• Evaluating American elections : are they working well? / Todd Donovan
• Compulsory voting and the United States / Shane P. Singh
• Race and the right to vote : the modern barrier of voter ID laws / Hannah Walker, Gabriel Sanchez, Stephen Nuno, and Matt Barreto
• Provisional votes : an election reform to count more votes / Martha Kropf and Holly Whisman
• One step forward, two steps back : the curious case of immigrant voting rights / Ron Hayduk
• Changing how America votes for President / Caroline J. Tolbert and Kellen Gracey
• Redistricting and representation : searching for "fairness" between the lines / Vladimir Kogan and Eric McGhee
• Ranked choice voting : a different way of casting and counting votes / David C. Kimball and Joseph Anthony
• The impact of electoral rules on minority representation / Jason P. Casellas and Kenicia Wright The Fair Representation Act for Congress / Rob Richie and Drew Spencer Penrose
• What's rules got to do with it? : parties, reform, and selection in the presidential nomination process / Jason S. Byers and Jamie L. Carson
• Signature requirements and ballot access for non-major party candidates / Barry C. Burden and Jordan Hsu
• Third parties and the fight for electoral reform / Brian Brox
• Campaign finance in U.S. Politics : an era without limits / Lonna Rae Atkeson and Wendy L. Hansen
• When do election rules change? / Todd Donovan.

Democracy requires conversations about how its practice can be improved. This is an enduring theme in American politics, and demands for change in how we conduct elections are highly salient today. The crisis of the 2000 presidential election generated demands for changes in election rules, but the response was muted. After 2000, several states adopted photo ID laws, and other rules that made it more difficult to vote. The 2010 Citizens United decision heralded in deregulation of campaign finance. The Voting Rights Act was weakened by The Court in 2013. More recently, the unprecedented presidential election of 2016 generated accusations from the left and right that America's elections were 'a rigged system' of caucuses, conventions, and campaign finance desperately in need of reforms. Changing How America Votes is an edited volume comprised of 15 short substantive chapters on various specific reform topics that examine how electoral democracy in the United States is working, and how it might be improved. Editor Todd Donovan has written brief introductory and concluding chapters, and very brief introductions to the following three thematic sections that divide the readings accordingly: Voting and Participation: Changing Who Votes; Electoral Rules and Systems: Changing How We Vote; and Changing the Role of Parties and Money. In order to facilitate student learning and assist instructors' ability to use the book, this edited volume reads as a coherent text. The contributors, many of whom are accomplished scholars, or who write frequent blog posts and Op-Ed pieces, were asked to write as accessibly as possible for an undergraduate audience, and address many of the following topics: * Why is this issue important? * What would a proposed reform look like? * What are arguments in favor of the proposal? * Is there evidence it might make a difference, and what difference would it make? * Beyond the evidence, is it the right thing to do? List of contributors: Joseph Anthony, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Matt Barreto , Brian Brox, Barry C. Burden, Jason S. Byers, Jamie L. Carson, Jason P. Casellas, Kellen Gracey, Wendy L. Hansen, Ron Hayduk, Jordan Hsu, David C. Kimball, Vladimir Kogan, Martha Kropf, Eric McGhee, Stephen Nuno, Drew Spencer Penrose, Rob Richie, Gabriel Sanchez, Shane P. Singh, Caroline J. Tolbert, Hannah Walker, Holly Whisman, and Kenicia Wright.
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• Introduction : terra nullius in Zion?
• The legal geography of indigenous Bedouin dispossession
• The land regime of the late Ottoman period
• The land regime of the Bristish Mandate period
• Making the "dead Negev doctrine" during the Israeli period
• Historical geography of the Negev : Bedouin agriculture
• Bedouin territory and settlements
• The Bedouin as an indigenous community
• International law, indigenous land rights and Israel
• Contested futures
• State and Bedouin policies and plans.

• Taking the plunge
• Leaving your employer
• Selecting and working with an attorney
• Deciding whether to incorporate
• Structuring the ownership
• Forming and working with the board
• Raising money and securities regulation
• Marshaling human resources
• Contracts and leases
• E-commerce, sales, and consumer privacy
• Operational liabilities, insurance, and compliance
• Creditors' rights and bankruptcy
• Venture capital
• Intellectual property and licensing
• Going global
• Buying and selling a business
• Going public.

• Introduction: Embracing queer curiosity / Dianne Otto
• A tale of two atonements / Rahul Rao
• "Dangerous desires" : illegality, sexuality and the global governance of artisanal mining / Doris Buss and Blair Rutherford
• The anatomy of neoliberal Internet governance : a queer critical political economy perspective / Monika Zalnierute
• International law as violence : competing absences of the other / Vanja Hamzić
• The maintenance of (international peace and security) heteronormativity / Tamsin Philippa Paige
• In spite : testifying to sexual and gender-based violence during the Khmer Rouge period / Maria Elander
• The (im)possibility of queering international human rights law / Ratna Kapur
• Homoglobalism : the emergence of global gay governance / Aeyal Gross
• Governing (trans)parenthood : the tenacious hold of biological connections and heterosexuality / Anniken Sørlie
• Queer border crossers : pragmatic complicities, indiscretions and subversions / Bina Fernandez
• Queering international law's stories of origin : hospitality and homophobia / Nan Seuffert
• Resisting the heteronormative imaginary of the nation-state : rethinking kinship and border protection / Dianne Otto.

• A brief history of anti-violence against women movements in the United States / Jami Ake & Gretchen Arnold
• Explaining violence against women within the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) / Angela R. Gover, Tara N. Richards, & Maria J. Patterson
• The challenges of measuring violence against women / Diane R Follingstad
• Rape and sexual assault on campus, in diverse populations, and in the spotlight / Tracy N. Hipp & Sarah L. Cook
• Intimate partner violence / Alesha Durfee
• Sexual harassment is still violence against women at work / Phoebe Morgan
• Gender-based violence in schools / Laura E. Agnich, Jun Sung Hong, & Anthony A. Peguero
• Sexual victimization and domestic violence against elderly women / Michelle Meloy & Nicole Cunningham
• Human trafficking : a spotlight on sex trafficking / Dominque Roe-Sepowitz & Kristine Hickle
• Innovative criminal justice responses to sexual violence / LeeAnn Iovanni, Susan L. Miller & Emily Rowe
• Intervening with children exposed to domestic violence : multiple opportunities to preent harm and promote resilience / Claire V. Crooks, Peter G. Jaffee, & Caely Dunlap
• Innovative health care responses to violence against women / Elizabeth Miller, Michele R. Decker, & Nancy Glass
• Engaging men in violence prevention / Richard M. Tolman & Tova Walsh
• Services for survivors of sexual violence : moving from care to comprehensive services / Stephanie M. Townsend & Rebecca Campbell.

The Third Edition of this comprehensive volume covers the current state of research, theory, prevention, and intervention regarding violence against women. The book's 15 chapters are divided into three parts: theoretical and methodological issues in researching violence against women; types of violence against women; and, new to this edition, programs that work. Featuring new chapters, pedagogy, sections on controversies in the field, and autobiographical essays by leaders in grassroots anti-violence work, the Third Edition has been designed to encourage discussion and debate, to address issues of diversity and cultural contexts, and to examine inequalities of race and ethnicity, social class, physical ability, sexual orientation, and geographic location.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781483378107 20170508

• Management agreements
• Production company deals (... and the contract from hell which no artist should sign)
• Artist recording contracts with record companies
• A simple guide to sync deals
• Producer agreements
• Music publishing and songwriter contracts
• Music and the movies : composer agreements / written with Robert Seigal
• Live performance and booking agreements (a lawyer's guide to structuring paid music gigs
• Music video production contracts
• Band agreements and essential business actions a band (or solo artist) can take at little to no cost without the services of an attorney
• Investment agreements.

The 11 Contracts Every Artist, Songwriter, and Producer Should Know is an in-depth guide to help artists, songwriters, and producers navigate the tricky world of contract negotiations in the music industry. This book analyses the most common, and important, contracts including management, production company, sync license, and producer agreements all paired with professional commentary and exclusive interviews with top industry moguls. Readers will learn the ins and outs of both the legal and business side of contracts in the music industry so that they will never find themselves stuck on the wrong side of a bad deal. Features invaluable information on these 11 crucial music industry contracts: Management Agreements Production Company and New Artist Indie Label Deals Sync Licenses Producer Agreements Music Publishing Deals Composer Agreements Live Performance Contracts Music Video Production Contracts Band Agreements & Business Actions Artists Can Take Without an Attorney Investment Agreements.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781495076701 20170403

• About abortion
• The law from Roe forward
• Abortion privacy/abortion secrecy
• The eye of the storm
• Facing your fetus
• "You had body, you died"
• Sending pregnant teenagers to court
• Fathers and fetuses : what would men do?
• Normalizing abortion.

One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background of stigma and hostility has stifled women's willingness to talk about abortion, which in turn distorts public and political discussion. To pry open the silence surrounding this public issue, Sanger distinguishes between abortion privacy, a form of nondisclosure based on a woman's desire to control personal information, and abortion secrecy, a woman's defense against the many harms of disclosure.Laws regulating abortion patients and providers treat abortion not as an acceptable medical decision--let alone a right--but as something disreputable, immoral, and chosen by mistake. Exploiting the emotional power of fetal imagery, laws require women to undergo ultrasound, a practice welcomed in wanted pregnancies but commandeered for use against women with unwanted pregnancies. Sanger takes these prejudicial views of women's abortion decisions into the twenty-first century by uncovering new connections between abortion law and American culture and politics.New medical technologies, women's increasing willingness to talk online and off, and the prospect of tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent and acceptable, women's decisions about whether or not to become mothers will be treated more like those of other adults making significant personal choices.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9780674737723 20170403

• Conceptualizing separation/divorce violence against women
• The extent and distribution of separation/divorce assault
• New technologies and separation/divorce violence against women
• Explaining separation/divorce violence against women
• Children as collateral victims of separation/divorce woman abuse
• What is to be done about separation/divorce violence against women?

"Abusive Endings offers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to women's health and well-being today--abuse at the hands of their partners. The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during and after a separation or divorce. The material is punctuated with the stories and voices of both perpetrators and survivors of abuse, as told to the authors over many years of fieldwork. Written in a highly readable fashion, this book will be a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy makers"--Provided by publisher.

• Access to justice and legal aid cuts : a mismatch of concepts in the contemporary Australian and British legal landscapes / Asher Flynn and Jacqueline Hodgson
• Challenges facing the Australian legal aid system / Mary Anne Noone
• Rhyme and reason in the uncertain development of legal aid in Australia / Jeff Giddings
• The rise and decline of criminal legal aid in England and Wales / Tom Smith and Ed Cape
• A view from the bench : a judicial perspective on legal representation, court excellence, and therapeutic jurisprudence / Pauline Spencer
• Face-to-interface communication : accessing justice by video link from prison / Carolyn McKay
• The rise of "DIY" law : implications for legal aid / Kathy Laster and Ryan Kornhauser
• Community lawyers, law reform, and systemic change : is the end in sight? / Liana Buchanan
• What if there is nowhere to get advice? / James Organ and Jennifer Sigafoos
• The end of "tea and sympathy"? : the changing role of voluntary advice services in enabling access to justice? / Samuel Kirwan
• Reasoning a human right to legal aid / Simon Rice
• Cuts to civil legal aid and the identity crisis in lawyering : lessons from the experience of England and Wales / Natalie Byrom
• Access to what? : LASPO and mediation / Rosemary Hunter, Anne Barlow, Janet Smithson, and Jan Ewing
• Insights into inequality : Victorian women's access to legal aid / Pasanna Mutha-Merennege
• Indigenous people and access to justice in civil and family law / Melanie Schwartz
• Austerity and justice in the age of migration / Ana Aliverti.

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political culture, in the nature of the communities they serve and in their approaches to providing access to justice. These jurisdictions thus provide us with different perspectives on what constitutes justice and how we might seek to overcome the burgeoning crisis in unmet legal need. The book fills an important gap in existing scholarship as the first to bring together new empirical and theoretical knowledge examining different responses to legal aid crises both in the domestic and comparative contexts, across criminal, civil and family law. It achieves this by examining the broader social, political, legal, health and welfare impacts of legal aid cuts and prescriptive service guidelines. Across both jurisdictions, this work suggests that it is the most vulnerable groups who lose out in the way the law now operates in the twenty-first century. This book is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in criminal and civil justice, access to justice, the provision of legal assistance and legal aid.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781509900848 20170327

• Introduction: Law, religion and the challenge of accommodation
• Muslim communities in a multicultural context
• Contextualishing Sharīʻah : Sharīʻah in the common law world
• Muslims, family relationships and the common law
• Muslims, crime and the common law
• Muslims, business transactions and the common law
• Conclusion.

The book explores the relationship between Muslims, the Common Law and Shari'ah post-9/11. The book looks at the accommodation of Shari'ah Law within Western Common Law legal traditions and the role of the judiciary, in particular, in drawing boundaries for secular democratic states with Muslim populations who want resolutions to conflicts that also comply with the dictates of their faith. Salim Farrar and Ghena Krayem consider the question of recognition of Shari'ah by looking at how the flexibilities that exists in both the Common Law and Shari'ah provide unexplored avenues for navigation and accommodation. The issue is explored in a comparative context across several jurisdictions and case law is examined in the contexts of family law, business and crime from selected jurisdictions with significant Muslim minority populations including: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, and the United States. The book examines how Muslims and the broader community have framed their claims for recognition against a backdrop of terrorism fears, and how Common Law judiciaries have responded within their constitutional and statutory confines and also within the contemporary contexts of demands for equality, neutrality and universal human rights. Acknowledging the inherent pragmatism, flexibility and values of the Common Law, the authors argue that the controversial issue of accommodation of Shari'ah is not necessarily one that requires the establishment of a separate and parallel legal system.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9780415710466 20160928

• Principles of jurisdiction
• Principles of jurisdictional restraint
• Australia and extraterritorial jurisdiction
• India and extraterritorial jurisdiction
• The United States and extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Nation states are increasingly asserting jurisdiction over criminal offenses that occur extraterritorially. In some instances, this can cause political tension and legal uncertainty, as the principles of jurisdiction under international law do not adequately resolve competing claims. In that context, this book considers principles of jurisdiction and mechanisms by which to achieve jurisdictional restraint under international law, including the possibilities presented by the abuse of rights doctrine. Utilising a comparative approach, this book explores principles of jurisdiction, first under international law, and then in a comparative constitutional law context. Specifically, Danielle Ireland-Piper explores the ways in which domestic constitutional courts in Australia, India and the United States adjudicate extraterritorial criminal jurisdictions. Groundbreaking sections explore the abuse of rights doctrine in a common law context and the relationship between individual rights and the assertion of extraterritorial jurisdiction. While this is a research monograph that will likely interest legal scholars and researchers in international relations and political science, it will also appeal to government policy-makers and judicial decision-makers, particularly given the increased reliance by governments on extraterritorial regulation of transnational crime.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781786431776 20170502

• Introduction: Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?
• "Once you've met one IG, you've met one IG" : modes of monitory democratic practice
• An inspector calls (with apologies to J. B. Priestley) : the inspector general category
• Bungling bureaucrats : searching for an independent state
• A political democracy at state : protecting passport privacy, 1992-2008
• Lawyers out of court : guarding the guardians at justice
• A constitutional democracy at justice : forging democratic norms in the war on terror, 2002-2010
• From terror to hurricanes : crafting emergency governance at Homeland Security
• A managerial democracy at Homeland Security : a web of accountability in the Gulf Coast recovery project, 2005-2009
• Forging a new democratic form : cometh the hour, cometh the inspector
• Conclusion: Quis custodiet custodem ipsum custodom?

The Accountability State provides an overview of American federal Inspectors General and analyzes their development and capacity to contribute to new forms of democratic legitimacy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9780700623983 20170605

• The basic financial statements
• The accounting process
• Generally accepted accounting principles
• Recognition of revenues and expenses
• Current assets and liabilities
• Accounting for inventories
• Property, plant, and equipment and depreciation
• Intangible assets
• Accounting for investments
• Accounting for long term debt
• Accounting for leases
• Accounting for other long term liabilities
• Accounting for stock and stockholders' equity
• Partnership accounting
• Accounting for business combinations
• Earnings per share and financial ratios
• Special reporting issues
• Corporate finance : valuation
• International accounting issues
• Appendix. Time value of money.

This product provides a well-rounded summary of the relevant accounting areas from basic financial statements to complex earnings-per-share ratios and corporate finance and valuation. Learn how to recognize revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities. It reviews accounting principles for many different areas, including acquisitions, investments, long-term debt, leases, stocks, and partnerships. It also discusses recent developments such as adoption of new requirements to place most operating leases on the lessee's balance sheet, a new principles based approach to accounting for revenue, refinements in the accounting for stock options, and revised rules for applying the lower of cost or market rule to inventory.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781634608510 20170515

• Open judiciary worldwide : best practices and lessons learnt / Carlos E. Jiménez-Gómez
• Open and transparent judicial records in the digital age : applying principles and performance measures / Nial Raaen
• Open judiciary in high courts : securing a networked constitution, challenges of e-justice, transparency and citizen participation / Jesús Cano, Luis Pomed, Carlos E. Jiménez-Gómez, Roberto Hernández
• Open judiciary in a closed society : a paradox in China? / Mei Gechlik, Di Dai, Jordan Corrente Beck
• An analysis of a lay adjudication system and open judiciary : the new Japanese lay adjudication system / Yumiko Kita
• From e-justice to open judiciary : an analysis of the Portuguese experience / Rui Pedro Lourenço, Paula Fernando, Conceição Gomes
• Integrating semi-open data in a criminal judicial setting / Mortaza S. Bargh, Sunil Choenni, Ronald F. Meijer
• Digitalizing police requirements : opening up justice through collaborative initiatives / Mila Gascó-Hernández
• Openlaws.eu : open justice in Europe through open access to legal information / Thomas J. Lampoltshammer, Andres Guadamuz, Clemens Wass, Thomas Heistracher
• Consumer "access to justice" in EU in low-value cross-border disputes and the role of online dispute resolution / Inmaculada Barral-Viñals
• Open data for open justice in seven Latin American countries / Sandra Elena, François van Schalkwyk
• Open justice in Latin America? : an assessment framework for judiciary portals in 2015 / Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazán.

Open government initiatives have become a defining goal for public administrators around the world. However, progress is still necessary outside of the executive and legislative sectors. Achieving Open Justice through Citizen Participation and Transparency is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the implementation of open government within the judiciary field, emphasizing the effectiveness and accountability achieved through these actions. Highlighting the application of open government concepts in a global context, this book is ideally designed for public officials, researchers, professionals, and practitioners interested in the improvement of governance and democracy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781522507178 20161124

• The challenge of regulatory excellence / Cary Coglianese
• Responsive excellence / John Braithwaite
• Regulating by the stars / Wendy Wagner
• Regulatory excellence and democratic accountability / Kathryn Harrison
• Beyond process excellence : enhancing societal well-being / John D. Graham and Paul R. Noe
• Regulatory equilibrium / Ted Gayer
• A risk regulation perspective on regulatory excellence / Bridget M. Hutter
• Regulatory excellence and lucidity / Robert Baldwin
• Regulatory excellence : lessons from theory and practice / Daniel C. Esty
• What makes a regulator excellent? : mission, funding, information, and judgment / Shelley H. Metzenbaum and Gaurav Vasisht
• Beyond best-in-class : three secrets to regulatory excellence / Adam M. Finkel
• Compliance, enforcement, and regulatory excellence / Neil Gunningham
• The role of policy learning and reputation in regulatory excellence / David Vogel
• Regulatory excellence via multiple forms of expertise / David Levi-Faur
• Insurance and the excellent regulator / Cary Coglianese and Howard Kunreuther
• A systems approach to regulatory excellence / Angus Corbett
• Performance principles for regulators / Donald P. Moynihan
• Measuring regulatory excellence / Cary Coglianese.

Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them. What defines success for a regulator? Operating within a political climate of competing demands, regulators need a lodestar to help them define and evaluate success. Understanding and Achieving Regulatory Excellence provides that direction by offering new insights from law, public administration, political science, sociology, and policy sciences on what regulators need to improve their performance. It provides guidance about how regulators can set appropriate priorities and make sound, evidence-based decisions through processes that are transparent and participatory. With increasing demands for smarter but leaner government, the need for sound regulatory capacity for regulatory excellence has never been stronger.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9780815728429 20170321

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Societally penetrated judiciaries and the democratic rule of law; 2. The evolution of judicial regimes; 3. Costa Rica: a liberal judicial regime; 4. Government control regimes in Central America versus the rule of law; 5. Clandestine control in Guatemala; 6. Partisan systems; Conclusion.

"Featuring the first in-depth comparison of the judicial politics of five under-studied Central American countries, The Achilles Heel of Democracy offers a novel typology of 'judicial regime types' based on the political independence and societal autonomy of the judiciary. This book highlights the under-theorized influences on the justice system - criminals, activists, and other societal actors, and the ways that they intersect with more overtly political influences. Grounded in interviews with judges, lawyers, and activists, it presents the 'high politics' of constitutional conflicts in the context of national political conflicts as well as the 'low politics' of crime control and the operations of trial-level courts. The book begins in the violent and often authoritarian 1980s in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and spans through the tumultuous 2015 'Guatemalan Spring'; the evolution of Costa Rica's robust liberal judicial regime is traced from the 1950s"-- Provided by publisher.