Author: Publisher:
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Report of the NIMLO Task Force on Tort Liability and the Insurance Crisis
Author: Presidential Address and Report
Author: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City attorneys
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Tort Liability and Municipal Insurance Crises
Author: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government liability
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Municipal Attorney
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City attorneys
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Social Science Methods in the Legal Process
Author: Noreen L. ChannelsPublisher: Government Institutes
ISBN: 9780865980136
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This volume is the first to provide a systematic introduction to the methods of social science for the legal professions and decision-makers in public policy fields. Designed as both a text and a convenient reference, the book provides an understanding of all the elements in the research process and acquaints the reader with the choices that are available in designing and conducting research. A particularly useful feature is each chapter's examination of research cited in specific court or public policy decisions, together with discussion of possible legal applications of various research approaches.
Tobacco Control Laws
Author: Peter D. JacobsonPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780833024862
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In this study, the authors examined the process by which anti-tobacco laws and ordinances were implemented and enforced in seven states and 19 localities. Their findings indicated that state- and local-level clean indoor air laws were rarely enforced by government agencies. Instead, these laws were largely self-enforcing, in that changed social norms regarding appropriate smoking behavior have led to high compliance rates. In contrast, teen access laws were consistently and vigorously enforced, mainly through periodic vendor compliance checks that were conducted in many of the sites visited. The authors also found that anti-tobacco forces do not devote a significant amount of resources to implementation and enforcement issues. Rather, their attention is focused on enacting new legislation and fighting tobacco industry attempts to weaken existing laws through, for example, state preemption of local ordinances. Finally, the authors found that local enforcement is a critical ingredient to the success of virtually any tobacco control effort. The study's results do not augur well for public health measures that require state-level enforcement that are opposed by powerful and politically well-connected interests. To be effective, legislation must contain specific enforcement measures, such as license removal by local authorities.
Winning an Appeal
Author: Myron MoskovitzPublisher: Michie
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Why the Haves Come Out Ahead
Author: Marc GalanterPublisher: Quid Pro Books
ISBN: 1610272420
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This is the fortieth anniversary edition of a classic of law and society, updated with extensive new commentary. Drawing a distinction between experienced “repeat players” and inexperienced “one shotters” in the U.S. judicial system, Marc Galanter establishes a recognized and applied model of how the structure of the legal system and an actor’s frequency of interaction with it can predict outcomes. Notwithstanding democratic institutions of governance and the “majestic equality” of the courts, the enactment and implementation of genuinely redistributive measures is a hard uphill struggle. In one of the most-cited essays in the legal literature, Galanter incisively demolishes the myth that courts are the prime equalizing force in American society. He provides a penetrating analysis of the limitations and possibilities of courts as the source and engine of large-scale social change. Galanter’s influential article is now available in a convenient, affordable, and assignable book (in print and ebooks), with a new introduction by the author that explains the origins and aftermath of the original work. In addition, it features his 2006 article applying the original thesis to real-world dilemmas in legal structure and consequence today. The collection also adds a new Foreword by Shauhin Talesh of the University of California-Irvine and a new Afterword by Robert Gordon of Stanford. As Gordon points out, “The great contribution of the article was that it went well beyond local and contingent political explanations to locate obstacles to social reform and redistributive policies in the institutional structure of the legal system itself.” Gordon details ways in which Galanter’s prophesies have come true and even worsened over four decades. Talesh catalogs the article’s place in legal lore: “seminal, blockbuster, canonical, game-changing, extraordinary, pivotal, and noteworthy.” Talesh introduces how repeat players gain advantages in the legal system and how “Galanter set out an important agenda for legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and economists. In short, “every law and legal studies student should be required to read the article because it contextualizes the procedural system as something more than a set of rules that should be memorized and mechanically applied.” A powerful new addition to the Classics of Law & Society Series by Quid Pro Books. Features active contents, linked notes, active URLs, and linked Index.
Suing Government
Author: Peter H. SchuckPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300032505
Category : Administrative responsibility
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Latin America
Author: Richard G. BoehmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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