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Exploring The Commercialized Arms Race Metaphor, Alfred Mathewson
Exploring The Commercialized Arms Race Metaphor, Alfred Mathewson
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Reversing Field invites students, professionals, and enthusiasts of sport – whether law, management and marketing, or the game itself – to explore the legal issues and regulations surrounding collegiate and professional athletics in the United States. This theoretical and methodological interrogation of sports law openly addresses race, labor, gender, and the commercialization of sports, while offering solutions to the disruptions that threaten its very foundation during an era of increased media scrutiny and consumerism. In over thirty chapters, academics, practitioners, and critics vigorously confront and debate matters such as the Arms Race, gender bias, racism, the Rooney Rule, and steroid …
Grand Juries And Expertise In The Administrative State, Kevin Washburn
Grand Juries And Expertise In The Administrative State, Kevin Washburn
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Grand Jury 2.0: Modern Perspectives on the Grand Jury challenges the American legal culture to re-imagine the grand jury and proposes ways to adapt the grand jury's proud heritage to the needs and realities of modern criminal justice. Chapters provide a rare peek into the black box of grand juror deliberations, reflect on empirical evidence related to the grand jury's often overlooked role in charging and plea bargaining practices, and explore what state grand juries tell us about the institution's potential. Other chapters re-examine the grand jury's seemingly settled historical narrative, emphasize the role the grand jury can perform in …
Anarchist Periodicals In English Published In The United States (1833-1955): An Annotated Guide, Ernesto Longa
Anarchist Periodicals In English Published In The United States (1833-1955): An Annotated Guide, Ernesto Longa
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Table of Contents and Front Matter. In the 19th and 20th centuries, dozens of anarchist publications appeared throughout the United States despite limited financial resources, a pestering and censorial postal department, and persistent harassment, arrest, and imprisonment by the State. Such works energetically advocated a stateless society built upon individual liberty and voluntary cooperation. This volume highlights the articles, reports, manifestos, and creative works of anarchists and left libertarians who were dedicated to propagandizing against authoritarianism, sham democracy, wage and sex slavery, and race prejudice. In the survey are nearly 100 newspapers produced throughout North America. For each entry, the …
Self-Determination And Indigenous Nations In The United States: International Human Right, Federal Policy And Indigenous Nationhood, Christine Zuni Cruz
Self-Determination And Indigenous Nations In The United States: International Human Right, Federal Policy And Indigenous Nationhood, Christine Zuni Cruz
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This paper, presented at the 2003 Native Title Conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia in Lhere Artepe Country, considers self-determination from an internal indigenous perspective. This perspective looks to Indigenous legal tradition to set forth an idea of self-determination that has its foundation in Indigenous notions of origin and existence. The paper explores autochthonic legal tradition, or Indigenous legal tradition, and situates the principle of self-determination within the Indigenous legal tradition. While self-determination for Indigenous Peoples is recognized by the United Nations and the United States, Indigenous Peoples origin stories, a part of their Indigenous legal tradition, provides the …
Health Care Reform Supplement To Health Law: Cases, Materials And Problems, Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Health Care Reform Supplement To Health Law: Cases, Materials And Problems, Robert Schwartz, Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
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Athletes As Television Celebrities: Why We Watch; How They Benefit; Must They Be Responsible, Sherri Burr
Athletes As Television Celebrities: Why We Watch; How They Benefit; Must They Be Responsible, Sherri Burr
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This chapter addresses a number of issues associated with athletes acquiring celebrity status based on their television performances. It first discusses what draws the public to watch sports on television and follow the lives of athletes. Second, this chapter highlights the benefits and burdens that athletes receive and endure from the public participation in their sports as observers on the field and off. This section will also highlight athletes rights to privacy and to publicity. Finally, this chapter addresses the responsibility of athletes, both amateur and professional, to behave in a responsible manner both on and off the court.