Before there were emails, instant messaging, and other forms of electronic communication, it was much easier for the courts to determine if a gover...

Some years ago, while a Senior Lecturer-in-Law at BPP University, one of my Master of Laws' students asked if he could write a dissertation in Mari...

Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir...

Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir...

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. courts have attempted, in a series of landmark cases, to resolve bitter conflicts over an individual's r...

Energy is a crucial factor for economic growth. The constant demand for energy resources has triggered the development of funding projects around t...

The goals of the National Environmental Policy Act are to declare a national environmental policy, provide federal agencies with action-forcing pro...

This edition comprises the full text of The Province of Jurisprudence Determined , a classic work of moral, political, and legal philosophy, includ...

This book is a critique and commentary on globalisation from a theological perspective. Drawing on the works of theologians such as Augustine, Rahn...

Title I of the Ticket to Work Program, administered by the Social Security Administration, is a program to enhance work incentives for Social Secur...

Trade liberalisation can enhance the economic welfare of all trade partners, but in adjusting to greater competition, many import- competing firms ...

This book makes an intensive review of the literature on trade liberalisation and its impacts on growth and distribution in developing countries. M...

The United States and many of its trading partners use laws known as trade remedies to mitigate the adverse impacts of various trade practices on d...

This book examines the state of China's trade agreements with various regions of the world and the strategy and rationale behind them. In its camp...

This book examines a wide range of issues related to traffic accidents including prevention, safety, prediction, precipitation, mitigation, and rel...

Street gangs have long been a concern to policy makers. The more recent emergence, growth, and expansion of two Latino street gangs, the Mara Salva...

The nation's air, land, and marine transportation systems are designed for accessibility and efficiency, two characteristics that make them vulnera...

Millions of Americans are unable to provide their own transportation or have difficulty accessing public transportation. Such transportation-disadv...

The United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) is taking a bold step in dealing with metropolitan area congestion by promoting and fundi...

This new translation of the Treatise on Law offers fidelity to the Latin in a readable new version that will prove useful to students of the natura...

This new translation of the Treatise on Law offers fidelity to the Latin in a readable new version that will prove useful to students of the natura...

In recent decades, Tribal Nations have faced significant problems in addressing public safety issues. Violent crime rates in Indian country are mor...

This book addresses the instances where bad actors extort money from innocent parties under the pretense of asserting intellectual property rights....

Each year, tens of thousands of aliens in the United States apply for asylum, which provides refuge to those who have been persecuted or fear perse...

Recent international negotiations and domestic policy developments have generated interest in current and projected U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emiss...

The process by which lower federal court judges are nominated by the President and considered by the Senate has, in recent decades, been of continu...

In the nearly 25 years since the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 authorised federal officials to implement a national asset forfeiture prog...

Chapter 1 reports on the U.S. drug supply and the complex way it is interwoven with multiple stakeholders involved in each step of the process. Whe...

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Export Enforcement arm of BIS protects U.S. national se...

Partner countries of free trade agreements (FTA) that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) selected -- the Dominican Republic-Central America...

This book provides a review on the supply and demand projections and federal planning efforts in the U.S. health care workforce, which includes pri...

Military health care professionals serve in a variety of settings, more diverse than is typically found in the civilian environment. The Military H...

This book provides background information and presents potential issues for Congress concerning the Navy‘s ship force-structure goals and shipbuild...

The United States is concurrently pursuing the goals of reducing the size of its nuclear weapons force -- strategic and non-strategic, deployed and...

Congressional interest in patent reform has increased as the patent system becomes more significant to U.S. industry. Patent ownership is perceived...

Congress designed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to be a self-supporting government agency. Since 1971, the agency has not relied upon annual appro...

Many congressional policy makers have maintained an ongoing interest in the adequacy of the number of U.S. scientists and engineers required to add...

Emerging trends indicate that the pace of economic espionage and trade secret theft against U.S. corporations is accelerating. There appears to be ...

Since 2012, there has been a rapid increase in the number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) apprehended at the U.S.-Mexican border. According t...

The "Great Recession" and the ensuing weak recovery have led the Federal Reserve (Fed) to re-evaluate its monetary policy. Since December 2008, ove...

Indigenous self-determination is the recognised right of all peoples to freely determine their political status, and pursue their economic, social ...

The States Parties to this Convention, prompted by the desire to settle, in a spirit of mutual understanding and co-operation, all issues relating ...

Book & CD-ROM. The United States Secret Service (USSS) is tasked with a zero-failure mission: to protect the President and other protectees at ...