Human Rights and Religion: The Islamic Headscarf Debate
in Europe
By Dominic McGoldrick
Oxford and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2006
KJC5144.M56M38
2006
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The debate on multiculturalism and human rights in
Europe was reignited in 2004 by the Islamic headscarf
ban in France. The place of religion in schools in
general, and wearing of religious dress in State schools
in particular, has become an issue across Europe.
Supporters of the right to wear the Islamic headscarf
argue that the ban and similar prohibitions infringe
a number of human rights. This book examines the issues
by considering questions of language, meaning and
symbolism. Detailed consideration is given to the
headscarf debate in France. Comparative practice in
a number of European states—Germany, Switzerland,
Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United
Kingdom and Turkey—is examined. The book also
outlines the role and function of an international
human rights law approach to the Islamic headscarf.
It concludes with some wider reflections on the broader
political and cultural struggles that lie behind the
Islamic headscarf debate.
About the Author
Dominic McGoldrick is Professor of Public International
Law and Director of the International and European
Law Unit, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool.
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No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law
Keep Women Out of the Boardroom
By Douglas M. Branson
New York, NY: New York University Press, 2007
HD6054.4U6B73
2007
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Women are completing MBA and law degrees in record high
numbers, but their struggle to attain director positions
in corporate America continues. Mining corporate governance
models applied at Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of
Title VII discrimination cases, and proxy statements,
Douglas M. Branson suggests that women have been ill-advised
by experts, who tend to teach females how to act like
their male, executive counterparts. Instead, women who
aspire to the boardroom should focus on the decision-making
processes nominating committees—usually dominated
by white men—employ when voting on membership.
Filled with real-life cases, No Seat at the Table
opens the closed doors of the boardroom and reveals
the dynamics of the corporate governance process and
the double standards that often characterize it. Based
on empirical evidence, Branson concludes that women
have to follow different paths than men in order to
gain CEO status, and as such, encourages women to make
flexible, conscious, and often frequent shifts in their
professional behaviors and work ethics as they climb
the corporate ladder.
About the Author
Douglas M. Branson is W. Edward Sell Chair in Business
Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and
a former Professor of Law at Seattle University Law
School. His publications include Questions and Answers:
Business Associations, Understanding Corporate Law,
and Corporate Governance.
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The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading
American Judges
By G. Edward White
London, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
KF8744.W5
2007
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In this revised third edition of a classic in American
jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series
of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in
American history from John Marshall to Oliver W. Holmes
to Warren E. Burger, with a new chapter on the Rehnquist
Court. White traces the development of the American
judicial tradition through biographical sketches of
the careers and contributions of these renowned judges.
In this updated edition, he argues that the Rehnquist
Court's approach to constitutional interpretation
may have ushered in a new stage in the American judicial
tradition. The update also includes a new preface
and revised bibliographic note.
About the Author
G. Edward White is University Professor and David and
Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the
University of Virginia. He is author of several works
of biography and law that include the award-winning
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and most recently,
Alger Hiss's Looking Glass Wars.
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