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Shadow Courts

Author : Haley Sweetland Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997126402
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Courts written by Haley Sweetland Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Haley Sweetland Edwards explains the history of global shadow courts and how these courts have spun out of control, threatening the interests of citizens everywhere including the United States. Her fantastic book is exactly what long-form journalism is meant to do, to move beyond current events and provide historical perspective that aims at future reform. SHADOW COURTS should be at the top of the reading list of all those interested in redesigning trade agreements to be in the publicinterest." -- Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor, Columbia University and author ofThe End of Poverty International trade deals have become vastly complex documents, seeking to govern everything from labor rights to environmental protections. This evolution has drawn alarm from American voters, but their suspicions are often vague. In this book, investigative journalist Haley Sweetland Edwards offers a detailed look at one little-known but powerful provision in most modern trade agreements that is designed to protect the financial interests of global corporations against the governments of sovereign states. She makes a devastating case that Investor-State Dispute Settlement -- a "shadow court" that allows corporations to sue a nation outside its own court system -- has tilted the balance of power on the global stage. Acorporation can use ISDS to challenge a nation's policies and regulations, if it believes those laws are unfair or diminish its future profits. From the 1960s to 2000, corporations brought fewer than 40 disputes, but in the last fifteen years, they have brought nearly 650 -- 54 against Argentina alone. Edwards conducted extensive research and interviewed dozens of policymakers, activists, and government officials in Argentina, Canada, Bolivia, Ecuador, the European Union, and in the Obama administration. The result is a major story about a significant shift in the global balance of power.

Within Obsession and Lies

Author : Harper Wylde
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Within Obsession and Lies written by Harper Wylde and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within Obsession and Lies is the sexy, action-packed first book in A Court of Gilt and Shadow Series by bestselling authors Stacy Jones and Harper Wylde. Power. Obsession. Lies. Other people dream of being special. They wouldn't, if they knew what a nightmare it is. Arawyn would give anything to be ordinary and rid herself of the power that lives inside her. Dangerous and alluring, it's caused nothing but pain and horror, making her the dark obsession of anyone who gets too close. After years of barely containing it, Arawyn thought she had control... until the night it bursts free and pulses like a beacon. As threats emerge from the shadows, each one more fixated on her than the last, she finds her life infiltrated by three mysterious men. A mafia boss, a psychopath, and a killer. Rathe, Viper, and Fear are much more than they seem. They taste of power and feel impossibly familiar. They call to her soul in a way she's never experienced and might have answers to questions she's been asking her entire life. But darkness and secrets surround them, ones covered in blood and mire. When the monsters stalking her endanger not only her power but her life, she'll have to make a decision: take a risk and let these dangerous men in, or do what she's always done-walk away and try to survive on her own. Trusting them would be a mistake. Yet, she may not have a choice. The monsters hunting her aren't human and they're out for blood. Rathe, Viper, and Fear might be her only chance of making it through this alive. There's only one problem. They aren't human either... From bestselling authors, Stacy Jones and Harper Wylde, comes a darkly seductive new series that blends romance, danger, and the supernatural into an unforgettable read.

In the Shadow of Dred Scott

Author : Kelly M. Kennington
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350850
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Dred Scott written by Kelly M. Kennington and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family, sued for freedom in the local legal arena of St. Louis. Her findings open new perspectives on the legal culture of slavery and the negotiated processes involved in freedom suits. As a gateway to the American West, a major port on both the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and a focal point in the rancorous national debate over slavery’s expansion, St. Louis was an ideal place for enslaved individuals to challenge the legal systems and, by extension, the social systems that held them in forced servitude. Kennington offers an in-depth look at how daily interactions, webs of relationships, and arguments presented in court shaped and reshaped legal debates and public attitudes over slavery and freedom in St. Louis. Kennington also surveys more than eight hundred state supreme court freedom suits from around the United States to situate the St. Louis example in a broader context. Although white enslavers dominated the antebellum legal system in St. Louis and throughout the slaveholding states, that fact did not mean that the system ignored the concerns of the subordinated groups who made up the bulk of the American population. By looking at a particular example of one group’s encounters with the law—and placing these suits into conversation with similar encounters that arose in appellate cases nationwide—Kennington sheds light on the ways in which the law responded to the demands of a variety of actors.

Shortlisted

Author : Hannah Brenner Johnson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479811963
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Shortlisted written by Hannah Brenner Johnson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Women's Nonfiction Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court after centuries of male appointments, a watershed moment in the long struggle for gender equality. Yet few know about the remarkable women considered in the decades before her triumph. Shortlisted tells the overlooked stories of nine extraordinary women—a cohort large enough to seat the entire Supreme Court—who appeared on presidential lists dating back to the 1930s. Florence Allen, the first female judge on the highest court in Ohio, was named repeatedly in those early years. Eight more followed, including Amalya Kearse, a federal appellate judge who was the first African American woman viewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women. In addition to filling a notable historical gap, the book exposes the tragedy of the shortlist. Listing and bypassing qualified female candidates creates a false appearance of diversity that preserves the status quo, a fate all too familiar for women, especially minorities. Shortlisted offers a roadmap to combat enduring bias and discrimination. It is a must-read for those seeking positions of power as well as for the powerful who select them in the legal profession and beyond.

Courts of the Shadow Fey (5th Edition)

Author : Wolfgang Baur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936781799
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Courts of the Shadow Fey (5th Edition) written by Wolfgang Baur and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends or Foes? A Game of Shifting Dangers The Shadow Fey arrive and turn the city upside down--and their ambassador demands that the player characters explain themselves for interfering in a legitimate assassination! So begins the looking-glass adventure that takes 7th to 10th level adventurers to the Realm of Shadows. This inventive take on courtly combat and sandbox roleplaying includes: More than 60-location map of the Courts, fully detailed with 100+ NPCs More than 40 combat and roleplaying encounters Dozens of new monsters your players have never seen! Demon lovers and dangerous liaisons for those who seek them Jealous rivals, a quick-play dueling system, and the King and Queen of Shadows A Status system to track player character prestige--and new Status powers! Enter the world of shadows, and play the 5th Edition of the world's first roleplaying game on a whole new level! More than 140 pages of real action and adventure by designers Wolfgang Baur and Dan Dillon.

Shadow Justice

Author : Christin Harrington
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Justice written by Christin Harrington and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-11-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first critical examination of informal dispute processing links the institutionalization of alternatives to the court process and the ideology of informalism with the evolution of the American court system. The author connects dispute processing reform to the broader social and political context in which it developed, including the rise of judicial management in the Progressive period and the reconstruction of court unification in the 1970s. Harrington defines legal resources and their distribution in alternative dispute resolution policy before focusing on the institutionalization of this reform in a case study of a federally sponsored Neighborhood Justice Center. In conclusion, Harrington finds that the symbols of informalism and its institutions are a mere shadow of conventional legal practices.

The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies

Author : Aziz Z. Huq
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197556817
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies written by Aziz Z. Huq and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book describes and explains the failure of the federal courts of the United States to act and to provide remedies to individuals whose constitutional rights have been violated by illegal state coercion and violence. This remedial vacuum must be understood in light of the original design and historical development of the federal courts. At its conception, the federal judiciary was assumed to be independent thanks to an apolitical appointment process, a limited supply of adequately trained lawyers (which would prevent cherry-picking), and the constraining effect of laws and constitutional provision. Each of these checks quickly failed. As a result, the early federal judicial system was highly dependent on Congress. Not until the last quarter of the nineteenth century did a robust federal judiciary start to emerge, and not until the first quarter of the twentieth century did it take anything like its present form. The book then charts how the pressure from Congress and the White House has continued to shape courts behaviour-first eliciting a mid-twentieth-century explosion in individual remedies, and then driving a five-decade long collapse. Judges themselves have not avidly resisted this decline, in part because of ideological reasons and in part out of institutional worries about a ballooning docket. Today, as a result of these trends, the courts are stingy with individual remedies, but aggressively enforce the so-called "structural" constitution of the separation of powers and federalism. This cocktail has highly regressive effects, and is in urgent need of reform"--

Court of Shadows

Author : C. N. Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781718100022
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court of Shadows written by C. N. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My two goals in London? Drink whiskey with my best friend, and don't let anyone know I'm brimming with magic. A supernatural gladiator like me isn't supposed to exist anymore. Not since The Anarchy ended. But my night takes a bad turn when a lethally gorgeous fae--Ruadan--tries to assassinate me. He's taken a vow of silence until he's slaughtered the outlaws on his kill list. Outlaws like me. Ruadan lets me live on one condition: I have to earn my place at the Institute of the Shadow Fae. As a powerful demi-fae, I can take the competition. But things fall apart when I'm given an impossible choice: betray my mentor Ruadan, or my best friend dies. This book is from the Demons of Fire and Night world.

In the Shadow of Korematsu

Author : Eric K. Yamamoto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878959
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Korematsu written by Eric K. Yamamoto and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America - an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association and speech, and an era marked by increasingly volatile protests. This book discusses the broad civil liberties challenges posed by these past-into-the-future linkages highlighting pressing questions about the significance of judicial independence for a constitutional democracy committed both to security and to the rule of law. What will happen when those profiled, detained, harassed, or discriminated against under the mantle of national security turn to the courts for legal protection? How will the U.S. courts respond to the need to protect both society and fundamental democratic values of our political process? Will courts fall passively in line with the elective branches, as they did in Korematsu v. United States, or serve as the guardian of the Bill of Rights, scrutinizing claims of "pressing public necessity" as justification for curtailing fundamental liberties? These queries paint three pictures portrayed in this book. First, they portray the present-day significance of the Supreme Court's partially discredited, yet never overruled, 1944 decision upholding the constitutional validity of the mass Japanese American exclusion leading to indefinite incarceration - a decision later found to be driven by the government's presentation of "intentional falsehoods" and "willful historical inaccuracies" to the Court. Second, the queries implicate prospects for judicial independence in adjudging Harassment, Exclusion, Incarceration disputes in contemporary America and beyond. Third, and even more broadly for security and liberty controversies, the queries engage the American populace in shaping law and policy at the ground level by placing the courts' legitimacy on center stage. They address how critical legal advocacy and organized public pressure targeting judges and policymakers - realpolitik advocacy - at times can foster judicial fealty to constitutional principles while promoting the elective branches accountability for the benefit of all Americans. This book addresses who we are as Americans and whether we are genuinely committed to democracy governed by the Constitution.

Shadow Vigilantes

Author : Paul H. Robinson
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633884317
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Vigilantes written by Paul H. Robinson and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines many examples of how the community has responded when the justice system is perceived to fail."--Book jacket.

Shadow Courts

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781518235146
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Courts written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Supreme Court

Author : James E Pfander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190623551
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book One Supreme Court written by James E Pfander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite over two hundred years of experience with constitutional government, much remains unclear about the power of the political branches to curtail or re-define the judicial power of the United States. Uncertainty persists about the basis on which state courts and federal agencies may hear federal claims and the degree to which federal courts must review their decisions. Scholars approach these questions from a range of vantage points and have arrived at widely varying conclusions about the relationship between congressional and judicial power. Deploying familiar forms of legal analysis, and relying upon a new account of the Court's supremacy in relation to lower courts and tribunals, James Pfander advances a departmental conception of the judiciary. He argues that Congress can enlist the state courts, lower federal courts, and administrative agencies to hear federal claims in the first instance, but all of these tribunals must operate within a hierarchical framework over which the "one supreme Court" identified in the Constitution exercises ultimate supervisory authority. In offering the first general account of the Court as department head, Pfander takes up such important debates in the federal courts' literature as Congress's power to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction to review state court decisions, its authority to assign decision-making authority to state courts and non-Article III tribunals, its control over the doctrine of vertical stare decisis, and its ability to craft rules of practice for the federal system.

Shadow Courts

Author : Christine B. Harrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Courts written by Christine B. Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shadow of Justice

Author : Milton Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781077695672
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of Justice written by Milton Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Clark N. Addison spends his days swimming contentedly, perhaps complacently, at the bottom of the judicial food chain. Above his chair, in the courtroom he commands with sardonic detachment, it says "We who labor here seek only truth." The truth is, though, that these days Addison is little more than a spectator, watching while others - like his friends, trial lawyer "Blackjack" Sheridan and homicide cop Ed Barber - do the real truth-seeking, teasing out what passes for justice in a South Florida landscape where crime and corruption lie over the town like the humid tropical air.But when Addison's quiet, book-bound world of legal abstraction is shattered by a violent loss, and he finds himself deep inside a mystery he didn't even notice entering, figuring out the truth will be hard enough - and figuring out what truths really matter may be impossible.The Shadow of Justice introduces Judge Addison (also the hero of Hirsch's sequel, Laredo Slider) amidst a roiling cast of Miami courthouse players who would be utterly improbable if they weren't all so authentic. And Hirsch should know: He's a former prosecutor, criminal defense lawyer and now a judge in the same building, with a courtroom on the same floor, where Addison sits.With characters drawn in deep detail wrangling over the highest stakes possible, The Shadow of Justice is a courtroom drama, a compelling mystery and book that demands its readers seek truths of their own. The Shadow of Justice was awarded first place in the mystery/suspense category by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, and earned its author the Benjamin Franklin award as best new voice in American fiction.

Equity and Law

Author : John C. P. Goldberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421318
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Equity and Law written by John C. P. Goldberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fusion of law and equity in common law systems was a crucial moment in the development of the modern law. In this volume leading scholars assess the significance of the fusion of law and equity from comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives.

The Shadow Docket

Author : Stephen Vladeck
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541602641
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Docket written by Stephen Vladeck and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller: An acclaimed legal scholar’s “important” (New York Times) and “fascinating” (Economist) exposé of how the Supreme Court uses unsigned and unexplained orders to change the law behind closed doors. The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow docket,” regularly making decisions that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation, through cryptic late-night rulings that leave lawyers—and citizens—scrambling. The Court’s conservative majority has used the shadow docket to green-light restrictive voting laws and bans on abortion, and to curtail immigration and COVID vaccine mandates. But Americans of all political stripes should be worried about what the shadow docket portends for the rule of law, argues Supreme Court expert Stephen Vladeck. In this rigorous yet accessible book, he issues an urgent call to bring the Court back into the light.

In the Shadow of Death

Author : Elizabeth Beck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195346305
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Death written by Elizabeth Beck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The press called Martin's actions a "crime spree." Already convicted of armed robbery, Martin was facing the death penalty. In less than two weeks the jury would decide his fate. Terrified that his son would be sentenced to die, Phillip did the only thing he felt he could do: in an act of faith and desperation in his garage with the car exhaust running, Phillip made the consummate sacrifice to spare his son the ultimate punishment. Ironically, his suicide presented Martin's with another chance at life; the jury, moved by Martin's loss, spared his life. Phillip's story-like those of the other parents, siblings, children, and cousins chronicled in this book-vividly illustrates the precarious position family members of capital offenders occupy in the criminal justice system. At once outsiders and victims, they live in the shadow of death, crushed by trauma, grief, and helplessness. In this penetrating account of guilt and innocence, shame and triumph, devastating loss and ultimate redemption, the voices of these family members add a new dimension to debates about capital punishment and how communities can prevent and address crime. Restorative justice theory, which views violent crime as an extreme violation of relationships; searches for ways to hold offenders accountable; and meets the needs of victims and communities torn apart by the crime, organizes these narratives and integrates offenders' families into the process of transforming conflict and promoting justice and healing for all. What emerges from hundreds of hours' worth of in-depth interviews with family members of offenders and victims, legal teams, and leaders in the abolition and restorative justice movements is a vision of justice strongly rooted in the social fabric of communities. Showing that forgiveness and recovery are possible in the wake of even the most heinous crimes, while holding victims' stories sacred, this eye-opening book bridges the pain of living in the shadow of death with the possibility of a reparative form of justice. Anyone working with victims, offenders, and their families-from lawyers and social workers to mediators and activists-will find this riveting work indispensable to their efforts.