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Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo): a novel
No full textPresents a fictionalized account of how ambitious young prosecutor Thomas Dewey used a heroin-addicted prostitute and grifter to bring down powerful gangster Charles Lucky Luciano and some of his known associates in a New York courtroom in 1936https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2016/1008/thumbnail.jp
Constitutionalism
No full textThis book provides a comprehensive guide to the United States Constitution. It examines constitutional developments based on a periodization scheme that partly reflects important changes in constitutional governance, from the Jacksonian Era to the beginning of the 1980s. The book’s general historical institutionalist orientation blurs precise distinctions between political science and law, with particular reference to the role of political parties, interest groups, and bureaucrats in operating a constitution designed to prevent the rise of parties, interest-group politics, and an entrenched bureaucracy. The book also considers exertions of power by the Supreme Court, along with the national executive and Congress. There are chapters on federalism as well as liberty, property, religion, free expression and free press, criminal procedure, habeas corpus, and the right to bear arms. In addition, the book discusses Native Americans, race, gender, and citizenship to illustrate contemporary constitutional struggles for equality; the constitutional status of international law, constitutionalism, and constitutional authority; and how, at a time of increasing globalization, people living in the United States can continue to be governed by a constitution meant for a society greatly separated from the rest of the “civilized world.”https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_bookchapter/1073/thumbnail.jp
Cooperation before Consolidation in Investor Protection Symposium: The Promise and Perils of Convergence in Financial Regulation and Consumer Protection
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Absolute intolerance
No full textLawyer Brent Marks advocates a case for a gay couple\u27s marriage. After victory, the clients are found in their home brutally murdered; the first victims of a notorious serial killer who targets gay couples. A lawyer who doesn\u27t know if his client is innocent or guilty All the evidence leads to a religious zealot who is outspoken against gay marriage, who requests Brent to be his criminal defense attorney. Can Brent bring himself to defend the only suspect in the case whom the police are sure is responsible for the murder? Will tan innocent client go to his death or find justice in this courtroom thriller? Where ethics and tolerance collide, In order to form a viable criminal defense, Brent must solve the murders, leading him and his team straight into the path of the killer.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2016/1005/thumbnail.jp
The night crew
No full textLieutenant Colonel Sean Drummond, a cocky U.S. Army lawyer who\u27s not afraid to be blunt, finds himself up to his neck in a case he didn\u27t ask to take. Five U.S. soldiers, tasked with guarding Iraqi prisoners, stand accused of committing depraved atrocities against their charges. Drummond is assigned to defend one of them: a hardscrabble young woman who is either incredibly naive or deceptively evil, and whose incriminating photos made the case an international scandalhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2016/1009/thumbnail.jp
Fundamental Rights of States in International Law and the Right to Peaceful Nuclear Energy II. Case Studies
Get PDFThis article first discusses the overall theme of this special issue of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law from a legal theoretical perspective, namely, the concept of the fundamental rights of states in international law. It concludes that fundamental rights of states exist in international law as autonomous juridical principles. The article then proceeds to discuss one such asserted fundamental right of states: the right to peaceful nuclear energy, as codified in the 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. It argues that the right to peaceful nuclear energy is indeed a fundamental right of states, and that it has juridical substance, and carries juridical implications, as a rule of law on par with other rules of the jus dispositivum