This encyclopedia fills a much-needed gap between legal texts focusing on the theory and history behind the law and more practical guides dealing with the law and its everyday effect upon its citizens. Containing approximately 200 articles, the Encyclopedia includes: brief descriptions of each issue's historical background, covering important statutes and cases; profiles of various U.S. laws and regulations; and details of how laws and regulations...

This series centers on the specific projects, tasks, and activities in which businesspeople currently engage. This volume focuses on the topic of global business law.

This book surveys the size, scope, and nature of government surveillance in 21st-century America, with a particular focus on technology-enabled surveillance and its impact on privacy and other civil liberties.

Offers multiple perspectives on momentous events. This volume provides a review of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education US Supreme Court case which discusses Jim Crow, the genesis of "separate but equal" in constitutional law, how the two Brown decisions changed race relations in the United States, and the history of human rights legislation.