The Image of the City
The Image of the City

Author: Kevin Lynch

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1964-06-15

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780262620017

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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations
Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations

Author: James L. Gibson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-05-26

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1400830605

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In recent years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. In these heated confirmation fights, candidates' legal and political philosophies have been subject to intense scrutiny and debate. Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations examines one such fight--over the nomination of Samuel Alito--to discover how and why people formed opinions about the nominee, and to determine how the confirmation process shaped perceptions of the Supreme Court's legitimacy. Drawing on a nationally representative survey, James Gibson and Gregory Caldeira use the Alito confirmation fight as a window into public attitudes about the nation's highest court. They find that Americans know far more about the Supreme Court than many realize, that the Court enjoys a great deal of legitimacy among the American people, that attitudes toward the Court as an institution generally do not suffer from partisan or ideological polarization, and that public knowledge enhances the legitimacy accorded the Court. Yet the authors demonstrate that partisan and ideological infighting that treats the Court as just another political institution undermines the considerable public support the institution currently enjoys, and that politicized confirmation battles pose a grave threat to the basic legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

Contemplating Courts
Contemplating Courts

Author: Lee Epstein

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0871879824

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Seventeen thought-provoking essays in this sophisticated yet accessible reader demonstrate how political scientists conduct research on law, courts, and the judicial process, and at the same time answer interesting, substantive questions. Illustrating the breadth and depth of judicial politics studies, the essays convey to students the array of contemporary thinking -- both theoretical and methodological -- at work in the field. The book's five parts cover subjects taught in most judicial politics courses. Because each chapter stands alone, instructors have the flexibility of assigning less than the whole book or chapters in a different order. Topics examined range from information used by voters electing judges to the credibility of victims of sexualized violence. Accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, Contemplating Courts offers fascinating views into both the law and courts field and the research process itself. Epstein provides in the first chapter an overview of the key elements of judicial process research and defines key terms. Technical notes and methodology appendices offer students additional guidance.

WIPO Collection of Leading Judgments on Intellectual Property Rights: Members of the African Intellectual Property Organization (1997-2018) / Collection OMPI des jugements les plus déterminants en matière de propriété intellectuelle Membres de l’Organisation africaine de la propriété intellectuelle (1997-2018)
WIPO Collection of Leading Judgments on Intellectual Property Rights: Members of the African Intellectual Property Organization (1997-2018) / Collection OMPI des jugements les plus déterminants en matière de propriété intellectuelle Membres de l’Organisation africaine de la propriété intellectuelle (1997-2018)

Author: World Intellectual Property Organization

Publisher: WIPO

Published: 2023-03-08

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9280534912

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This casebook of selected judgments from the member states of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) is the second volume in the WIPO Collection of Leading Judgments on Intellectual Property Rights. This collection gives the global intellectual property (IP) community access to landmark judgments from jurisdictions that are among the most dynamic litigation venues or whose jurisprudence is not readily available to an international audience, through a succession of volumes that illustrate IP adjudication approaches and trends by jurisdiction or by theme. / Ce recueil de décisions retenues par les États membres de l’Organisation africaine de la propriété intellectuelle (OAPI) est le second volume de la Collection OMPI des jugements les plus déterminants en matière de propriété intellectuelle. La collection de l’OMPI, qui consiste en une série visant à illustrer dans chaque volume les approches et les tendances concernant la détermination des droits de propriété intellectuelle, par système juridique ou par thème, permet à la communauté mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle d’avoir accès aux jugements les plus déterminants rendus dans certains des systèmes juridiques les plus dynamiques au monde ou dont la jurisprudence n’est pas facilement accessible au public à l’échelon international.

The American Courts
The American Courts

Author: John Boatner Gates

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13:

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In 18 original commentaries, scholars address the seminal issues in American judicial research--the nexus between policymaking and judicial decisionmaking, the impact of external pressures on the courts, the intricacies of judicial recruitment, and the forces that drive policy innovation. ISBN 0-87187-541-1 (pbk.): $23.95.