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No full textWhen Kate Lange is hired to defend an unconscious woman shot while committing a puzzling crime, she is stunned to discover that the gunman is none other than Parliament\u27s own golden boy, Harry Owen. What if the face of the victim belongs to ... us all? As Kate pieces together the case, the lines between guilty and innocent become blurred-while a devious cyber mastermind puts the finishing touches on an explosive planhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1003/thumbnail.jp
The Roosevelt rescue: restoring Dutch America
No full textThe redevelopment of Ground Zero requires the successful attorney Daniel Van Wart to explore New York City\u27s earliest history, when it was still Dutch. Surprised by his findings, Daniel can\u27t help but be intrigued by the lasting but Dutch influence on America. Daniel\u27s research has unexpected consequences. Without realizing it, he\u27s close to uncovering a centuries-old legal claim with serious political consequences--consequences a powerful group plans to use for its own gainhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1008/thumbnail.jp
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No full textWhen Caroline Auden lands a job at a top Los Angeles law firm, she\u27s excited for the challenge--and grateful for the chance to put her dark past as a computer hacker behind her. Right away, her new boss asks her to find out whether a popular GMO causes healthy people to fall ill. Caroline is only supposed to dig in the trenches and report up the ladder, but her tech background and intuition take her further than planned. When she suspects a link between the death of a prominent scientist and the shadowy biotech giant, she cries foul and soon finds herself in the crosshairs. The clock is ticking and thousands of lives are on the line...including her own. Now this rookie lawyer with a troubled past and a penchant for hacking must prove a billion-dollar company is responsible for thousands of deaths...before they come after her. ; Series number as found on Amazon.comhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1024/thumbnail.jp
Race Is Evidence: (Mis)Characterizing Blackness in the American Civil Rights Story
No full textCivil Rights in the American Story charts the ambiguous and contested meanings of civil rights in law and culture and confronts a variety of important questions about race in contemporary America. How important is civil rights in America\u27s story of possibility and change? How has it transformed the very meaning of citizenship and identity in American culture? Why does the subject of race continue to haunt the American imagination and continue to play such a large role in political and legal debates? Do affirmative action and multiculturalism promise a way out of racial polarization, or do they sharpen and deepen it? Are there new and better ways to frame our commitment to equal justice? This book brings together the work of five distinguished scholars to critically assess the place of civil rights in the American story. It offers different ways of talking about civil rights and different frames through which we can address issues of civil rights in the future.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_bookchapter/1010/thumbnail.jp
Judicial review of agency statutory interpretations in environmental law
No full textEnvironmental issues are at the heart of some of the most complex and consequential decisions that society must face in pursuit of a more sustainable future. They encompass the international, national, and local levels and engage all branches of government. Decision Making in Environmental Law, one of the constituent volumes in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, brings together some of the leading experts in the field and provides a structured overview of the various dimensions of decision making from an environmental law perspective. Topics include: the use of treaties, common law tools, rulemaking, access to information, regulatory structures, market-based and trading mechanisms, monitoring and reporting, voluntary programs and private regulation, environmental impact analysis, public engagement and environmental justice, administrative and judicial review, and the role of environmental courts and tribunals.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_bookchapter/1062/thumbnail.jp
Four Ironies of Campus Climate
Get PDFBuilding on previous scholarship Jean Stefancic and I develop a comprehensive model for accommodating the main competing views First Amendment absolutism and minority protection that vie for ascendancy in the debate over campus climat
No Home for Justice: How Eviction Perpetuates Health Inequity among Low-Income and Minority Tenants
Get PDFApplying the U.S. Constitution to Foreign Asylum Seekers: Exposing a Curious, Inconsistent Practice in the Federal Courts
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