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Download or read book Legal Alchemy written by David L. Faigman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is scientific information misused by this country’s court system and lawmakers? Today more than ever before, lawyers, politicians, and government administrators are forced to wrestle with scientific research and to employ scientific thinking. The results are often less than enlightened. In Legal Alchemy, David Faigman explores the ways the American legal system incorporates scientific knowledge into its decision making. Praised by both legal and scientific communities when it first appeared in hardcover, Legal Alchemy shows how science has been used and misused in a variety of settings, including • The Courtroom—from the O. J. Simpson trial to the Dow Corning silicone breast implant lawsuit to landmark cases such as Roe v. Wade. • The Legislature—where Congress uses scientific information to help enact legislation about clean air, cloning, and government science projects like the space station and the superconducting super collider. • Government Agencies—who use science to determine policy on a variety of topics, from regulating sport utility vehicles to reintroducing gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park. As Faigman describes these and other important cases, he provides disturbing evidence that many judges, juries, and members of Congress simply don’t understand the science behind their decisions. Finally, he offers suggestions on how the science and legal professions can overcome their miscommunication and work together more effectively.
Download or read book Legal Alchemy written by David L. Faigman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is scientific information misused by this country's court system and lawmakers? Today more than ever before, lawyers, politicians, and government administrators are forced to wrestle with scientific research and to employ scientific thinking. The results are often less than enlightened. In Legal Alchemy, David Faigman explores the ways the American legal system incorporates scientific knowledge into its decision making. Praised by both legal and scientific communities when it first appeared in hardcover, Legal Alchemy shows how science has been used and misused in a variety of settings, including • The Courtroom—from the O. J. Simpson trial to the Dow Corning silicone breast implant lawsuit to landmark cases such as Roe v. Wade. • The Legislature—where Congress uses scientific information to help enact legislation about clean air, cloning, and government science projects like the space station and the superconducting super collider. • Government Agencies—who use science to determine policy on a variety of topics, from regulating sport utility vehicles to reintroducing gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park. As Faigman describes these and other important cases, he provides disturbing evidence that many judges, juries, and members of Congress simply don't understand the science behind their decisions. Finally, he offers suggestions on how the science and legal professions can overcome their miscommunication and work together more effectively.
Book Synopsis The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by : Albie Sachs
Download or read book The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law written by Albie Sachs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albie Sachs gives an intimate account of his extraordinary life and work as a judge in South Africa. Mixing autobiography with reflections on his major cases and the role of law in achieving social justice, Sachs offers a rare glimpse into the workings of the judicial mind and a unique perspective on modern South African history.
Book Synopsis The Alchemy of Race and Rights by : Patricia J. Williams
Download or read book The Alchemy of Race and Rights written by Patricia J. Williams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a law professor.
Book Synopsis Posthuman Legal Subjectivity by : Jana Norman
Download or read book Posthuman Legal Subjectivity written by Jana Norman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human–earth relationship. As a complement to contemporary efforts to establish rights of nature and non-human legal personhood, this book focuses on the other subject in the human–earth relationship: the human. Critical ecological feminism exposes the dualistic nature of the ideal human legal subject as a key driver in the dynamic of instrumentalism that characterises the human–earth relationship in Western culture. This book draws on conceptual fields associated with the new sciences, including new materialism, posthuman critical theory and Big History, to demonstrate that the naturalised hierarchy of humans over nature in the Western social imaginary is anything but natural. It then sets about constructing a counternarrative. The proposed ‘Cosmic Person’ as alternative, non-dualised human legal subject forges a pathway for transforming the Western cultural understanding of the human–earth relationship from mastery and control to ideal co-habitation. Finally, the book details a case study, highlighting the practical application of the proposed reconceptualisation of the human legal subject to contemporary environmental issues. This original and important analysis of the legal status of the human in the Anthropocene will be of great interest to those working in legal theory, jurisprudence, environmental law and the environmental humanities; as well as those with relevant interests in gender studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, critical theory and philosophy.
Book Synopsis Laws of Men and Laws of Nature by : Tal Golan
Download or read book Laws of Men and Laws of Nature written by Tal Golan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tal Golan charts the use of expert testimony in British and American courtrooms from the 18th century to the present day. He assesses the standing of the expert witness, which has in recent years declined amid courtroom drama and media jeering.
Book Synopsis Grasping Legal Time by : Martijn Stronks
Download or read book Grasping Legal Time written by Martijn Stronks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is one of the most important means for the exercise of power. In Migration Law, it is used for disciplining and controlling the presence of migrants within a certain territory through the intricate interplay of two overlapping but contradicting understandings of time – human and clock time. This book explores both the success and limitations of the usage of time for the governance of migration. The virtues of legal time can be seen at work in several temporal differentiations in migration law: differentiation based on temporality, deadlines, qualification of time and procedural differentiation. Martijn Stronks contests that, hidden in the usage of legal time in Migration Law, there is an argument for the inclusion of migrants on the basis of their right to human time. This assertion is based in the finite, irreversible and unstoppable character of human time.
Book Synopsis Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law by : Amel Alghrani
Download or read book Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law written by Amel Alghrani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses how effectively criminal law operates as a forum for resolving ethical conflict in the delivery of health care.
Book Synopsis Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law: Volume 1, The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope by : Amel Alghrani
Download or read book Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law: Volume 1, The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope written by Amel Alghrani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who should define what constitutes ethical and lawful medical practice? Judges? Doctors? Scientists? Or someone else entirely? This volume analyses how effectively criminal law operates as a forum for resolving ethical conflict in the delivery of health care. It addresses key questions such as: how does criminal law regulate controversial bioethical areas? What effect, positive or negative, does the use of criminal law have when regulating bioethical conflict? And can the law accommodate moral controversy? By exploring criminal law in theory and in practice and examining the broad field of bioethics as opposed to the narrower terrain of medical ethics, it offers balanced arguments that will help readers form reasoned views on the ethical legitimacy of the invocation and use of criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues.
Book Synopsis Reaffirming Legal Ethics by : Kieran Tranter
Download or read book Reaffirming Legal Ethics written by Kieran Tranter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive review of legal ethics as an international movement. Contributors include many of the key participants to the legal ethics field from all over the world and many of the recognised emerging thinkers, taking stock of the last thirty years of legal ethics practice and scholarship.
Book Synopsis Law and Irresponsibility by : Scott Veitch
Download or read book Law and Irresponsibility written by Scott Veitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility. Across a broad range of areas of social life – from the activities of states and citizens, to work, business and private relationships – it is understood that legal regulation plays a crucial role in defining and limiting responsibilities. But Law and Irresponsibility pursues the opposite view: it explores how law organizes irresponsibility. With a particular focus on large-scale harms – including extensive human rights violations, forms of colonialism, and environmental or nuclear devastation – this book analyzes the ways in which law legitimates human suffering by demonstrating how legal institutions operate as much to deflect responsibility for harms suffered as to acknowledge them. Drawing on a series of case studies, it shows not only how law facilitates the dispersal and disavowal of responsibility, but how it does so in consistent and patterned ways. Irresponsibility is organized, and its organization is traced here to the legal forms, and the social and political conditions, that sustain ‘our’ complicity in human suffering. This innovative and interdisciplinary book provides a radical challenge to conventional thinking about law and legal institutions. It will be of considerable interest to those working in law, political and legal theory, sociology and moral philosophy.
Book Synopsis Comparative legal systems by : Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich
Download or read book Comparative legal systems written by Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich and published by Roma TrE-Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La nuova edizione di questa Introduzione ai Sistemi giuridici comparati è stata aggiornata ed arricchita con una serie di illustrazioni seguendo il movimento del “Legal design”. Nel volume i sistemi giuridici sono visti come un insieme in cui ogni parte di essi è in relazione con le altre ed in un contesto globale con il quale sono in osmosi. Il volume è suddiviso in otto capitoli dedicati a: 1. Sistemi democratici. 2. Valori. 3. Il governo. 4. La dimensione economica. 5. Il ‘Welfare state’. 6. La repressione dei reati. 7. Giudici e giurisdizione. 8. Modelli per un mondo globalizzato.
Book Synopsis Forensic and Legal Psychology by : Mark Costanzo
Download or read book Forensic and Legal Psychology written by Mark Costanzo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-24 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using research in clinical, cognitive, developmental, and social psychology, Forensic and Legal Psychology shows how psychological science can enhance the gathering and presentation of evidence, improve legal decision-making, prevent crime, rehabilitate criminals, and promote justice. Although the emphasis is on psychological research, the textbook makes extensive use of actual cases and real trials to engage students and to illustrate the relevance of research findings. Written in a clear, student-friendly style, Forensic and Legal Psychology is designed for both the psychology and law AND forensic psychology class. Visit the preview site for more information: www.worthpublishers.com/costanzokrausspreview
Book Synopsis Pursuit of Legal Harmony in a Turbulent Europe by : Catherine Barnard
Download or read book Pursuit of Legal Harmony in a Turbulent Europe written by Catherine Barnard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful work brings together the crème de la crème of EU law academics and practitioners in celebration of Eleanor Sharpston, KC. As one of the foremost Advocates General serving the Court of Justice, her opinions shaped various aspects of EU procedural and substantive law. Many of them have quickly become classics (Zambrano, Sturgeon, Miles, Bougnaoui, and Farell II) and they do and will continue to shape EU law now and for decades to come. Her contribution and legacy is expertly assessed over 6 parts spanning: her career; EU constitutional law; fundamental rights and citizenship; litigation; internal market; and external relations. This is a worthy commentary on a truly remarkable legal legacy.
Book Synopsis Philadelphia Reports ; Or, Legal Intelligencer Condensed by : Henry Edward Wallace
Download or read book Philadelphia Reports ; Or, Legal Intelligencer Condensed written by Henry Edward Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forensic Science Handbook, Volume I by : Adam B. Hall
Download or read book Forensic Science Handbook, Volume I written by Adam B. Hall and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982 by Pearson/Prentice-Hall, the Forensic Science Handbook, Third Edition has been fully updated and revised to include the latest developments in scientific testing, analysis, and interpretation of forensic evidence. World-renowned forensic scientist, author, and educator Dr. Richard Saferstein once again brings together a contributor list that is a veritable Who’s Who of the top forensic scientists in the field. This Third Edition, he is joined by co-editor Dr. Adam Hall, a forensic scientist and Assistant Professor within the Biomedical Forensic Sciences Program at Boston University School of Medicine. This two-volume series focuses on the legal, evidentiary, biological, and chemical aspects of forensic science practice. The topics covered in this new edition of Volume I include a broad range of subjects including: • Legal aspects of forensic science • Analytical instrumentation to include: microspectrophotometry, infrared Spectroscopy, gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry • Trace evidence characterization of hairs, dust, paints and inks • Identification of body fluids and human DNA This is an update of a classic reference series and will serve as a must-have desk reference for forensic science practitioners. It will likewise be a welcome resource for professors teaching advanced forensic science techniques and methodologies at universities world-wide, particularly at the graduate level.
Download or read book Law and Society written by Steven Vago and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one-semester undergraduate courses in Law and Society, Sociology of Law, Introduction to Law, and a variety of criminal justice courses offered in departments of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Political Science. Examines the interplay between law and society. Law and Society, 10e provides an informative, balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society. This text presents an overview of the most advanced interdisciplinary and international research, theoretical advances, ongoing debates and controversies. It raises new levels of awareness on the structure and functions of law and legal systems and the principal players in the legal arena and their impact on our lives. In addition, it looks at the legal system in the context of race, class, and gender and considers multicultural and cross-cultural issues in a contemporary and interdisciplinary context.
