The DC@UB Law Faculty Book collection includes information on books published by all current and emeritus University at Buffalo School of Law faculty members. Links to purchase books are included where the books are still in print.
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The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
Robert J. Steinfeld
Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth century, traditional legal restrictions no longer applied to many kinds of colonial workers, but it was not until the nineteenth century that indentured servitude came to be regarded as similar to slavery.
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Kids Who Kill
Charles Patrick Ewing
There is a new breed of killers loose in America today -- and its numbers are growing at an astounding rate. They are responsible for over ten percent of the nation's homicides. They are often victims themselves of neglect, violence and sexual abuse, of drugs and poverty. They murder alone or in groups -- in anger and frustration, for attention . . . or for thrills. And they have one thing in common: they are all children.
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Treaty Conflict and Political Contradiction: The Dialectic of Duplicity
Guyora Binder
One of the first books generated by the new and controversial movement in jurisprudence known as critical legal studies, this superbly written volume explores the problem of treaty conflict in international law: the legal consequences of inconsistent commitments by one nation to two or more others. The author uses this problem as a prism through which he focuses a number of major theoretical issues in international law and international relations. The result is a pathbreaking intellectual history of international law--one grounded in an account of the changing structure of international society and illustrated with a cogent analysis of recent events in the Middle East. Certain to stand as the definitive reference work on treaty conflict, Binder's work provides students and scholars of international relations with an illuminating survey of theories of the state and treaty in international jurisprudence.
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Collective Bargaining in Private Employment: Unit One of Labor Relations & Social Problems: A Course Book
James B. Atleson, Robert J. Rabin, George Schatzke, and Eileen Silverstein
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Empirical Theories About Courts
Keith O. Boyum and Lynn M. Mather
The classic and groundbreaking study of trial courts and other dispute processes — and foundational ways to think about researching them — is now available in a modern digital edition. It is edited by Professors Keith O. Boyum and Lynn Mather, and contains chapters from the leading theorists about courts and their research.
Much cited and relevant today in how it frames the analysis of courts, this book’s new republication features an additional Introduction and Afterword by the editors, with updates, and anew Foreword by Christina L. Boyd. As Boyd writes, “For nearly all civil and criminal cases the traditional model of court as a judge-dominated, formal adversary process of adjudication does not hold. What exists instead … is so variable, complex, and dynamic that a proper study of courts must return to first principles. And that is precisely what an all-star list of interdisciplinary court scholars, many of whom have established storied careers as trial court experts, does so well within the chapters of this book.” She adds: “I find the text to be very contemporary. Empirical Theories About Courts’ design to focus on theory building rather than simply examining discrete datasets or engaging in data mining of a single set of observations is a key factor in the book’s longevity.”
For the new digital edition, quality ebook features includes linked Contents and notes, fully linked and paginated Index, proper formatting, and all of the tables and figures of the original properly presented. The paperback edition includes the updating new material and modern presentation. Part of the Classics of Law & Society Series from Quid Pro Books.
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The Papers of Daniel Webster: Legal Papers, Volume 2: The Boston Practice
Alfred S. Konefsky and Andrew J. King
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The Papers of Daniel Webster: Legal Papers, Volume 1: The New Hampshire Practice
Alfred S. Konefsky and Andrew J. King
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Labor Relations and Social Problems: A Course Book: Unit 1: Collective Bargaining in Private Employment
James B. Atleson, Robert J. Rabin, George Schatzke, and Eileen Silverstein
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In the Opinion of the Bar: A National Survey of Bar Polling Practices
James Guterman and Errol E. Meidinger
