The Devil's Highway

The Devil's Highway
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008-11-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 031604928X

This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.

Integrating Doctrine and Diversity

Integrating Doctrine and Diversity
Author: Nicole Dyszlewski
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781531017019

"Drawing upon the experience of faculty from across the country, Integrating Doctrine and Diversity is a collection of essays with practical advice, written by faculty for faculty, on specific ways to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into the law school curriculum. Chapters will focus on subjects traditionally taught in the first-year curriculum (Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Property, Torts) and each chapter will also include a short annotated bibliography curated by a law librarian. With submissions from over 40 scholars, the collection is the first of its kind to offer reflections, advice and specific instruction on how to integrate issues of diversity and inclusions into first-year doctrinal courses"--

The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice

The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
Author: Christopher H. Foreman
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780815728788

Are we environmentally victimizing, perhaps even poisoning, our minority and low-income citizens? Proponents of environmental justice assert that environmental decisionmaking pays insufficient heed to the interests of those citizens, disproportionately burdens their neighborhoods with hazardous toxins, and perpetuates an insidious environmental racism. In this critique of environmental justice advocacy, Foreman argues that it has cleared significant political hurdles but displays substantial limitations and drawbacks. Activism has yielded a presidential executive order, management reforms at the Environmental Protection Agency, and numerous local political victories. Yet the environmental justice movement is structurally and ideologically unable to generate a focused policy agenda. Ironically, environmental justice advocacy may also threaten the very constituencies it aspires to serve distracting attention from the many significant health hazards challenging minority and disadvantaged populations. Foreman recommends specific institutional reforms intended to recast the national dialogue about the stakes of these populations in environmental protection.

Fandom and the Law

Fandom and the Law
Author: Marc H. Greenberg
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-05-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781641058858

"An analysis based on the two major iterations of copyright law, the 1909 Act and the 1976 Act"--

Injury

Injury
Author: Sarah S. Lochlann Jain
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2006-03-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780691119083

'Injury' offers an analysis of and critique of American injury law. Drawing on an extensive knowledge of law and social theory, the text will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in design, consumption, and the politics of injury.

Employment Discrimination Law

Employment Discrimination Law
Author: Robert Belton
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Reflecting the dominate theme of workplace equality, the authors go beyond this general consensus to affirm that the fundamental purpose of laws prohibiting employment discrimination is to implement the national civil rights policy. Organized around an examination of the reach and limits of laws, the book scrutinizes the federal statutory protection against employment discrimination. Constitutional provisions and state laws are included where appropriate. In addition, this new edition extensively uses scholarship drawn from the work of critical race theorists and feminist legal scholars. It also has materials on the law and economics approach to employment discrimination.