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Dangerous Leaders Rules, Paper, Status Emptied Lands
How and Why Lawyers Must Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy A Legal Geography of
Be Taught to Lead in Contemporary Italy Bedouin Rights in the Negev
Anthony C. Thompson Anna Tuckett Alexandre Kedar,
Dangerous Leaders exposes the Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in Ahmad Amara, and
risks and results of leaving lawyers Italy, one of Europe’s biggest receiving Oren Yiftachel
unprepared to lead. It provides countries, Rules, Paper, Status reveals Emptied Lands investigates the
law schools, law students, and the how migration actually plays out on protracted legal, planning, and
legal profession with the leadership the ground. Anna Tuckett highlights territorial conflict between the
tools and models to build a better the complex processes of inclusion settler Israeli state and indigenous
foundation of leadership acumen. and exclusion produced through Bedouin citizens over traditional
Anthony C. Thompson draws from encounters with immigration law. lands in southern Israel/Palestine.
his fifteen years of experience in The statuses of “legal” or “illegal,” The authors place this dispute in
global executive education for which media and political accounts historical, legal, geographical, and
Fortune 100 companies and his use as synonyms for “good” and international-comparative perspec-
experience as a law professor to “bad,” are not created by practices of tives, providing the first legal
chart a path forward for better border-crossing, but rather through geographic analysis of the “dead
leadership instruction within the legal and bureaucratic processes Negev doctrine” used by Israel to
legal academy. Using vivid, real-life within borders devised by governing dispossess and forcefully displace
case studies, Thompson explores states. Taking migrants’ interactions Bedouin inhabitants in order to
catastrophic political, business, and with immigration regimes as her Judaize the region. The authors
legal failures that have occurred starting point, Tuckett argues that reveal that through manipulative
precisely because of a lapse in successfully navigating Italian use of Ottoman, British and Israeli
leadership from those with legal immigration bureaucracy requires laws, the state has constructed its
training. He maintains that these and induces culturally specific own version of terra nullius. Yet, the
practices are chronic leadership modes of behavior. indigenous property and settlement
failures that could have been “A must-read for immigration scholars system still functions, creating an
avoided and proposes a fundamen- and anyone interested in the day-to-day ongoing resistance to the Jewish
tal rethinking of legal education. workings of street-level bureaucrats state. Emptied Lands critically
Dangerous Leaders imparts invaluable and the myriad ways they make law examines several key land claims,
tools and lessons to best equip and, in the process, transform immi- court rulings, planning policies and
current and future generations of grants into ‘cultural citizens.’ ”
development strategies, offering
legal leaders. —Kitty Calavita, alternative local, regional, and
University of California, Irvine
216 pages, August 2018 international routes for justice.
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The Political Erosion of the the American Constitution Witnesses of the Unseen
Voting Rights Act A Democratic Paradox Seven Years in Guantanamo
Jesse H. Rhodes Martin H. Redish Lakhdar Boumediene and
Over the past five decades, both Mustafa Ait Idir
The Framers of the American
Democrats and Republicans in Constitution established a judicial This searing memoir shares the
Congress have consistently voted branch to protect and enforce trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar
to expand the protections offered constitutional limits. They recognized Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir’s
by the Voting Rights Act. And yet, that, paradoxically, only a counter- time inside America’s most notorious
the administration of the VRA has majoritarian judicial branch can prison. In 2001, they were arrested
become more fragmented, and ensure the continued vitality of our in Bosnia, wrongly accused of par-
judicial interpretation of its terms has representational government. ticipating in a terrorist plot. Instead
become much less generous. of being freed, they were sent to
This paradox of American democracy Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and held in
Ballot Blocked argues that conservatives has been challenged and often ignored outdoor cages as the now-infamous
adopt a paradoxical strategy in which by office holders and legal scholars. prison was built around them.
they acquiesce to expansive voting Martin H. Redish defends the
rights protections in Congress (where For seven years, they endured torture,
centrality of these special protections
decisions are visible and easily trace- harassment, force-feedings, and
of judicial independence. He explains
able) while simultaneously narrowing beatings. In 2008, the Supreme Court
how the nation’s system of counter-
the scope of federal enforcement via issued a landmark ruling in their case,
majoritarian constitutionalism cannot
administrative and judicial maneuvers Boumediene v. Bush, confirming
survive absent the vesting of final
(which are less visible and harder to Guantanamo detainees’ constitutional
powers of constitutional interpretation
trace). Over time, this strategy has right to challenge their detention.
and enforcement in the one branch
enabled a conservative Supreme Court Weeks later, the federal judge who
of government expressly protected by
to exercise preponderant influence heard their case, stunned by the
the Constitution from direct political
over the scope of federal enforcement. absence of evidence against them,
accountability: the judicial branch.
ordered their release. Now living in
“Bold and richly detailed. Rhodes “Ignore Redish at your peril. This Europe and rebuilding their lives,
provides timely and crucial new well-written and accessible book is
insights into the Voting Rights Act’s Lakhdar and Mustafa share a story
sure to be oft-cited for decades.”
evolution and undoing.” that every American ought to know.
—Charles Geyh,
—Vesla Weaver, Maurer School of Law, “An intense, important read.”
Yale University Indiana University —Kirkus Reviews
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Stanford Briefs 9
The Economic Approach Bureaucratic Intimacies Campaigning for Children
to Law Translating Human Rights in Turkey Strategies for Advancing
Third Edition Children’s Rights
Elif M. Babül
Thomas J. Miceli Jo Becker
Human rights are politically fraught
The third edition of this seminal in Turkey, provoking suspicion and Campaigning for Children focuses
textbook is thoroughly updated scrutiny among government workers. on contemporary children’s rights,
to include recent cases and the Nevertheless, Turkey’s human rights identifying the range of abuses that
latest scholarship, with particular record remains a key indicator of its affect children today, including early
attention paid to torts, contracts, governmental legitimacy. Bureaucratic marriage, female genital mutilation,
property rights, and the economics Intimacies shows how government child labor, sex trafficking, corporal
of crime. A new chapter organization, workers encounter human rights punishment, the impact of armed
ideal for quarter- or semester-long rhetoric through training programs conflict, and access to education. Jo
courses, strengthens the book’s focus and articulates the perils and prom- Becker traces the last 25 years of the
on unifying themes in the field. As ises of these encounters. Drawing on children’s rights movement, including
Miceli tells a cohesive, analytical years of participant observation in the evolution of international laws
“story” about law from a distinctly programs for police officers, judges and standards to protect children
economic perspective, exercises and prosecutors, healthcare workers, from abuse and exploitation. From
and problems encourage students and prison personnel, Elif M. Babül a practitioner’s perspective, Becker
to deepen their knowledge. A argues that the European Union provides readers with careful case
companion website with a full accession process does not always studies of the organizations and
suite of resources for both students advance human rights. Translation campaigns that are making a difference
and professors is available at of human rights into a tool of good in the lives of children.
sup.org/economiclaw. governance leads to competing “This book examines initiatives
“Miceli’s carefully written text is rich understandings of what human and strategies to show that change
with many well-selected examples. rights should do, not necessarily to for children is possible, and that
It covers the basic areas of law— liberal, transparent, and accountable remarkable transformation is achiev-
torts (accidents), contracts, crime, governmental practices. able. Campaigning for Children,
property, and litigation—as well as with its most compelling evidence,
the subject of antitrust, and furnishes “ Bureaucratic Intimacies makes a will go a long way in ensuring that
a valuable guide to students for totally fresh contribution into how human rights of children are
further reading. I know of no better European Union harmonization protected worldwide.”
book for its intended audience.” and human rights education seminars
—Kailash Satyarthi,
actually function.” Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
—Steven Shavell, —Esra Özyürek, and Children’s Rights Activist
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