This book provides a background and analysis comparing military commissions as envisioned under the MCA to the rules that had been established by t...

Recent high-profile military-related cases involving sexual assaults by U.S. service members have resulted in increased public and congressional in...

Whistleblowers play an important role in safeguarding the federal government against waste, fraud, and abuse. However, reporting wrongdoing outside...

Concern about missing and exploited children gained national prominence in 1981 when Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of John and Reve Walsh was abdu...

Effective police leaders become adept at responding to challenge. Like other organisations, police agencies must balance constancy and predictabili...

Money laundering is commonly understood as the process of cleansing the taint from the proceeds of crime. In federal criminal law, however, it is m...

The federal government assumed control of the ailing Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ...

A mortgage represents a loan or lien on a property/house that has to be paid over a specified period of time. Mortgages come in many different shap...

Imagine that your father is one of New York City's top gangsters, and that you want nothing to do with him or his criminal empire. Now imagine he's...

This book tells the story of the case of Zimbabwean-born New Zealand resident George Gwaze, twice charged and twice acquitted of the rape and murde...

The laws that determine who pays whom in the digital world were written, by and large, at a time when music was distributed mainly via radio broadc...

A well-integrated, national biosurveillance enterprise is a national security imperative. The United States' ability to detect quickly and characte...

This book provides an overview of the National Export Strategy and U.S. government agencies that are involved in export promotion. The National Exp...

The National Mediation Board (NMB) was established under the Railway Labor Act to facilitate labor relations for railroads and airlines by mediatin...

In the aftermath of the information sharing failures leading to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New Yor...

The National Park Service (NPS) administers the National Park System, which covers 84.6 million acres of land and consists of 410 diverse units val...

This book reviews the current state of the U.S. market for natural disaster insurance and offers a high level overview of natural catastrophes, ins...

Recent expansion in natural gas production has made the resource an increasingly significant component in the U.S. energy market. Further, a number...

In February 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted an order that will impose rules governing the management of Internet traffic ...

New scenarios present in the sea require new legal and political approaches, because the rules governing these spaces have been out of place or new...

In law, intellectual property (IP) is a broad entitlement extending the concept of property beyond its materialist definitions to include informati...

A recent large advertisement in the New York Times paid for by the Central Bank of Nigeria warns readers of the ongoing professional scam operation...

During the continuing foreclosure crisis and economic downturn, increased numbers of vacant residential properties are becoming vandalised or dilap...

Media stories about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance pertain to the unauthorised disclosures of two different intelligence collection pr...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), created by Congress, began operating in 1975. Its mission is to regulate commercial and institutional...

Nutrients are elements essential to plant and animal growth. In agricultural production, the focus generally rests on the three primary macronutrie...

Responding to ongoing concerns over the state of U.S. cybersecurity, the Obama Administration released a report containing a proposal for significa...

Obstruction of justice is the frustration of governmental purposes by violence, corruption, destruction of evidence, or deceit. It is a federal cri...