On 6 July 2012, the President signed into law a new two-year transportation reauthorisation bill, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century...

The recognition of same-sex marriage generates debate on both the federal and state levels. Either legislatively or judicially, same-sex marriage i...

Economic sanctions on Russian individuals, entities, and sectors have been a key part of the U.S. response to Russia's annexation of the Crimean re...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, PL 107-204 described by some as the most important and far-reaching securities legislation since passage of the Sec...

This is the first book to trace scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice over a twenty-year time period. It is based primarily on th...

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 required the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update nutrition standards for school lunches and b...

Only a small fraction of the impaired drivers who are at risk for alcohol-impaired-driving crashes are arrested. These include drivers who drink re...

This book analyses recent Supreme Court decisions and their implications. Legislative decisions examined include: sex discrimination developments; ...

The international nature of the maritime industry means that ships are subject to the varying legal jurisdictions of the ports in which they call. ...

The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke contains the most important works of the great English jurist-politician who set out to codify English com...

The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke contains the most important works of the great English jurist-politician who set out to codify English com...

Due to the dialectical analysis of fundamental economic categories, the market economy appears as a complex, nonlinear, functionally closed (but ca...

Non-disability mental conditions, such as personality disorders, can render a service member unsuitable for military service and can lead to an adm...

The trafficking of persons has frequently been described as a "modern" or "Twenty-First Century" form of slavery. According to the Department of St...

At approximately noon on Saturday 9 August 2014, Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) shot and killed Michael Brown, an un...

In the last decade, shortages of prescription drugs containing controlled substances, such as narcotics and stimulants, have increased nationwide, ...

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was by nature an advocate for reform and improvement and stood at the heart of the modernizing and liberalizing movement no...

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was by nature an advocate for reform and improvement and stood at the heart of the modernizing and liberalizing movement no...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains several provisions to encourage employer-sponsored health coverage, particularly among smal...

Social Security is a self-financing program that provides monthly cash benefits to retired or disabled workers and their family members and to the ...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program provides benefits to insured workers with disabilities under the full retirement age and their ...

The programs administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) form the foundation for the nation's social insurance network that has greatl...