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American Public School Law
Author: Kern Alexander
ISBN-10: 0534274242
ISBN-13: 9780534274245
Published: 2004-07-23
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Book Description:
This market-leading text for graduate-level courses in educational law is a combined textbook/casebook that provides a comprehensive view of the law that governs the public school system of America. The case method approach allows instructors to involve discussion to discover and expose the reasoning of the law. This helps students relate factual situations to the law while recognizing similar experiences they may have as practicing teachers and administrators.
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Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (California/Milbank Series on Health and the Public)
Author: Lawrence O. Gostin
ISBN-10: 0520226488
ISBN-13: 9780520226487
Published: 2001-01-01
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Description:
Gostin's timely book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the government's inherent responsibility to advance the population's health and well-being, he develops a rich understanding of the government's fundamental powers and duties. By analyzing constitutional powers and limits, as well as statutory, administrative, and tort law, Public Health Law vividly shows how law can become a potent tool for the realization of a healthier and safer population.
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Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector (Public Administration)
Author: John L. Mikesell
ISBN-10: 0534246060
ISBN-13: 9780534246068
Published: 1994-08
Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
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Book Description:
FISCAL ADMINISTRATION is based on two principles: that students must clearly understand the details of where the money for public budgets comes from; and that, to learn public finance and budgeting, students must "run the numbers." John Mikesell--an authority on the revenue side of public finance--focuses on his area of specialty, giving students detailed instruction that will equip them to deal with the complex issues and calculations they will encounter in the field. In most chapters, Mikesell includes questions and exercises that require calculations to get specific answers, as well as "Cases for Discussion" and "Sidebars" that supplement the regular text with more in-depth treatment of key topics. This edition also includes the most recent federal budget information, as well as the latest federal government fiscal data.
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Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (American Casebook Series)
Author: Jr. William N. Eskridge
ISBN-10: 0314056181
ISBN-13: 9780314056184
Published: 1995-06
Publisher: West Group
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Book Description:
The new SECOND EDITION of Eskridge and Frickey's popular legislation casebook has been updated through the end of the Supreme Court's 1993-94 Term, including extensive coverage of the presumption of statutory prospectivity (Landgraf v USI Film Products and Rivers V. Roadway Express, Inc.). The authors have also reorganized and expanded analysis of statutory interpretation that improves upon the pathbreaking coverage in the first edition, with separate chapters that introduce the subject theoretically and historically and then provide complete doctrinal coverage. The NEW EDITION also contains reorganized and expanded coverage of regulation of representation structures and regulation of legislative deliberation.
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The Law and the Poor
Author: Edward Abbott, Sir Parry
ISBN-10: 1584773545
ISBN-13: 9781584773542
Published: 2004-01-30
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd
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Parry, Edward Abbott. The Law and the Poor. London: Smith, Elder&Co., 1914. xxi, 316 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-354-5. Cloth $70. Reprint of first edition. Parry [1863-1953] was an English municipal judge for over twenty years. His book, a guide for "the man in the street," which began as a series of newspaper articles, outlines the laws concerning insolvency, debt and poverty. It is distinguished by its emphasis on cultural attitudes toward the poor, and its readability and humanity. Parry's was among the strong voices to speak in sympathy to the poor in response to the Poor Law Amendment Act which had been enacted in 1834. "Judge Parry is particularly gifted with that rare imagination which enables him to see mortal men and women where others see cases, litigants, and parties before the courts. Hence his volume is a rare document, especially useful as a corrective to the tendency to lose sight of actual living conditions in the logical pursuit of abstract legal doctrines." Cohen, Law and Social Order cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 810.
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Public Law and Public Administration
Author: Philip J. Cooper
ISBN-10: 0875814212
ISBN-13: 9780875814216
Published: 2000-01-01
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Book Description:
This well-established text provides students who plan to enter government service and those engaged in mid-career education for public administration with a readable and interesting treatment of the field of administrative law. The book is based on the premise that there is a complex, ongoing interaction between law and administration in the United States and that administrative law problems are not only legal but also administrative and political. Recognizing that attacks on rules and administrative law processes over the last two decades have made this a difficult time for public managers and have resulted in a variety of new state and executive orders, the authors explain the sources, operation, and consequences of such changes.
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Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet (Film and Culture Series)
Author: Peter Decherney
ISBN-10: 0231159463
ISBN-13: 9780231159463
Published: 2012-04-10
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Book Description:
Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the varieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only expanded copyright's reach. Everyone from producers and sceenwriters to amateur video makers, file sharers, and internet entrepreneurs has a stake in the history and future of piracy, copy protection, and the public domain. Beginning with Thomas Edison's aggressive copyright disputes and concluding with recent lawsuits against YouTube, Hollywood's Copyright Wars follows the struggle of the film, television, and digital media industries to influence and adapt to copyright law. Many of Hollywood's most valued treasures, from Modern Times (1936) to Star Wars (1977), cannot be fully understood without appreciating their legal controversies. Peter Decherney shows that the history of intellectual property in Hollywood has not always mirrored the evolution of the law. Many landmark decisions have barely changed the industry's behavior, while some quieter policies have had revolutionary effects. His most remarkable contributions uncover Hollywood's reliance on self-regulation. Rather than involve congress, judges, or juries in settling copyright disputes, studio heads and filmmakers have often kept such arguments "in house," turning to talent guilds and other groups for solutions. Whether the issue has been battling piracy in the 1900s, controlling the threat of home video, or managing modern amateur and noncommercial uses of protected content, much of Hollywood's engagement with the law has occurred offstage, in the larger theater of copyright. Decherney's unique history recounts these extralegal solutions and their impact on American media and culture.
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Principles of Public International Law
Author: Ian Brownlie CBE QC FBA
ISBN-10: 0198762984
ISBN-13: 9780198762980
Published: 1999-01-14
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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This is the fifth edition of this textbook on public international law. The material has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of developments since 1990, and a new chapter on international environmental protection has been added. The book retains all its original features - clear exposition, analysis, detailed referencing and comprehensive coverage. It provides a convenient and informative work of reference for students and practitioners.
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Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)
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ISBN-10: 0520231759
ISBN-13: 9780520231757
Published: 2002-06-27
Publisher: University of California Press
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This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection encourages debate and discourse about how courts, scholars, and policy makers respond to the salient legal and ethical dilemmas. The excerpts and commentaries in the reader analyze the legal and constitutional foundations of public health, juxtaposing them with the emerging importance of public health ethics and human rights. The book offers a systematic account of public health law, ethics, and human rights in promoting the common good.Gostin provides thoughtful commentary on the field of public health and carefully explains the meaning and importance of each selection. Scholars, legislators, and public health professionals, as well as faculty and students in schools of law, public health, medicine, nursing, government, and health administration, will benefit from the contemporary case studies covering a wide range of topics from bioterrorism to public health genetics.
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One for the Road: Drunk Driving since 1900
Author: Barron H. Lerner
ISBN-10: 1421401908
ISBN-13: 9781421401904
Published: 2011-09-07
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Don’t drink and drive. It's a deceptively simple rule, but one that is all too often ignored. And while efforts to eliminate drunk driving have been around as long as automobiles, every movement to keep drunks from driving has hit some alarming bumps in the road. Barron H. Lerner narrates the two strong—and vocal—sides to this debate in the United States: those who argue vehemently against drunk driving, and those who believe the problem is exaggerated and overregulated. A public health professor and historian of medicine, Lerner asks why these opposing views exist, examining drunk driving in the context of American beliefs about alcoholism, driving, individualism, and civil liberties. Angry and bereaved activist leaders and advocacy groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving campaign passionately for education and legislation, but even as people continue to be killed, many Americans remain unwilling to take stronger steps to address the problem. Lerner attributes this attitude to Americans’ love of drinking and love of driving, an inadequate public transportation system, the strength of the alcohol lobby, and the enduring backlash against Prohibition. The stories of people killed and maimed by drunk drivers are heartrending, and the country’s routine rejection of reasonable strategies for ending drunk driving is frustratingly inexplicable. This book is a fascinating study of the culture of drunk driving, grassroots and professional efforts to stop it, and a public that has consistently challenged and tested the limits of individual freedom. Why, despite decades and decades of warnings, do people still choose to drive while intoxicated? One for the Road provides crucial historical lessons for understanding the old epidemic of drunk driving and the new epidemic of distracted driving. (2011)
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