Academic Legal Writing

Academic Legal Writing
Author: Eugene Volokh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.

The Unwritten Law of Corporate Reorganizations

The Unwritten Law of Corporate Reorganizations
Author: Douglas G. Baird
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316512290

Reveals the unwritten and hitherto inaccessible principles that govern the restructuring of large corporations in Chapter 11.

Plutocracy in America

Plutocracy in America
Author: Ronald P. Formisano
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1421417405

This data-driven book offers insight into the fallacy of widespread opportunity, the fate of the middle class, and the mechanisms that perpetuate income disparity.

Counterterrorism Law

Counterterrorism Law
Author: Charles A. Shanor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Casebooks
ISBN: 9781609300166

This casebook, in a logical and student-friendly format, presents the challenges that terrorism poses to the law. The decisions of Congress, the President, and the courts are organized around various counterterrorism strategies and processes. Strategies used in the United States are compared with those of other nations. The cases and notes explore fascinating issues seldom found elsewhere in law schools such as, crimes punishing speech; warrantless searches and seizures; data mining; foreign intelligence surveillance; extraordinary rendition; state secrets; lengthy military detention; enhanced interrogation techniques; unusual trial forums and processes; targeted killings; immigration sweeps; and compensation barriers. Illustrations include: boundary-blurring between criminal and military law reconsideration of traditional detention and interrogation practices mingling of investigation and intelligence-gathering exceptions to constitutional protections of individual rights new fault lines between courts, the executive, and Congress modifications to the law of armed conflict revisions to immigration law unique aspects of compensation systems related to terrorism. The book is structured into the following chapters and topics: Chapter I provides a broad brush introduction, primarily non-legal, to terrorism and counterterrorism, a short substitute for an undergraduate overview of this field. Chapters II and III explore antiterrorism criminal law (including punishments) and criminal procedures related to finding terrorists. Chapter IV then examines in detail a specific investigatory tool, foreign intelligence surveillance. Chapters V-VII present the legal battles over civilian and military detention and interrogation of alleged terrorists and the processes (mainly habeas corpus) for ending detention. Trial processes concerning defendants c

Debt's Dominion

Debt's Dominion
Author: David A. Skeel Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400828503

Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800, when Congress lifted the country's first bankruptcy code right out of English law, to the present day. Skeel shows that the confluence of three forces that emerged over many years--an organized creditor lobby, pro-debtor ideological currents, and an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar--explains the distinctive contours of American bankruptcy law. Their interplay, he argues in clear, inviting prose, has seen efforts to legislate bankruptcy become a compelling battle royale between bankers and lawyers--one in which the bankers recently seem to have gained the upper hand. Skeel demonstrates, for example, that a fiercely divided bankruptcy commission and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress have yielded the recent, ideologically charged battles over consumer bankruptcy. The uniqueness of American bankruptcy has often been noted, but it has never been explained. As different as twenty-first century America is from the horse-and-buggy era origins of our bankruptcy laws, Skeel shows that the same political factors continue to shape our unique response to financial distress.

Courting Failure

Courting Failure
Author: Lynn LoPucki
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2006-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0472031708

An eye-opening account of the widespread and systematic decay of America's bankruptcy courts