Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Law and Ethics in the Medical Office (Including Bioethical Issues). By Marcia A. Lewis and Carol D. Warden (F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, Pa.) (1983) 227 pp., $12.95.
Handbook of Health, Health Care, and the Health Professions. Edited by David Mechanic (Free Press, New York, N.Y.) (1983) 806 pp., $4995.
The Healing Heart: Antidotes to Panic and Helplessness. By Norman Cousins. W.W. Norton and Company, New York, N.Y.) (1983) 302 pp., $13.95.
Testifying in Court: A Guide for Physicians. By Jack E. Horsley, with John Carlova (Medical Economics Books, Oradell, N.J.) (1983) 142 pp., $22.95.     

Book Reviews

The Vital Probe . By I.S. Cooper, M.D. (W.W. Norton & Co., New York) (1981) 346 pp.
Medical Ethics and the Low_: Impactions for Public Policy. Edited by Marc D. Hiller, Dr. P.H. (Ballinger Publishing Co., Cambridge, Mass.) (1981)471 pp.
Forensic Radiology . By K.T. Evans and B. Knight (Blackwell Publishers, London, distributed by C.V. Mosby, St. Louis) (1981) 212 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article:
DEVELOPMENTS IN TENDER OFFERS FOR CORPORATE CONTROL Edward Ross Aranow, Herbert A. Einhorn and George Berlstein. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. 411.
THE CHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE FOR BUSINESS David B. Burks. Dallas, Texas: Gospel Teachers Publications, 1978.
THE PAPERS OF JOHN MARSHALL (VOLUME II) Charles T. Cullen and Herbert A. Johnson, editors. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1977. Pp. 547.
THE AGES OF AMERICAN LAW Grant Gilmore. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. 154.
LEGAL SYSTEMS Blair J. Kolasa and Bernadine Meyer. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Pp. 643.
BUSINESS LAW: TEXT AND CASES Burt A. Leete. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. Pp. 949.
C. P. A. BUSINESS LAW REVIEW G. B. Lowe. Cincinnati, Ohio: South-Western Publishing Co., 1978. Pp. 296.
BUSINESS LAW: PRINCIPLES AND CASES, FOURTH UCC Edition. Harold F. Lusk, Charles M. Hewitt, John D. Donnell, and A. James Barnes. Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1978. Pp. 1365.
PLANNING WITHOUT PRICES Bernard H. Siegan, Editor. Lexington, Mass.; D. C. Heath and Company, 1977. Pp. 191.
BUSINESS LAW, UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, Fourth Edition Len Young Smith and G. Gale Roberson. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1977. Pp. 1123 plus 265 pp. appendix.
LEGAL PERSPECTIVES OF AMERICAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS Arthur D. Wolfe and Frederick J. Naffziger. Columbus, Ohio: Grid Publishing, Inc., 1977. Pp. 723.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development , edited by Adrian J. Bradbrook, Rosemary Lyster, Richard Ottinger and Wang Xi , published by Cambridge University Press, 2005, 630pp, £75.00, hardback.
Fresh Water and International Economic Law , edited by Edith Brown Weiss, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder , published by Oxford University Press, 2005, 506pp, £70.00, hardback.
Handbook of Global Environmental Politics , edited by Peter Dauvergne , published by Edward Elgar, 2005, 560pp, £125.00, hardback.
Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance , edited by Norichika Kanie and Peter M. Haas , published by United Nations University Press, 2004, 320pp, US$36.00, paperback.
Economic Globalization and Compliance with International Environmental Agreements edited by Alexandre Kiss, Dinah Shelton and Kanami Ishibashi , published by Kluwer Law International, 2003, 352pp, £85.00, hardback.
German Environmental Law for Practitioners , edited by Horst Schlemminger and Claus-Peter Martens , 2nd edition, published by Kluwer Law International, 2004, 833pp, £119.25, hardback.
The International Climate Change Regime: A Guide to Rules, Institutions and Procedures , Farhana Yamin and Joanna Depledge , published by Cambridge University Press, 2004, 730pp, £40.00, paperback.     

THE BOOKSHELF

FAMILY LAW: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE , by Howard H. Irving, Ph.D. (Ed.)
SURVIVING THE BREAKUP, HOW CHILDREN AND PARENTS COPE WITH DIVORCE , By Judith S. Wallerstein and Joan Berlin Kelly
FAMILY VIOLENCE , By George Thorman     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article:
Health and Human Values: A Guide to Making Your Own Decisions. By Frank Harron, John Burnside, and Tom Beauchamp (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.) (1983) 194 pp., $24.95 (cloth), $6.95 (paper).
Medical Risk Management: Preventive Legal Strategies for Health Care Providers. By Edward P. Richards, III, J.D., and Katherine C. Rathbun, M.D. (Aspen Systems Corp., Rockville, Md.) (1983) 311 pp., $29.95
Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration. By George D. Pozgar (Aspen Systems Corp., Rockville, Md.) (2d ed. 1983) 265 pp., $25.00.
Notice to Members of the Ameri. can Society of Law & Medicine     

THE BOOKSHELF

Books reviewed in this article:
LAW & THE MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONS , Walter E. Barton & Charlotte J. Sanborn(Eds.)
BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT: NEW DIRECTORIONS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY , John D. Cone, Ph.D. and Robert P. Hawkins Ph.D.(Eds.)
NETWORKING FAMILILES IN CRISIS , Uri Rueveni, Riverside
MARRIAGE AND MARITAL THERAPY , Thomas J. Paolino, Jr., M.D. and Barbara J. McCrady, Ph.D.(Eds.)     

Taking lawyers’ ethics seriously

Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility R. Cranston (Ed.) Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995

Legal Ethics and Legal Practice: Contemporary Issues S. Parker & S. Sampford (Eds.) Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995     

Book review/dangerous offenders and endangered justice

Mark H. Moore, Susan R. Estrich, Daniel McGillis, and William Spelman, Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Target of Justice Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984, vi + 252 pp.     

Book Review

Books reviewed in this article:
SHAMANS, SOFTWARE, AND SPLEENS: LAW AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY by MICHAEL BOYLE (Harvard University Press, 1996); 270 pp. Reviewed by R OBERT P RENTICE , University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Ed & Molly Smith Centennial Professor of Business Law, University of Texas at Austin, and S HARON D UNN , Ph.D.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books review in this article:
AGAINST OUR WILL: MEN, WOMEN, AND RAPE. By Susan Brownmiller .
RAPE: VICTIMS OF CRISIS. By Ann Wolbert Burgess and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom .
AGAINST RAPE. A SURVIVAL MANUAL FOR WOMEN: HOW TO AVOID ENTRAPMENT AND HOW TO COPE WITH RAPE PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY. By Andrea Medea and Kathleen Thompson .
RAPE: HOW TO A VOID IT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT IF YOU CANT. By June Bundy Csida and Joseph Csida .
HOW TO SAY NO To A RAPIST-AND SURVIVE. By Frederic Storaska .
RAPE AND ITS VICTIMS: A REPORT FOR CITIZENS, HEALTH FACILITIES AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES: PRESCRIPTIVE PACKAGE. By Lisa Brodyaga .     

Book Reviews

International and European Trade and Environmental Law After the Uruguay Round , Ernst–Ulrich Petersmann
International Management of Hazardous Wastes: The Basel Convention and Related Legal Rules , Katharina Kummer
Politics of Climate Change: A European Perspective , Tim O'Riordan and Jill Jäger (eds.)
The Emerging International Regime for Climate Change: Structures and Options After Berlin , Michael Grubb and Dean Anderson (eds.)
The International Court of Justice 1946-1996 , Arthur Eyffinger
From Care to Action: Making a Sustainable World , Martin Holdgate
Slow Reckoning: The Ecology of a Divided Planet , Tom Athanasiou     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article:
BUSINESS LAW. UCC COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME. 10th edition. Ronald A. Anderson and Walter A. Kumpf. Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Co., 1976. Pp. 759.
PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS LAW, 11th Edition. Robert N. Corley and William J. Robert. Edgewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. Pp. 879 and appendices.
BUSINESS LAW: KEY ISSUES AND CONCEPTS Thomas W. Dunfee and J. David Reitzel, Editors. Columbus, Ohio: Grid Publishing, Inc., 1978. pp. 157.
INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGAL SYSTEM, 2nd edition. Bruce D. Fisher. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1977. Pp. 846.
INTRODUCTION TO BASIC LEGAL PRINCIPLES, 2nd edition. Benjamin N. Henszey, Barry Lee Myers, and Reed T. Phalan. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. 607.
THE FILM INDUSTRIES: PRACTICAL BUSINESSLEGAL PROBLEMS IN PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION & EXHIBITION, Second edition. Michael F. Mayer. New York: Hastings House, 1978.
THE LAW OF RESTITUTION George E. Palmer. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Four Volumes, total pp. about 2650.
CORPORATIONS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT Herbert Schmertz. New York: AMACOM, 1978. Pp. 40.
LAW AND POLITICS: THE HOUSE OF LORDS AS A JUDICIAL BODY, 1800–1976 Robert Stevens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. Pp. 701.     

Multicountry Studies of Latin American Legislatures: A Review Article

Electoral Laws and the Survival of Presidential Democracies. By Mark P. Jones. (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. Pp. 246). Legislative Politics in Latin America. Edited by Scott Morgenstern and Benito Nacif. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 503). Partidos Políticos de América Latina: Centroamérica, Mexico, y República Dominicana. By Manuel Alcántara Sáez and Flavia Friedenberg. (Salamanca, Spain: Biblioteca de América, 2001. Pp. 776). Partidos Políticos de América Latina: Cono Sur. By Manuel Alcántara Sáez and Flavia Friedenberg. (Salamanca, Spain: Biblioteca de América, 2001. Pp. 628). Partidos Políticos de América Latina: Paises Andinos. By Manuel Alcántara Sáez and Flavia Friedenberg. (Salamanca, Spain: Biblioteca de América, 2001. Pp. 680). Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll Call Voting in Latin America and the U.S. By Scott Morgenstern. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 224).¹ Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies. By Kent Eaton. (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. 351).¹ Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Scott Mainwaring and Matthew Soberg Shugart. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 493). Term Limits and Legislative Representation. By John M. Carey. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 216).     

Law and Aging: Special Persons, Special Treatment?

Miriam K. Aronson (ed.) and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association, Understanding Alzheimer's Disease . Charles Scribner's Sons: New York (1988).
Robert N. Brown with Legal Counsel for the Elderly, The Rights of Older Persons (Second Edition). Southern Illinois University Press: Carbondale, IL(1989).
John J. Regan with Legal Counsel for the Elderly, Your Legal Rights in Later Life . American Association of Retired Persons and Scott, Foresman and Company: Washington, D.C. and Glenview, IL (1989).
Ira S. Schneider & Ezra Huber, Financial Planning for Long-Term Care . Human Sciences Press: New York (1989).
James E. Thornton & Earl R. Winkler (eds.), Ethics and Aging: The Right to Live, The Right to Die . University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1988).
Mark H. Waymack & George A. Taler, Medical Ethics and The Elderly . Pluribus Press: Chicago (1988).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Medical Malpractice: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy . By Patricia M. Danzon
Medical Malpractice: A Preventive Approach . By William O. Robertson, M.D.
Defendant: A Psychiatrist on Trial for Medical Malpractice — An Episode in America's Hidden Health Care Crisis . By Sara C. Charles and Eugene Kennedy
The High Cost of Healing: Physicians and the Health Care System . By J.H.U. Brown, Ph.D.
Public Health in a Retrenchment Era . By Helen J. Muller and Curtis Ventriss     

Reviews

H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy. By H.L.A. Hart [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1983. viii and 396 pp. £17.50 cloth, £7.50 Paper.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: H.L.A. Hart. By Neil MacCormick. [London: Edward Arnold. 1981. 184pp. £9.95 cloth, £4.95 Paper.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Policy Arguments in Judicial Decisions. By John Bell. [Oxford: Oxford University Press 1983. xv and 283 pp. £20·00.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Justice Without Law? By Jerold S. Auerbach. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. XV and 182 pp. (including notes and index). Hardback £14·00.]     

The hidden origins of enorm lesion

Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy and Reform in Greek Penology. Trevor J. Saunders. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1991. xvii + 414pp. (incl. Indexes). £50 hb. ISBN 0 19 814893 3.

Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the time of Cicero to the time of Ulpian. Susan Treggiari. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1991. xv + 578pp. (incl. Indexes). £65 hb. ISBN 0 19 814890 9.

Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome. Edited by Beryl Rawson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xiv + 252pp. (incl. Index). £35 hb. ISBN 0 19 814918 2.

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. J.A. Brundage. University of Chicago Press, 1987. xxiv + 674pp. (incl. Index). £21.50 pb. ISBN 0 226 07784 5.

Church Courts, Sex and Marriage, in England, 1570–1640. M. Ingram. Past and Present Publications, Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 412pp. (incl. Index). £45 hb. ISBN 0 521 386551.

The Medieval Canon Law. Teaching, Literature and Transmission. (The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography: 1987–1988). Dorothy M. Owen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 82pp. £25 hb. ISBN 0 521 39313 9.

Notaries Public in England since the Reformation. C.W. Brooks, R.H. Helmholz and P.G. Stein. Norwich: The Erskine Press for the Society of Public Notaries of London, 1991. ix + 148pp. (incl. Index). £60.00 hb. £29.95 pb. ISBN 1 85297 0340.

The Common Law and English Jurisprudence 1760–1850. Michael Lobban. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xvi + 315pp. (incl. Index). £35.00 hb. ISBN 019 825293 5.

Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725. Robert B. Shoemaker. Cambridge: The University Press, 1991. xxviii + 352pp. (incl. Index). £40/$64.50 hb. ISBN 0 521 40082 1.

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Linebaugh. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1991. xxvii + 484pp. (incl. Index). £25 hb. ISBN 0 713 99045 7.

American Jurisprudence 1870–1970: A History. James Herget. Houston, Texas: Rice University Press, 1990. x + 367pp. (incl. Index.) $35.00hb. ISBN 0 89256 305 0.

Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jarhunderten. G. Kleinheyer and J. Schröder. Heidelberg: C.F. Muller, 1989. 415pp. (incl. Index.) DM 34.80 pb.

Quellen zur Reform des Straf‐ und Strafprozessrechts, III Abteilung, NS‐Zeit (1933–1939), Band 1. Edited by J. Regge and W. Schubert et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. xxi + 648 pp. (incl. Index.) DM 498.

Quellen zur Reform des Straf‐ und Strafprozessrechts, III Abteilung, NS‐Zeit (1933–1939), Band 2, 1 Teil. Edited by J. Regge and W. Schubert et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. xxxi + 772 pp. (incl. Index.) DM 598.     

REVIEWS

Critical Legal Studies: The Politics of Law. Edited by David Kairys. [New York: Pantheon Books. 1982. x and 321 pp. Paperback $9·95.] Critical Legal Studies: Law, State and Society. Edited by Bob Fryer, Alan Hunt, Doreen McBarnet and Bert Moorhouse. [London: Croom Helm. 1981. 234 pp. (including name index). Hardback £14·95.] Critical Legal Studies: A Bibliography Critical Legal Studies: The Law Lords. By Alan Paterson. [London: Macmillan. 1982. 287pp. £12.] Critical Legal Studies: The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England: Thomas Kebell, A Case Study. By E. W. Ives. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History). 1983. 536 pp. £40.] Critical Legal Studies: People Against the Press. An Enquiry into the Press Council. By Geoffrey Robertson. [London: Quartet. 1983. 182 pp. (including appendices and index). £7£95.]     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books review in this article:
FELONY JUSTICE: ANORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL COURTS. By James Dissentient and Herbert Jacob
PARTIAL JUSTICE: A STUDY OF BIAS IN SENTENCING. By Willard Gaylin. M.D.
THE DILEMMA OF PRISON REFORM. By Thomas O. Murton