From Goods to a Good Life

From Goods to a Good Life
Author: Madhavi Sunder
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 030014671X

A law professor draws from social and cultural theory to defend her idea that that intellectual property law affects the ability of citizens to live a good life and prohibits people from making and sharing culture.

My Own Words

My Own Words
Author: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 150114524X

"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a ... collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had [an] ... influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture"--

Global Health Law

Global Health Law
Author: Lawrence O. Gostin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674369882

The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right. Gostin shows how critical it is for institutions and international agreements to focus not only on illness but also on the essential conditions that enable people to stay healthy throughout their lifespan: nutrition, clean water, mosquito control, and tobacco reduction. Policies that shape agriculture, trade, and the environment have long-term impacts on health, and Gostin proposes major reforms of global health institutions and governments to ensure better coordination, more transparency, and accountability. He illustrates the power of global health law with case studies on AIDS, influenza, tobacco, and health worker migration. Today's pressing health needs worldwide are a problem not only for the medical profession but also for all concerned citizens. Designed with the beginning student, advanced researcher, and informed public in mind, Global Health Law will be a foundational resource for teaching, advocacy, and public discourse in global health.

Teachinglaw.com

Teachinglaw.com
Author: Diana Donahoe
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780735564350

TeachingLaw.com brings the classroom to life: - engages students both inside and outside of the classroom, using multimedia, animation, annotated samples, and interactive exercises to cover research, writing, grammar, and citation - merges a sophisticated pedagogical design with content, both authored by Professor Diana Donahoe gives instructors the means to enhance traditional lectures with more interactive and collaborative teaching methods that complement their own style and expertise - provides a discoverybased, active learning environment where students can read, research, and write simultaneously and digest material more thoroughly and effectively - allows for a paperless classroom! As a classroom management system, this online coursebook allows instructors to upload projects and course materials into file folders from which students can download projects and upload finished, automatically time-stamped assignments - class-tested for two years -- and in use for the 2006-2007 academic year -- at Georgetown University

Finding Feminism

Finding Feminism
Author: Alison Dahl Crossley
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1479898325

The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled by the wide circulation of the killer’s hateful manifesto and his desire to exact “revenge” upon young women, feminists online and offline around the world clamored for a halt to such acts of misogyny. Despite the widespread belief that feminism is out-of-style or dead, this mobilization of young women fighting against gender oppression was overwhelming. In Finding Feminism, Alison Dahl Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Young feminists are carrying the torch of the movement, despite a climate that is not always receptive to their claims. These feminists are engaged in social justice organizing in unexpected contexts and spaces, such as multicultural sororities, student government, and online. Sharing personal stories of their everyday experiences with inequality, the young women in Finding Feminism employ both traditional and innovative feminist tactics. They use the Internet and social media as a tool for their activism—what Alison Dahl Crossley calls ‘Facebook Feminism.’ The university, as an institution, simultaneously aids and constrains their fight for gender equality. Offering a stunning and hopeful portrait of today’s young feminist leaders, Finding Feminism provides insight into the contemporary feminist movement in America.