Conflicting Landscapes: American Schooling/Alaska Natives

Conflicting Landscapes: American Schooling/Alaska Natives Review

Conflicting Landscapes: American Schooling/Alaska Natives Overview

This comprehensive illustrated volume presents a wide-ranging picture of the schooling of Alaska Native children from past to present. It explores the histories of changing philosophies of schooling and their effect on generations of Alaska Native students, details the situation—financial, social, and educational—of the many rural schools serving this population, and offers cogent, straightforward proposals for improving the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health of present and future generations of Alaska Natives.

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Out of Balance: Prescriptions for Reforming the American Litigation System

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Out of Balance: Prescriptions for Reforming the American Litigation System Overview

Why are there so many frivolous lawsuits? How much money does America waste on litigation every year? Out of Balance counts the cost of our out-of-control litigation system and identifies the legal procedures and economic incentives that effectively reward lawyers who pursue weak and even silly legal claims.

Using real world examples, Jonathan B. Wilson (an attorney and the general counsel of a publicly traded company) describes how the pursuit of attorneys’ fees rests at the heart of our litigation system. He recounts alternative proposals to change the law and sets out prescriptions for reform designed to deter cases that should never be filed and resolve those that are.

“[Out of Balance shows] how the American justice system front-loads scanty information, unpredictability, and the certainty of escalating legal costs to leverage weak or non-meritorious cases and victimize defendants of every kind.” —John H. Sullivan, President, Civil Justice Association of California

“Wilson takes an evenhanded approach to the subject of lawsuit reform, reporting in equal measure the clear evidence of America’s runaway tort system that favors trial lawyers and the alternatives for systemic procedural reform that will level the playing field for all participants in the legal system. . . . [Out of Balance is] a behind-the-scenes user’s guide for reform-minded business advocates and lawmakers who want to fight back and win.”—Steven B. Hantler, DaimlerChrysler

Out of Balance is an invaluable guide for changing our legal system and restoring its sense of balance and fairness.

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Constitutionalism and Native Americans, 1903-1968 (Native Americans and the Law: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on American Indian Rights, Freedoms, and Sovereignty)

Constitutionalism and Native Americans, 1903-1968 (Native Americans and the Law: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on American Indian Rights, Freedoms, and Sovereignty) Review

Constitutionalism and Native Americans, 1903-1968 (Native Americans and the Law: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on American Indian Rights, Freedoms, and Sovereignty) Overview

Brings together interdisciplinary analyses
This collection brings together for the first time more than 70 scholarly essays by tribal leaders, attorneys, legal scholars, anthropologists, and historians who illuminate the ambiguities, confusion, and judicial dilemmas of America's Indian tribes and their members.

Special focus on the Indian Bill of Rights
The first four volumes survey the development of Indian legal relationships within their communities and with the U.S. government, focusing on the 20th century when many legal precedents were set. The primary theme of the essays is on government attempts to make Native Americans fit within a federal legal framework.

Examines key points in Native American law
The last two volumes highlight important themes in Native American law. The first considers cultural and religious freedoms that have resulted in major legal confrontations between Native American societies and the federal government. The other examines the various legal nuances of tribal sovereignty.

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American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994

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American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994 Overview

The first of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Entries provide basic biographical and career information on more than 400 speakers. The book opens with an insightful analytical introduction and includes valuable statistical appendixes based on an exhaustive database.

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Rugged Justice: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941

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Rugged Justice: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 Overview

Few chapters in American judicial history have enjoyed as colorful a past as has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Created in 1891, its jurisdiction now encompasses California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska. David Frederick has mined archival sources, including court records and legal papers throughout the West and in Washington, D.C., to document the Ninth Circuit's first fifty years. His findings are much more than a record of the court, however, for they also provide a unique social and cultural history of the West. During these years, the court heard key cases involving railroads, the Alaska gold rush, Chinese immigration, organized labor, and use of natural resources. Many of the decisions from this period foreshadowed issues that are with us today. Frederick also documents the court's part in Western development and in issues relating to World War I, Prohibition, New Deal legislation, and the evolving role of federal judges. Frederick portrays the West's most important judicial institution with clarity and intelligence, reminding us that the evolution of the Ninth Circuit both reflected and affected the dramatic changes occurring in the West during the court's early years. This is a book that will appeal not only to lawyers, but to historians, sociologists, and general readers as well.

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