Kafkaesque Laws Nisour Square And The Trials Of The Former Blackwater Guards

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Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards

Author : Marouf A. Hasian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683930606
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards written by Marouf A. Hasian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides academics and lay persons with Kafkaesque readings of our memories of the 2007 Nisour Square shootings in Iraq. The author uses critical analyses of the rise of Blackwater, support for private security firms and private contracting, prosecutorial and defense preparations and the 2014 jury trial to argue that most observers have drastically underestimated the groundswell of support that existed for Erik Prince and many other defenders of military or security outsourcing. This book puts on display the cultural, legal, and political difficulties that confronted those who wanted to try former Blackwater security guards in the name of belated social justice.

Monsters, Law, Crime

Author : Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683930800
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Monsters, Law, Crime written by Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into “monsters” and “monster-talk,” and law and crime. This edited collection explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving frontiers of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on law and crime as extensions of a Gothic Criminology. This theoretical framework was initially developed by Caroline Joan “Kay” S. Picart, a Philosophy and Film professor turned Attorney and Law professor, and Cecil Greek, a Sociologist (Picart and Greek 2008). Picart and Greek proposed a Gothic Criminology to analyze the fertile synapses connecting the “real” and the “reel” in the flow of Gothic metaphors and narratives that abound around criminological phenomena that populate not only popular culture but also academic and public policy discourses. Picart's edited collection adapts the framework to focus predominantly on law and the social sciences.

Gender Justice and the Law

Author : Elaine Wood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683932404
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Gender Justice and the Law written by Elaine Wood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of inequality define and shape its meaning. It asks how notions of “justice” shape gender identity and whether the legal justice system itself privileges notions of gender or is itself gendered. Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice essays contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction. Given its theme, the collection’s essays examine theoretical practices of intersectional identity at the nexus of “gender and justice” that might also relate to issues of sexuality, race, class, age, and ability.

The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Eamon P. H. Keane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683932528
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century written by Eamon P. H. Keane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented in The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century by those who knew Ian Willock, as well as those who have been inspired by his concerns, represent the wide compass of Ian’s interests. These range from a concern with the development of legal regulation to the relationship between social change and the justice system, as well as his particular interest in the accessibility of the justice system. This tribute provides a microcosm of the changes and shifts which occurred in legal education and the legal profession in the years between 1964 and the current century. The profound impact of Ian Willock’s life work is evident through the wide-ranging essays in this collection.

Lawfare and the Ovaherero and Nama Pursuit of Restorative Justice, 1918–2018

Author : Marouf A. Hasian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683931890
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Lawfare and the Ovaherero and Nama Pursuit of Restorative Justice, 1918–2018 written by Marouf A. Hasian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides readers with a critical analysis of the restorative justice efforts of the Ovaherero and Nama communities in Namibia, who contend that they should receive reparations for what happened to their ancestors during, and after the 1904–1908 German-Ovaherero/Nama war. Arguing that indigenous communities who once lived in a German colony called “German South West Africa” suffered from a genocide that could be compared to the World War II Holocaust Namibian activists sued Germany and German corporations in U.S. federal courts for reparations. The author of this book uses a critical genealogical approach to all of this “lawfare” (the politicizing of the law) in order to illustrate some of the historical origins of this quest for social justice. Portions of the book also explain some of the historical and contemporary realpolitik barriers that stood in the way of Ovaherero and Nama activists who were asking for acknowledgments of the “Namibian genocide,” apologies from German officials, repatriation of human remains from colonial times as well as restitution that might help with land redistribution in today’s Namibia. This book shows many of the difficulties that confront those indigenous communities who ask twenty-first century audiences to pay restitution for large-scale colonial massacres or imperial genocides that might have taken place more than a hundred years ago.

The Legal Exhibitionist

Author : Joel Silverman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683933362
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book The Legal Exhibitionist written by Joel Silverman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to a Jewish immigrant shopkeeper in a small Alabama town, Morris Ernst used aggressive self-promotion and exaggeration—what he called “exhibitionism”—to transcend his insecurities and his part-time legal training to become one of America’s most famous lawyers. During the first half of the twentieth century, Ernst championed free speech, sexual education, birth control, and reproductive health, and his landmark defense of James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1933 cemented Ernst’s reputation as the top progressive attorney of the era. To promote himself, Ernst befriended newspaper writers, authors, actors, politicians, and practically anyone whose work carried some weight in popular culture. But his hunger for respect and recognition, together with his need for excitement, led Ernst to lavish praise on J. Edgar Hoover and to publicly defend—and profit from—a Dominican dictator. In the process, Ernst undermined his own credibility and largely fell out of favor with the public. By examining key moments of his life and career, The Legal Exhibitionist: Morris Ernst, Jewish Identity, and the Modern Celebrity Lawyer describes how Ernst’s exhibitionism led to his rise and fall and suggests how his strategy of exaggeration anticipated the emergence of today’s celebrity lawyers.

Betraying Dignity

Author : Orit Kamir
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683932048
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Betraying Dignity written by Orit Kamir and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common? Betraying Dignity argues that in the second decade of the twenty-first century, individuals, political parties and nations around the world are abandoning the dignity-based culture we established in the aftermath of two world wars, less than a century ago. Disappointed or intimidated, many turn their backs on the humanitarian, universalistic culture that presumes our inherent human dignity and celebrates it as the basis of every individual's equal human rights. Instead, people and nations are returning to a much older, honor-based cultural structure. Because its ancient logic and mentality take new forms (such as social network shaming and certain aspects of "victimhood culture") -- we fail to recognize them, and overlook the pitfalls of the old honor-based structure. Narrating the history of honor-based societies, this book distinguishes their underlying principle from the post-WWII notion of dignity that underlies human rights. It makes the case that in order to revive and strengthen dignity-based culture, the concept of human dignity must be defined narrowly and succinctly, and enhanced with the principle of respect. Continuing its historical and cultural narrative, the book discusses contemporary phenomena such as al-Qaeda terrorists, shaming via social network, FoMO, and some features of the emerging "victimhood culture". The book pays homage to Erich Fromm's classic Escape from Freedom.

Nixon in New York

Author : Victor Li
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683930010
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Nixon in New York written by Victor Li and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Nixon’s loss in the 1962 gubernatorial election in California was more than just a simple electoral defeat. His once-promising political career was in ruins as he dropped his second high-profile race in as many years. Nixon, himself, rubbed salt in his own self-inflicted wounds by delivering a growling, bitter concession speech that made him seem like a sore loser. In the months following his defeat and self-immolation, he left California to move to New York so that he could work for a prestigious Wall Street law firm. His new career only seemed to confirm what everyone already knew: Richard Nixon was finished as a politician. Except, he wasn’t. Nixon’s political resurrection was virtually unprecedented in American history role, and he had his law firm to thank for paving his way to the White House. His role as public partner at Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander was the ideal platform for him as he looked to reinvent himself after his back-to-back losses in 1960 and 1962. Nixon’s firm gave him access to deep-pocketed clients, many of whom became donors when he decided to take the plunge in 1968. Furthermore, working for so many international clients allowed him to travel the world and burnish his foreign policy credentials – a vital quality that voters were looking for as the Cold War raged on and the Vietnam War showed no signs of slowing down. Nixon’s time at the firm also allowed him to build a formidable campaign staff consisting of top-notch lawyers, researchers and writers – a staff that did just about everything for him when it came time to ramp up for the 1968 campaign.

Enter the Undead Author

Author : George Pate
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683931599
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Enter the Undead Author written by George Pate and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many narratives of theater history suggest that the 1960s marked the start of a turning away from traditional, script-based, playwright-centric production practices. Literary studies in this period began exploring the concept of the “death of the author” along similar lines. But the author refused to die quietly, and authorship reasserts itself in even revolutionary and avant-garde theaters throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. The model of authorship—valorizing individuality, ownership, and originality—serves to maintain traditional modes of production that reproduce and uphold dominant ideologies even when the products created by those modes of production claim to buck tradition or run counter to cultural currents. This ideology of authorship plays a part in playwrights shutting down productions of their own plays, in the privileging of individual authorship over joint authorship even in collaborative genres, and in the insistence on originality even in performance traditions rooted in a shared repertoire. This tension between the theoretical death of the author and the growth of actual authors’ abilities to control access to and even in some cases interpretations of their work exposes the deftness with which dominant ideologies and their attendant modes of production can repurpose the aesthetics of even countercultural or revolutionary movements in theater.

Equity, Equality, and Empathy

Author : Richard D. Sorenson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475866089
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Equity, Equality, and Empathy written by Richard D. Sorenson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equity, Equality, and Empathy: What Principals Can Do for the Well-Being of the Learning Community presents seven principal actions detailing how to develop a successful well-being program. Moreover, leadership processes are advanced to aid principals in embracing, encouraging, and amplifying equity, equality, and empathy, as well as social and emotional learning. This book is written to guide principals in understanding that far too many social injustices plague not only the nation but school systems as well. Revealed are TOP-10 Steps to Quality Leadership effective in guiding campus leaders when working with others in overcoming biases, prejudices, and discriminatory actions and practices. Additionally, fourteen school-oriented processes to eradicating racism in schools are identified and addressed. Equity, Equality, and Empathy promotes seven elements of empathy and how they are critical tools for effective school leadership. Seven habits of highly empathetic principals are explored along with five-steps to a principal establishing and maintaining a learning community culture of empathy. Finally, this book provides school leaders with a critical skills inventory which investigates how principals personally react to social and emotional learning, organizational well-being, and empathy, equity, and equality leadership.

David Fincher's Zodiac

Author : Matthew Sorrento
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683933273
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book David Fincher's Zodiac written by Matthew Sorrento and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007), written by producer James Vanderbilt and adapted from the true crime works of Robert Graysmith, remains one of the most respected films of the early twenty-first century. As the second film featuring a serial killer (and the first based on fact) by Fincher, Zodiac remains a standout in a varied but stylistically unified career. While connected to this genre, the film also hybridizes the policier genre and the investigative reporter film. And yet, scholarship has largely ignored the film. This collection is the first book-length work of criticism dedicated to the film. Section One focuses on early influences, while the second section analyzes the film’s unique treatment of narrative. The book closes with a section focusing on game theory, data and hegemony, the Zodiac’s treatment in music, and the use of sound in cinema. By offering new avenues and continuing a few established ones, this book will interest scholars of cinema and true crime along with fans and enthusiasts in these areas.

Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture

Author : Peter Robson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683933559
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture written by Peter Robson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection explores the complex issue of vigilantism, how it is represented in popular culture, and what is its impact on behavior and the implications for the rule of law. The book is a transnational investigation across a range of eleven different jurisdictions, including accounts of the Anglophone world (Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States), European experiences (Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Portugal), and South American jurisdictions (Argentina and Brazil). The essays, written by prominent international scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and media studies, present data, historical and recent examples of vigilantism; examine the national Laws and jurisprudence; and focus on the broad theme of vigilante justice in popular culture (literature, films, television). Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture sheds light on this topic offering a detailed look beyond the Anglophone world. This collection will enrich the debate by adding the opportunity for comparison which has been largely lacking in scholarly debate. As such, it will appeal not only to scholars of law, sociology, criminology, and media studies, but also to all those who are engaged with these topics alike.

No Place for Ethics

Author : T. Patrick Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683933249
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book No Place for Ethics written by T. Patrick Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In No Place for Ethics, Hill argues that contemporary judicial review by the U.S. Supreme Court rests on its mistaken positivist understanding of law—law simply because so ordered—as something separate from ethics. Further, to assert any relation between the two is to contaminate both, either by turning law into an arm of ethics, or by making ethics an expression of law. This legal positivism was on full display recently when the Supreme Court declared that the CDC was acting unlawfully by extending the eviction moratorium to contain the spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant, something that, the Court admitted, was of indisputable benefit to the public. How mistaken however to think that acting for the good of the public is to act unlawfully when actually it is to act ethically and must therefore be lawful. To address this mistake, Hill contends that an understanding of natural law theory provides the basis for a constitutive relation between ethics and law without confusing their distinct role in answering the basic question, how should I behave in society? To secure that relation, the Court has an overriding responsibility when carrying out its review to do so with reference to normative ethics from which the U.S. Constitution is derived and to which it is accountable. While the Constitution confirms, for example, the liberty interests of individuals, it does not originate those interests which have their origin in human rights that long preceded it. Essential to this argument is an appreciation of ethics as objective and based on principles, like those of justice, truth, and reason that ought to inform human behavior at its very springs. Applied in an analysis of five major Supreme Court cases, this appreciation of ethics reveals how wrongly decided these cases are.

Deadly Indifference

Author : Michael D. Brown
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1589794869
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Deadly Indifference written by Michael D. Brown and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown—infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in U.S. history.

Imperial Delusions

Author : Carl Boggs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742527720
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Delusions written by Carl Boggs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting critique, Carl Boggs argues that the United States is dominated by a new militarism, one that has become more potent and menacing since 9/11. He skillfully explores the origins and development of this new militarism and show its devastating effects on American society.

The Internet and the 2020 Campaign

Author : Terri L. Towner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793610444
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Internet and the 2020 Campaign written by Terri L. Towner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many developments surrounding the Internet campaign are now considered to be standard fare, there were a number of newer developments in 2020. Drawing on original research conducted by leading experts, The Internet and the 2020 Campaign attempts to cover these developments in a comprehensive fashion. How are campaigns making use of the Internet to organize and mobilize their ground game? To communicate their message? How are citizens making use of online sources to become informed, follow campaigns, participate, and more, and to what effect? How has the Internet affected developments in media reporting, both traditional and non-traditional, of the campaign? What other messages were available online, and what effects did these messages have had on citizens attitudes and vote choice? The book examines these questions in an attempt to summarize the 2020 online campaign.

Understanding the Department of Homeland Security

Author : Don Philpott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598887419
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Department of Homeland Security written by Don Philpott and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Department of Homeland Security discusses why the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)--the largest and the newest department of government--was established and then takes a detailed look at the role of the 22 different federal departments and agencies that were incorporated into it. DHS has more than 240,000 employees in jobs that range from aviation and border security to emergency response, from cybersecurity analyst to chemical facility inspector. Its duties are wide-ranging, but the goal is clear--keeping America safe. Features: -An analytical look at the Department of Homeland Security and all its component agencies. -A list of all the major homeland security incidents over the last 100 years. About the Series: The Cabinet Series looks at the major departments in the Federal Government explaining why they were created and the responsibilities of each agency and how they conduct their daily business at home and abroad. It helps to explain what federal agencies do and how they affect the lives of citizens.