving back. To help small businesses operate in a socially responsible manner, this practical guide will help lawyers and other professionals who counsel small businesses effectively plan and implement a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program for small businesses and start-up companies.

Rethinking Corporate Sustainability in the Era of Climate Crisis by Raz Godelnik This book provides a clear, critical, and timely analysis of the state of corporate sustainability within the context of the climate crisis. It offers not only a substantive critique of the current efforts but also clarity about the changes needed and how to implement them. The book goes beyond the more common debate on shareholder capitalism vs. stakeholder capitalism to explain the shortcomings of the current approach to sustainability in business, which the author describes as sustainability-as-usual. Using strategic design lenses, the author proposes a new model of awakened sustainability, which offers a transformational shift in corporate sustainability to ensure companies fairly and effectively address the climate crisis. The book presents the numerous changes needed in the environment in which companies operate to enable awakened sustainability and how these changes can be realized. Grounded in the scientific community’s calls for urgent action on climate change, this groundbreaking text provides scholars with an evaluation of current and future trends in corporate sustainability. It connects the dots between the progress made in the last five decades and the opportunities entailed in the work on a regenerative and just vision for companies in this decade and beyond.

Blood in the Water by Walter Champion; Carlos A. Velasquez This book looks at mass tort litigation in a variety of formats including lawsuits against manufacturers and Big Pharma. The authors argue that without the personal injury bar, outrageous examples of rampant corporate greed would continue to this day. The author references many class actions such as the exploding Pinto, Agent Orange, the Opioid epidemic, concussions in the NFL, and the Boeing 737 Max scandal. Text reform zealots argue that these lawsuits are bogus and detrimental to the American way of life. This is, of course, ridiculous. The authors argue that attorneys are the only means to alleviate the excesses of corporate greed by showing multiple cases of mistakes that were purposefully ignored because of the quest for corporate gain. Big corporations live by a cost/benefit analysis that allow and even foster the inevitable lawsuit which results from their greed.

The Cherokee Supreme Court by J. Matthew Martin The first legal history of the first tribal court upends long-held misconceptions about the origins of Westernized tribal jurisprudence. This book demonstrates how the Cherokee people—prior to their removal on the Trail of Tears—used their judicial system as an external exemplar of American legal values, while simultaneously deploying it as a bulwark for tribal culture and tradition in the face of massive societal pressure and change. Extensive case studies document the Cherokee Nation's exercise of both criminal and civil jurisdiction over American citizens, the roles of women and language in the Supreme Court, and how the courts were used to regulate the slave trade among the Cherokees. Although long-known for its historical value, the legal significance of the Cherokee Supreme Court has not been explored until now.

Controlling Women by Kathryn Kolbert; Julie F. Kay While Roe v. Wade is a household name in America, few are aware of the impact of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court's 1992 ruling that preserved but redefined and substantially limited abortion rights, especially for the most marginalized women. Casey rather than Roe has established the constitutional standards that today govern abortion in the U.S. When pundits talk about the reversal of Roe, they really mean the reversal of Casey. Within the next two years and likely far sooner, we are going to lose the protections of Roe and Casey. Through state legislation, the appointment of hundreds of anti-abortion federal judges, and the rapidly changing makeup of the Supreme Court, reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Legal titans Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay share the story of one of the most divisive issues in American politics through behind-the-scenes personal narratives of the stunning losses and hard-earned victories in landmark abortion rights cases. They chronicle how a convergence of Supreme Court appointments and the strategies of political movements on both sides of this contentious debate have led us to a make-or-break moment for legal abortion in the United States. Most urgently, they propose a bold new strategy for engaging a fresh generation and broadening the scope of abortion rights supporters.

Hidden Laws by Robinson Woodward-Burns The U.S. Constitution is remarkably stable. The world's first and oldest written national constitution, it has survived with little modification, facing only rare alteration by amendment or reinterpretation.State constitutions are much more fluid. The 144 different state constitutions ratified since 1776 have been amended thousands of times and are subject to relatively frequent judicial reinterpretation. Robinson Woodward-Burns argues that state constitutions' flexibility allows national constitutional and political stability. Using data sets and historical case studies of state and federal constitutional reform, he shows how the federal government has often relied on state constitutional change to manage or address difficult national constitutional controversies, including conflicts over the regulation of slavery, banking and taxation, women's suffrage, labor and welfare rights, voting and civil rights, and gender discrimination.

Presumed Guilty by Erwin Chemerinsky This book reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. It presents a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that police are nine times more likely to kill Black men than other Americans is no accident; it is the result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and courts to presume that suspects are guilty before being charged. Demonstrating how the prodefendant Warren Court was a brief historical aberration, Erwin Chemerinsky shows how this more liberal era ended with Nixon's presidency and the ascendance of conservative justices, whose rulings (like Terry v. Ohio and Los Angeles v. Lyons) have permitted stops and frisks, limited suits to reform police departments, and even abetted the use of chokeholds. The book concludes that an approach to policing that continues to exalt "Dirty Harry" can be transformed only by a robust court system committed to civil rights.

Religious Property Disputes and the Law by Daniel P. Dalton; American Bar Association, Section of State and Local Government Law Staff (Contribution by) This book on religious property law covers three narrow issues of religious property disputes: (1) the local church versus a denomination over the ownership of land and real property when the church leaves the denomination, (2) the ownership of religious property within an independent church, and (3) the religious entity versus a local community engaged in a land use and zoning dispute.

The Senate: from White supremacy to governmental gridlock by Daniel Wirls This accessible book explains the Senate's clash with modern democracy and effective government by exposing this chamber of Congress as a bastion of white supremacy through most of American history.

Sex As a Protected Ground in International and Domestic Law by Christine Forster; Vedna Jivan This volume in the 'Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law' compares sex discrimination protection through three thematic lenses. Firstly, it charts and compares the evolution sex discrimination protection in human rights law in three treaty-bodies - the CEDAW Committee, the HRC and the CESCR. Second, it traces the development of sex discrimination protection in three domestic law frameworks ? the United States, Australia and India. Finally, it compares the development of sex discrimination protection in international law with its development in the domestic laws of the three countries and analyses the implications of that comparison. Despite differences in the translation of international approaches to sex discrimination into domestic law and differences in social, political and cultural contexts, women appear to face similar limitations in accessing justice through sex discrimination frameworks.

Fentanyl and fentanyl analogues: federal trends and trafficking patterns. by Kristin M. Tennyson et al. This report examines the relatively new and emerging problem of fentanyl and fentanyl analogue trafficking. The United States Sentencing Commission issues this report pursuant to its authority to collect, analyze, and report on trends in federal sentencing.

Just Algorithms by Christopher Slobogin DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors Statistically-derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants, have been lambasted as racist, de-humanizing, and antithetical to the foundational tenets of criminal justice. Just Algorithms argues that these attacks are misguided and that, properly regulated, risk assessment tools can be a crucial means of safely and humanely dismantling our massive jail and prison complex. The book explains how risk algorithms work, the types of legal questions they should answer, and the criteria for judging whether they do so in a way that minimizes bias and respects human dignity. It also shows how risk assessment instruments can provide leverage for curtailing draconian prison sentences and the plea-bargaining system that produces them. The ultimate goal of Christopher Slobogin's insightful analysis is to develop the principles that should govern, in both the pretrial and sentencing settings, the criminal justice system's consideration of risk.

Suicide and Its Impact on the Criminal Justice System by Elizabeth Kelley; Francesca Flood In this seminal work, the authors enlist the insights of academic specialists, professionals within the criminal justice system, and individuals who have served time to bring voice to the subject of suicide within the criminal justice system. This unique book provides insights that have yet to be broadly examined. Whether you are a defendant, family member, criminal defense attorney, prosecutor, judge, law enforcement officer, academic, or mental health professional, this book provides much-needed information about a pervasive phenomenon--suicide in the criminal justice system.

A Theory of Legal Punishment : Deterrence, Retribution, and the Aims of the State by Matthew C. Altman This book argues for a mixed view of punishment that balances consequentialism and retributivism. He has published extensively on philosophy and applied ethics. A central question in the philosophy of law is why the state's punishment of its own citizens is justified. Traditionally, two theories of punishment have dominated the field: consequentialism and retributivism. According to consequentialism, punishment is justified when it maximizes positive outcomes. According to retributivism, criminals should be punished because they deserve it. This book defends a mixed view that recognizes the strength of both of these intuitions. By this account, the legislature should develop institutional policies and statutory penalties that maintain the social order, that is, consequentialism. It establishes punishment policies to deter criminal activity. By contrast, the criminal judiciary should give individual defendants what they deserve, that is, retributivism and thus expressing the community's appropriate sense of resentment at being wronged. The book justifies the two-tiered model by showing how it accords with our moral intuitions, our assumptions about how what we know affects our moral obligations, and a commonly held theory of freedom. This approach is developed by engaging classic and contemporary work in the philosophy of law, and shows its advantages over competing approaches from contemporary retributivists and other mixed theorists. The work also defends consequentialism against a longstanding objection that the social sciences give us little guidance regarding which policies to adopt. It draws on cutting-edge criminological research to show how punishment theory can help us to address some of our most pressing social issues, including the death penalty, drug laws, and mass incarceration. The book will also be of interest to legal philosophers, social scientists, especially criminologists, sociologists, economists, and political scientists.

Thin Blue Lie by Matt Stroud American law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality and discrimination in Baltimore, Ferguson, and a long list of other cities, the vexing question of how to reform the police and curb misconduct stokes tempers and fears on both the right and left. In the midst of this fierce debate, however, most of us have taken for granted that innovative new technologies can only help. During the early 90s, in the wake of the infamous Rodney King beating, police leaders began looking to corporations and new technologies for help. In the decades since, these technologies have--in theory--given police powerful, previously unthinkable faculties: the ability to incapacitate a suspect without firing a bullet (Tasers); the capacity to more efficiently assign officers to high-crime areas using computers (Compstat); and, with body cameras, a means of defending against accusations of misconduct. But in this vivid, deeply-reported book, Matt Stroud shows that these tools are overhyped and, in many cases, ineffective. Instead of wrestling with tough fundamental questions about their work, police leaders have looked to technology as a silver bullet and stood by as corporate interests have insinuated themselves ever deeper into the public institution of law enforcement. With a sweeping history of these changes, Thin Blue Lie is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how policing became what it is today.

Just Algorithms by Christopher Slobogin DescriptionContentsResourcesCoursesAbout the Authors Statistically-derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants, have been lambasted as racist, de-humanizing, and antithetical to the foundational tenets of criminal justice. Just Algorithms argues that these attacks are misguided and that, properly regulated, risk assessment tools can be a crucial means of safely and humanely dismantling our massive jail and prison complex. The book explains how risk algorithms work, the types of legal questions they should answer, and the criteria for judging whether they do so in a way that minimizes bias and respects human dignity. It also shows how risk assessment instruments can provide leverage for curtailing draconian prison sentences and the plea-bargaining system that produces them. The ultimate goal of Christopher Slobogin's insightful analysis is to develop the principles that should govern, in both the pretrial and sentencing settings, the criminal justice system's consideration of risk.

The One Florida Initiative by Megan Covington; Adriel A. Hilton; Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg; Marissa C. Vasquez Hilton and colleagues provide a cogent analysis of the effects of the One Florida Initiative on enrollment patterns in the state's public law schools to help us understand how changes in public policy can impact diversity.

Presumed Guilty by Erwin Chemerinsky This book reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. It presents a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that police are nine times more likely to kill Black men than other Americans is no accident; it is the result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and courts to presume that suspects are guilty before being charged. Demonstrating how the prodefendant Warren Court was a brief historical aberration, Erwin Chemerinsky shows how this more liberal era ended with Nixon's presidency and the ascendance of conservative justices, whose rulings (like Terry v. Ohio and Los Angeles v. Lyons) have permitted stops and frisks, limited suits to reform police departments, and even abetted the use of chokeholds. The book concludes that an approach to policing that continues to exalt "Dirty Harry" can be transformed only by a robust court system committed to civil rights.

Sex As a Protected Ground in International and Domestic Law by Christine Forster; Vedna Jivan This volume in the 'Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law' compares sex discrimination protection through three thematic lenses. Firstly, it charts and compares the evolution sex discrimination protection in human rights law in three treaty-bodies - the CEDAW Committee, the HRC and the CESCR. Second, it traces the development of sex discrimination protection in three domestic law frameworks ? the United States, Australia and India. Finally, it compares the development of sex discrimination protection in international law with its development in the domestic laws of the three countries and analyses the implications of that comparison. Despite differences in the translation of international approaches to sex discrimination into domestic law and differences in social, political and cultural contexts, women appear to face similar limitations in accessing justice through sex discrimination frameworks.

White Skin, Black Fuel by Andreas Malm; The Zetkin Collective In the first study of the far right's role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution--closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down.

Beyond Sustainability by Tim Delaney; Tim Madigan In Beyond Sustainability: A Thriving Environment, Second Edition, Delaney and Madigan approach the study of the environment from two academic disciplines -- sociology and philosophy. Both sociologists and philosophers have concerns about our environment's ability to not only sustain itself, but also reach a point where it can actually thrive. It is the authors' contention that promoting sustainability is not nearly good enough as it is thrivability that we should seek for the sake of protecting the environment, and in turn, all living things. In this, the second edition of Beyond Sustainability, the authors have made a drastic number of updates both in terms of more recent data and examples, and also with the introduction of new topics and concepts, all the while emphasizing more clearly the need to lessen our dependency on fossil fuels in order to halt the very significant and negative impact humans have inflicted upon the environment. In many ways, then, this is like a new book. Among the many topics discussed are: sustainability, thrivability, and environmentalism; mass extinctions; a limited "carrying capacity;" our reliance on fossil fuels; climate change with an emphasis on carbon dioxide and global warming; climate change and the ozone and the greenhouse effect; the need to increase our use of renewable forms of energy; overpopulation; the Five Horrorists; the extraction of fossil fuels; the creation and mass use and abuse of plastics; food waste; deforestation; harmful agricultural practices; marine debris; electronic waste (e-waste); medical waste; the role of nature (e.g., volcanic eruptions, lightning strikes, wildfires, storms, invasive species, and outer-worldly forces); the need to go green; environmental happiness; and, the role of education in saving the environment. It should also be noted that this new edition of Beyond Sustainability was written during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and as such there are many references to this disease, primarily in direct relationship to the environment.

Forensic forestry : a guidebook for foresters on the witness stand by Robert P. Latham Forensic Forestry: A Guidebook for Foresters on the Witness Stand is a one-of-a-kind, hands-on resource for those forestry and land use professionals who find themselves called upon to work on legal cases, and oftentimes testify, in a courtroom. Land use and forestry issues in the United States in particular, and likewise around the world, have become increasingly scrutinized, debated, and contentious. There seems to be little to suggest that conflicts over forestlands will fade away. More likely, such conflicts will become more widespread and sharper over debates on public policy, political philosophy and political activism. There are a number of informative books available on land use and forestry, and such related issues under the broader heading of environmental science. Having said that, this book will not go into these concepts or discuss best practices. But, if someone is already an expert in land use and forestry, this book will tell them the ins and outs of the legal system, and how they can best serve to make a case, using evidence, in a court of lost. What is shown in the book in the many case examples is that there is a lot of work involved for such technical subjects to be adjudicated. While professionals' expertise is often more oriented to purely ecological issues than economic ones, money, policy, and corporate interests come into play. And this is where the professional forester's ability to deal with conflict becomes, if anything, more critical. Forensic Forestry goes to the heart of the issue by informing professional foresters as to an overall understanding of the courts, and the legal process. In this, it outline's the profession's role working on cases-and in the courtroom-as the stakes rise and more cases over land use and forestland rights, forestry management and safety, criminal and civil cases in liability in forest fires-among other such cases-are entering the vernacular. As such, this book will be a welcome addition to those professionals called upon to consult on, and testify in, such cases including land use professionals, foresters and forestry managers, ecologists, environmentalists, environmental policy advocates, and those in related fields.

Rethinking Corporate Sustainability in the Era of Climate Crisis by Raz Godelnik This book provides a clear, critical, and timely analysis of the state of corporate sustainability within the context of the climate crisis. It offers not only a substantive critique of the current efforts but also clarity about the changes needed and how to implement them. The book goes beyond the more common debate on shareholder capitalism vs. stakeholder capitalism to explain the shortcomings of the current approach to sustainability in business, which the author describes as sustainability-as-usual. Using strategic design lenses, the author proposes a new model of awakened sustainability, which offers a transformational shift in corporate sustainability to ensure companies fairly and effectively address the climate crisis. The book presents the numerous changes needed in the environment in which companies operate to enable awakened sustainability and how these changes can be realized. Grounded in the scientific community’s calls for urgent action on climate change, this groundbreaking text provides scholars with an evaluation of current and future trends in corporate sustainability. It connects the dots between the progress made in the last five decades and the opportunities entailed in the work on a regenerative and just vision for companies in this decade and beyond.

White Skin, Black Fuel by Andreas Malm; The Zetkin Collective In the first study of the far right's role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution--closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down.

Fentanyl and fentanyl analogues: federal trends and trafficking patterns. by Kristin M. Tennyson et al. This report examines the relatively new and emerging problem of fentanyl and fentanyl analogue trafficking. The United States Sentencing Commission issues this report pursuant to its authority to collect, analyze, and report on trends in federal sentencing.

The Concealment Controversy by Janna Wessels "The book explores the concealment controversy in refugee law. The idea that a claim for international protection can be rejected on the basis that the claimant behave 'discreetly' ('discretion' reasoning) in their country of origin has remained resilient in asylum claims based on sexual orientation, but also other grounds of claim. This is significant because requiring an asylum-seeker to forgo the reason for which they are persecuted questions the very rationale of refugee protection. Seeking out both the shapes and the origins of 'discretion' reasoning, the central puzzle that this book addresses is the resilience of this phenomenon. Why is 'discretion' reasoning so difficult to get rid of? How does it inform the construction and definition of the scope of protection? What are the role and responsibilities of the claimant in this negotiation process? These questions combine into the underlying exploration of what is protected under refugee law - and why. The book concludes that 'discretion' reasoning is a site where the scope of refugee protection is negotiated in response to a fundamental tension between two competing principles of refugee law: the notion that claimants cannot be required to hide the characteristic they are persecuted for, and the principle that the purpose of refugee protection is to protect from persecution and not to provide full human rights protection.

The Cherokee Supreme Court by J. Matthew Martin The first legal history of the first tribal court upends long-held misconceptions about the origins of Westernized tribal jurisprudence. This book demonstrates how the Cherokee people—prior to their removal on the Trail of Tears—used their judicial system as an external exemplar of American legal values, while simultaneously deploying it as a bulwark for tribal culture and tradition in the face of massive societal pressure and change. Extensive case studies document the Cherokee Nation's exercise of both criminal and civil jurisdiction over American citizens, the roles of women and language in the Supreme Court, and how the courts were used to regulate the slave trade among the Cherokees. Although long-known for its historical value, the legal significance of the Cherokee Supreme Court has not been explored until now.

Industry Unbound by Ari Ezra Waldman In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research based on interviews with scores of tech employees and internal documents outlining corporate strategies, Waldman reveals that companies don't just lobby against privacy law; they also manipulate how we think about privacy, how their employees approach their work, and how we use their data-extractive products. In contrast to those who claim that privacy law is getting stronger, Waldman shows why recent shifts in privacy law are precisely the kinds of changes that corporations want and how even those who think of themselves as privacy advocates often unwittingly facilitate corporate malfeasance. This powerful account should be read by anyone who wants to understand why privacy laws are not working and how corporations trap us into giving up our personal information.

Thin Blue Lie by Matt Stroud American law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality and discrimination in Baltimore, Ferguson, and a long list of other cities, the vexing question of how to reform the police and curb misconduct stokes tempers and fears on both the right and left. In the midst of this fierce debate, however, most of us have taken for granted that innovative new technologies can only help. During the early 90s, in the wake of the infamous Rodney King beating, police leaders began looking to corporations and new technologies for help. In the decades since, these technologies have--in theory--given police powerful, previously unthinkable faculties: the ability to incapacitate a suspect without firing a bullet (Tasers); the capacity to more efficiently assign officers to high-crime areas using computers (Compstat); and, with body cameras, a means of defending against accusations of misconduct. But in this vivid, deeply-reported book, Matt Stroud shows that these tools are overhyped and, in many cases, ineffective. Instead of wrestling with tough fundamental questions about their work, police leaders have looked to technology as a silver bullet and stood by as corporate interests have insinuated themselves ever deeper into the public institution of law enforcement. With a sweeping history of these changes, Thin Blue Lie is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how policing became what it is today.

High Courts in Global Perspective by Nuno Garoupa (Editor); Rebecca D. Gill (Editor); Lydia B. Tiede (Editor) This book investigates high court behavior across the world through a comparative empirical approach, so as to determine whether and under what conditions these influential courts can check other political actors, protect minority interests, and have an active role in policy making.

Judging at the Interface by Esmé Shirlow While working as a government lawyer in 2011, a letter came into our office advising that the Philip Morris tobacco company had decided to sue Australia under a bilateral investment treaty. The company contended that Australia's tobacco plain packaging requirements breached its intellectual property rights, entitling it to billions of dollars in compensation under international law. This news was not particularly shocking to the small team of which I was part, which had been assembled within the government's Office of International Law to respond to these types of claims. The news was shocking, though, to the wider Australian community. Over the ensuing months, the community's disbelief became better-articulated in the press: How can an international tribunal sit in judgment over a measure which the Australian Parliament had decided was in the public interest after extensive scientific enquiry and public consultation? Could an international tribunal really reverse the finding of Australia's highest court that the legislation was lawful?

Legalized Identities: Cultural Heritage Law and the Shaping of Transitional Justice by Lucas Lixinski During transition, cultural heritage can be used to create, resurrect and preserve certain narratives about the past that significantly impact national cultural identity and the overall possible directions of the transitional process. Culture, imagination, and ideology often play key roles in the making of massacres and atrocities. The recording of atrocity and violence, in processes comparable to cultural heritage, could be a way to address its causes.

Regulating Freedom of Religion: From the United Nations to the European Court of Human Rights by Hans G. Kippenberg; translated by Brian McNeil Freedom of Religion--declared in Art. 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)--concerned not only individuals, but included the moral right of religious communities to manifest religion in public. The International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights (1966/1976) made it a legal right and added an article that allowed states to restrict that freedom, provided it violates national laws and public order. This article resulted in an ongoing process of legal proceedings. The Human Rights Committee of the UN and the European Court of Human Rights have made judgments that allowed a plurality of religions in public, even in cases where there is a state religion.

Sex As a Protected Ground in International and Domestic Law by Christine Forster; Vedna Jivan This volume in the 'Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law' compares sex discrimination protection through three thematic lenses. Firstly, it charts and compares the evolution sex discrimination protection in human rights law in three treaty-bodies - the CEDAW Committee, the HRC and the CESCR. Second, it traces the development of sex discrimination protection in three domestic law frameworks ? the United States, Australia and India. Finally, it compares the development of sex discrimination protection in international law with its development in the domestic laws of the three countries and analyses the implications of that comparison. Despite differences in the translation of international approaches to sex discrimination into domestic law and differences in social, political and cultural contexts, women appear to face similar limitations in accessing justice through sex discrimination frameworks.

The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression by Giulia Pecorella "This book traces the position of the United States of America on aggression, beginning with the Declaration of Independence up to 2020, covering the four years of the Trump Administration. The decision of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court to activate the Court's jurisdiction over the crime of aggression in 2018 has added further value to a book concerning the position and practice of one of the most influential states, a global military power and permanent member of the UN Security Council. Organized along chronological lines, the work examines whether, or to what extent, the US position has evolved over time. The book explores how the definition of the crime can impact upon the US, notwithstanding its failure to ratify the Rome Statute. It also shows that the US practice and opinio iuris about the law applicable to the use of force might influence, as it has done in the past, the law itself.

The One Florida Initiative by Megan Covington; Adriel A. Hilton; Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg; Marissa C. Vasquez Hilton and colleagues provide a cogent analysis of the effects of the One Florida Initiative on enrollment patterns in the state's public law schools to help us understand how changes in public policy can impact diversity.

The Senate: from White supremacy to governmental gridlock by Daniel Wirls This accessible book explains the Senate's clash with modern democracy and effective government by exposing this chamber of Congress as a bastion of white supremacy through most of American history.

The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression by Giulia Pecorella "This book traces the position of the United States of America on aggression, beginning with the Declaration of Independence up to 2020, covering the four years of the Trump Administration. The decision of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court to activate the Court's jurisdiction over the crime of aggression in 2018 has added further value to a book concerning the position and practice of one of the most influential states, a global military power and permanent member of the UN Security Council. Organized along chronological lines, the work examines whether, or to what extent, the US position has evolved over time. The book explores how the definition of the crime can impact upon the US, notwithstanding its failure to ratify the Rome Statute. It also shows that the US practice and opinio iuris about the law applicable to the use of force might influence, as it has done in the past, the law itself.

Blood in the Water by Walter Champion; Carlos A. Velasquez This book looks at mass tort litigation in a variety of formats including lawsuits against manufacturers and Big Pharma. The authors argue that without the personal injury bar, outrageous examples of rampant corporate greed would continue to this day. The author references many class actions such as the exploding Pinto, Agent Orange, the Opioid epidemic, concussions in the NFL, and the Boeing 737 Max scandal. Text reform zealots argue that these lawsuits are bogus and detrimental to the American way of life. This is, of course, ridiculous. The authors argue that attorneys are the only means to alleviate the excesses of corporate greed by showing multiple cases of mistakes that were purposefully ignored because of the quest for corporate gain. Big corporations live by a cost/benefit analysis that allow and even foster the inevitable lawsuit which results from their greed.

How to Draft Easements by Dean N. Alterman Easements may be short documents, but they define relationships that may last for decades. Learn how to write easement agreements clearly and effectively, not just for your clients but for the ages.

Religious Property Disputes and the Law by Daniel P. Dalton; American Bar Association, Section of State and Local Government Law Staff (Contribution by) This book on religious property law covers three narrow issues of religious property disputes: (1) the local church versus a denomination over the ownership of land and real property when the church leaves the denomination, (2) the ownership of religious property within an independent church, and (3) the religious entity versus a local community engaged in a land use and zoning dispute.

The Photography Law Handbook by Steven M. Richman; American Bar Association, Section of International Law Staff (Contribution by) The ethical and moral debate about photographic images in this global society continues to increase dramatically. Freedom of speech and the right of privacy are more and more in conflict. This updated book provides both a practical and personal perspective on the photographer's critical rights and obligations. This unique resource covers core areas of intellectual property law, tort law, and criminal law and contains necessary information for lawyers, photographers, and content creators. The book covers copyright, privacy and defamation, trespass, social media--and includes discussions about the evolution of drone photography. Lawyer and photographer Steven Richman uses several additional cases and situations to illustrate the potential pitfalls a photographer may encounter.