The faculty at the Columbus School of Law have published books in a wide variety of legal and non-legal disciplines. This repository collection includes a selection of some of the many books authored by our faculty.
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George P. Smith II - Monographs 1986-2001
George P. Smith II
A collection of the following essays:
Law, science, and religion in a changing world order: designing a template for the age of biotechnology.
Universal human rights and biomedicine.
The elderly and health care rationing.
Complexities in end-of-life medical treatment.
Genetic enhancement or eugenic improvement: controlling the brave new world.
The last rights: euthanasia, suicide or self-determination: ethical, legal, and philosophical concerns.
The flight of the developmentally disabled.
Bioethics and the administration of justice.
Procreative liberty or procreative responsibility.
Developing a standard for advancing genetic health and scientific investigation.
Final exits: safeguarding self-determination and the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
Challenging family values in the new society.
Economic jurisprudence, land use development, and the law of nuisance.
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Human Rights and Biomedicine
George P. Smith II
The eight chapters within this volume are structured around an exploration of the fundamental issues in the field of biomedical human rights: dignity and autonomy in not only procreative liberties but throughout the complete cycle of life and death, the freedom of scientific inquiry into the new biotechnological methods of collaborative reproduction, the right to genetic integrity at birth and throughout life, and the equitable right to health or access to health care benefits during life and old age. All of these central issues are tested, of necessity, but utilitarian principles which, in turn, force the templates for decision making evaluate the gravity of harm deriving from a particular human right and its recognition and enforcement measured against the utility of the social, economic, or cultural good accruing from recognition of such a right in the first instance. Ultimately, cultural relativism will be seen - more often than universality - as the determinative point of balance. This volume not only informs the ongoing debate on the role of human rights in biomedicine, but should also provide responses to the troublesome issues presented in the age of biotechnology.
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Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal
Maxwell Bloomfield
Although Americans claim to revere the Constitution, relatively few understand its workings. Its real importance for the average citizen is as an enduring reminder of the moral vision that shaped the nation’s founding. Yet scholars have paid little attention to the broader appeal that constitutional idealism has always made to the American imagination through publications and films.Maxwell Bloomfield draws upon such neglected sources to illustrate the way in which media coverage contributes to major constitutional change.
Successive generations have sought to reaffirm a sense of national identity and purpose by appealing to constitutional norms, defined on an official level by law and government. Public support, however, may depend more on messages delivered by the popular media. Muckraking novels, such as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906), debated federal economic regulation. Woman suffrage organizations produced films to counteract the harmful gender stereotypes of early comedies. Arguments over the enforcement of black civil rights in the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy v. Ferguson took on new meaning when dramatized in popular novels.
From the founding to the present, Americans have been taught that even radical changes may be achieved through orderly constitutional procedures. How both elite and marginalized groups in American society reaffirmed and communicated this faith in the first three decades of the twentieth century is the central theme of this book.
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The Oslo Accords: International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreements
Geoffrey R. Watson
This book presents the first comprehensive legal analysis of the Oslo Accords. Professor Geoffrey Watson begins by rejecting suggestions that the Accords are non-binding political undertakings. He argues instead that they are binding international agreements between subjects of international law. Professor Watson next analyses Israeli and Palestinian compliance with the Accords. Watson concludes that each side has a mixed record of compliance, but that neither side has committed so serious a breach as to warrant termination of the Accords. Finally, Professor Watson offers some suggestions on how international law might help shape a final status agreement between the parties.
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Truth in Lending
Ralph J. Rohner and Fred H. Miller
When the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) took effect in 1969, its primary purpose was to promote the informed use of consumer credit by requiring disclosure about the terms and costs of consumer credit transactions. This is still the case, but as the TILA has been amended over the years, it has assumed greater prominence, applying to virtually every form of consumer credit transaction and producing a myriad of compliance issues for creditors. A must-have resource for business lawyers and corporate and financial service executives, this current, comprehensive edition of the classic Rohner and Miller treatise details the TIL Act provisions creditors need to follow to ensure compliance in all types of consumer transactions. Organized for quick and easy reference, each chapter has been extensively reviewed, updated, checked, and rechecked by a team of TIL experts. This book also includes a table of cases and a comprehensive topical index.
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Modern Communication Law
Harvey L. Zuckman, Robert Corn-Revere, Robert M. Frieden, and Charles H. Kennedy
The first comprehensive communications law treatise of the Information Age; keeps user up-to-date on the rapidly changing aspects of communications law. It offers an analysis of the intricate laws and policies relating to new media, the Internet, Direct Broadcasting Satellite, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It also examines the key constitutional, statutory, and administrative provisions governing communications in the United States.
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A Student’s Guide to Accounting for Lawyers (3rd ed.)
David A. Lipton and Daniel Lipsky
This book is designed to introduce students to the basics of accounting and may be used as a supplement for Business Associations, Corporations, Securities, Partnership, Taxation, Corporate Finance, Not-for-Profit Corporations, or other business-related courses. A Student's Guide to Accounting for Lawyers provides students with an understanding of basic corporate financial statements, corporate distributions, share issuance, asset valuation, balance sheet interpretation, financial analysis, and financial statements of partnerships and not-for-profit corporations.
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Bioethics and the Administration of Justice
George P. Smith II
This essay is divided into five parts. The first will examine, in broad-brush, bioethics as a discipline, language and political movement. The second explores the politics of morality and the role bioethicists have in assisting with the tasks of judicial decision making. Part three tackles the feasibility of promoting a deliberative democracy within the New Age of Biotechnology. Part four considers forensic or scientific evidence. And, the final section of this essay considers how Elizabeth Taylor, Reva Shane Lewis of the CBS soap opera, "The Guiding Light," Thomas Donaldson and the sheep, "Dolly," shape the contours of this new age of biotechnology and, indeed, present fascinating contemporary paradigms of the diversity confronting the judicial system as it attempts to cope with the startling advances of The New Biology.' My major premise, minor premise, and conclusion are one in the same for they conduce to an acceptance of the fact that the social constructs and legal tools necessary for the modern judiciary to meet head-on and deal with the contentious issues of bioethics and biotechnology are already in place. To resolve problems arising from these potential quagmires, perhaps the major concern is for the courts to remain forever vigilant to the interlinking relationships or synergistic forces found in law, science, ethics and medicine. Without vigilance and enhanced awareness of the dynamic and fluid situation here, both the bench and the bar "will increasingly lack understanding of the questions to be asked, let alone the answers to be given" in this New Age of Science.'
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Family Values and the New Society: Dilemmas of the 21st Century
George P. Smith II
Beset by socio-legal challenges, medical, and scientific advances in reproduction, feminist philosophies and complex questions regarding its contemporary relevance, the family—together with the core values that have sustained over the years—is being tested, re-evaluated, and redesigned. This book directs its focus to the current national debate on family values providing a strong and practical framework for decisionmaking in topical problem areas which integrate the social sciences, law, medicine, political science, economics, ethics, philosophy, and religion.
This book analyzes both from a practical and scholastic perspective, nine areas of central focus or challenge to mainstream notions of the family. Feminist perspectives on reproductive rights and responsibilities, domestic partnerships and same-sex relationships, and new assisted reproductive technologies (such as organ harvesting and child abuse) are just some of the issues discussed as they relate to individuals and to the family and the values that have been the backbone of American life. The author suggests an ethical ordering that balances traditional strengths of American life with accomodation for new normative standards.
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Vouchers for School Choice - Challenge or Opportunity? An American Jewish Reappraisal
Marshall J. Breger and David M. Gordis
Expanded outgrowth of a conference on the subject convened in May 1997 in Washington, D.C.
