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IntroductionPart I: Data. Emergence of Patent Big Data Chapter 1 Patent as Big Data? The journal of 230 years Patent, a living organism Patent as open data Chapter 2 Significant Points in the History of Patents 1836, The First Patent with Claims 1790, Start...

How could feminist perspectives and methods change the shape of property law? This volume assembles a group of diverse scholars to explore this question by presenting fundamental property law cases rewritten from a feminist perspective. The cases cover a broad range of property law...

VA Handbook for Veterans and Advocates was written by a service-connected combat veteran and licensed attorney for fellow veterans and advocates who want to file a claim with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") for disability compensation, health care and other benefits. Advocates...

AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWMEN, 1867-1877 explores the understudied topic of African Americans in law enforcement, as well as in executive and elected political offices during the Reconstruction Era. During this historical period, African Americans served in various capacities, including as policemen, justices of the peace,...

Caught up in a civil lawsuit? This book explains each step of the civil litigation process from pre-litigation investigation through trial on the merits to give you the best chance of prevailing in your efforts whether you are a plaintiff or a defendant. Its...

Criminal Law By Storm begins with the foundations of law and the legal system, then extensively explores criminal laws and defenses using general state and federal principles, the Constitution, and the Model Penal Code as guidelines. This engaging and interactive textbook will enhance your...

American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that...

STOP Before you use or sell drugs. Before you pick up that gun. Before you help someone do either. READ THIS BOOK It might save you from being locked up for a long time by the Federal Government. Just because you don't use or...

This beautiful, pocket sized 4x6 inch version of the Constitution of the United States is great to read at home or take with you on-the go This 57-page pocket book includes The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights, and all 27...

This is the final volume in Jouvenel's magnum opus, the trilogy that begins with On Power, moves to Sovereignty, and concludes with The Pure Theory of Politics. In this volume, Bertrand de Jouvenel proposes to remedy a serious deficiency in political science: "the lack...

This book shows how political argument in terms of rights and natural rights began in medieval Europe, and how the theory of natural rights was developed in the seventeenth century after a period of neglect in the Renaissance. Dr Tuck provides a new understanding...

Initially published in 2013, Ian Haney-Lez's Dog Whistle Politics offered a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial appeals to persuade white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their own interests. As he showed, such appeals...

This book discusses how can middle powers like South Korea and Germany benefit from closer economic and political linkages across the Eurasian landmass, in particular the Belt and Road Initiative dominated by China. Should they rather jump on the bandwagon or should they follow...

Explosive True Crime Gun, Bombing, and Arson Cases from a Federal Agent's Career. Federal Agents never know what to expect from day to day. During his 25 year career with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Special Agent Wayne M. Miller investigated dozens...

Judge Grussendorf shares his twenty-five years of experience battling both inside and outside of America's immigration law system for the rights of immigrants and refugees. He directed the George Washington University's Immigration Law Clinic for a decade before his appointment to the immigration bench,...

Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age, and we, the digital citizens, are its principal threat, willingly surrendering it to avail ourselves of new technology, and granting the government and corporations immense power over us. In this highly original work, Firmin DeBrabander begins...

Since the Great Recession of 2008, the racial wealth gap between black and white Americans has continued to widen. In Predatory Lending and the Destruction of the African-American Dream, Janis Sarra and Cheryl Wade detail the reasons for this failure by analyzing the economic...

In recent years, the digitization of legal texts and developments in the fields of statistics, computer science, and data analytics have opened entirely new approaches to the study of law. This volume explores the new field of computational legal analysis, an approach marked by...

The Starr Report, officially titled the "Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirement of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c)", was an investigative account of United States President Bill Clinton by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and released on...

THIS MASSIVE 8.5 X 11 PERFECT BOUND BOOK CONTAINS THE COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF SERIAL KILLER EDWARD GEIN'S CONFESSION. OVER 220 PAGES OF RARE POLICE DOCUMENTS.Author: James GilksISBN-10: 1329152204ISBN-13: 9781329152205Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2015Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.48d

Judicial Interpretation of Words, Phrases and Legal Maxims in Nigeria is a compendium of selected judicial and statutory definitions gathered under relevant subject headings in alphabetical order. This commanding, excellently researched publication is the ultimate compilation of judicial interpretations on Nigerian law based on...

In the early morning hours of August 29, 1986, Clarkson University sophomore Katy Hawelka - bright, pretty and full of life - strolled back to her upstate New York campus after a night out. On the dimly lit path beside the university's ice hockey...

Young girl's panties started to go missing; sexual assaults began to occur, and then female bodies were found Soon this quiet town of Tweed, Ontario, was in panic. What's even more shocking was when an upstanding resident stood accused of the assaults. This was...

An insider's perspective to how the legislative process really works in Connecticut, Judge Robert Satter has had a range of first-hand experience with the Connecticut General Assembly, as a state representative, lobbyist, and general counsel, and later as a state court judge and teacher....

In this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. The work serves as both a map and a vehicle for developing the skills essential to self-knowledge and...

This beautiful, pocket sized 4x6 inch version of the Constitution of the United States is great to read at home or take with you on-the go This 57-page pocket sized book includes The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights, and all...

This book helps law graduates prepare for the Multistate Bar Examination required in nearly every state for a law license. The book includes 400 practice questions covering all seven MBE subjects, with answers, explanations, and strategies, and at least one question for every MBE...

First produced in 1713, Cato: A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund's new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays brings together Addison's dramatic masterpiece along with a selection of his essays that develop key themes in the play....

The noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen argues that the dictum "all people are created equal" serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, and physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background. He...

Networks powered by algorithms are pervasive. Major contemporary technology trends - Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Platform Power, Blockchain, and the Algorithmic Society - are manifestations of this phenomenon. The internet, which once seemed an unambiguous benefit to society, is now the basis...

This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever written. French philosopher Charles de Montesquieu wrote this piece under the inspiration of such political theorists as Ren Descartes, Nicholas de Malebranche,...

The Free-Market Family argues for correcting course and using policy to promote family wellbeing in a market-driven America. US families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give...

Dr. Thomas Curtis has been a practicing adult and child psychiatrist in the Los Angeles area since 1972. After a decade of private practice and court consultation in child custody cases, Dr. Curtis became an employee's doctor in the Workers' Compensation field. Could you...

This book explores the main challenges against multiculturalism. It aims to examine whether liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable, and what are the limits of liberal democratic interventions in illiberal affairs of minority cultures within democracy. In the process, this book addresses three questions: whether...

A vital book by industry thought leader and global AI expert, Dr. Lance Eliot, and based on his popular AI Insider series and podcasts, this fascinating book provides pioneering advances for the field of AI and Law. Included are keen insights about the practical...

A vital book by industry thought leader and global AI expert, Dr. Lance Eliot, and based on his popular AI Insider series and podcasts, this fascinating book provides pioneering advances for the field of AI and Law. Included are keen insights about the practical...

Politics is a complex subject, but it doesn't have to be difficult. This book, complete with exercises and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to having a firm grasp of the main topics in politics and government....

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a result of the division or sharing of powers between levels of government, there remains considerable uncertainty about how rules or patterns of politics between the executive and legislative branches interact....

Algorithms influence every facet of modern life: criminal justice, education, housing, entertainment, elections, social media, news feeds, work... the list goes on. Delegating important decisions to machines, however, gives rise to deep moral concerns about responsibility, transparency, freedom, fairness, and democracy. Algorithms and Autonomy...

Environmental extremists claim that a consensus of scientists agree that humans arc causing climate change that will cause catastrophic damage to the planet if we do not immediately enact laws and practices to stop it. But those who believe this cannot explain scientific reasons...

This book is about a decorated Vietnam veteran who was the only male in his high school class inducted into the National Honor Society; was the president of the his high school student body; was captain of the tennis team; and was lead cellist...

What makes a parent? It's a question most of us never need to ponder. Patty's spontaneous offer to help her sister Karen become a mother by donating her ova yields a child they both want to raise - but each in her way. Karen...

Online surveillance of our behavior by private companies is on the increase, particularly through the Internet of Things and the increasing use of algorithmic decision-making. This troubling trend undermines privacy and increasingly threatens our ability to control how information about us is shared and...

Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies. Across the world, police are now governed by human rights principles and increasingly detailed standards - from arrest and detention to the regulation of protest and the use of lethal force. Yet there...

The law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James Boyd White urges a fresh view of the law as an essentially literary, rhetorical, and ethical activity. Defining and elaborating his conception, he artfully...

The Tsarist forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was not the first conspiracy theory about Jews, but it is perhaps the most famous one. It described specific steps that the Jewish cabal was said to use to take over the world and...

This social awareness book of Incarcerated Lives Matter Movement push for police and prison reform and tackling ongoing issues of systemic racism, inequality, injustice, and mass incarceration. All is written from the inside of lockdown society by tattoo artist-turnt-author and co-founder of Incarcerated Lives...

Real estate, divorce, wills, adoptions...modern life can be so confusing. You probably know you could hire an attorney to help you with these things, but is it even possible to do all this with an attorney-without breaking the bank, that is?Luckily, this book is...

The first in the series, 'Chameleon' is a book that will touch your heart and soul. The story follows a young Ben who witnesses the brutal murder of a lion while on a jungle safari with his family. The incident incites a spark inside...

This book is about a white Naval Officer who, figuratively speaking, placed his foot on the neck of a black sailor until that sailor screamed for help. But for Ernie Davis Jr., no help ever came. Even though the primary wrongdoer swore under oath...