Judge Knot

Author : Todd N. Tucker
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783087935
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judge Knot written by Todd N. Tucker and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS. Since 1990, investors have launched hundreds of claims against government regulation. This exclusive inside look explains what makes the system tick: its poorly understood centuries-old origins, why corporations demand investment law solutions to political problems, how arbitrators supply these solutions, and why the system lasts despite the many politicians and citizens unhappy with it. Building off of an unprecedented set of interviews with the arbitrators who actually decide the cases, ‘Judge Knot’ brings together the best of political science, law and development economics scholarship and offers a concrete alternative to ISDS that leverages what works about the system and discards what does not, so that international law can be more supportive of democracy and development goals.

Author : Mara Leveritt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471131076
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil's Knot written by Mara Leveritt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers. For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stumped. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers - alleged members of a satanic cult - with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials and a case that included stunning investigative blunders, the teenagers, who became known as the West Memphis Three, were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state - even upheld on appeal - and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. In Devil's Knot, award-winning investigative journalist Mara Leveritt presents the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on this story - one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history. In-depth research, meticulous reconstruction of the investigation and close-up views of its key participants unravel the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case.

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Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Hutchinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456846574
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judge Me Knot written by Julian Hutchinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after WW II, Paul Knot, U.S. Marine Corps hero, becomes a blackmail target of Harv, a vulgar creep, seeking the fortune Paul may have illegally accumulated prior to becoming a born again Christian. As an old, experienced live theater consultant, Paul defends himself with his wits, moral beliefs and theatrical abilities. Other major characters in the story are: Ellie, a mysterious theater novice; Willie, an incognito FBI Agent; and Tammy, a hard living actress who becomes Pauls platonic friend and ultimately accepts Christ as her savior. Various chapters of Judge me Knot are written by the characters themselves describing their inter-connections with Paul. The storys moral issues are: judge others by what they are now, not what they once were; and real love lasts forever.

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593157842
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Judge's List written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal). In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims. Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law. He is a judge, in Florida—under Lacy’s jurisdiction. He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list? The Judge’s List is by any measure John Grisham’s most surprising, chilling novel yet. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

Author : Margaret Maron
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892964451
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bootlegger's Daughter written by Margaret Maron and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smart, sassy series introduces Deborah Knott, candidate for district judge--and daughter of an infamous bootlegger. Deborah's campaigning is interrupted when disturbing new evidence surrrounding a murder that has never been solved surfaces and she is implored to investigate.

Author : Sharina Harris
Publisher : Kensington
ISBN 13 : 1496725654
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judge's Girls written by Sharina Harris and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three very different women. Only one thing in common. But when their family patriarch dies and they must share his estate, the truths they discover will test them--and everything they think they know about each other. Beloved Georgia judge Joseph Donaldson was known for his unshakable fairness, his hard-won fortune--and a scandalous second marriage to his much-younger white secretary. Now he's left a will with a stunning provision. In order to collect their inheritance, his lawyer daughter Maya, her stepmother Jeanie, and Jeanie's teen daughter, Ryder, must live together at the family lake house. Maya and Jeanie don't exactly get along, but they reluctantly agree to try an uneasy peace for as long as it takes... But fragile ex-beauty queen Jeanie doesn't know who she is beyond being a judge's wife--and drinking away her insecurities has her in a dangerous downward spiral. Fed up with her mother's humiliating behavior, Ryder tries to become popular at school in all the wrong ways. And when Maya attempts to help, she puts her successful career and her shaky love life at risk. Now with trouble they didn't see coming--and secrets they can no longer hide--these women must somehow find the courage to admit their mistakes, see each other for who they really are--and slowly, perhaps even joyfully, discover everything they could be.

Author : Mara Leveritt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781499175752
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Spell written by Mara Leveritt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jason's story illuminates the many ways America's justice system can go wrong and fight-often with a vengeance-to sustain that wrong. It celebrates the ordinary heroes who rose up, using art and new technology to challenge trials they saw as mockeries of justice"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Nicolás M. Perrone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192606743
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination written by Nicolás M. Perrone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign investors have a privileged position under investment treaties. They enjoy strong rights, have no obligations, and can rely on a highly efficient enforcement mechanism: investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Unsurprisingly, this extraordinary status has made international investment law one of the most controversial areas of the global economic order. This book sheds new light on the topic, by showing that foreign investor rights are not the result of unpredicted arbitral interpretations, but rather the outcome of a world-making project realized by a coalition of business leaders, bankers, and their lawyers in the 1950s and 1960s. Some initiatives that these figures planned for did not emerge, such as a multilateral investment convention, but they were successful in developing a legal imagination that gradually occupied the space of international investment law. They sought not only to set up a dispute settlement mechanism but also to create a platform to ground their vision of foreign investment relations. Tracing their normative project from the post-World War II period, this book shows that the legal imagination of these business leaders, bankers, and lawyers is remarkably similar to present ISDS practice. Common to both is what they protect, such as foreign investors' legitimate expectations, as well as what they silence or make invisible. Ultimate, this book argues that our canon of imagination, of adjustment and potential reform, remains closely associated with this world-making project of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Justice of the Peace written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: