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The Best American Legal Commentary [Paperback]

Rosemary Passantino (Author)

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Publication Date: February 15, 2005

This anthology features accessible, enjoyable, thought-provoking essays on timely legal issues by prominent journalists and scholars. Selected from well-known magazines like Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker, Slate, and Vanity Fair, each essay explores an important question currently being debated in our counts. Should government intervene in the business of a free market? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? Should religious icons be displayed in government buildings? Is a college student who mixes music on his laptop a thief? Any reader who would like to gain insight into the workings of the legal system while taking pleasure in excellent writing will enjoy this valuable collection. Including: Vikram Amar on What's Wrong with the Modern Jury Alex Beam on Big Tobacco and Greed Richard Thompson Ford on Gay Marriage Christopher Hitchens on Appalling Misdemeanors Ken I. Kersch on Multilateralism in the Courts Bryan Lonegan on Heartbreaking Deportations Nina Martin on Exoneration Hilary Rosen and Lawrence Lessig on Copyright Rod Smola on The Ten Commandments Eliot Spitzer on Business and Government Jeffrey Toobin on Gerrymandering

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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Universal Publishers (February 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1581124740
ISBN-13: 978-1581124743
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,990,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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My favorite moment during last winter's $1.3 billion Massachusetts tobacco-fee trial came near the end, when Ronald Kehoe, an avuncular, white-haired assistant attorney general, was questioning the state's star witness, Thomas Sobol. Read the first page

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Supreme Court, Brown Rudnick, New York, San Francisco, United States, Ten Commandments, Lieff Cabraser, Bay Area, Big Tobacco, Los Angeles, Creative Commons, Ninth Circuit, Santa Clara County, Buddy Nickerson, Innocence Project, Justice Ginsburg, Charlie Stenholm, European Union, Frederick Pritzker, John Stoll, John Tennison, Justice Breyer, San Jose, United Nations, Democratic Party

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This book cites 14 books:

Kern County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 142, and page 155
Constitutional Law by Inc. BarCharts in Back Matter
The Ten Commandments (Classics Illustrated Special Issue #135A) by Lorenz Graham on page 86
A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq by Christopher Hitchens in Back Matter
Racial Culture: A Critique by Richard T. Ford in Back Matter

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