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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A House All Stilled
A.G. Harmon
In a small town in Mississippi, a young boy is coming to maturity in spite of himself. Henry Tollet arrives home one day badly bloodied after being attacked without provocation near his school bus stop. He did not even know the boy who did it, a scraggly youth who vanished as mysteriously as he had appeared. Henry winces as his grandfather tends to the wound, but it is his father’s reaction that troubles him.
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Jerusalem: A City and Its Future
Marshall J. Breger and Ora Ahimeir
Many of the perspectives in these essays are unique and have never been published for a wider audience. Contributors consider aspects of the "politics of religion" - an issue rarely explored objectively in existing literature. Other articles propose ways of mediating the challenges of Jerusalem. In covering a range of crucial subjects, the book will appeal to Jewish and Christian audiences alike. Other primary readers include Middle East and law scholars.
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Legal Research Survival Manual
Elizabeth A. Edinger and Robert C. Berring
This text provides a basic introduction to legal information and legal research. Designed for first-semester, first-year law students, provides a readable introduction to what first-year students need to know. This work does not provide comprehensive coverage of legal materials, and is not designed to replace traditional legal texts. Instead, it seeks to provide an easy-to-read introduction for the new law student.
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Federal Administrative Dispute Resolution Deskbook
Marshall J. Breger, Gerald S. Schatz, and Deborah Schick Laufer
This deskbook highlights the remarkable scope of ADR processes within the Federal government. It answers a host of questions about ADR; why it has emerged as an alternative to administrative litigation, where it is practiced, who engages in it, how it is carried out, and by what authority it is employed. The book will serve as a ready resource for practitioners, judges and academics, offering not only information but also practical techniques for the resolution of disputes involving the federal government. Moreover, it will set the stage for further progress in the art and science of ADR in the administrative setting.
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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.
