Títulos en Legislación

Husband and wife law team, Joseph Lisoni and Gail Lisoni spearheaded the Bridgestone/Firestone Steeltex Recall Campaign in the early 2000's, resulting in 11 million Steeltex tires being removed from the roads and highways of the United States. Specializing in product liability and personal injury cases, Lisoni & Lisoni seemed the ideal team to take on the tire tycoon and seek justice for the hundreds of deaths allegedly caused by the company's shortcuts.

In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery’s afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all.

There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum. In The Legal Analyst, Ward Farnsworth brings together in one place all of the most powerful of those tools for thinking about law.

Por meio de um estudo integrado entre narrativas pessoais e análises teóricas, o audiolivro Pensando como um negro: ensaio de hermenêutica jurídica revela a importância do pertencimento social na hermenêutica jurídica.

痴漢えん罪で「名刺を渡せばＯＫ」は都市伝説。離婚裁判で「違法に集めた証拠は通用しない」はウソ。「おまとめローン」したら借金は減額できない……。人気弁護士が馬鹿を見ないための法律サバイバル術を

Ginsburg and Amanda Tyler, Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk, bring together RBG's most penetrating opinions - many previously unpublished - sharing details from Justice Ginsburg's family life and long career.

A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view, the confirmation process is just an exercise in partisan agenda-setting, and the jurists are no more than “politicians in robes” - their ostensibly neutral judicial philosophies mere camouflage for conservative or liberal convictions. 

Em ensaio original e atualíssimo, o Professor Rafael Valim, da PUC/SP, expõe a teoria do estado de exceção e, à luz dela, empreende uma análise esclarecedora da atual realidade brasileira. Como diz o sociólogo Jessé Souza, em prefácio à obra, publicada pela Editora Contracorrente, “daí que a reflexão que Valim nos propõe seja tão decisiva."

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: The police cannot be reformed. In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition.

Riforma giustizia, lavori in corso: Giustizia, trattativa in salita coi Cinquestelle. Il voto sulla riforma prima delle ferie e Draghi pensa alla fiducia, di Tommaso Ciriaco; Giustizia, la riforma slitta: gelo tra Cartabia e M5S. Torna l'ipotesi fiducia, di Tommaso Ciriaco e Liana Milella; Riforma della giustizia, il governo chiede il voto fiducia: "Evitiamo zone di impunità", di Liana Milella; Giustizia, Draghi congela la trattativa. Tensione tra i 5 Stelle, di Tommaso Ciriaco e Liana Milella.

L'Organizzazione mondiale del commercio sanziona l'UE perché nell'importazione di banane favorisce ex-colonie europee a danno di multinazionali americane, l'UNESCO chiede all'Italia di ridurre il traffico delle navi da crociera a Venezia, l'ISO adotta standard internazionali su ogni cosa, dal cacao al "cloud computing". Esistono ormai uno "spazio giuridico" e una "comunità di poteri" globali, con oltre 2.000 regimi regolatori: ma chi decide davvero nel mondo e in che modo? L'audiolibro ricostruisce i processi decisionali di Stati e organizzazioni internazionali.

Dottrina Mitterrand, mezzo secolo di separazione: I conti troppo a lungo in sospeso, di Ezio Mauro; Ex terroristi arrestati. Cartabia: "Ha vinto la sete di verità e di riconciliazione, non la vendetta", di Liliana Milella; I "bolliti della P38". Quei latitanti ridotti a fantasmi tra bistrot e librerie, di Francesco Merlo; La Francia scarcera gli ex terroristi italiani: "Libertà vigilata", di Anais Ginori; Terroristi arrestati. Pressing per l'estradizione. "Ma non cerchiamo trofei", di Annalisa Cuzzocrea e Liliana Milella.

Football teams create playbooks, in which they draw up the plays they will use on the field. Playbooks are how teams work and why they win. This book is about a different kind of playbook: The one coaches, teams, universities, police, communities, the media, and fans seem to follow whenever a college football player is accused of sexual assault. It’s a deep dive into how different institutions - the NCAA, athletic departments, universities, the media - run the same plays over and over again when these stories break.

What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young Black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness? This collection of reports and essays explores police violence against Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities, miscarriages of justice, and failures of token accountability and reform measures.

Este audiolivro explica, em linguagem simples, as principais regras e a estrutura básica da Justiça. Há normas para o nascimento e a morte, a infância e a adolescência, o infrator e o eleitor. Leis regulam a propriedade e o aluguel, o amor e a separação, o trabalhador, o empreendedor e os impostos. O direito protege a vida, a mulher, o consumidor e o meio ambiente. Saber como essas coisas funcionam pode ajudar a enfrentar as inevitáveis dificuldades do dia a dia e a fugir de algumas armadilhas.

In this pioneering work, technology lawyer Rahul Matthan traces the changing notions of privacy from the earliest times to its evolution through landmark cases in the UK, US and India. In the process, he reimagines the way we should be thinking about privacy today if we are to take full advantage of modern data technologies, cautioning against getting so obsessed with their potential harms that we design our laws to prevent us from benefiting from them at all.

Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an "insane" Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation. 

La "Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana" è la legge fondamentale dello Stato italiano, che in quanto tale occupa il vertice della gerarchia delle fonti nell'ordinamento giuridico della Repubblica: considerata una costituzione scritta, rigida, lunga, votata, compromissoria, laica, democratica e tendenzialmente programmatica, è formata da 139 articoli e di 18 disposizioni transitorie e finali. Approvata dall'Assemblea Costituente il 22 dicembre 1947 e promulgata dal capo provvisorio dello Stato Enrico De Nicola il 27 dicembre seguente.

Les 38 causes notoires racontées dans ce livre avec talent par le journaliste Daniel Proulx nous instruisent sur notre pensée et notre morale. Elles forcent la réflexion sur l’état de notre société et de notre justice, ce pilier de notre démocratie.

Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the rich world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues.