Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Southern California Law Review
Author: Southern California Law Review Postscript
Author: California Law Review
Author: SYMPOSIUM ON LAW AND TECHNOLOGY PUBLISHED IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW.
Author: Becoming Free, Becoming Black
Author: Alejandro de la FuentePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.
American Shtetl
Author: Nomi M. StolzenbergPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691199779
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers paint a richly textured portrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, exploring the community's guiding religious, social, and economic norms. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to post–World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. They show how constant legal and political battles defined and even bolstered the community, whose very success has coincided with the rise of political conservatism and multiculturalism in American society over the past forty years. Timely and accessible, American Shtetl unravels the strands of cultural and legal conflict that gave rise to one of the most vibrant religious communities in America, and reveals a way of life shaped by both self-segregation and unwitting assimilation.
Index to California Legal Periodicals and Documents
Author: Law Library (Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Global Legal Pluralism
Author: Paul Schiff BermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107376912
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational and nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex overlapping legal authority is confusing and we cannot expect territorial borders to solve all these problems. At the same time, those hoping to create one universal set of legal rules are also likely to be disappointed by the sheer variety of human communities and interests. Instead, we need an alternative jurisprudence, one that seeks to create or preserve spaces for productive interaction among multiple, overlapping legal systems by developing procedural mechanisms, institutions and practices that aim to manage, without eliminating, the legal pluralism we see around us. Global Legal Pluralism provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel conceptualization of law and globalization.
Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies
Author: Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court
Author: Richard H. FallonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674975812
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Legitimacy and judicial authority -- Constitutional meaning : original public meaning -- Constitutional meaning : varieties of history that matter -- Law in the Supreme Court : jurisprudential foundations -- Constitutional constraints -- Constitutional theory and its relation to constitutional practice -- Sociological, legal, and moral legitimacy : today and tomorrow