Texas Intellectual Property Handbook, Second Edition provides discussion on the principles of the law of trade secrets, trademark, copyright, and related intellectual-property torts as the law is applied in Texas. It is an exposition of existing law as codified in state and federal statutes, and as interpreted by Texas state and federal courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Occasionally, when necessary for additional perspective, commentary on existing law has been provided. This commentary makes the topics addressed more immediately accessible to the practitioner and provides a treatment that is comprehensive in its citation to Texas authorities. Frequently cited and relevant Texas and Federal Statues, Regulations and Rules are conveniently provided on CD-ROM to facilitate use. Texas Intellectual Property Handbook, 2nd Edition is required reading for any lawyer engaged in Texas intellectual property work. (Includes Cumulative Supplement)
Texas Intellectual Property Handbook, Second Edition provides discussion on the principles of the law of trade secrets, trademark, copyright, and related intellectual-property torts as the law is applied in Texas. It is an exposition of existing law as codified in state and federal statutes, and as interpreted by Texas state and federal courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Occasionally, when necessary for additional perspective, commentary on existing law has been provided. This commentary makes the topics addressed more immediately accessible to the practitioner and provides a treatment that is comprehensive in its citation to Texas authorities. Frequently cited and relevant Texas and Federal Statues, Regulations and Rules are conveniently provided on CD-ROM to facilitate use. Texas Intellectual Property Handbook, 2nd Edition is required reading for any lawyer engaged in Texas intellectual property work. (Includes Cumulative Supplement)
The American invasion of Iraq was largely governed by faith-based policy. The "shock and Awe" strategy, alongside a grossly mismanaged occupation, led to the loss of American lives. Faith-Based War presents an analysis of the imperialist Christian militarism behind the Bush Administration. America’s self-perception as God’s Chosen is examined and its catastrophic results detailed. The book offers an ethical, political and theological perspective on the perversion of Christian teaching behind the war in Iraq and the moral culpability of the American empire.
This book contains eight speeches/lectures by Nicholas Stern during his first year as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank (2000-2001). Case studies of India, Indonesia, Pakistan and China are included. The final chapter examines the links between the investment climate for investment and growth, and poverty reduction.
This book provides a review of how child maltreatment has been socially constructed, ignored, and formally responded to as it tells the story of how America's system of child protection has evolved. Additionally, it identifies key questions and related issues. When child maltreatment occurs, it strikes chords in our hearts because we sense the terrible injustice inherent in the matter: children are innocent and not able to protect themselves. This book provides readers with an overview of how perceptions of child maltreatment have changed over the years and how the American child protection system has evolved to keep pace with them, revealing the historical origins of current child protection issues and surveying efforts to find solutions. The Smallest Victims is unique in stressing the subjective and relative nature of the social construction of child maltreatment as it includes abuse and neglect. It identifies historical social factors and links them to perceptions of child maltreatment and responses to it. How maltreatment was once perceived in pre-American and American societies, for example, has had significant implications on the reactions it elicited, from tolerance to outrage. The book devotes a chapter to the exploitation of children in the labor market and as sexual victims, timely subjects given the national interest in human trafficking. Other chapters explore state intervention in family affairs and when children are removed from their homes. The book also includes a detailed timeline that denotes critical milestones since antiquity.
Covering the period from the abolition of slavery through the events that preceded and affected the adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Black Labor and the American Legal System examines the major legislative and legal developments relating to the employment discrimination. The historical consequences of the racial practices of employers and organized labor, as well as of the federal government, are analyzed within the context of law and social change. The evolution of federal labor policy is traced through key decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and the courts as they have interpreted the application of labor law to racial discrimination.
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