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Winning Safer Workplaces: A Manual For State And Local Policy Reform, Rena I. Steinzor Jun 2014

Winning Safer Workplaces: A Manual For State And Local Policy Reform, Rena I. Steinzor

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We set out to compile a list of rules and policies that could be implemented by state and local governments to provide better protections for U.S. workers. This manual includes more than two dozen such ideas, organized into thematic chapters:

Chapter 1: Empowering Workers, with proposals designed to strengthen workers' individual and collective power to demand changes in their workplaces;
Chapter 2: Making Sure Crime Doesn't Pay, with ideas for strong enforcement of workplace health and safety rules that will punish bad actors and deter similar behavior;
Chapter 3: Strengthening Institutions, with recommendations intended to bolster government agencies' efforts to …


Constitutional Limitations On Sovereignty, 2014 Edition, Garrett Power Jun 2014

Constitutional Limitations On Sovereignty, 2014 Edition, Garrett Power

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This is an “open content” casebook intended for classroom use in courses in Constitutional Law, Land Use Control, and Environmental Law. It consists of 130 odd judicial opinions (most rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court) carefully selected from the two hundred years of American constitutional history which address the clash between public sovereignty and private property. The text considers both the personal right to liberty and the personal right in property.

The readings provide an historical context, and an up-to-date focus on many of the constitutional issues facing today’s Supreme Court: imperium versus dominium; the public trust, inverse condemnation, the …


Final Report Of The Abi Commission To Study The Reform Of Chapter 11, Michelle M. Harner Jan 2014

Final Report Of The Abi Commission To Study The Reform Of Chapter 11, Michelle M. Harner

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A robust, effective, and efficient bankruptcy system rebuilds companies, preserves jobs, and facilitates economic growth with dynamic financial markets and lower costs of capital. For more than 35 years, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code has served these purposes, and its innovative debtor in possession chapter 11 process, which allows a company to manage and direct its reorganization efforts, is emulated around the globe. As with any law or regulation, however, periodic review of U.S. bankruptcy laws is necessary to ensure their continued efficacy and relevance.

Whether by design or chance, efforts to review and assess U.S. business reorganization laws are undertaken …


Law And Leadership: Integrating Leadership Studies Into The Law School Curriculum, Paula A. Monopoli, Susan Mccarty Jan 2013

Law And Leadership: Integrating Leadership Studies Into The Law School Curriculum, Paula A. Monopoli, Susan Mccarty

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Leadership includes the ability to persuade others to embrace one’s ideas and to act upon them. Teaching law students the art of persuasion through advocacy is at the heart of legal education. But historically law schools have not included leadership studies in the curriculum. This book is one of the first to examine whether and how to integrate the theory and practice of leadership studies into legal education and the legal profession. Interdisciplinary in its scope, with contributions from legal educators and practitioners, the book defines leadership in the context of the legal profession and explores its challenges in legal …


La Tutela Y Sus Alternativas: Un Manual Sobre La Ley De Maryland, Virginia Rowthorn, Ellen Callegary Jan 2013

La Tutela Y Sus Alternativas: Un Manual Sobre La Ley De Maryland, Virginia Rowthorn, Ellen Callegary

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This is a Spanish language edition of the 2011 edition of Guardianship and Its Alternatives: a Handbook on Maryland Law edited by Virginia Rowthorn and Ellen Callegary available at: http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/1163


Constitutional Limitations On Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations And Governmental Exactions, 2013 Edition, Garrett Power Jan 2013

Constitutional Limitations On Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations And Governmental Exactions, 2013 Edition, Garrett Power

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This electronic book is published in a searchable PDF format as a part of the E-scholarship Repository of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. It is an “open content” casebook intended for classroom use in courses in Constitutional Law, Land Use Control, and Environmental Law and. It consists of 130 odd judicial opinions (most rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court) carefully selected from the two hundred years of American constitutional history which address the clash between public sovereignty and private property. The text considers both the personal right to liberty and the personal right in property. …


Maryland State And County Administrative Law, Diane O. Leasure, John F. Fader Ii Jan 2012

Maryland State And County Administrative Law, Diane O. Leasure, John F. Fader Ii

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Bringing The Greenbook To Life: A Resource Guide For Communities, Leigh S. Goodmark, Ann Rosewater Jan 2008

Bringing The Greenbook To Life: A Resource Guide For Communities, Leigh S. Goodmark, Ann Rosewater

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This book is designed for communities seeking to develop interventions that will improve their responses to families suffering both domestic violence and child maltreatment.


Reasonable Efforts Checklist For Dependency Cases Involving Domestic Violence, Leigh S. Goodmark Jan 2008

Reasonable Efforts Checklist For Dependency Cases Involving Domestic Violence, Leigh S. Goodmark

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The purpose of this checklist is to assist dependency court judges in identifying factors that should be considered when making reasonable efforts determinations in cases involving domestic violence.


Steps Toward Safety: Improving Systemic And Community Responses For Families Experiencing Domestic Violence, Leigh S. Goodmark, Ann Rosewater Jan 2007

Steps Toward Safety: Improving Systemic And Community Responses For Families Experiencing Domestic Violence, Leigh S. Goodmark, Ann Rosewater

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This report is designed to mine the lessons learned from the research and reforms in child welfare and domestic violence, as well as explore possibilities for the next generation of innovation.


Promoting Community Child Protection: A Legislative Agenda, Leigh S. Goodmark Jan 2002

Promoting Community Child Protection: A Legislative Agenda, Leigh S. Goodmark

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Keeping Kids Out Of The System: Creative Legal Practice As A Community Child Protection Strategy, Leigh S. Goodmark Jan 2001

Keeping Kids Out Of The System: Creative Legal Practice As A Community Child Protection Strategy, Leigh S. Goodmark

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Advocating For Children And Families In Cina Proceedings 1991, Susan P. Leviton, Larry M. Waranch Jun 1991

Advocating For Children And Families In Cina Proceedings 1991, Susan P. Leviton, Larry M. Waranch

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This manual is for the use of Maryland lawyers, judges, and masters who are involved with the Child in Need of Assistance cases. The first chapter ... is an overview of the federal Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, P.L. 96-272. The second chapter contains a description of the various judicial hearings involved in Child in Need of Assistance proceedings. These hearings are the Shelter Care, Adjudicatory and Disposition Hearing. The third chapter contains a discussion of permanency planning for children and the various post dispositional procedures available such as foster care review boards and court dispositional review …