Product Description: This advanced torts book is designed for a two or three hour tort course for students who have had a basic tort class and wish to pursue in-depth some of the important topics of tort law that are not covered in much depth in their basic tort course, or not covered at all...read more

Product Description: Justice―a word of great simplicity and almost frightening scope. When we were invited to edit a volume on justice in law, we joked about the small topic we had been assigned. Often humor masks fear, and this was certainly one of those times...read more

Product Description: The topics included will be as follows: Admissibility of Scientific Evidence A Functional Taxonomy of Expertise Ethical Standards of and Concerning Expert Witnesses Scientific Method: The Logic of Drawing Inferences From Empirical Evidence Statistical Proof Multiple Regression Survey Research Toxicology Epidemiolog...read more

Product Description: Topics included are as follows: The General Assumptions and Rationale of Forensic Identification DNA Typing Parentage Testing Fingerprint Identification Handwriting Identification Firearms and Toolmark Identifications Bullet Lead Analysis Identification from Bitemarks Talker Identification Polygraph Tests Fires, Arsons and Explosions Alcohol Testing Drug Testin...read more

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Product Description: This book is a student edition spin-off from the popular Science Law. The authors introduce law students to the rigors and details underlying scientific expert testimony, offering an entry point to a host of scientific fields that are highly relevant to the law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a student edition spin-off from the popular Science Law. The authors introduce law students to the rigors and details underlying scientific expert testimony, offering an entry point to a host of scientific fields that are highly relevant to the law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Beginning in the mid 1970s the manufacturer of Benedictin was sued repeatedly over allegations that the drug--prescribed for pregnant women to overcome the effects of morning sickness--had caused birth defects. Yet in twenty years no one has collected any damages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Comparing the intersection of political forces and legal practices in the US, England, France, Germany and Japan, this work investigates the functioning of constitutional courts in each country, and how ordinary citizens and large corporations use the courts.

Product Description: It is a fundamental human impulse to seek restitution or retribution when a wrong is done, yet individuals and societies assess responsibility and allocate punishment for wrongdoing in different ways. This book investigates how average citizens in the United States and Japan think about and judge various kinds of wrongdoing, how they determine who is responsible when things go wrong, and how they prefer to punish offenders...read more

Product Description: An investigation of how average citizens in the US and Japan think about and judge various kinds of wrongdoing, how they determine who is responsible when things go wrong and how they prefer to punish offenders. The authors compare both individual and cultural reactions of the two countries...read more

Product Description: This innovative work treats law as the set of rules governing how people should act in society, and it demonstrates how the legal system attempts to deter antisocial behavior. Comprised of three sections. the book explores different ways in which law decides issues of responsibility, how cases are adjudicated, and theories of distributive justice and social change...read more

Product Description: The 1954 landmark school desegregation decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education, was part of one of the most extensive and tumultuous social/legal movements in the nation’s history. The authors of this study employ the school desegregation movement to examine the role of social scientists, and social science, in the litigation process...read more

Product Description: A study of Smith's life and work as well as the impact that his fiction has had upon literary culture.