Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
William M. Tweed, Impleaded with Richard B. Connolly, and Abraham Oakey Hall, Plaintiff in Error, Against the People of the State of New York, Defendants in Error ...
Author: Whistleblowers
Author: Allison StangerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300186886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
A "brisk and interesting" (Jill Lepore, New Yorker) exploration of whistleblowing in America, from the Revolutionary War to the Trump era PROSE Award winner in the Government, Policy and Politics category Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service--yet they always suffer for it. This episodic history brings to light how whistleblowing, an important but unrecognized cousin of civil disobedience, has held powerful elites accountable in America. Analyzing a range of whistleblowing episodes, from the corrupt Revolutionary War commodore Esek Hopkins (whose dismissal led in 1778 to the first whistleblower protection law) to Edward Snowden, to the dishonesty of Donald Trump, Allison Stanger reveals the centrality of whistleblowing to the health of American democracy. She also shows that with changing technology and increasing militarization, the exposure of misconduct has grown more difficult to do and more personally costly for those who do it--yet American freedom, especially today, depends on it.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1854
Book Description
Volume contains: 63 NY 202 (Tweed v. People)
City And County Of New York
Author: Tweed's New York
Author: Leo HershkowitzPublisher: Anchor Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Professor Leo Hershkowitz (History Department, Queens College - CUNY) does away with all of the rumor, mirrors and smoke about Boss Tweed with his fantastic research and easy-to-read text. Any student of New York City history must have this book in their collection.
Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics
Author: Nicholas Askounes AshfordPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262012383
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 1125
Book Description
The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts. This book offers a detailed discussion of the important issues in environmental law, policy, and economics, tracing their development over the past few decades through an examination of environmental law cases and commentaries by leading scholars. The authors focus on pollution, addressing both pollution control and prevention, but also emphasize the evaluation, design, and use of the law to stimulate technical change and industrial transformation, arguing that there is a need to address broader issues of sustainable development. Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics,which grew out of courses taught by the authors at MIT, treats the traditional topics covered in most classes in environmental law and policy, including common law and administrative law concepts and the primary federal legislation. But it goes beyond these to address topics not often found in a single volume: the information-based obligations of industry, enforcement of environmental law, market-based and voluntary alternatives to traditional regulation, risk assessment, environmental economics, and technological innovation and diffusion. Countering arguments found in other texts that government should play a reduced role in environmental protection, this book argues that clear, stringent legal requirements--coupled with flexible means for meeting them--and meaningful stakeholder participation are necessary for bringing about environmental improvements and technologicial transformations.
Constitutional Conscience
Author: H. Jefferson PowellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226677303
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
While many recent observers have accused American judges—especially Supreme Court justices—of being too driven by politics and ideology, others have argued that judges are justified in using their positions to advance personal views. Advocating a different approach—one that eschews ideology but still values personal perspective—H. Jefferson Powell makes a compelling case for the centrality of individual conscience in constitutional decision making. Powell argues that almost every controversial decision has more than one constitutionally defensible resolution. In such cases, he goes on to contend, the language and ideals of the Constitution require judges to decide in good faith, exercising what Powell calls the constitutional virtues: candor, intellectual honesty, humility about the limits of constitutional adjudication, and willingness to admit that they do not have all the answers. Constitutional Conscience concludes that the need for these qualities in judges—as well as lawyers and citizens—is implicit in our constitutional practices, and that without them judicial review would forfeit both its own integrity and the credibility of the courts themselves.