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Women
and the United States Constitution
History,
Interpretation, and Practice
Edited
by Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach and Patricia Smith
New York: Columbia
University Press, 2003. KF478.A5W654
2003
From the Publisher
Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more
than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates
law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze
the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights
and fate of women. Divided into three parts-History, Interpretation,
and Practice-this book views the Constitution as a living
document, struggling to free itself from the weight of a two-hundred-year-old
past and capable of evolving to include women and their concerns.
…In addition to
constitutional issues such as federalism, gender discrimination,
basic rights, privacy, and abortion, Women and the U.S.
Constitution explores other issues of central concern
to contemporary women-areas that, strictly speaking, are not
yet considered a part of constitutional law. Women's traditional
labor and its unique character, and women and the welfare
state, are two examples of topics treated here from the perspective
of their potentially transformative role in the future development
of constitutional law.
About
the Author
Sibyl
A. Schwarzenbach is associate professor of philosophy at Baruch
College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New
York. She is the author of On Civic Friendship (forthcoming)
as well as of numerous articles in social, political, and
feminist theory. Patricia Smith is professor of philosophy
at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, The City University
of New York. She is the author of Liberalism and Affirmative
Obligation and the editor of numerous volumes including
Feminist Jurisprudence.
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 The
Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior
Edited
by Francesco Parisi and Vernon L. Smith
Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 2005.
K487.E3L3875
2005
From the Publisher
This
collection of essays explores the most relevant developments
at the interface of economics and psychology, giving special
attention to models of irrational behavior, and draws the
relevant implications of such models for the design of legal
rules and institutions. The application of economic models
of irrational behavior to law is especially challenging because
specific departures from rational behavior differ markedly
from one another.
…This volume brings together pioneering scholars in
this area, along with some of the most exciting developments
in the field of legal and economic theory. Areas of application
include criminal law and sentencing, tort law, contract law,
corporate law, and financial markets.
About
the Author
Francesco
Parisi is Professor of Law and Director, Law and Economics
Program, George Mason University School of Law. He is co-editor
of The Law and Economics of the European Union (2003),
Economic Foundations of Private Law (2002), and Law
and Economics (1997). Vernon Smith is Nobel Laureate
in Economics, 2002, and Professor of Economics and Law, George
Mason University.
Additional
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 Human
Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public
Sector Organizations
Edited
by Tom Campbell and Seumas Miller
Boston:
Kluwer Academic Publishers
JC571.H763
2004
From
the Publisher
All
students and advocates of human rights will be interested
in this concerted exploration of the human rights moral obligations
that fall, not directly on states, but on private and public
organisations. Such an approach to human rights opens up the
possibility of holding corporations and bureaucracies to account
for human rights violations even when they have acted in accordance
with the law… What emerges from the book as a whole
is a distinctive contemporary vision of the emerging moral
impact of human rights and its significance for organisational
behaviour and performance.
About
the Author
Seumas
Miller is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and
Public Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt
University in Canberra. Co-editor
Tom Campbell is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied
Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University as
well as President of the Australian Society for Legal Philosophy.
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