• An introduction to the genre of al-qawāʻid al-fiqhiyyah
• The definition
• The relation between al-qawāʻid al-fiqhiyyah and al-Ashbāh wa'l-naẓāʼir
• The origins of al-qawāʻid al-fiqhiyyah
• The development of al-qawāʻid al-fiqhiyyah
• The purpose of al-qawāʼid al-fiqhiyyah
• An introduction to the two authors and their works
• Ibn Nujaym and his al-Ashbāh wa'l-naẓāʼir
• Abū 'l-Suʻūd and his commentary
• The manuscripts
• The edited text of ʻUmdat al-nāẓir.

• Purpose of this handbook / Jill D. Rhodes and Robert S. Litt
• Understanding cybersecurity risks / Lucy L. Thomson
• Understanding technology : what every lawyer needs to know about the cyber network / Paul Rosenzweig
• Lawyers' legal obligations to provide data security / Thomas J. Smedinghoff and Ruth Hill Bro
• International norms / Conor Sullivan, Kelly Russo, and Harvey Rishikof
• Lawyers' obligations to provide data security arising from ethics rules and other law / Peter Geraghty and Lucian T. Pera
• Occasions when counsel should consider initiating a conversation about cybersecurity with the client / Roland L. Trope and Lixian Loong Hantover
• Large law firms / Alan Charles Raul and Michaelene E. Hanley
• Cybersecurity for the little guys / Theodore L. Banks
• In-house counsel / Angeline G. Chen
• Considerations for government lawyers / Sandra Hodgkinson, Clark Walton, and Timothy H. Edgar
• Public interest attorneys / Michelle Richardson
• Get SMART on data protection : training and how to create a culture of awareness / Ruth Hill Bro and Jill D. Rhodes
• Best practices for incident response : achieving preparedness through alignment with voluntary consensus standards / George B. Huff Jr., John A. DiMaria, and Claudia Rast
• Cyber insurance for law firms and legal organizations / Kevin P. Kalinich and James L. Rhyner
• Conclusion / Robert S. Litt and Jill D. Rhodes.

"Since the release of the first edition published in 2013, cybersecurity breaches in law firms have made news headlines and clients are asking questions about lawyers' and firms' security programs. From the massive Panama Papers breach that led to the dissolution of the Mossack Fonseca Law Firm in April 2016 to the WannaCry and Petya Ransomware attacks, the latter that led to the several day work outage at DLA Piper in June 2017, it is imperative that attorneys understand the potential risk of weak information security practices to their practices and their clients. As hackers increase their capability to conduct cyber attacks, so must law firms step up their risk management game specifically in cybersecurity as a fundamental part of their sustainable business practices. [This book] focuses on many of the issues raised in the first edition, while highlighting the extensive changes in the current cybersecurity environment...[and] includes a chapter on technology basics for the technologically challenged. This updated edition will enable [the reader] to identify potential cybersecurity risks and prepare [them] to respond in the event of an attack. It addresses the current overarching threat as well as ethical issues and special considerations for law firms of all sizes. The handbook also includes the most recent ABA Ethics Opinions and illustrates how [the reader] should approach the subject of cybersecurity threats and issues with clients as well as when and how to purchase and use cyber insurance."-- Publisher's website.

• Preface and acknowledgments
• In defense of abortion rights / Kate Greasley
• Abortion as human rights violation / Christopher Kaczor
• A reply to Kaczor / Kate Greasley
• A reply to "In defense of abortion rights" / Christopher Kaczor
• A short reply to the reply / Kate Greasley
• A short reply to Greasley / Christopher Kaczor.

This book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage with each other's arguments and each responds to criticisms fielded by the other. Their conversational argument explores such fundamental questions as: what gives a person the right to life? Is abortion bad for women? What is the difference between abortion and infanticide? Underpinned by philosophical reasoning and methodology, this book provides opposing and clearly structured perspectives on a highly emotive and controversial issue. The result gives readers a window into how moral philosophers argue about the contentious issue of abortion rights, and an in-depth analysis of the compelling arguments on both sides.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781107170933 20180319

• Introduction
• The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1947 (GATT 1947) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) : why join the club?
• Membership of the GATT 1947 and the WTO
• The scope of the multilateral trading system
• The status of protocols of accession in the legal framework of the WTO
• Mapping exercise : methodology and typology : commitments on specific matters
• Mapping exercise : the results
• Concluding remarks.

"This...book examines the extent and scope of how rules for accession to the WTO may vary between countries, approaching the concerns that some countries enter with a better deal than others. [The author] critiques these additional rules and aims to answer the question of whether new members of the WTO are under stricter rules than the original members, whilst analysing the accession process to the multilateral trading system. Taking an integrated approach, the author combines the results of a mapping exercise of all 36 protocols of accession with a legal analysis of the decisions by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body involving protocols of accession. In doing so, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the issue of member-specific WTO-plus commitments in protocols of accession. Whilst addressing the institutional and historical aspects of the WTO accession process, it provides an...update to the existing scholarship on WTO accession, offering coverage of all accessions including those of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Liberia."-- Back cover.

• Introduction to sea level rise
• Defining coastal vulnerability and the need for coastal management
• The role of federal insurance and disaster relief programs
• Key legal principles to understand sea level rise adaptation
• California
• North Carolina
• Texas
• Lessons for policy makers
• Challenges for corporations in adapting to sea level rise.

"[This book] discusses the ways in which the structure of the United States' legal system shapes adaptation...[This] book provides the necessary background on the science of sea level rise and the basic legal principles that animate decision-making in the coastal zone, including the takings doctrine. The book explores the role of federal flood insurance and disaster relief in shaping adaptation decisions, presents case studies from states, and concludes with a high-level overview of some of the unique challenges faced by corporations operating in the coastal zone."-- Back cover.

• Foreword
• Preface
• A historical map for administrative law : there be dragons / Colleen M. Flood, Jennifer Dolling
• Remedies in administrative law : a roadmap to a parallel legal universe / Cristie Ford
• Realizing aboriginal administrative law / Janna Promislow, Naiomi Metallic
• Administering the Canadian rule of law / Mary Liston
• The principles and practices of procedural fairness / Kate Glover
• The Charter and administrative part I : procedural fairness / Evan Fox-Decent, Alexander Pless
• The dynamics of independence, impartiality, and bias in the Canadian administrative state / Laverne Jacobs
• Delegation and consultation : how the administrative state functions and the importance of rules / Andrew Green
• Fairness in context : achieving fairness through access to administrative justice / Angus Grant and Lorne Sossin
• Crown liability for negligent administrative action / Alexander Pless
• Standard of review : back to the future? / Audrey Macklin
• Making sense of reasonableness / Sheila Wildeman
• The Charter and administrative law part II : substantive review / Evan Fox-Decent, Alexander Pless
• Top ten questions (and a few answers) about substantive review / Peter J. Carver
• Making a federal case out of it : the Federal Court and administrative law / Craig Forcese
• International human rights norms and administrative law / Gerald Heckman.

"[This book examines] key principles and cases by leveraging the distinct voices of leading scholars and instructors from across Canada. This...analysis gives students a better sense of how administrative boards and tribunals work in practice. To offer a more comprehensive understanding of subject matter, resources like practice tips, checklists, and a companion website have also been included in the text. This combination of theory and applied learning has resulted in a highly effective teaching tool that students can take from the classroom into practice."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Can one speak in one's voice? : one's voice and the critique and resistance of the law : a review of the literature
• The ambivalence of wounds, consent and the integrity of the body
• Objectification and voice in sex work
• Moving away from justice as resentment.

"Critical legal scholars have made us aware that law is made up not only of rules but also of language. But who speaks the language of law? And can one lawfully speak in one’s voice? For the Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero, to answer these questions we must not separate who is speaking from the very act of speaking; moreover, we must recuperate the material singularity and relationality of the mouth that speaks. Drawing on Cavarero’s work, this book focuses on the potentiality of the voice for resisting law’s sovereign structures. For Cavarero, it is the voice that expresses one’s living and unrepeatable singularity in a way that cannot be subsumed by the universalities and standards of law. The voice is essentially a material and singular passage of air and vibration that necessarily reveals one’s uniqueness in relationality. Speaking discloses this uniqueness, and so one’s vulnerability. It therefore leads to possibilities of resistance that, here, bring a fresh approach to longstanding legal theoretical concerns with singularity, ethics and justice."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: E-government and e-governance
• E-governance era : paradigm shifts and megatrends, Janus face of technology, digital divide, and the hype curve/hype cycle
• Technology models and societal preferences : technology acceptance model (TAM), diffusion of innovation (DOI), and web trust
• Scientific knowledge, technocrats, and the role of the expert
• Open innovation, advancements in technological innovation and the impact of modern networks on participation
• Deliberative democracy and citizen participation
• Modern deliberative democracy means and web 2.0 technology : social media and crowdsourcing
• Modern deliberative democracy means and web 2.0 technology : suggestion boxes, deliberative mini-publics, citizen review panels, deliberative polls and public meetings
• E-governance, deliberative democracy and voting processes : part one
• E-governance, deliberative democracy and voting processes : part two.

E-Governance as a field of study is relatively new when considered within the broader historical context of US democracy. The advent of the modern Internet in the early 1990s yielded new technologies that began to shift citizen expectations of how government can -- and in many cases should -- govern. Though innovations continue to emerge at a rapid pace, these technologies may be used to reinforce long-held deliberative democracy principles, including transparency, accountability and flexibility. Advances in E-Governance offers a comprehensive exploration of the role that technological innovation plays in facilitating government action and citizen participation. In this timely book, author Anthony Trotta differentiates e-governance from e-government and examines the increasingly important role social media and crowdsourcing have come to play in our democracy, and the interactions between technology, polling, voting, and outcomes. Including practical cases ranging from DMV registration to online tax filing and markers of successful implementation, Advances in E-Governance carefully addresses how the adoption and expansion of electronic platforms align with new government paradigms and looks to future trends in this rapidly expanding field.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781498701181 20170925

• Introduction: Hamilton and the U.S. financial revolution
• To-- (December 1779-March 1780)
• To James Duane (September 3, 1780)
• To Robert Morris (April 30, 1781)
• The continentalist (1781-1782)
• Constitution of the Bank of New York (February 23-March 15, 1784)
• To Thomas Willing (September 13, 1789)
• Report relative to a provision for the support of public credit (January 9, 1790)
• To Wilhelm and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard (August 28, 1790)
• First report on the further provision necessary for establishing public credit (December 13, 1790)
• Second report on the further provision necessary for establishing public credit (report on a national bank, December 14, 1790)
• Report on the etablishment of a mint (January 28, 1791)
• Opinion on the constitutionality of an act to establish a national bank (February 23, 1791)
• Prospectus of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (August 1791)
• Report on the subject of manufactures (December 5, 1791)
• To William Seton (February 10 and March 22, 1792)
• Report on a plan for the further support of public credit (January 16, 1795)
• The defense of the funding system (July 1795)
• Articles of Association of the Merchants Bank (April 7, 1803)
• Conclusion: Legacies of the U.S. financial revolution.

While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state governments to charter a number of commercial banks and other business corporations. Yet despite a recent surge of interest in Hamilton, U.S. financial modernization has not been fully recognized as one of his greatest achievements. This book traces the development of Hamilton's financial thinking, policies, and actions through a selection of his writings. The financial historians and Hamilton experts Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen provide commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the modern economic system, guiding readers through Hamilton's distinguished career. The book showcases Hamilton's thoughts on the nation's founding, the need for a strong central government, confronting problems such as a depreciating paper currency and weak public credit, and the architecture of the financial system. His great state papers on public credit, the national bank, the mint, and manufactures instructed reform of the nation's finances and jumpstarted economic growth. Hamilton practiced what he preached: he played a key role in the founding of three banks and a manufacturing corporation, and his deft political maneuvering and economic savvy saved the fledgling republic's economy during the country's first full-blown financial crisis in 1792. Sylla and Cowen center Hamilton's writings on finance among his most important accomplishments, making his brilliance as an economic policy maker accessible to all interested in this Founding Father's legacy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9780231184564 20180312

• Introduction: The power of algorithms
• A society, searching
• Searching for Black girls
• Searching for people and communities
• Searching for protections from search engines
• The future of knowledge in the public
• The future of information culture
• Conclusion: Algorithms of oppression.

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls"-what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in "white girls, " the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about "why black women are so sassy" or "why black women are so angry" presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color. Through an analysis of textual and media searches as well as extensive research on paid online advertising, Noble exposes a culture of racism and sexism in the way discoverability is created online. As search engines and their related companies grow in importance-operating as a source for email, a major vehicle for primary and secondary school learning, and beyond-understanding and reversing these disquieting trends and discriminatory practices is of utmost importance. An original, surprising and, at times, disturbing account of bias on the internet, Algorithms of Oppression contributes to our understanding of how racism is created, maintained, and disseminated in the 21st century. Safiya Noble discusses search engine bias in an interview with USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781479837243 20180409

"On March 14, 2012, the National People's Congress of the PRC substantially amended the country's 1979 Criminal Procedure Law. The law was first extensively revised in 1996; this second revision also affects a large number of articles, and expands the law from 225 to 290 articles. Following the new amendment, the supreme court of China also amended its judicial interpretation to the law. The second edition of this book provides new English translations to the amended criminal procedure law and all the related Chinese official judicial and administrative interpretations. The second edition also includes an in-depth Introduction which briefly surveys the legislative history and intent of Chinese criminal procedure law, discusses how the criminal procedure law is interpreted and supplemented in China, and shows how to update and find relevant judicial interpretations. The author has also included subtitles to every article to enhance research, article-by-article annotations, and English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries for Chinese criminal procedure law."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• The capitalist constitution / Woody Holton
• What was the great bull market? : value, valuation, and financial history / Julia Ott
• The New York City fiscal crisis and the idea of the state / Kim Phillips-Fein
• Utopian capitalism / Richard White
• The sovereign market and sex difference : human rights in America / Amy Dru Stanley
• Negro cloth : mastering the market for slave clothing in antebellum America / Seth Rockman
• Revulsions of capital : slavery and political economy in the epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia, 1829-1832 / Christopher Tomlins
• Risk, uncertainty, and data : managing risk in twentieth-century America / Mary Poovey
• Representations of capitalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Peter Knight
• Value of life : insurance, slavery, and expertise / Michael Ralph
• War by other means : mercantilism and free trade in the age of the American Revolution / Eliga H. Gould
• "Innovative solutions to modern agriculture" : capitalist farming, global competition, and the devolution of the U.S. rice industry / Peter A. Coclanis
• Importing the crystal palace / Michael Zakim
• Plantation dispossessions : tracing the global travel of agriculture racial capitalism / Kris Manjapra.

The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has shaped political economy for two centuries and more. But an understanding of "capitalism" is as elusive as it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus on capitalism change our understanding of American history? American Capitalism collects cutting-edge research from prominent scholars, sampling the latest work in the field. Rather than a monolithic perspective, these broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance and debt, women's rights, slavery and political economy, labor, and regulation, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by public authority, how it is experienced in the detail of daily life, how it spreads across the globe, and how it can be reconceptualized as a discrete and quantified object. A major statement for a wide-open field, this book demonstrates the breadth and scope of the work the history of capitalism can provoke.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9780231185240 20180219

• Constitutional adjudication : the who and when (1973)
• Taking Supreme Court opinions seriously (1980)
• On avoidance, agenda control, and related matters (2012)
• Marbury and the administrative state (1983)
• Constitutional fact review (1985)
• Supreme Court review of state-court determinations of state law in constitutional cases (2003)
• Article III and supranational judicial review (2007)
• First Amendment "due process" (1970)
• Constitutional common law (1974)
• Our perfect Constitution (1981)
• Overbreadth (1982)
• Third party standing (1984)
• Stare decisis and constitutional adjudication (1988)
• The protective power of the presidency (1993)
• The Constitution of the United States and American constitutional law (1995)
• The sovereign immunity "exception" (1996)
• Supremacy clause textualism (2010)
• A legal giant is dead : a tribute to Herbert Wechsler (2000)
• Doing originalism : an essay in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2004)
• John Ely : the Harvard years (2004).

• Introduction: American exceptionalism in crime and punishment : broadly defined / Kevin R. Reitz
• American exceptionalism in crime, punishment, and disadvantage : race, federalization, and politicization in the perspective of local autonomy / Nicola Lacey and David Soskice
• The concept of American exceptionalism and the case of capital punishment / David Garland
• Penal optimism : understanding American mass imprisonment from a Canadian perspective / Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N. Doob
• The complications of penal federalism : American exceptionalism or fifty different countries? / Franklin E. Zimring
• American exceptionalism in comparative perspective : explaining trends and variation in the use of incarceration / Tapio Lappi-Seppälä
• How exceptional is the history of violence and criminal justice in the United States? : variation across time and space as the keys to understanding homicide and punitiveness / Randolph Roth
• Making the state pay : violence and the politicization of crime in comparative perspective / Lisa L. Miller
• Comparing serious violent crime in the United States and England and Wales : why it matters, and how it can be done / Zelia Gallo, Nicola Lacey, and David Soskice
• American exceptionalism in community supervision : a comparative analysis of probation in the United States, Scotland, and Sweden / Edward E. Rhine and Faye S. Taxman
• American exceptionalism in parole release and supervision : a European perspective / Dirk van Zyl Smit and Alessandro Corda
• Collateral sanctions and American exceptionalism : a comparative perspective / Nora V. Demleitner.

The idea of American exceptionalism has made frequent appearances in discussions of criminal justice policies-as it has in many other areas-to help portray or explain problems that are especially acute in the U.S., including mass incarceration, retention of the death penalty, racial and ethnic disparities, and the War on Drugs. While scholars do not universally agree that it is an apt or useful framework, there is no question that the U.S. is an outlier, when compared with other industrialized democracies, in its punitive and exclusionary criminal justice policies. This volume of essays deepens the debate of American exceptionalism in crime and punishment through comparative political, economic, and historical analyses, with an orientation toward forward-looking prescriptions for American law, policy, and institutions of government. The chapters expand the literature to neglected areas such as community supervision, parole release, and collateral consequences of conviction; explore claims of causation, in particular the view that the U.S. history of slavery and racial inequality has been a primary driver of crime policy; examine arguments that the framework of multiple governments and localized crime control, populist style of democracy, and laissez-faire economy are implicated in problems of both crime and punishment; and assess theories that cultural values are the most salient predictors of penal severity and violent crime. With an outstanding list of contributors edited by a leading authority on punishment, this volume demonstrates that the largest problems of crime and justice cannot be brought into focus from the perspective of single jurisdiction, and that comparative inquiries are necessary for an understanding of the current predicament in the US.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9780190203542 20180122