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Author | : John M. Conley |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005-06-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226114880 |
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Previous edition, 1st, published in 1998.
Author | : John M. Conley |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-05-10 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 022648453X |
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Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or “multimodal,” communication in legal settings and law, language, and race.
Author | : Linda Christensen |
Publisher | : Rethinking Schools |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0942961250 |
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Give students the power of language by using the inspiring ideas in this very readable book.
Author | : Fern Sussman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780921145141 |
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Step by step guide for parents of preschool children with autism spectrum disorder and other social communication difficulties.
Author | : John Langshaw Austin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : 019824553X |
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This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophicalproblems.
Author | : Dominika Borg Jansson |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 900428107X |
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In Modern Slavery – A Comparative Study of the Definition of Trafficking in Persons Dominika Borg Jansson illustrates how national laws that have implemented the international definition of trafficking do not work as intended.
Author | : Susan P. Shapiro |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2019-06-12 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 022661574X |
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Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions—literally—will therefore be made by someone else. They will decide whether we live or die; between long life and quality of life; whether we receive heroic interventions in our final hours; and whether we die in a hospital or at home. They will determine whether our wishes are honored and choose between fidelity to our interests and what is best for themselves or others. Yet despite their critical role, we know remarkably little about how our loved ones decide for us. Speaking for the Dying tells their story, drawing on daily observations over more than two years in two intensive care units in a diverse urban hospital. From bedsides, hallways, and conference rooms, you will hear, in their own words, how physicians really talk to families and how they respond. You will see how decision makers are selected, the interventions they weigh in on, the information they seek and evaluate, the values and memories they draw on, the criteria they weigh, the outcomes they choose, the conflicts they become embroiled in, and the challenges they face. Observations also provide insight into why some decision makers authorize one aggressive intervention after the next while others do not—even on behalf of patients with similar problems and prospects. And they expose the limited role of advance directives in structuring the process decision makers follow or the outcomes that result. Research has consistently found that choosing life or death for another is one of the most difficult decisions anyone can face, sometimes haunting families for decades. This book shines a bright light on a role few of us will escape and offers steps that patients and loved ones, health care providers, lawyers, and policymakers could undertake before it is too late.
Author | : R. Shep Melnick |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2023-05-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0226825523 |
Download The Crucible of Desegregation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"In 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education--establishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional right--, but the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. In close to three dozen decisions on school desegregation, the Supreme Court has never offered a clear definition of what desegregation means or laid out a framework for understanding or adjudicating between competing interpretations. In the Crucible of Desegregation, R. Shep Melnick examines the evolution of federal school desegregation policy from 1954 through the termination of desegregation orders in the first decades of the 21st century, combining legal analysis with a focus on institutional relations, particularly the interactions between federal judges and administrators. Melnick argues that years of ambiguous, inconsistent, and meandering Court decisions left lower court judges adrift, forced to apply contradictory Supreme Court precedents in a wide variety of highly charged political and educational contexts. As a result, desegregation policy has been a patchwork, with lower court judges playing a crucial role. They did so against the backdrop of massive resistance, and this combined with the fragmented and decentralized nature of America's political institutions and its education system. The Crucible of Desegregation reveals patterns and persistent impasses that remain relevant today. It also shows that school desegregation was a crucial driver for the expansion of the broader American civil rights state"--
Author | : Mitu Gulati |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0226924386 |
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"Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu clause in cross-border sovereign debt contracts, when a Belgian court's novel judicial interpretation in Elliott Associates v. Peru rattled international finance by forcing a defaulting sovereign - for one of the first times in the market's centuries-long history - to repay its foreign creditors despite their refusal to enter into a restructuring agreement. Though neither party wanted this outcome, the vast majority of contracts subsequently issued demonstrate virtually no attempt to clarify the imprecise language of the clause. Using this case as a launching pad to explore the broader issue of 'stickiness' of contract boilerplate, Mitu Gulati and Robert E. Scott have sifted through more than one thousand sovereign debt contracts - dating back to the nineteenth century - and interviewed hundreds of practitioners to show that the problem actually lies in the nature of the modern corporate law firm. The financial pressure on large firms to maintain a high volume of transactions contributes to an array of problems that deter innovation and that are largely hidden from the individual lawyer tasked with drafting contracts. With the near certainty of massive sovereign debt structuring in Europe, The Three and a Half Minute Transaction speaks to critical issues facing the industry and has broader implications for contract design that will ensure it remains relevant to our understanding of legal practice long after the debt crisis has subsided"--Unedited summary from book jacket.
Author | : Lawrence Baum |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0226039552 |
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Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas, and the degree of specialization has grown over time. Specializing the Courts provides the first comprehensive analysis of specialization in the federal and state court systems.