BEYOND SCARED STRAIGHT - produced by Arnold Shapiro, profiles the new approach to keeping today teens from becoming tomorrow prisoners.

The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.

Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. Knowledge as Power traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity-criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated in the 1930s as a means of monitoring gangsters, went largely unused for decades before experiencing a dramatic resurgence in the 1990s. Since then it has...

Mark Tushnet is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is the author of Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts (Princeton) and was President of the Association of American Law Schools for 2003. In his 1996 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton announced that the "age of big government is over." Some Republicans accused him of cynically appropriating their themes, while many...

Marianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous book, The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conceptions of Citizenship, Law, and Knowledge, won the J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History. Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native Americans...

Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible...

In The Law (in Plain English) for Small Business, Fifth Edition, Leonard DuBoff and Amanda Bryan guide entrepreneurs and small business owners through the maze of legal obligations and protections they need to understand. This handbook makes planning and problem-solving easy with its clear explanations of complex issues. Chapters cover important topics such as: Licenses, Trademarks, Insurance plans, Franchising, Incorporating, Advertising, eBusiness...

El presente libro reseña las teorías sobre el concepto de renta y las cinco categorías en que se divide, según el ordenamiento legal peruano. El autor Humberto Medrano aborda los ingresos brutos y las deducciones que deben considerarse en cada una de ellas para establecer la materia imponible y aplicar el tributo. Además, se examina el tratamiento impositivo que corresponde a la reorganización de sociedades y empresas. De esta forma, esta obra...

Aharon Barak was president of the Supreme Court of Israel until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of Judicial Discretion, The Judge in a Democracy, numerous articles in English-language law journals, and several books in Hebrew. He is the winner of the 2006 Gruber Justice Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. He is the author of Judicial Discretion (Yale), numerous articles in English-language law journals, and several books...