Approximately 4 million to 5.5 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. entered the country legally on a temporary basis but then overstayed the...

This book addresses the new elements and legal issues pertaining to immigration enforcement in the United States. Topics include the scope of prose...

Immigration has indeed provided the lifeblood for the regulation of the American dream for tremendous numbers of Americans. It has provided an ongo...

During the past two years, the Congress has considered proposals to modify the nation's immigration system. The Border Security, Economic Opportuni...

International trade is a critical component of the U.S. economy, with U.S. merchandise imports and exports amounting to $2.2 trillion and $1.5 tril...

Arbitration is the process by which a difference among parties as to their mutual legal rights is referred and determined with a binding effect by ...

Pursuant to the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, every person accused of a crime is afforded the right to have counsel in his or her defen...

Since 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has required most individuals to maintain health insurance coverage or potential...

The over-representation of minority students in special education continues to be a persistent and challenging issue in education. This is a compli...

This book describes information security and data breach notification requirements included in the Privacy Act, the Federal Information Security Ma...

Since the early 1980s, there has been a historically unprecedented increase in the federal prison population. Some of the growth is attributable to...

The individual states have been the primary regulators of insurance since 1868. Following the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, this system has operated ...

This book provides background on intellectual property rights (IPR) and discusses the role of U.S. international trade policy in enhancing IPR prot...

Intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement in China reduces market opportunities and undermines the profitability of U.S. firms when sales of ...

Intellectual property rights (IPR) traditionally have been matters of national concern. Individual nation states have developed IPR regimes reflect...

Intellectual property rights (IPR) are legal rights granted by governments to encourage innovation and creative output by ensuring that creators re...

This book provides background on intellectual property rights (IPR) and discusses the role of U.S. international trade policy in enhancing IPR prot...

This book provides background on intellectual property rights (IPR) and discusses the role of U.S. international trade policy in enhancing IPR prot...

With the number of airplane passengers using U.S. airports expected to grow to almost 1 billion by the year 2015, ground access to U.S. airports ha...

The United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office commissioned two consultants to undertake an international comparison of approaches to online cop...

Malekian introduces two new terms into the system of international criminal law. These are the law of somebodiness and the law of nobodiness. From ...

This book addresses the international criminal law of children, which constitutes one of the major branches of public international criminal law. I...

U.S. trade obligations derive from international trade agreements, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the other World Tra...

This book presents a review of the federal criminal statutes implicated by conducting illegal gambling using the Internet. It also discusses some o...

This is a brief summary of the federal criminal status implicated by conducting illegal gambling using the Internet. It also discusses some of the ...

The Internet is often described as a "network of networks" because it is not a single physical entity, but hundreds of thousands of interconnected ...

This book addresses important issues at the intersection of copyright law and Internet policy. It is the result of a comprehensive, multi-year revi...

The financing of the federal government depends largely upon Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) ability to collect taxes, including providing taxpaye...

The Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) collection program largely uses automated processes to categorise and route unpaid tax or unfiled tax return c...

The Exempt Organizations (EO) unit within the Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE/GE) division at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reviews org...

It is widely held that foreign affairs, and more particularly issues of war and peace, lie beyond the scope of judicial scrutiny. In the recent cas...

Local television stations play an important role in educating, entertaining, and informing the citizens they serve. FCC limits the number of televi...

On 16 March 2016, President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) ...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...