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Legal Phantoms

Author : Susan Bibler Coutin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503637581
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Legal Phantoms written by Susan Bibler Coutin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA+) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance.

Phantoms

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440620172
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Phantoms written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...

Common Phantoms

Author : Alicia Puglionesi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503612783
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Common Phantoms written by Alicia Puglionesi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With new technologies like the telegraph collapsing the boundaries of time and space, an explanation seemed within reach. As Americans took up psychical experiments in their homes, the boundaries of the mind began to waver. Common Phantoms brings these experiments back to life while modeling a new approach to the history of psychology and the mind sciences. Drawing on previously untapped archives of participant-reported data, Alicia Puglionesi recounts how an eclectic group of investigators tried to capture the most elusive dimensions of human consciousness. A vast though flawed experiment in democratic science, psychical research gave participants valuable tools with which to study their experiences on their own terms. Academic psychology would ultimately disown this effort as both a scientific failure and a remnant of magical thinking, but its challenge to the limits of science, the mind, and the soul still reverberates today.

Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic

Author : Stephen Skowronek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197543103
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic written by Stephen Skowronek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in steady hands, due deliberation, and expertise. President Trump pitted himself repeatedly against the institutions and personnel of the executive branch. In the process, two once-obscure concepts came center stage in an eerie faceoff. On one side was the specter of a "Deep State" conspiracyadministrators threatening to thwart the will of the people and undercut the constitutional authority of the president they elected to lead them. On the other side was a raw personalization of presidential power, one that a theory of "the unitary executive" gussied up and allowed to run roughshod over reason and the rule of law. The Deep State and the unitary executive framed every major contest of the Trump presidency. Like phantom twins, they drew each other out. These conflicts are not new. Stephen Skowronek, John A. Dearborn, and Desmond King trace the tensions between presidential power and the depth of the American state back through the decades and forward through the various settlements arrived at in previous eras. Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic is about the breakdown of settlements and the abiding vulnerabilities of a Constitution that gave scant attention to administrative power. Rather than simply dump on Trump, the authors provide a richly historical perspective on the conflicts that rocked his presidency, and they explain why, if left untamed, the phantom twins will continue to pull the American government apart.

Fiction and the Languages of Law

Author : Karen Petroski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351163825
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Fiction and the Languages of Law written by Karen Petroski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary legal reasoning has more in common with fictional discourse than we tend to realize. Through an examination of the U.S. Supreme Court’s written output during a recent landmark term, this book exposes many of the parallels between these two special kinds of language use. Focusing on linguistic and rhetorical patterns in the dozens of reasoned opinions issued by the Court between October 2014 and June 2015, the book takes nonlawyer readers on a lively tour of contemporary American legal reasoning and acquaints legal readers with some surprising features of their own thinking and writing habits. It analyzes cases addressing a huge variety of issues, ranging from the rights of drivers stopped by the police to the decision-making processes of the Environmental Protection Agency—as well as the term’s best-known case, which recognized a constitutional right to marriage for same-sex as well as different-sex couples. Fiction and the Languages of Law reframes a number of long-running legal debates, identifies other related paradoxes within legal discourse, and traces them all to common sources: judges’ and lawyers’ habit of alternating unselfconsciously between two different attitudes toward the language they use, and a set of professional biases that tends to prevent scrutiny of that habit.

Phantom History, the Rule of Law and the Colonial State

Author : Peter G. Sack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Phantom History, the Rule of Law and the Colonial State written by Peter G. Sack and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cyber-espionage in international law

Author : Thibault Moulin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526168022
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Cyber-espionage in international law written by Thibault Moulin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While espionage between states is a practice dating back centuries, the emergence of the internet revolutionised the types and scale of intelligence activities, creating drastic new challenges for the traditional legal frameworks governing them. This book argues that cyber-espionage has come to have an uneasy status in law: it is not prohibited, because spying does not result in an internationally wrongful act, but neither is it authorised or permitted, because states are free to resist foreign cyber-espionage activities. Rather than seeking further regulation, however, governments have remained purposefully silent, leaving them free to pursue cyber-espionage themselves at the same time as they adopt measures to prevent falling victim to it. Drawing on detailed analysis of state practice and examples from sovereignty, diplomacy, human rights and economic law, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current legal status of cyber-espionage, as well as future directions for research and policy. It is an essential resource for scholars and practitioners in international law, as well as anyone interested in the future of cyber-security.

Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law

Author : Anver M. Emon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191645702
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law written by Anver M. Emon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years. The usual starting point has been to test one system by the standards of the other, asking is Islamic law 'compatible' with international human rights standards, or vice versa. This approach quickly ends in acrimony and accusations of misunderstanding. By overlaying one set of norms on another we overlook the deeply contextual nature of how legal rules operate in a society, and meaningful comparison and discussion is impossible. In this volume, leading experts in Islamic law and international human rights law attempt to deepen the understanding of human rights and Islam, paving the way for a more meaningful debate. Focusing on central areas of controversy, such as freedom of speech and religion, gender equality, and minority rights, the authors examine the contextual nature of how Islamic law and international human rights law are legitimately formed, interpreted, and applied within a community. They examine how these fundamental interests are recognized and protected within the law, and what restrictions are placed on the freedoms associated with them. By examining how each system recognizes and limits fundamental freedoms, this volume clears the ground for exploring the relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law on a sounder footing. In doing so it offers a challenging and distinctive contribution to the literature on the subject, and will be an invaluable reference for students, academics, and policy-makers engaged in the legal and religious debates surrounding Islam and the West.

Expert Laws of War

Author : Anton O. Petrov
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789907594
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Expert Laws of War written by Anton O. Petrov and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades, international humanitarian law has been shaped by the omnipresence of so-called expert manuals. Astute and engaging, this discerning book provides a comprehensive account of these black letter rules and commentaries produced by private expert groups and demonstrates why the general acceptance of these expert manuals is largely unjustified. The author innovatively links interdisciplinary insights to the needs of military lawyers in practice, showing the pitfalls of relying on private manuals as arguable restatements and interpretations of the law 'as it is'.

Cyber Attacks and International Law on the Use of Force

Author : Samuli Haataja
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351057006
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Cyber Attacks and International Law on the Use of Force written by Samuli Haataja and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the thematic intersection of law, technology and violence, this book explores cyber attacks against states and current international law on the use of force. The theory of information ethics is used to critique the law’s conception of violence and to develop an informational approach as an alternative way to think about cyber attacks. Cyber attacks against states constitute a new form of violence in the information age, and international law on the use of force is limited in its capacity to regulate them. This book draws on Luciano Floridi’s theory of information ethics to critique the narrow conception of violence embodied in the law and to develop an alternative way to think about cyber attacks, violence, and the state. The author uses three case studies – the 2007 cyber attacks against Estonia, the Stuxnet incident involving Iran that was discovered in 2010, and the cyber attacks used as part of the Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election – to demonstrate that an informational approach offers a means to reimagine the state as an entity and cyber attacks as a form of violence against it. This interdisciplinary approach will appeal to an international audience of scholars in international law, international relations, security studies, cyber security, and anyone interested in the issues surrounding emerging technologies.

Habeas Corpus in International Law

Author : Brian R. Farrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107151775
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Habeas Corpus in International Law written by Brian R. Farrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 The Importance of Effective International Habeas Corpus Guarantees

The Law Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Indian Constitution, Containing the Fully Annotated Law of the New Constitution in British India, as Embodied in the Consolidated Government of India Act, 1915-1919, the Elections Rules, Indian Elections Offences and Enquiries Act, (1920), Indian & Provincial Legislative Rules, Etc., and All Relevant Documents Relating to the Indian Constitutional Reforms of 1919

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Author : Panchanandas Mukherji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Constitution, Containing the Fully Annotated Law of the New Constitution in British India, as Embodied in the Consolidated Government of India Act, 1915-1919, the Elections Rules, Indian Elections Offences and Enquiries Act, (1920), Indian & Provincial Legislative Rules, Etc., and All Relevant Documents Relating to the Indian Constitutional Reforms of 1919 written by Panchanandas Mukherji and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cyberwar

Author : Jens David Ohlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198717504
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Cyberwar written by Jens David Ohlin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber weapons and cyber warfare have become one of the most dangerous innovations of recent years, and a significant threat to national security. Cyber weapons can imperil economic, political, and military systems by a single act, or by multifaceted orders of effect, with wide-ranging potential consequences. Unlike past forms of warfare circumscribed by centuries of just war tradition and Law of Armed Conflict prohibitions, cyber warfare occupies a particularly ambiguous status in the conventions of the laws of war. Furthermore, cyber attacks put immense pressure on conventional notions of sovereignty, and the moral and legal doctrines that were developed to regulate them. This book, written by an unrivalled set of experts, assists in proactively addressing the ethical and legal issues that surround cyber warfare by considering, first, whether the Laws of Armed Conflict apply to cyberspace just as they do to traditional warfare, and second, the ethical position of cyber warfare against the background of our generally recognized moral traditions in armed conflict. The book explores these moral and legal issues in three categories. First, it addresses foundational questions regarding cyber attacks. What are they and what does it mean to talk about a cyber war? The book presents alternative views concerning whether the laws of war should apply, or whether transnational criminal law or some other peacetime framework is more appropriate, or if there is a tipping point that enables the laws of war to be used. Secondly, it examines the key principles of jus in bello to determine how they might be applied to cyber-conflicts, in particular those of proportionality and necessity. It also investigates the distinction between civilian and combatant in this context, and studies the level of causation necessary to elicit a response, looking at the notion of a 'proximate cause'. Finally, it analyzes the specific operational realities implicated by particular regulatory regimes. This book is unmissable reading for anyone interested in the impact of cyber warfare on international law and the laws of war.

The Canadian Monthly and National Review

Author : Graeme Mercer Adam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Monthly and National Review written by Graeme Mercer Adam and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canadian Monthly and National Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
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Excessive Punishment

Author : Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231559240
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Excessive Punishment written by Lauren-Brooke Eisen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has by far the world’s largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are imprisoned; hundreds of thousands more are held in jails. This vast system has doled out punishment—particularly to people from marginalized groups—on an unfathomable scale. At the same time, it has manifestly failed to secure public safety, instead perpetuating inequalities and recidivism. Why does the United States see punishment as the main response to social harm, and what are the alternatives? This book brings together essays by scholars, practitioners, activists, and writers, including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, to explore the harms of this punitive approach. The chapters address a range of issues, from policing to prosecution, and from how people are treated in prison to the consequences of a criminal conviction. Together, they consider a common theme: We cannot reduce our dependence on mass incarceration until we confront our impulse to punish in ways that are excessive, often wildly disproportionate to the harm caused. Essays trace how a maze of local, state, and federal agencies have contributed to mass incarceration and deterred attempts at reform. They shed light on how the excesses of America’s criminal legal system are entwined with poverty, racism, and the legacy of slavery. A wide-ranging and powerful look at the failures of the status quo, Excessive Punishment also considers how to reimagine the justice system to support restoration instead of retribution.