Bill Ong Hing

In the past three decades, images of undocumented immigrants pouring across the southern border have driven the immigration debate and policies have been implemented in response to those images. In this book, the author discusses the major immigration policy areas - undocumented immigration, the deportation of long-time residents, kinship versus employment-based immigration, national security, and how and why we should be integrating new immigrants. This book is about thinking through policies from a calm, moral perspective, challenging us to do the right thing as a society.

Jane Stromseth, David Wippman, Rosa Brooks

Why is it so difficult to promote stability and democracy in societies such as Iraq and Afghanistan? In Can Might Make Rights?, the authors show how an excessively narrow understanding of 'the rule of law' has led policy-makers to fund short-sighted and self-undermining programs. The authors argue for a new 'synergistic' approach to creating the rule of law in conflict-ridden and transitional societies, highlighting the interconnectedness of security, human rights, justice institutions and culture in the quest to create the 'rule of law'.

Edited by Philip Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Todd M. La Porte, Erwann Michel-Kerjan

A glaring deficit in disaster preparedness in the United States and other countries is the vulnerability of critical services. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, hurricane Katrina, and the 2003 electric power blackout all demonstrated that private sector firms must quickly be able to re-establish electricity, telephone, water, transportation, and other critical services. Unfortunately, competitive pressures on firms and the lack of government incentives result in grossly inadequate investments in robustness and resilience. Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response describes public policies and business strategies to improve public safety and security.

Brian Tamanaha

The contemporary U.S. legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This book identifies the underlying source of these battles in the spread of the instrumental view of law - the idea that law is purely a means to an end. The book presents an intellectual history of the U.S. legal culture that elaborates on the various developments that have led to and structure the present worrisome legal-political situation.

Edited by Wendy Wagner, Rena Steinzor

Concern about the corruption of science by special interests is widespread at the highest levels of academia and such elite institutions as the National Academy of Sciences. Yet the vast majority of scientists and other participants in policymaking are only dimly aware of these developments. Rescuing Science from Politics is intended to alert these specialists, as well as the public at large, to troublesome trends that threaten scientists and their research in the areas of environmental quality, protection of natural resources, drug and food safety, and global climate change.

Carl F. Cranor

Personal injury law is changing before our eyes, but citizens are unaware of it because of the complex scientific and legal issues involved. To understand this transformation the book introduces legal issues to non-experts and some of the scientific issues to non-scientists. It then uses this background to show how the interaction of these two institutions can substantially and often adversely affect citizens' lives because courts are not understanding scientific evidence and reasoning.

Edited by David Little, Corporate Author Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution shares the experiences of 16 such remarkable religious peacemakers who have put their lives on the line in conflicts around the world — from Israel-Palestine to Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Sudan, South Africa, El Salvador, Indonesia — and beyond. For each of them, religious texts and traditions have served both as a source of inspiration and as a practical resource in resolv ing conflict.

Edited by Daniel A. Bell, Jean-Marc Coicaud

This collection is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It aims to delineate the major ethical challenges faced by human rights INGOs as they go about trying to do good in the world, and puts forward suggestions for dealing with those challenges. This topical book will be of interest to those thinking about human rights and global justice and it can provide practical guidance for those trying to implement human rights in effective ways.

Alasdair Roberts

This book examines the evolution of the move toward openness in government. It looks at how technology has aided the disclosure and dissemination of information. The author tackles the question of whether the drive for transparency has stemmed the desire for government secrecy and discusses how many governments ignore or frustrate the legal requirements for the release of key documents. Blacked Out is an important contribution during a time where profound changes in the structure of government are changing access to government documents.

Michele Goodwin

This book offers a contemporary view of organ and tissue supply and demand. It is the first book of its kind to fully engage race in the debate about organ procurement. The book explores the legal, racial, and social nuances of institutionalized procurement schemes, suggesting that the best alternative model for procurement is a market approach. Black Markets contends that exclusive reliance on the present altruistic tissue and organ procurement processes in the United States is not only rife with problems, but also improvident.