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Killer look
No full textNew York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein delivers a heart-pounding thriller that explores the dark secrets of Manhattan\u27s iconic fashion scene in her latest Alexandra Cooper novel. New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the world, well-known for its glamour and style. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the runway, where American haute couture continually astounds with its creativity, daring, and innovation in the name of beauty. Yet high fashion means high stakes, as Alex Cooper quickly discovers when businessman and designer Wolf Savage is found dead in an apparent suicide, mere days before the biggest show of his career. When the man\u27s daughter insists Savage\u27s death was murder, the case becomes more than a media sensation: It is a race to find a killer in a world created entirely out of fantasy and illusion. With her own job at the DA\u27s office in jeopardy, and the temptation to self-medicate her PTSD with alcohol almost too strong to resist, Alex is not anyone\u27s first choice for help. But she is determined to uncover the grime--and the possible homicide--beneath the glitz. Along with detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, Alex must penetrate the twisted roots and mixed motives among the high-profile players in the Garment District. The investigation takes the trio from the missing money in Wolf Savage\u27s international fashion house to his own recovery from addiction from the role of Louisiana Voodoo in his life to his excessive womanizing and to the family secrets he kept so well-hidden, even from those closest to him--just as things are about to get deadly on the catwalk. With Killer Look, Linda Fairstein proves once again why she is the Queen of Intelligent Suspense. * *Lee Child Linda Fairsteinwas chief of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney\u27s office in Manhattan for more than two decades and is America\u27s foremost legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are international bestsellers and have been translated into more than a dozhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1007/thumbnail.jp
The three books of Shama
No full textSpanning multiple continents and countries, including Rwanda, the United States, and Ghana, The Three Books of Shama is an epic chronicle of the fictional life story of Rwandan-born Shama Rugwe, from her survival of the Rwandan genocide to her migration to the United States and her eventual nomination to the United States Supreme Court. All hell breaks loose following her nomination, with the ensuing Senate confirmation hearings and the opposition to her nomination exposing stubborn xenophobic beliefs, as well as gender, racial, and religious biases. Benjamin Kwakye is a Ghanaian novelist. His first novel, The Clothes of Nakedness, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize, best first book, Africa. His second novel, The Sun by Night won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers\u27 Prize, Best Book Africa. His third novel, The Other Crucifix won the 2011 IPPY Gold Award for Adult Multicultural Fiction. He is also the author of a collection of novellas, Eyes of the Slain Woman. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, he presently practices law and is a director of the African Education Initiative.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1015/thumbnail.jp
Reentering Survivors: Invisible at the Intersection of the Criminal Legal System and the Domestic Violence Movement
Get PDFLike all returning citizens, women coming home after incarceration face significant challenges to successful reentry. In addition to the collateral consequences of their criminal convictions, reentering women also encounter uniquely gendered obstacles. This Article explores one such obstacle: the relationship between women\u27s reentry and domestic violence. Women on probation or parole who are also experiencing domestic violence too often fall into a blind spot in which the structure of community supervision pressures them to remain in unsafe homes and also punishes them when the abuse they endure interferes with their ability to comply with the conditions of their release. Because reentering survivors\u27 criminal histories place them outside of the traditional conception of a “real” victim of domestic violence, many domestic violence agencies deem them ineligible for services and assistance. Despite the serious challenges experienced by reentering survivors, this intersection has received very little attention from scholars and activists. This Article exposes the structural invisibility of reentering survivors within the criminal legal system and the domestic violence movement. An analysis of both the criminal legal system\u27s shift from rehabilitation to “tough on crime” platforms and the domestic violence movement\u27s transition away from grassroots activism toward criminal intervention reveals how reentering survivors have become caught in a double bind that threatens both their liberty and their safety. Reentering survivors risk being reincarcerated for failing to successfully reintegrate into their communities, yet they struggle to access the resources they need to achieve stability and safety. This Article builds on recent scholarship urging domestic violence advocates and activists to embrace reforms addressing the needs of marginalized survivors. In addition to recognizing reentering survivors as legitimate victims of domestic violence, this Article recommends that the domestic violence movement reevaluate its emphasis on criminalization and instead prioritize economic empowerment and community economic development
Worried About Malpractice?
No full textWhy do cardiologists and primary care physicians tend to order extra echocardiographic examinations and imaging stress tests? Kini et al.,1 in their study “Association of Liability Concerns with Decisions to Order Echocardiography and Cardiac Stress Tests with Imaging,” try to answer this question, at least for academic health center physicians. Malpractice concerns emerge from this carefully done study as the only definite driver of “may be appropriate” test ordering, outweighing other variables such as risk aversion, practice site, and physician experience. But before we shake our heads in dismay at the deleterious impact of doctors\u27 legitimate malpractice concerns on defensive test ordering and medical costs, let\u27s consider this question from a much broader, multidisciplinary perspective
Temples, Courts, and Dynamic Equilibrium in the Indian Constitution
Get PDFMust all states have fixed constitutional identities Does democracy necessarily entail citizensovereignty This paper uses ethnographic data from India to argue that the answer to both questions is no In the aftermath of a massive stampede in 2011 the Kerala High Court initiated an overhaul of the complex executive legislative and judicial network that governs the famous Hindu temple at Sabarimala The court\u27s conflicting goals were to avoid further consolidating government authority over the temple and to further empower officials so that they could undertake needed reforms Ultimately the court did both ” and neither ” in an instance of judicial balancing that reflects the two visions of sovereignty in India On the one hand Indian constitutional law and judicial practice reflect a conventional vision of sovereignty in which sovereign authority is wholly vested in citizens and merely exercised on their behalf by the state On the other hand there exists a vision of divided sovereignty in which the state as the agent of reform has sovereign authority independent of citizens The productive tension between these two visions according to which sovereignty is both vested wholly in citizens and divided between citizens and state is the dynamic equilibrium at the heart of Indian democrac
Tiers of Scrutiny in a Hierarchical Judiciary Symposium: Is the Rational Basis Test Unconstitutional
Get PDFNonconformity in American Law and Life: How Much Do We Really Value Diversity: 2016 Meador Lecture Meador Lecture Series 2016-2017: Identity
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No full textSamantha Brinkman, an ambitious, hard-charging Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself and to drag her fledgling practice into the big leagues. Sam lands a high-profile double-murder case in which one of the victims is a beloved TV star, and the defendant is a decorated veteran LAPD detective. It promises to be exactly the kind of media sensation that would establish her as a heavy hitter in the world of criminal law. Though Sam has doubts about his innocence, she and her two associates (her closest childhood friend and a brilliant ex-con) take the case. Notorious for living by her own rules and fearlessly breaking everyone else\u27s, Samantha pulls out all the stops in her quest to uncover evidence that will clear the detective. But when a shocking secret at the core of the case shatters her personal world, Sam realizes that not only has her client been playing her, he might be one of the most dangerous sociopaths she\u27s ever encounteredhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1004/thumbnail.jp
Between black and white
No full textIn 1966 in Pulaski, Tennessee, Bocephus Haynes watched in horror as his father was brutally murdered by ten local members of the Ku Klux Klan. As an African American lawyer practicing in the birthplace of the Klan years later, Bo has spent his life pursuing justice in his father\u27s name. But when Andy Walton, the man believed to have led the lynch mob forty-five years earlier, ends up murdered in the same spot as Bo\u27s father, Bo becomes the prime suspect. Retired law professor Tom McMurtrie, Bo\u27s former teacher and friend, is a year removed from returning to the courtroom. Now McMurtrie and his headstrong partner, Rick Drake, must defend Bo on charges of capital murder while hunting for Andy Walton\u27s true killer. In a courtroom clash that will put their reputations and lives at stake, can McMurtrie and Drake release Bo from a lifetime of despair? Or will justice remain hidden somewhere between black and white?https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1000/thumbnail.jp