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Why Have-Nots Win In The Hiv Litigation Arena: Socio-Legal Dynamics Of Extreme Cases, Jane Aiken, Michael Musheno
Why Have-Nots Win In The Hiv Litigation Arena: Socio-Legal Dynamics Of Extreme Cases, Jane Aiken, Michael Musheno
Michael Musheno
Focuses on extreme cases in which people with HIV (PWAs) win HIV-related disputes. Socio-legal explanation of how PWAs managed to win claims against insurance companies, government agencies and other institutional plaintiffs; Judicial preoccupation with PWAs as carriers of contagion; Shifting epidemiology of HIV in the United States.
The Grand Experiment Law And Legal Culture In British Settler Societies, Hamar Foster, Benjamin Berger, A. Buck
The Grand Experiment Law And Legal Culture In British Settler Societies, Hamar Foster, Benjamin Berger, A. Buck
Benjamin L Berger
In the late nineteenth century, the English legal historians Frederick Pollock and F.W. Maitland coined the phrase "the grand experiment" to describe the spread of English law throughout the British Empire. For Pollock and Maitland, this was an unequivocally positive process that would uplift settler societies. The work of recent legal historians, however, has alerted us to the more complex impact English law had on the peoples, both settler and indigenous, of those colonial societies. This "new colonial legal history" has revealed subtle and more ambiguous understandings of "the grand experiment." The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new …