This collection highlights the books and book chapters of UNM Law faculty. Due to copyright, full-text downloads are not available in most cases. If you'd like to review the full-text, please contact your local library. The books are sorted by year, with the most recent publications listed first. Email your questions about this collection to libref [at] law.unm.edu.
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Review Procedures for Water Resources Project Planning
Denise Fort, James K. Mitchell, Melbourne Briscoe, Stephen J. Burges, Linda Capuano, Porter Hoagland, David H. Moreau, Craig Philip, John T. Rhett, Richard E. Sparks, and Bory Steinberg
This is the published report of the committee to assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers methods of analysis, and review of water resources project planning.
You can view the entire book at National Academies Press.
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Wharton's Criminal Procedure
Barbara E. Bergman, Nancy Hollander, Theresa M. Duncan, and Melissa Stephenson
Use this multiple-volume set as a first-search reference for handling criminal cases. Expert resource provides essential coverage of the law by thoroughly analyzing common-law development and criminal procedure. Text traces statutory and judicial changes, as well as modifications, in common law. Subjects include criminal and juvenile court, venue, arrest, extradition, preliminary hearings, search and seizure, and grand juries. Addresses indictment, bail, arraignment and pleas, pre-trial motions and objections, and discovery. Discusses self-incrimination, trial, opening statements, and closing arguments. Complete post-trial coverage, including charge to jury, jury separation and deliberation, verdict, motions, sentence, punishment, appeal, and post-conviction remedies.
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Latino Communities Emerging Voices: Political, Social, Cultural, and Legal Issues
Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Editor for this series, published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
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Sex and Politics at the Close of the Twentieth Century: A Feminist Looks Back at the Clinton Impeachment and the Thomas Confirmation Hearings
Elizabeth Rapaport
Examines the feminist response the the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal and the allegations of sexual harassment made against Justice Clarence Thomas by Anita Hill during his Senate confirmation hearings in 1991.
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Teacher's Manual to Accompany Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems
Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Copyright page and Table of Contents only.
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A Constitutional Middle-Ground Between Revision and Revolution: A Reevaluation of The Nullification Crisis and The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Through The Lens of Popular Sovereignty
Christian G. Fritz
For four decades, John Phillip Reid has been one of the most productive and challenging practitioners of American legal and constitutional history. Writing on subjects as diverse as the law of the Cherokee, legal culture on the Overland trail, and the legal and constitutional history of the American Revolution, Reid has illuminated the many ways in which law has been a central cultural value.
Law as Culture and Culture as Law not only honors Professor Reid's decades of scholarship and teaching―it presents a spectrum of historical inquiries developing and engaging Reid's insights and methodological approaches to legal and constitutional history. The essays gathered in this volume span nearly three centuries and two continents, ranging from the agonizing struggles over law, religion, and governance in late seventeenth-century Ireland to the legal and constitutional regimes of governmental regulation in twentieth-century New York.
Law as Culture and Culture as Law is a tribute to John Philip Reid and the best evidence of his profound influence on the study and writing of legal history. -
Comparative Analysis of Women's Issues: Toward a Contextualized Methodology
Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Global Critical Race Feminism is the first anthology to focus explicitly on the legal rights of women of color around the world. Containing nearly thirty essays, the book addresses such topical themes as responses to white feminism; the flashpoint issue of female genital mutilation; the intersections of international law with U.S. law; "Third World" women in the "First World;" violence against women; and the global workplace.
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Death Penalty
Elizabeth Rapaport
This is the first reference work to offer the wealth of material on women and crime to a general audience. More than 200 authoritative contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia examine the subject from the perspectives of offenders, offenses, and theories on offending, victims and victimology, the criminal justice system, punishment and treatment.
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"Education" and "Latin American and Caribbean Women: Health Care"
Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.
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Mascaras, Trenzas, Y Grenas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse
Margaret E. Montoya
Book Summary:
Critical race theory has become a dynamic, eclectic, and growing movement in the study of law. Here, editors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic have created a reader for the 21st century - one that shakes up the legal academy, questions comfortable liberal premises, and leads the search for new ways of thinking about our nation's most intractable, and insoluble, problem - race.
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Negotiating the Book Contract
Sherri L. Burr
A book as big and sprawling as a Larry McMurtry western--in fact, two books in one: The first 500 pages (!) are a copious selection of essays on the writing craft from pens ranging from E. Annie Proulx to Barnaby Conrad to Rita Dove. The second few hundred pages make up a "market guide" with information on magazines, publishers, playhouses, contests, and more. The handbook provides a good overview, but most of the listings give only street addresses; without phone or e-mail options, you're left with no recourse but snail mail. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Part III: The big picture
Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women Attorneys is a unique, inspirational collection of letters from 44 experienced women attorneys of color to the next generation outlining various roadmaps for success in the legal profession as a minority woman attorney. Recognizing that women attorneys of color face many obstacles to advancement in the legal profession, the Multicultural Women Attorneys Network - a joint project of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession - published in 2000 Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from Multicultural Women Attorneys Who've Been There and Done That. These letters described their experiences, feelings, and concerns with respect to inspiration, career path, and "the big picture."
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Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America
Margaret E. Montoya
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Presents interdisciplinary, critical perspectives on race and racism and covers the roles of law and history in shaping the meanings of race in the US. It includes new material on President Obama's election and "post-racialism"; important studies of implicit bias; the Voting Rights Act; recurring violence against Latino immigrants; and demographic changes and their implications
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Mascaras, Trenzas, Y Grenas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse
Margaret E. Montoya
Book Summary:
Previous studies in the fields of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and gender studies have focused upon Chicano linguistic communities as a monolith or have focused entirely upon male-centered aspects of language use, leaving a tremendous gap in works about Chicanas, for Chicanas, and by Chicanas as they pertain to language-related issues. Speaking Chicana bridges that gap, offering for the first time an extensive examination of language issues among Chicanas. Flowing throughout this collection of essays are themes of empowerment and suppression of voice. Combining empirical studies and personal narratives in the form of testimonios, the editors expand the boundaries of linguistic study to include disciplines such as art, law, women's studies, and literature. The result is a multifaceted approach to the study of Chicana speech—one that provides a significant survey of the literature on Chicanas and language production. Ten contributors—from linguistic to lawyer, from poet to art historian—discuss language varieties and attitudes; bilinguality; codeswitching; cultural identity and language; language in literature and art; taboo language; and legal discourse. Speaking Chicana celebrates the complexity and diversity of linguistic contexts and influences reflected in Chicana speech. Various essays explore the speech of rural women; the evolution of linguistic forces over time; the influence of U.S. public education; linguistic dilemmas encountered by literary authors and women in the legal profession; and language used by pachucas and pintas. Speaking Chicana represents a significant contribution, not only to sociolinguistics, but also to other fields, including women's studies, Chicana/o studies, anthropology, and cultural studies.
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Sports and the Law: A Modern Anthology
Alfred Mathewson and Kenneth Shropshire
Sports law literature has evolved over the last twenty years as writers have successfully grappled with the myriad legal and quasi-legal issues that arise in the context of sports. Scholars addressing these topics have heightened our understanding of the complex factual, legal, and social issues that sports matters generate. This anthology continues this development and includes excerpts that address the broad dimensions of sports and the law.
Rather than simply explain the law, the excerpts contained in Sports and the Law seek also to examine the multiple variables that have influenced the development of the law of sports. After presenting contrasting views of whether "sports law" represents a discrete substantive area of law, the anthology explores several sports settings and the application of legal rules to them. The anthology provides accessible articles that enhance the reader's understanding of topics traditionally covered in sports law classes, as well as topics that typically escape class coverage.
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Adjustments Under the Guidelines
Barbara E. Bergman
Practice Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines provides extensive discussion and current citations of the hundreds of important cases interpreting the provisions. The first six chapters follow the sequence of the sentencing guidelines, progressing from the setting of the offense level adjustment and departures to the determination of the sentence. Chapters 7 and 8 cover plea and sentencing procedure and appeals. Chapter 9, discusses post-conviction procedures. The remaining seven chapters address the constitutionality of the guidelines, statutory challenges, environmental crimes, antitrust crimes, tax and money laundering offenses, fraud offenses, and sentencing of organizations, and the past, present and future of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
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Border/ed Identities: Narrative and the Social Construction of Personal and Collective Identities
Margaret E. Montoya
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Perhaps no idea is more emblematic of the field of law and society than crossing boundaries. From the founding of the Law and Society Association in the early 1960s, participating scholars aspired to create a field that crossed boundaries in at least two senses: by undertaking research that questioned and often bridged traditional methodological and disciplinary divisions, and by using nontraditional approaches to explore the interconnections between law and its social context. These essays reflect both aspirations.
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International Encyclopaedia of Medical Laws (Supplement 14 United States of America)
Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Relating to the practice of medicine in the large sense, this subset of the IEL covers national and international medical law. Each national monograph contains, besides a general introduction, a description for the country in question of:
the law related to the medical profession, such as access to the medical profession, illegal practice of medicine and control over the practice of medicine;
the physician-patient relationship (the rights and duties of physicians and patients) and specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia; and,
the national law dealing with the physician in relation to his colleagues, to other health care providers and the health care system.
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Latino Communities Series (Emerging Voices: Political, Social, Cultural, and Legal Issues)
Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Antoinette Sedillo Lopez was series editor for Latino Communities (Emerging Voices: Political, Social, Cultural, and Legal Issues) from 1998-2001. View the full collection of titles using the library catalog, or through Routledge's series page.
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Beyond Portia: Women, Law and Literature in the United States
Margaret E. Montoya
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This pioneering anthology presents an interdisciplinary collage of women's experiences with the law by mixing creative and analytical writings in law and literature. Beyond Portia opens with grounding essays in both literary and legal theory, and offers two collections of essays, stories, and poems that focus in turn on law and literature on families, and law and literature on abuse of women. Drawing on the idea that literature by women can offer material richer than the typical case fact pattern used in traditional legal training, the editors show that both literature and literary methods of reading can help articulate otherwise unspoken premises in legal decision-making, bringing them into the open for examination.
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Criminal Procedure Checklists, Fifth Amendment (v.1) and Sixth Amendment (v.2)
Barbara E. Bergman
A convenient source of Fifth and Sixth Amendment doctrines, Criminal Procedure Checklists, Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment provides quick access to critical information regarding: interviewing prospective clients, writing legal documents, preparing for trial, readying oral arguments, and handling an appeal. This title includes citations to major doctrines and cases that reveal how the courts ruled on a particular issue, and includes fully updated federal caselaw.
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Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary
Margaret E. Montoya
Book Summary: Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary, is organized around theoretical frameworks, showing different conceptualizations of equality and justice and their impact on concrete legal problems. The text provides complete, up-to-date coverage of conventional “women and the law” issues, including employment law and affirmative action, reproductive rights, LGBTQ issues, domestic violence, rape, pornography, international women’s rights, and global trafficking. Showing the complex ways in which gender permeates the law, the text also explores the gender aspects of subject matters less commonly associated with gender, such as property, ethics, contracts, sports, and civil procedure. Throughout, the materials allow an emphasis on alternative approaches and how these approaches make a difference. Excerpted legal cases, statutes, and law review articles form an ongoing dialogue within the book to stimulate thought and discussion and over 200 provocative “putting theory into practice” problems challenge students to think deeply about current gender law issues.
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Mascaras, Trenzas, Y Grenas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse
Margaret E. Montoya
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Critical Race Feminism gives voice to African American, Latina, Asian, Native American, and Arab women, both heterosexual and lesbian. Both a forceful statement and a platform for change, the anthology addresses an ambitious range of subjects, from life in the workplace and motherhood to sexual harassment, domestic violence, and other criminal justice issues. Extending beyond national borders, the volume tackles global issues such as the rights of Muslim women, immigration, multiculturalism, and global capitalism. Revealing how the historical experiences and contemporary realities of women of color are profoundly influenced by a legacy of racism and sexism that is neither linear nor logical, Critical Race Feminism serves up a panoramic perspective, illustrating how women of color can find strength in the face of oppression
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The International Protection of Refugees: The Impact of Emergent Challenges on U.S. Law and Policy
Jennifer Moore
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Analysis of Potential Water Conservation Incentives for New Mexico
G. Emlen Hall and William B. Fleming
No description available
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Genetic Knowledge: Ethical and Legal Issues
Robert L. Schwartz
The explosive growth of science and medicine in recent times has raised a host of ethical issues. This book reviews major advances in biology and medicine and explores their ethical implications. Organized by stage of human life--from birth to death--it guides the reader through the critical issues that face our technologically advanced society. Each section contains a sketch of the scientific research in a particular field and then discusses the issues that challenge our ethical and moral principles, social frameworks, and public policies. A world-class group of contributors from biology, medicine, technology, and ethics probe controversial topics such as genetic research, transplantation, reproductive technologies, prolonging life and euthanasia, and research on animals and humans. The essays are concise, to the point, and deliberately free of jargon, and the entire work is framed by an introduction and postscript that point the way to the major questions. This book is the perfect introduction for novice readers with general or specific questions about the ethical issues raised by the rapid advance of science and technology. David Thomasma has written many books on medical ethics including For the Patient's Good and Euthanasia: Toward an Ethical Social Policy. He and Thomasine Kushner are the editors of the journal Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.
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Life Style, Health Status and Distributive Justice
Robert L. Schwartz
This ninth volume in the series of King?s College Studies demonstrates the essential need for interplay between law, economics, political science and moral philosophy when formulating health policy. It addresses the issue of justice in the provision of health care by examining the problems faced in the American health care system, such as discrimination against ethnic and disabled groups, and the correlation between wealth and health. Subsequently it broadens the debate by turning to consider approaches in other health care systems such as those in the UK and Canada. This thought-provoking collection constitutes a useful and informative reference source that will be of particular interest to medical and health care practitioners across all specialties, philosophers, medical sociologists, health economists and lawyers.
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Voluntary Admission and Involuntary Hospitalization of Minors
James W. Ellis
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR LAW, MENTAL HEALTH, AND MENTAL DISORDER INTERACTIONS. 1. The Newly Emerging Mental Health Lew. 2. "Why Would I Need a Lawyer?" Legal Counsel and Advocacy for People with Mental Disabilities. 3. Mental Health Professional Expertise in the Courtroom.
PART TWO: MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND THE LAW. 4. Confidentiality in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship. 5. Malpractice Liability of Mental Health Professionals and Institutions. 6. Regulating the Marketplace for Competition Among Mental Health Providers: The Roles of Antitrust Law and State Mandates. 7. Legal Influences on the Financing of Mental Health Care.
PART THREE: MENTAL HEALTH CLIENTS AND THE LAW. 8. The Voluntary Delivery of Mental Health Services in the Community. 9. Protections for Persons with Mental Disabilities: Americans with Disabilities Act and Related Federal and State Law. 10. Guardianship for Incapacitated Persons. 11. The Impact of Law on the Delivery of Involuntary Mental Health Services. 12. Issues Relating to Women and Ethnic Minorities in Mental Health Treatment and Law. 13. Treatment and Refusal Right in Mental Health: Therapeutic Justice and Clinical Accommodation. 14. Compensation for Mental and Emotional Distress.
PART FOUR: OFFENDERS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS AND THE LAW. 15. Incompetency to Proceed in the Criminal Process: Past, Present, and Future. 16. The Insanity Defense: Deconstructing the Myths and Reconstructing the Jurisprudence. 17. Dangerousness as a Criterion in the Criminal Process. 18. The Incapacitation by Civil Commitment of Pathologically Violent Sex Offenders. 19. Offenders with Mental Disorders in the Criminal Justice-Correctional Process. 20. The Mental Health Implications of Crime Victims' Rights.
PART FIVE: IMPACT OF THE LAW ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. 21 The Legal Processing of Domestic Violence Cases. 22. The Law's Response to Child Abuse and Neglect. 23. Voluntary Admission and Involuntary Hospitalization of Minors. 24. Mental Health Issues in Juvenile Justice. 25. Child Custody Decision Making and the Politics of Child Advocacy. Name Index. Subject Index.
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Crime, Corrections and the Law: Background Document Research
Barbara E. Bergman
Report of the sixteenth New Mexico First Town Hall, October 26-29, 1995, Farmington, New Mexico. Conference Publication.
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Health Law (Hornbook Series)
Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Copyright page and Table of Contents only.
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Health Law (Practitioner Treatise Series)
Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Volume One of Two Volume Set. This desk reference explores and interprets the important details of every major issue in health care today. You'll find in-depth discussion of tax, corporate, and organizational issues, as well as governmental initiatives in the areas of cost control, access to health care, anti-competitive activities, fraud, and abuse. The legal and ethical issues involving highly sensitive issues, such as death, reproductive rights, and medical research, are also covered
Copyright page and Table of Contents only. Two volume set.
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Introduction
Christian G. Fritz
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Latinos in the United States: History, Law and Perspective, edited anthology
Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez was series editor and authored the introductions. Volume titles include:
- Volume I, Historical Themes and Identity: Mestizaje and Labels
- Volume II, Latina Issues: Fragments of Historia (Ella) (HerStory)
- Volume III, Criminal Justice and Latino Communities
- Volume IV, Latino Employment, Labor Organization and Immigration
- Volume V, Latino Language and Education: Communication and a Dream Deferred
- Volume VI, Latino Land Grants, Housing and Political Power
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Constitutional Conventions
Christian G. Fritz
Silbey, author of several other works on Congress and the American political system (e.g., The American Political Nation, Stanford Univ. Pr., 1991), and 98 other experts in history and political science have pooled their resources to create a comprehensive, in-depth history and overview of Congress and, to a lesser extent, state and local legislatures. The 91 original essays cover such topics as Constitutional conventions, early territorial and state legislatures, African American legislators, the budget process, pressure groups and lobbyists, civil rights, and vetoes. Recent popular topics include Bill Clinton's policies, hate speech, gun control, and the Clarence Thomas hearings. Although there is similar coverage (focusing on history, powers, procedures, budget, and members) in Congressional Quarterly's Guide to Congress (Congressional Quarterly, 1991. 4th ed.), the perspectives of the two works are different: Congressional Quarterly draws from staff reports in its Almanac and Weekly Report as well as other sources while this Encyclopedia was written by numerous university and Congressional scholars and encompasses state legislatures as well. Both are excellent research sources, and the Encyclopedia seems destined to be a classic belonging in strong political science collections.
Louise A. Treff, Univ. of Colorado at Denver
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Due Process to Adolescents
James W. Ellis
Presented in the form of a debate, this volume addresses 19 controversial social, legal and policy issues concerning children and adolescents. Issues explored include parental notification of abortion, grandparent rights, children divorcing their parents, mainstreaming AIDS children and parental leave.
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Everytrial Criminal Defense Resource Book
Barbara E. Bergman and Nancy Hollander
Everytrial Criminal Defense Resource Book is a versatile resource for handling setbacks in the courtroom. It includes sample motions for unusual in-trial and post-verdict situations, sample jury instructions, and suggested arguments to preserve issues for appeal.
This ready resource explores many issues and offers expert advice for:
- When clients fail to come to court
- Prosecutorial misconduct
- Witnesses who refuse to testify
- When a judge is biased or holds you in contempt
- When a juror is not forthcoming during voir dire
- When evidence is presented that you do not want the jury to see or hear
The text discusses difficult co-defendants and attorney conflicts and misconduct. It includes citations to appropriate cases and rules of evidence, procedure, and ethics.
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The Fragmented Executive
Denise Fort
This book, completely revised and updated, remains as indispensable today as when it first appeared in 1976. It is still the only volume that provides a basic background for every reader seeking a better understanding of the state's political system. Offered here is a concise introduction to the major institutions and processes of New Mexico government--from the constitutionally defined roles of governors and legislators to their informal exercise of power and interactions with each other, citizens, and courts, federal and state bureaucracies, media, and political parties.
In recent decades the state has seen attempts to reform its complicated governmental structure to respond to dramatic changes in its cultural, economic, environmental, demographic, and social character. The changes initiated in the 1980s are fully described in this new edition, with special attention given to state finances, local and tribal government, education, elections, and regulatory agencies.
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When is Domestic Homicide a Capital Crime?
Elizabeth Rapaport
Explores diverse feminist and legal responses to domestic violence across cultures. Argues that domestic violence must be viewed in its social and cultural context and offers suggestions for those dealing with incidents of abuse.
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Generalizing Gender: Reason and Essence in the Legal Thought of Catherine Mackinnon
Elizabeth Rapaport
Catharine MacKinnon's work has been a shaping force in the development of feminist legal theory as well as on the course of legal reform. Although few feminist scholars accept her views on gender and sexuality in their entirety, her preeminent contribution to feminist legal theory is generally acknowledged. MacKinnon's most signal legal reform success has been in identifying sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination prohibited by federal employment law. More recently, attended by greater controversy and less material success, she has been active in the feminist antipornography campaign. This chapter has two objectives. The first is simply the journeywoman task of understanding MacKinnon's theory of gender and especially the methodology she employs. The second objective is to defend an aspect of MacKinnon's methodology that has of late come under political and philosophical attack. She has been accused of gender essentialism, a vice that is variously defined but is most commonly understood to mean treating the concept of gender as a transcultural and transhistorical universal. The price of gender essentialism, according to its critics, is the imposition of false uniformity on the disparate experience of women of different classes, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Privileged white intellectuals read their own experience as that of women as such. In doing so we falsify the experience of those whom we call sisters but whose voices we ignore. In my view, these deplorable consequences do not necessarily overtake the theorist who seeks to generalize about gender. The impulse that animates MacKinnon's work, the desire to formulate a theory that speaks from and to the experience of all women, should not be easily relinquished. Generalizing about gender, at least in the modest form in which it is done by this bold theorist, need not be philosophically or politically pernicious.
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Constitution Making in the Nineteenth Century American West
Christian G. Fritz
From the first conference dedicated to comparing issues and themes in Canadian and American legal history.
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New Mexico Objections at Trial
Barbara E. Bergman, Myron Bright, and Ronald Carlson
No abstract available.
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Bioethics: Health Case Law and Ethics
Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, and Thomas L. Greaney
This book provides a rich body of materials for courses in bioethics and law. Primary legal sources, including judicial opinions, statutes, regulations and institutional policies, will give students insight into the strategies used by courts, legislatures, agencies and health care providers in addressing bioethics issues. The book also draws from interdisciplinary research in medicine, ethics, and law to provide students diverse critiques of legal and public policy issues in bioethics. Materials in this text are tightly edited and designed to create high quality and focused classroom discussion, and, the text includes classroom tested problems that will engage students more deeply on each issue.
Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics begins with accessible introductory material on how to do ethics analysis. It then provides separate chapters on Reproduction and Birth (including current issues relating to abortion and contraception and issues related to assisted reproductive technologies); Legal, Social, and Ethical Issues in Genetics; Life and Death Decision-making; Regulation of Research Involving Human Subjects; Distributive Justice and Organ Transplantation; and Current Controversies in Public Health (including issues related to immunization practice). -
Due Process, Treaty Rights, and Chinese Exclusion, 1882-1891
Christian G. Fritz
In 1882, Congress passed a Chinese exclusion law that barred the entry of Chinese laborers for ten years. The Chinese thus became the first people to be restricted from immigrating into the United States on the basis of race. Exclusion was renewed in 1892 and 1902 and finally made permanent in 1904. Only in 1943 did Congress rescind all the Chinese exclusion laws as a gesture of goodwill towards China, an ally of the United States during World War II. Entry Denied is a collection of essays on how the Chinese exclusion laws were implemented and how the Chinese as individuals and as a community in the U.S. mobilized to mitigate the restrictions imposed upon them. It is the first book in English to rely on Chinese language sources to explore the exclusion era in Chinese American history.
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Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891
Christian G. Fritz
For forty years Ogden Hoffman presided over the federal district court for the Northern District of California, disposing of more than nineteen thousand cases brought before him. Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891 considers a career remarkable for longevity and productivity and at the same time examines the operation of a federal trial court in nineteenth-century America - the cases adjudicated, their significance, and the court's impact upon the community. Solidly researched, Christian G. Fritz's book is unique in attending to the law on the level at which it was most often encountered by participants in legal actions. During his four decades on the bench, from the time of the California gold rush to the anti-Chinese movement of the 1880s, Hoffman dealt one-on-one with a cross-section of humanity: through his court came sea captains, seamen seeking their wages, wealthy steamship owners and distraught and injured passengers, and Chinese immigrants. Fritz shows him adjudicating land grant conflicts and bankruptcy cases and presiding over the admiralty, criminal, and common law and equity dockets. The author has examined thousands of Hoffman's cases to gain insight into how nineteenth-century federal trial courts were used, by whom, and with what effect. The successful use that a broad range of plaintiffs made of Hoffman's court requires a re-examination of theories suggesting that law of the period primarily developed and courts largely operated in ways that promoted commercial and entrepreneurial interest. Just as important, Fritz's sensitive analysis of an institution never loses sight of the proud life-long bachelor, native New Yorker, and scion of a distinguished family who always identified himself with his court. Christian G. Fritz is a professor of law at the University of New Mexico.
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Liability and Quality Issues in Health Care
Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Copyright page and Table of Contents only.
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Neonatology: Ethical and Legal Considerations
Robert L. Schwartz
Intended for neonatologists, paediatricians, obstetricians, family physicians and nurses, this book has been revised and updated to incorporate advances in perinatology and neonatology. It offers coverage of all diseases of the newborn, the high-risk neonate, perinatal medicine, neonatal cardiology, and pharmacology. Features include guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, and case histories of specific conditions. The latest advances in genetic diseases are also discussed.
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The Law of Health Care Organization and Finance
Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Copyright page and Table of Contents only.
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Guardian Angels
Robert L. Schwartz
Offers authoritative explorations of the way ethical principles involving respect for autonomy, beneficience, and justice interplay in the world of case management.
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Commitment of Nonresponsibility Acquitees
James W. Ellis
The American Bar Association (ABA) formed seven interdisciplinary task forces and the special Advisory Committee to develop these Standards.
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Competence and Capital Punishment
James W. Ellis
The American Bar Association (ABA) formed seven interdisciplinary task forces and the special Advisory Committee to develop these Standards.
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Competence and Confessions
James W. Ellis
The American Bar Association (ABA) formed seven interdisciplinary task forces and the special Advisory Committee to develop these Standards.
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Not Another Kingsfield: Teaching Law
Barbara E. Bergman
This book addresses the critical issues facing those in the legal profession today. Refreshingly candid, it includes chapters on alternative careers, the challenges faced by women and minorities in the legal profession, and professional ethics.
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Residential Placement of 'Dual Diagnosis' Clients: Emerging Legal Issues
James W. Ellis
In late 1985, The President's Committee on Mental Retardation (PCMR) spon sored a National Strategy Conference on Mental Retardation and Mental Health in Washington, D.C. The purpose of this conference was to bring together our nation's leadership in the fields of mental retardation and mental health in order to delineate the state of the art relative to the diagnosis, care, and treatment of citizens with mental retardation/mental illness, as well as to chart a national course for the support and integration of citizens with these challenging needs into the confluence of family and community life. The President's Committee on Mental Retardation recognized that citizens with these needs constitute one of the most underserved and, at times, forgotten segments of the population. With this in mind, the PCMR called together govern mental, professional, and parental representatives from across the nation to define the nature and extent of the problem, programs, and services that promise hope for substantive improvement in the quality of life of citizens with mental retardation/mental illness.
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A Student's Guide to Sales of Goods, Letters of Credit and Documents of Title
Frederick M. Hart and Robert Laurence
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A Student's Guide to Secured Transactions, Bulk Transfers and Bankruptcy
Frederick M. Hart and Robert Laurence
Copyright, Preface, and Table of Contents only.
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Hispanics and the Criminal Justice System
Leo Romero and Luis G. Stelzner
This book is a collection of essays about Hispanics in America, their impact upon the social structure of American society, and implications for the country's future social agenda. Each essay is preceded by an abstract and concludes with references.
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Implications of the Constitutional Right of Privacy for the Control of Drugs: An Introduction
Robert L. Schwartz
The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to evoke diatribe than dialog. With the support of the Na tional Science Foundation's program on Ethics and Values in Science and Technology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities' program on Science, Technology, and Human Values, * The Hastings Center was able to sponsor such dialog as part of a major research into the ethics of drug use that spanned two years. We assembled a Research Group from leaders in the scientific, medical, legal, and policy com munities, leavened with experts in applied ethics, and brought them together several times a year to discuss the moral, legal and social issues posed by nontherapeutic drug use. At times we also called on other experts when we needed certain issues clarified. We did not try to reach a consensus, yet several broad areas of agreement emerged: That our society's response to nontherapeutic drug use has been irrational and inconsistent; that our attempts at control have been clumsy and ill-informed; that many complex moral values are entwined in the debate and cannot be reduced to a simple conflict between individual liberty and state paternalism. Of course each paper should be read as the statement of that particular author or authors. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily represent the views of The Hastings Center, the National Science Foundation, or the National En dowment for the Humanities.
