To Hunt a Killer
By Julie Mackay
- Release Date : 23 June 2022
- Genre: True Crime
The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice....
Manifesting Justice
By Valena Beety
- Release Date : 31 May 2022
- Genre: Social Science
“Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement.” —Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School, author of The Feminist War on Crime Through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh Stubbs—a woman denied a fair trial in 2000 largely due to her sexual orientation—innocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project Valena Beety examines the failu...
Chums
By Simon Kuper
- Release Date : 28 April 2022
- Genre: Political Science
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top. 'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters' Matthew Parris 'A sparkling firework of a book' Lynn Barber, Spectator 'Exquisite and depressing in equal measure' Matthew Syed, Sunday Times Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black ...
The Other Dr. Gilmer
By Benjamin Gilmer
- Release Date : 01 March 2022
- Genre: True Crime
A powerful true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time “A remarkable medical detective story–cum–memoir, grippingly told . . . I was drawn in by every part of it.”—Atul Gawande, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal Fresh out of medical residency, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer joined a rural North Carolina clinic only to find that its previous doctor shared his last name. Dr. Vince Gilmer was loved and respected by the community—right up unt...
Forensic Investigations and Fraud Reporting in India
By Sandeep Baldava
- Release Date : 31 January 2022
- Genre: Business & Economics
About the book Frauds and economic crime rates remain at a record high, impacting more and more companies in diverse ways than ever before. The only way to reduce the impact of such frauds is to get a detailed understanding of the subject and adopt preventive measures instead of reactive measures. Fraud reporting is one of the most important themes in the current corporate governance scenario. Considering the importance of this area, various regulators have come out with reporting requirements in the recent past with an aim to ensure adequate and timely reporting of frauds. In this context, understanding of the roles and r...
Research Handbook on Law and Marxism
By O’Connell, Paul
- Release Date : 14 December 2021
- Genre: Law
This Research Handbook offers unparalleled insights into the large-scale resurgence of interest in Marx and Marxism in recent years, with contributions devoted specifically to Marxist critiques of law, rights, and the state....
Research Handbook on Economic Sanctions
By van Bergeijk, Peter A.G.
- Release Date : 10 December 2021
- Genre: Business & Economics
Peter van Bergeijk brings together 40 leading experts from all continents to analyze state-of-the-art data covering the sharp increase in (smart) sanctions in the last decade. Original chapters provide detailed analyses on the determinants of sanction success and failure, complemented with research on the impact of sanctions....
EU Market Abuse Regulation
By Kalss, Susanne
- Release Date : 07 December 2021
- Genre: Law
This comprehensive Commentary examines the implications of the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation, introduced following the 2008 financial crisis after gaps were identified in the existing regulatory framework. It explores whether and how the Regulation achieves its aims of preserving the integrity of financial markets by preventing insider dealing and market manipulation, providing a harmonised legal framework, and increasing legal certainty for all market participants....
Digital Lawyering
By Emma Jones
- Release Date : 30 November 2021
- Genre: Law
In today’s rapidly changing legal landscape, becoming a digital lawyer is vital to success within the legal profession. This textbook provides an accessible and thorough introduction to digital lawyering, present and future, and a toolkit for gaining the key attributes and skills required to utilise technology within legal practice effectively. Digital technologies have already begun a radical transformation of the legal profession and the justice system. Digital Lawyering introduces students to all key topics, from the role of blockchain to the use of digital evidence in courtrooms, supported by contemporary case studie...
Keeping Races in Their Places
By Anthony W. Orlando
- Release Date : 30 November 2021
- Genre: Business & Economics
"A book perfect for this moment" –Katherine M. O’Regan, Former Assistant Secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development More than fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, American cities remain divided along the very same lines that this landmark legislation explicitly outlawed. Keeping Races in Their Places tells the story of these lines—who drew them, why they drew them, where they drew them, and how they continue to circumscribe residents’ opportunities to this very day. Weaving together sophisticated statistical analyses of more than a century’s worth of data with an engaging, accessi...
Mergers, Acquisitions and International Financial Regulation
By Daniele D'Alvia
- Release Date : 30 November 2021
- Genre: Business & Economics
This is a much-needed work in the financial literature, and it is the first book ever to analyse the use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from a theoretical and practical perspective. By the end of 2020, more than 240 SPACs were listed in the US (on NASDAQ or the NYSE), raising a record $83 billion. The SPAC craze has been shaking the US for months, mainly because of its simplicity: a bunch of investors decides to buy shares at a fixed price in a company that initially has no assets. In this way, a SPAC, also known as a "blank check company", is created as an empty shell with lots of money to spend on a cor...
B.com Corporate Accounting Notes
By Vinod Kumar (Educator)
- Release Date : 27 November 2021
- Genre: Business & Economics
B.com Corporate Accounting Notes covers the share capital, redeemable share accounts, debenture accounts, underwriting of shares, right shares, bonus shares, profit prior the incorporation, managerial remuneration, final accounts of company and liquidation of company in detail. I hope, this notes will be helpful for you for increasing your understanding in corporate accounting and also cover your syllabus in B.Com relating to this subject....
The Case for Vaccine Mandates
By Alan Dershowitz
- Release Date : 26 October 2021
- Genre: Health & Fitness
In The Case for Vaccine Mandates, Alan Dershowitz—New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—makes an argument, against the backdrop of ideologically driven and politicized objections, for mandating (with medical exceptions) vaccinations as a last resort, if proved necessary to prevent the spread of COVID. Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights” by Newsweek. ...
Ex Post Evaluation of Competition Cases
By Assimakis Komninos
- Release Date : 13 October 2021
- Genre: Law
Competition authorities use ex post evaluation of enforcement decisions to help determine if an intervention (or non-intervention) has achieved its objectives – and, if not, the reasons it failed to do so – thus allowing for improvement in the design and use of techniques used in the analysis underpinning the decision. In this essential volume, expert contributors use this procedure to provide a neutral and extensive assessment of cases that have significantly shaped European Union (EU) competition law enforcement. With in-depth analysis of foundational cases of EU competition law and the methodologies that have been d...
Becoming Abolitionists
By Derecka Purnell
- Release Date : 05 October 2021
- Genre: Social Science
"An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment." — Starred Review, Kirkus "With deep insight and moral clarity, Purnell invites us not only to imagine a world without police, but to muster the courage to fight for the more just world we know is possible. Becoming Abolitionists is essential reading for our times." — Michelle Alexander, bestselling author of The New Jim Crow "At once specific and sweeping, practical and visionary, Becoming Abolitionists is a triumph of political imagination and a tremendous gift to all movements struggling towards libera...