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Kennedy A: Life, Law & Liberty

Life, Law & Liberty

A Memoir

Cornerstone on...

Inquests and inquiries form a distinct area of law in which the aim of the tribunal is to discover what happened, rather than who is right, wrong, or at fault. Cornerstone on Inquests and Inquiries provides an accessible, go-to guide to this area of practice, useful for both practitioners and parties involved. It looks at the field as a whole, acknowledging the commonalities between inquests and public inquiries, and providing a practical approach to each. The book also covers the field of parliamentary inquiries.

Cornerstone on Inquests and Inquiries

Going behind the scenes with a veteran member of the White House press corpsSteven L Herman, chief national correspondent for the nonpartisan, government-funded Voice of America (VOA), weaves together memoir and history to pull back the curtain on the inner workings of the White House press corps, giving readers a rare glimpse into the historic and current relationship between the president and the press.Herman traces the trajectory of his career as a journalist—from learning to be skeptical of government officials’ statements when he worked as a novice reporter covering nuclear testing in Nevada in the 1970s to understanding the power of on-the-ground social media coverage after the Fukushima disaster in 2011 and facing the challenges of covering the Trump administration. He reflects on the experience of reporting on a president who once called journalists “enemies of the people”—and indeed, former president Trump singled out VOA, accusing the organization of being not a voice of America but rather a voice supporting Moscow’s and Beijing’s interests. Under questionable circumstances, top VOA executives lost their security clearances, and a dossier was prepared on Herman in an effort to remove him as White House bureau chief. With journalistic independence under threat, Herman feared not only for his career but also for “the soul of Voice of America.”Throughout Behind the White House Curtain, Herman convincingly argues that public access to accurate, unbiased information is essential to a healthy and peaceful democracy, and that journalists can and should play a key role in pressing government officials to be truthful and transparent. At a time when misinformation is rampant and the need for unbiased coverage of current events is more urgent than ever, Herman reminds readers that freedom of the press is a foundational American right.

A Senior Journalist's Story of Covering the President--And Why It Matters

Behind the White House Curtain

About Daily Anxieties: A Month in the Life of an Ad Executive Was the phone on the cradle when you started your fusillade of profanity? Why aren't there retirement parties in your industry? Why does your alma mater publicly invest in every academic discipline except yours? These types of questions leap beyond the "Sunday scaries" that fluster people in other lines of work. They are the fodder of endless and indelible ruminations for advertising professionals, and they are the topic of this book. But Daily Anxieties is more than a catalogue of industry quirks -- it's a strangely comforting and witty companion for anyone who has ever survived a pitch week, navigated a client meltdown, or tried (and failed) to leave work at the office. For those already in advertising, these pages offer the warm reassurance that all the odd pressures, sleepless nights, and existential questions aren't personal flaws but shared occupational hazards. There's a certain relief in seeing your private frustrations reflected with honesty, humor, and just enough absurdity to make them feel survivable. For anyone thinking about entering the profession, this memoir doubles as an illuminating caveat. It presents the relentless pace, emotional whiplash, and institutional contradictions that often greet them once they arrive. It's an unvarnished look at what the business really demands, offering newcomers a clearer sense of the psychological terrain before they step onto it. Daily Anxieties is a month-long immersion into the questions, crises, and small victories that define life in advertising -- a mirror for insiders, and a reality check for those wondering whether to join them.

A Month in the Life of an AD Executive

Daily Anxieties

This book challenges the near-universal acceptance of a US-style, Western constitutional paradigm as the best basis for comparative constitutional studies. It does so on three main grounds: anachronism, 'othering' and cultural specificity. Main pillars of 'convergent constitutional theory' are rooted in the revolutionary, late-eighteenth century - a lost world; constitutional arrangements that deviate from the paradigm are often branded as 'outliers' or even as not constitutional at all; and the foundations of the paradigm in liberal democracy give no space for other forms of constitutionalism. Whatever the attractions of convergent theory as a normative ideal of good government, for the purposes of understanding, analysing and explaining constitutional systems it is far from ideal. This book discusses and questions: convergent theory's weddedness to writing as the technology of constitution-making; its image of a constitution as fundamental law; its idea that a constitution expresses the 'sovereignty of the people'; its use of tripartite separation of powers as the basic principle of institutional design; its relative neglect of administrative law; its association of 'rights' with judicially enforceable bills of rights; and its obsession with a vaguely specified concept of 'democracy'. It makes suggestions for alternative, preferable methods of understanding, analysing and explaining constitutions, and governmental and constitutional systems.

The Distorting Lens of Convergent Constitutional Theory

Routledge Research in Legal Philosophy

This book explores democratic development in Indonesia-the world's third-largest democracy after India and the United States. Through case studies, it looks at two rival versions of democracy-the republican form and the electoral form-and posits that electoral democracy is not sustainable without republican institutions, laws, and norms. In recent years, there has been growing instability in Indonesian democracy, with brutal fighting among political forces and deep polarization. This book contends that what needs to be explained is not the democratic decline in Indonesia but rather the deviant form of democracy that the country has been practicing since the fall of the military dictatorship. It is argued that in the last twenty-five years, Indonesia has practiced a Schumpeterian form of democracy with a heavy emphasis on election while neglecting the minimum threshold of a healthy republican form of democracy: political participation, equality of virtues, and the principle of nondomination. The book invites readers on an intellectual journey to explore the republican ideal through the lenses of philosophy, law, politics, and the history of the problem of democracy in Indonesia.

A Legal Philosophical Analysis

Democracy and the Rule of Law in Indonesia

Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory

A collection of essays from Dieter Grimm, Germany's most renowned constitutional scholar, shining a light on the jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court.

Between Law and Politics

Constitutional Courts and Judicial Review

From "the greatest generation" comes the true story of a World War II veteran and ordained minister whose public advocacy for social justice was segmented from his private life as a gay man. Steven C. Law's biography of the Rev. Robert W. Wood, The Story of Bob, is the story of a man before his time, who strove to live and love authentically and advocated for the gay community in church and society.The Rev. Robert W. Wood was a trailblazer in the LGBTQ rights movement. Active in the Mattachine Society, he published his book Christ and the Homosexual in 1960 under his own name at great risk. Rev. Wood participated in protests organized by Frank Kameny against the federal government's ban on gay employees. He pushed the United Church of Christ to embrace the cause of LGBTQ liberation. While he faced resistance, this struggle ultimately led to the formation of the UCC's Open and Affirming Coalition. The Story of Bob is based on interviews that the author, Steven C. Law, conducted with Rev. Wood. Law's lucid prose makes for a compelling, page-turning read.

The Story of Bob

This book presents cutting-edge analysis of one of the most significant constitutional crises in recent British history: the prolonged and intense struggle between government and parliament for control over Brexit. It argues the crisis was very largely caused by the emergence of an Executive-centric approach to governance it dubs 'Whitehall Plus', and the strong parliamentary-push back it both provoked and responded to. The book shows how the crisis exposed and widened deep fault-lines running through core doctrines and practices of the British constitution - profound disagreements long held unresolved and in abeyance, but which exploded into high-octane conflict during the period.

How Brexit Revealed Deep Fault-Lines in the British Constitution

Constitutional Fracture

This book offers the first ever in-depth analysis of the emerging constitutionalism in South Sudan and the challenges it faces. The book critically analyses the constitution-making processes that occurred in South Sudan between 2005 and 2011, finding, among other things, that there was a failure of constitutional discourse, particularly in relation to the 2011 drafting process of the Transitional Constitution. It goes on to analyse how the constitution is being implemented. It finds that, despite the clear division of powers and functions between the national government and the sub-national governments, what has emerged in South Sudan in the post-constitution-making period is a form of coercive centralism where the national government controls much of the political decision-making process. This has had serious implications for democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law. Finally, bearing in mind the failure in both how the transitional constitution was made and how it is being implemented, the book undertakes a critical analysis of the proposed process for drafting a new constitution for South Sudan. It identifies serious shortcomings and proposes how these could be addressed to enhance the process.

Challenges and Opportunities

Emerging Constitutionalism in South Sudan

The chapters in this book offer an analysis of the country’s constitutional identity from various perspectives. Constitutional identity has become a commonly used instrument in studying legal orders. This book understands such identity as an order’s core or fundamental elements or values as the expression of its individuality.
The contributions, written by legal experts in their respective fields, provide insights into Dutch constitutional identity by drawing on important constitutional concepts and arrangements, as well as relevant themes. This covers a wide range of topics, among them “democracy based on the rule of law”, “fundamental rights”, “the courts and the constitution”, “state and religion” and “law and digitalisation”.
The chapters provide a broad field of in-depth perspectives to not only inform and stimulate academic debate about their specific topics, but also about the country’s constitutional law as such. In addition to national and comparative constitutional law scholars, this collection will also be of value to lawyers and policymakers dealing with constitutional law and identity questions.
Gerhard van der Schyff is Associate Professor at Tilburg Law School, Department of Public Law and Governance in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Chapters 2 and 12 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Concepts, Arrangements and Themes

The Constitutional Identity of the Netherlands

In 1995, after hearing Madeleine Albright say on national television that she felt sacrificing 500,000 children to punish Saddam Hussein was “worth it,” Quaker pacifist Joseph Olejak became a political activist. As a form of civil disobedience, he refused to pay income tax, since his tax dollars would go to fund a war he opposed. This was the beginning of a twenty-year journey towards peace–initially by non-compliance with the military industrial complex. Sentenced to 26 weekends in the county jail for failure to pay income taxes, Olejak kept a journal and wrote about his experiences, as well as his growing awareness of peace, justice, and the U.S. prison system.&nbsp;

A Quaker Journal of Resistance

26 Weekends in County Jail

The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son

Gambling Man

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