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Sexual harassment remains a prevalent issue in the legal profession. Such harassment has serious implications for lawyers and legal employers, resulting in emotional, physical, and social consequences; lost productivity; increased turnover; impaired reputations; and greater risk of liability and litigation expenses. This newly updated and expanded Sex-Based Harassment, Second Edition manual provides an overview of the definition of sex-based harassment and the essential elements and assists legal employers with initiatives to effectively respond to sex-based harassment.
In this book, Amr Osman seeks to expand and re-interpret what we know about the history and doctrine of the Ẓāhirī madhhab. Based on an extensive prosopographical survey, he concludes that the founder, Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī, was closer in profile and doctrine to the Ahl al-Ra’y than to the Ahl al-Ḥadīth. Furthermore, Ibn Ḥazm al-Andalusī may have had a damaging effect on the madhhab, which never actually developed into a full-fledged school of law. By examining the meaning of ‘ẓāhir’ and modern scholarship on ‘literalism’, he challenges the view that Ẓāhirism was literalist, proposing ‘textualism’ as an accurate reflection of its premises, methodology, and goals as a hermeneutical and legal theory.
Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, students and community DJs turned to college radio to defy the mainstream—and they ended up disrupting popular music and commercial radio in the process. In this first history of US college radio, Katherine Rye Jewell reveals that these eclectic stations in major cities and college towns across the United States owed their collective cultural power t...
An exploration of the distribution of powers and responsibilities in 11 federal systems.
There's an old saying: Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. Yet for most people
In Dollars for Dixie, Katherine Rye Jewell demonstrates how conservative southern industrialists pursued a political campaign to preserve regional economic arrangements.