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The competition: a novel
No full textA Rachel Knight novel --Dust jacket; While interviewing students in the aftermath of a school shooting in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller realize the facts don\u27t add up and the real killers may still be out therehttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2015/1001/thumbnail.jp
Afterword: Civility and the Politics of Sexuality
No full textThroughout American history, the discourse of civility has proven quite resilient, and concern for a perceived lack of civility has ebbed and flowed in recognizable patterns. Today we are in another era in which political leaders and commentators bemoan a crisis of incivility and warn of civility\u27s demise. Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice charts the uses of civility in American legal and political discourse. How important is civility as a legal and political virtue? How does it fare when it is juxtaposed with the claim that it masks injustice? Who advocates civility and to what effect? How are battles over civility played out in legal and political arenas? This book brings the work of several distinguished scholars together to critically assess the relative claims of civility and justice and the way law weighs those virtues.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_bookchapter/1053/thumbnail.jp
Comment on Chapter 3: Silencing by Exclusion: A Reaction to Anonymous: On Silence and the Public Sphere
No full textRather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech and silence, locating them in particular circumstances and contexts and asking how context matters in facilitating speech or demanding silence. To understand speech and silence we have to inquire into their social life and examine the occasions and practices that call them forth and that give them meaning. Among the questions addressed in this book are, Who is authorized to speak? And what are the conditions that should be attached to the speaking subject? Are there occasions that call for speech and others that demand silence? What is the relationship between the speech act and the speaker? Taking these questions into account helps readers understand what compels speakers and what problems accompany speech without a known speaker, allowing us to assess how silence speaks and how speech renders the silent more knowable.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_bookchapter/1040/thumbnail.jp
Comment on Chapter 1: Our Word (or the Lack Thereof) Is Our Bond: The Regulation of Silence under Contract Law
No full textRather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech and silence, locating them in particular circumstances and contexts and asking how context matters in facilitating speech or demanding silence. To understand speech and silence we have to inquire into their social life and examine the occasions and practices that call them forth and that give them meaning. Among the questions addressed in this book are, Who is authorized to speak? And what are the conditions that should be attached to the speaking subject? Are there occasions that call for speech and others that demand silence? What is the relationship between the speech act and the speaker? Taking these questions into account helps readers understand what compels speakers and what problems accompany speech without a known speaker, allowing us to assess how silence speaks and how speech renders the silent more knowable.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_bookchapter/1038/thumbnail.jp
The professor
No full textThomas Jackson McMurtrie, a longtime law professor at the University of Alabama, who, 40 years after giving up a promising career as a trial lawyer to teach law students at the request of his mentor, Coach Paul Bear Bryant, retires to his farm an angry and bitter man, betrayed by both a Board member he mistook for a friend and his own failing health. Meanwhile, the young family of one of Tom\u27s oldest friends is killed in a tragic collision with an 18-wheeler. Believing his career is over, Tom refers his friend to a brilliant, yet beleaguered, former student, Rick Drake, who begins to uncover that the truth behind the tragedy is buried in a tangled web of arson, bribery and greed. When a key witness is murdered on the eve of trial, the young attorney, in over his head and at the end of his rope, knows he needs help ... and there\u27s only one man who can help him --Provided by publisherhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2015/1000/thumbnail.jp
Presumption of guilt
No full textTwelve years ago, teenager Molly Singer was tried and convicted for murdering her parents. She was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison, torn away from her newborn daughter, and forsaken by those closest to her. But now, a series of anonymous letters proclaim her innocence--and point a finger at a deadly conspiracy. --Publisher descriptionhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2015/1008/thumbnail.jp
Religious Practice and Sex Discrimination: An Uneasy Case for Tolerance
No full textThere is an enormous scholarly literature on law\u27s treatment of religion. Most scholars now recognize that although the U.S. Supreme Court has not offered a consistent interpretation of what “non-establishment” or religious freedom means, as a general matter it can be said that the First Amendment requires that government not give preference to one religion over another or, although this is more controversial, to religion over non-belief. But these rules raise questions that will be addressed in Legal Responses to Religious Practices in the United States: Namely, what practices constitute a “religious activity” such that it cannot be supported or funded by government? And what is a religion, anyway? How should law understand matters of faith and accommodate religious practices?https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_bookchapter/1045/thumbnail.jp
Does the Supreme Court Ignore Standing Problems to reach the Merits - Evidence (Or Lack Thereof) from the Roberts Court Symposium: Standing in the Roberts Court
Get PDFA Qualitative Examination of Self-Care in Lawyers
Get PDFIt may seem obvious that selfcare is important for wellbeing and success in life However selfcare is not always practiced when work bills and other issues come into play All individuals experience stress in their lives but not all have identified specific strategies to adaptively cope with stress Recent research has established the negative implications of workrelated stress on wellbein
