Probation Violations in North Carolina

Probation Violations in North Carolina
Author: James M. Markham
Publisher: Unc School of Government
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Probation
ISBN: 9781560119418
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There are over 80,000 people on probation in North Carolina. This book sets out the law and procedure of how probation officers and the court system respond to violations of probation with a focus on the courts' limited authority to revoke probation, after the Justice Reinvestment Act of 2011.

The Sedona Principles

The Sedona Principles
Author: Jonathan M. Redgrave
Publisher: Pike & Fischer - A BNA Company
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0937275174
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Comics as Philosophy

Comics as Philosophy
Author: Jeff McLaughlin
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781604730661
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Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels of social realism, to European adventure classics. Included among the contributions are essays on existentialism in Daniel Clowes's graphic novel "Ghost World," ecocriticism in Paul Chadwick's long-running "Concrete" series, and political philosophies in Herge's perennially popular "The Adventures of Tintin." Modern political concerns inform Terry Kading's discussion of how superhero comics have responded to 9/11 and how the genre reflects the anxieties of the contemporary world. Essayists also explore the issues surrounding the development and appreciation of comics. Amy Kiste Nyberg examines the rise of the Comics Code, using it as a springboard for discussing the ethics of censorship and child protection in America. Stanford W. Carpenter uses interviews to analyze how a team of Marvel artists and writers reimagined the origin of one of Marvel's most iconic superheroes, Captain America. Throughout, essayists in Comics as Philosophy show how well the form can be used by its artists and its interpreters as a means of philosophical inquiry. Jeff McLaughlin is assistant professor of philosophy at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia."

Import Safety

Import Safety
Author: Cary Coglianese
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 081220591X
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On World Food Day in October 2008, former president Bill Clinton finally accepted decade-old criticism directed at his administration's pursuit of free-trade deals with little regard for food safety, child labor, or workers' rights. "We all blew it, including me when I was president. We blew it. We were wrong to believe that food was like some other product in international trade." Clinton's public admission came at a time when consumers in the United States were hearing unsettling stories about contaminated food, toys, and medical products from China, and the first real calls were being made for more regulation of imported products. Import Safety comes at a moment when public interest is engaged with the subject and the government is receptive to the idea of consumer protections that were not instituted when many of the Clinton era's free-trade pacts were drafted. Written by leading scholars and analysts, the chapters in Import Safety provide background and policy guidance on improving consumer safety in imported food, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and toys and other products aimed at children. Together, they consider whether policymakers should approach import safety issues through better funding of traditional interventions—such as regulatory oversight and product liability—or whether this problem poses a different kind of governance challenge, requiring wholly new methods.

The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism

The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism
Author: Laura Kalman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1998-08-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780300076479
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Legal scholarship is in a state of crisis, Laura Kalman argues in this history of the most prestigious field in law studies: constitutional theory. Since the time of the New Deal, says Kalman, most law scholars have identified themselves as liberals who believe in the power of the Supreme Court to effect progressive social change. In recent years, however, new political and interdisciplinary perspectives have undermined the tenets of legal liberalism, and liberal law professors have enlisted other disciplines in the attempt to legitimize their beliefs. Such prominent legal thinkers as Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, and Frank Michelman have incorporated the work of historians into their legal theories and arguments, turning to eighteenth-century republicanism--which stressed communal values and an active citizenry--to justify their goals. Kalman, a historian and a lawyer, suggests that reliance on history in legal thinking makes sense at a time when the Supreme Court repeatedly declares that it will protect only those liberties rooted in history and tradition. There are pitfalls in interdisciplinary argumentation, she cautions, for historians' reactions to this use of their work have been unenthusiastic and even hostile. Yet lawyers, law professors, and historians have cooperated in some recent Supreme Court cases, and Kalman concludes with a practical examination of the ways they can work together more effectively as social activists.

Commissions of Inquiry

Commissions of Inquiry
Author: Allan Manson
Publisher: Toronto Irwin Law
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781552210741
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This book assesses the role and conduct of commissions of inquiry in Canada. It provides a comprehensive source of related legal doctrine and brings a political science perspective to the function and pathology of this kind of investigative and policy-making instrument. Specific inquiries are discussed with criticisms and recommendations.