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Mayson, French & Ryan on Company Law

By: Derek French,Stephen Mayson,Christopher Ryan

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Mayson, French & Ryan on Company Law

By: Derek French,Stephen Mayson,Christopher Ryan

This comprehensive textbook on company law investigates theoretical issues without sacrificing technical detail, and is ideal for academic and professional students.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019967762X

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CRIM EVID: CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM - 3E

From Crime Scene to Courtroom

By: Derek Regensburger

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CRIM EVID: CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM - 3E

From Crime Scene to Courtroom

By: Derek Regensburger

CRIM EVID: CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM - 3E

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Aspen Publishing

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1543849067

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The Constitutional Systems of the Commonwealth Caribbean

A Contextual Analysis

By: Derek O'Brien

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The Constitutional Systems of the Commonwealth Caribbean

A Contextual Analysis

By: Derek O'Brien

The Commonwealth Caribbean comprises a group of countries (mainly islands) lying in an arc between Florida in the north and Venezuela in the south. Varying widely in terms of their size, population, ethnic composition and economic wealth, these countries are, nevertheless, linked by their shared experience of colonial rule under the British Empire and their decision, upon attaining independence, to adopt a constitutional system of government based on the so-called 'Westminster model'. Since independence these countries have, in the main, enjoyed a sustained period of relative political stability, which is in marked contrast to the experience of former British colonies in Africa and Asia. This book seeks to explore how much of this is due to their constitutional arrangements by examining the constitutional systems of these countries in their context and questioning how well the Westminster model of democracy has successfully adapted to its transplantation to the Commonwealth Caribbean. While taking due account of the region's colonial past and its imprint on postcolonial constitutionalism, the book also considers notable developments that have occurred since independence. These include the transformation of Guyana from a parliamentary democracy to a Cooperative Republic with an executive president; the creation of a Caribbean Single Market and Economy and its implications for national sovereignty; and the replacement of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final court of appeal for a number of countries in the region. The book also addresses the resurgence of interest in constitutional reform across the region in the last two decades, which has culminated in demands for radical reforms of the Westminster model of government and the severance of all remaining links with colonial rule.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849467536

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9781849467537

Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911

By: Derek Miller

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Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911

By: Derek Miller

In the nineteenth century, copyright law expanded to include performances of theatrical and musical works. These laws transformed how people made and consumed performances. Exploring precedent-setting litigation on both sides of the Atlantic, this book traces how courts developed definitions of theater and music to suit new performance rights laws. From Gilbert and Sullivan battling to protect The Mikado to Augustin Daly petitioning to control his spectacular 'railroad scene', artists worked with courts to refine vague legal language into clear, functional theories of drama, music, and performance. Through cases that ensnared figures including Lord Byron, Laura Keene, and Dion Boucicault, this book discovers how the law theorized central aspects of performance including embodiment, affect, audience response, and the relationship between scripts and performances. This history reveals how the advent of performance rights reshaped how we value performance both as an artistic medium and as property.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108584179

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Education Law

Equality, Fairness, and Reform

By: Derek Black,Robert A. Garda,John E. Taylor,Emily Gold Waldman

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Education Law

Equality, Fairness, and Reform

By: Derek Black,Robert A. Garda,John E. Taylor,Emily Gold Waldman

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. Written by Derek Black, one of the nation’s foremost experts in education law and policy, and Education Law Association’s 2015 Goldberg Award for Most Significant Publication in Education Law recipient, this third edition casebook develops Education Law through the themes of equality, fairness, and reform. The book focuses on the laws of equal educational opportunity for various disadvantaged student populations, recent reform movements designed to improve education, and the general constitutional rights that extend to all students. New to the Third Edition: Updates on litigation regarding the fundamental right to education, school funding, and their intersection with COVID-19 issues New cases and analysis on the rights of LGBTQ youth, including Bostock v. Clayton County Department of Education’s new regulatory structure for investigating and resolving sexual harassment claims Two new U.S. Supreme Court special education cases defining the meaning of “free and appropriation public education” and the intersection of Rehabilitation Act with the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act New cases on student walkouts and protests New U.S. Supreme Court case, Espinoza v. Montana, on vouchers and the free exercise of religion New analysis and updates on the Every Student Succeeds Act New materials on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down mandatory teacher union fees Professors and student will benefit from: Efficient presentation of cases—to permit more comprehensive inclusion of case law and issues Problems—which can be modified for group exercises, in-class discussion, or out-of-class writing assignments Contextualization and situation of case law in the broader education world—by including edited versions of federal policy guidelines, seminal law review articles, social science studies, and organization reports and studies Careful editing of cases and secondary sources—for ease of reading and comprehension Narrative introductions to every chapter, major section, and case—synthesize and foreshadow the material to improve student comprehension and retention Teaching materials Include: Teacher’s Manual

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Aspen Publishing

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1543823246

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Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Contributions to Original Intent

By: Derek H. Davis

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Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Contributions to Original Intent

By: Derek H. Davis

How did the constitutional framers envision the role of religion in American public life? Did they think that the government had the right to advance or support religion and religious activities? Or did they believe that the two realms should remain forever separate? Throughout American history, scholars, Supreme Court justices, and members of the American public have debated these questions. The debate continues to have significance in the present day, especially in regard to public schools, government aid to sectarian education, and the use of public property for religious symbols. In this book, Derek Hamilton Davis offers the first comprehensive examination of the role of religion in the proceedings, theories, ideas, and goals of the Continental Congress. Those who argue that the United States was founded as a "Christian Nation" have made much of the religiosity of the founders, particularly as it was manifested in the ritual invocations of a clearly Christian God as well as in the adoption of practices such as government-sanctioned days of fasting and thanksgiving, prayers and preaching before legislative bodies, and the appointments of chaplains to the Army. Davis looks at the fifteen-year experience of the Continental Congress (1774-1789) and arrives at a contrary conclusion: namely, that the revolutionaries did not seek to entrench religion in the federal state. Congress's religious activities, he shows, expressed a genuine but often unreflective popular piety. Indeed, the whole point of the revolution was to distinguish society, the people in its sovereign majesty, from its government. A religious people would jealously guard its own sovereignty and the sovereignty of God by preventing republican rulers from pretending to any authority over religion. The idea that a modern nation could be premised on expressly theological foundations, Davis argues, was utterly antithetical to the thinking of most revolutionaries.

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Oxford University Press

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019535088X

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Don't Stick to Sports

The American Athlete’s Fight against Injustice

By: Derek Charles Catsam

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Don't Stick to Sports

The American Athlete’s Fight against Injustice

By: Derek Charles Catsam

A significant examination of how athletes have fought for inclusion and equality on and off the playing field, despite calls for them to “stick to sports.” The claim that sports are—or ought to be—apolitical has itself never been an apolitical position. Rather, it is a veiled attempt to control which politics are acceptable in the athletic realm, a designation intricately linked to issues of race, gender, ethnicity, and more. In Don't Stick to Sports: The American Athlete’s Fight against Injustice, Derek Charles Catsam carefully explores this disparity. He looks at how, throughout recent sports history in the United States, minority athletes have had to fight every step of the way for their right to compete, and how they continue to fight for equity today. From African Americans and women to LGBTQ+ and religious minorities, Catsam shows how these athletes have taken a stand to address the underlying injustices in sports and society despite being told it’s not their place to do so. While it’s impossible for a single book to tell the entire history of exclusion in the sporting world, Don’t Stick to Sports looks at key moments from the World War I era to the present to shatter the myth of sports as a meritocracy, of sports-as-equalizer, highlighting the reality as something far more complicated—of sports as a malleable world where exclusion and inclusion are rarely straight-forward.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538144727

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9781538144725

Prospects for Citizenship

By: Gerry Stoker,Andrew Mason,Anthony McGrew,Chris Armstrong,David Owen,Graham Smith,Momoh Banya,Derek McGhee,Clare Saunders

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Prospects for Citizenship

By: Gerry Stoker,Andrew Mason,Anthony McGrew,Chris Armstrong,David Owen,Graham Smith,Momoh Banya,Derek McGhee,Clare Saunders

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Is citizenship in decline due to globalisation and an erosion of civic participation and democratic representation? Or is it merely transformed and extended to new levels and larger scales? Should we assess these challenges and changes primarily from a perspective of global justice, or consider also membership in a democratic polity as itself a basic good? Prospects for Citizenship addresses these broad questions in a unique collaborative effort. The result is an impressive book that looks at the future of citizenship from multiple research perspectives while remaining coherent in its overall purpose. Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute, Florence This book offers a perspicuous overview of the prospects for citizenship in our contemporary political context. The authorial team draw on a wide range of empirical and normative research in order to offer an incisive analysis of the problems and pressures of citizenship in the twenty-first century. The authors focus in particular on the apparent decline of traditional forms of civic engagement, the emergence of new forms of participation and the relationship between citizenship and globalization.

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A&C Black

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1849660751

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Scottish Mental Health Tribunal

Practice and Procedure

By: Derek Auchie

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Scottish Mental Health Tribunal

Practice and Procedure

By: Derek Auchie

Derek Auchie and Ailsa Carmichael conduct a full review of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) (No 2) Rules 2005, together with a detailed examination of the relevant provisions of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003. The authors, both Legal Members of the Tribunal, draw upon their own experiences and the experiences of other members in convening Tribunal hearings, making this text an invaluable practical resource for anyone involved at any level of the Tribunal process.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748699406

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9780748699407

Biopatent Law: European vs. US Patent Law

By: Ulrich Storz,Martin Quodbach,Scott D. Marty,Derek E. Constantine,Matthew Parker

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Biopatent Law: European vs. US Patent Law

By: Ulrich Storz,Martin Quodbach,Scott D. Marty,Derek E. Constantine,Matthew Parker

SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents presents timely reports on intellectual properties (IP) issues and patent aspects in the field of biotechnology. This volume focus on particular aspects of the US patent law, which can have tremendous differences compared to the European law. This includes questions of biopatent prosecution, novelty, inventive step, written disclosure and sufficiency of enablement as well as questions of law enforcement of biotech patents.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642412939

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9783642412936

Understanding Housing Defects

By: Duncan Marshall,Derek Worthing,Roger Heath

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Understanding Housing Defects

By: Duncan Marshall,Derek Worthing,Roger Heath

This new edition of Understanding Housing Defects has been extensively revised and includes new and revised graphics, many more photographs, and an extended text. The book is a natural companion to The Construction of Houses (first published in 1990 and now in its 3rd revision). Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of housing defects. It is aimed at all those students and practitioners who require a broad understanding of housing defects as part of a wider sphere of academic or professional activity. The book has three specific objectives, to explain why, and how, defects occur. To enable the reader to recognise and identify building defects and to provide, where appropriate, guidance on their correct diagnosis. The authors have worked in both public and private sectors and have, between them over 75 years’ experience in dealing with housing and general building defects. Currently, they are all lecturers at the University of the West England, where they teach on a variety of undergraduate and post-graduate courses. They are also actively involved in carrying out research and consultancy for a number of property owning organisations throughout the UK.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136351523

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9781136351525

A Purpose Under Heaven

By: Derek V. Smith

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A Purpose Under Heaven

By: Derek V. Smith

Nana Martin and her divorced, thirty-something daughter, Jane, and teenage granddaughters, Sarah and Rachel, live in New Hope, a friendly, innocent small town caught up in the whirlwinds of change and dislocation." "Nana is feisty, smart, and determined. Troubled by her failure to pass on vital life lessons to Jane, she finds an unexpected ally in George. George is a laptop, a retirement gift to Nana. Like many of her generation, Nana is wary of the computers, camera phones, and iPods surrounding her - and George in particular. George speaks, has a distinct personality, and seems to anticipate Nana's thoughts and concerns." "Distrust gives way to reliance and hope when Nana encounters an insidious predator who stalks the town's most vulnerable residents, attempting to destroy the fabric of the community." "In A Purpose Under Heaven, Derek Smith has woven an allegory that explores how technology, like Prometheus's gift of fire, may be used for good or ill. And finally, he depicts God's boundless love for mankind, the fierce and vital bonds among families, and the spiritual foundation shared by an interdependent community."--BOOK JACKET.

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0874838533

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9780874838534

Fighting Foreclosure

The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression

By: John A. Fliter,Derek S. Hoff

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Fighting Foreclosure

The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression

By: John A. Fliter,Derek S. Hoff

In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension or -adjustment laws to help farmers and homeowners keep their properties. One such statute in Minnesota led to the most important property law case of its time and still casts a long shadow upon constitutional debates and our own era's severe economic downturn. Fighting Foreclosure marks the first book-length study of the landmark 1934 Supreme Court decision in Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell, which, by a 5-4 vote, upheld the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Act. On the one hand, Blaisdell validated efforts by states to offer legislative relief to citizens struggling to keep their farms and homes. On the other, it caused an outcry among banking interests and conservative legal theorists, who argued that these laws violated the Contract Clause of the Constitution and interfered with our free market system. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes argued that the reasonable and limited nature of the law and the unusual severity of the emergency it addressed placed it firmly within the "police powers" of the states to protect the health and safety of the people. In a strongly worded dissent, Justice George Sutherland argued for a consistent and strict interpretation of the Contract Clause regardless of economic exigency. John Fliter and Derek Hoff provide a concise history and analysis of not only this landmark case and the reasoning behind its sharply divided decision but also of the entire history of the Contract Clause. They trace closely the agricultural crisis, political pressures, and farmer-protest movement that produced the Minnesota law. And their study contributes to scholarly debate about the origins of the Constitutional Revolution of 1937, by which the Supreme Court accepted the New Deal, as well as to public debates about constitutional interpretation and the role that government should play in providing relief to distressed citizens. In the midst of our nation's ongoing suffering from massive foreclosures and bankruptcies, Fighting Foreclosure also offers a potent reminder that the High Court's decisions often revolve around lives at risk as much as abstract legal debates.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700618724

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9780700618729

A Survival Guide in the Information Age

145 Important Tips to Protect You and Your Family

By: Derek Smith

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A Survival Guide in the Information Age

145 Important Tips to Protect You and Your Family

By: Derek Smith

Contains important tips, helpful resources and insights for you and your family to safeguard againist identity theft, online fraud, predators, and other potential threat in an increasingly risky world.

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1563527375

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Mayson, French & Ryan on Company Law

Mayson, French & Ryan on Company Law

CRIM EVID: CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM - 3E

CRIM EVID: CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM - 3E

The Constitutional Systems of the Commonwealth Caribbean

The Constitutional Systems of the Commonwealth Caribbean

Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911

Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911

Education Law

Education Law

Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Don't Stick to Sports

Don't Stick to Sports

Prospects for Citizenship

Prospects for Citizenship

Scottish Mental Health Tribunal

Scottish Mental Health Tribunal

Biopatent Law: European vs. US Patent Law

Biopatent Law: European vs. US Patent Law

Understanding Housing Defects

Understanding Housing Defects

A Purpose Under Heaven

A Purpose Under Heaven

Fighting Foreclosure

Fighting Foreclosure

A Survival Guide in the Information Age

A Survival Guide in the Information Age

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