Subjects:  1. Civil Rights    2. Discrimination    3. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Public Policy - Cultural Policy    7. Black studies    8. Citizenship & nationality law    9. Civil rights & citizenship    10. Law / Civil Rights    11. Political Science and International Relations    12. Sociology    13. USA   

Subjects:  1. Age discrimination    2. Discrimination    3. Discrimination in justice admi    4. Discrimination in justice administration    5. Gerontology    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. United States    10. Elderly    11. Jurisprudence & General Issues    12. USA   

Subjects:  1. Discrimination    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Cases    3. Discrimination    4. Discrimination in employment    5. Labor laws and legislation    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. United States   

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Oakes Slams the Courts Again
This is an excellent book for those who can handle some heavy duty intellectual thought.It is very well written; however, the book is not an easy read even for those with legal, various academic and other theoretical backgrounds.The author is quite critical of the interpretive jurisprudence used by US courts in ADA and other disability cases.He certainly favors Canadian approaches to evaluating disability issues instead of ADA and American approaches.However, he is also somewhat skeptical of various Canadian statutes and calls for new legislation.The book is a valuable addition to any library or collection of books by serious readers of disability issues.
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Subjects:  1. Canada    2. Constitutional    3. Discrimination    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Legal status, laws, etc.    7. People with disabilities    8. United States   

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Exciting drama about fight for equality in Corporate America
The Bellwomen is a must read for anyone interested in understanding what it was like to be a working woman in the early 1970's. Not a dry history. Ms. Stockford is very skilled in telling this as a compelling, suspenseful story. This book is a fascinating but little known chronicle of the EEOC's suit against AT&T, and Ms. Stockford's comprehensive research is skillfully used to create an exciting drama. She brings to life the characters involved in the legal process. She intersperses sketches of three women who worked for AT&T which only add to this movie-like tale. You won't be able to put this book down.
surprisingly good read
This isn't the kind of book I'd normally pick up, but once I started reading I was completely absorbed. The writing is clear and compelling; the characters engaging; and the potentially dry material is presented in a way that makes it fresh and relevant. Ms. Stockford has managed to wrap a complex event into a suspenseful work of non-fiction--quite an accomplishment. Highly recommended.

Fine writing
Bellwomen presents readers with an evenhanded account of the complex legal battle leading up to the landmark AT&T settlement of 1973.Stockford's extraordinary research combines with details she discerns from countless interviews to offer a gripping presentation of the facts in a text reminiscent of A Civil Action.The lucid voice in the writing proves especially effective as the author weaves descriptions of the participants' personalities and private lives between scenes of courtroom contests.The reader comes to appreciate the humanity of the subjects as they reflect on both the mistakes and accomplishments which ultimately leads AT&T and numerous other corporations to recruit and hire women and minorities. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American Telephone and Telegra    2. American Telephone and Telegraph Company    3. Business & Financial    4. Discrimination    5. Gender & the Law    6. Labor & Employment    7. Law    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Sex discrimination against wom    11. Sex discrimination against women    12. Sex discrimination in employment    13. Trials, litigation, etc    14. United States    15. Employment & labour law    16. Sex discrimination    17. Social law    18. USA   

Subjects:  1. Discrimination    2. Discrimination in employment    3. Law    4. Law and legislation    5. United States    6. Citizenship & nationality law    7. Gender studies   

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Excellent study
Risa Lieberwitz is an outstanding scholar and teacher (I am a former student) and her book is very useful, especially for students of critical legal studies.

Risa's book is pure garbarge.
Risa Lieberwitz has done it again.In this book, the tears aprat the legal system, when everyobdy knows she should just leave it alone.Lieberwitz has no concept of the law and is inept at interpreting the NLRB. One is left wondering how she mainatins her position at Cornell. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Discrimination    3. Discrimination In Employment    4. Labor & Employment    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Reference    8. United States    9. Employment & labour law    10. Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law    11. USA   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional Law    2. Dictionaries    3. Dictionaries - General    4. Discrimination    5. Gay Studies    6. Gays    7. Gender & the Law    8. Homosexuality    9. Law    10. Law / Reference    11. Law and legislation    12. Legal Reference / Law Profession    13. Legal status, laws, etc    14. Legal status, laws, etc.    15. Practical Guides    16. Reference    17. United States    18. Gay & Lesbian studies    19. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    20. USA   

Editorial Review

Gays and lesbians have long been the targets of legal discrimination (think of the 1986 Supreme Court Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil Rights    2. Constitutional    3. Constitutional Law    4. Discrimination    5. Gay Studies    6. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    7. Gays    8. Homosexuality    9. Law and legislation    10. Legal Reference / Law Profession    11. Legal status, laws, etc    12. Legal status, laws, etc.    13. Lesbians    14. Social Science    15. United States    16. Gay & Lesbian studies    17. Human rights    18. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    19. Political science & theory    20. Social Science / Gay Studies    21. USA   

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Discrimination    3. Discrimination in employment    4. Labor & Employment    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. United States   

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How to Fight, NOT How to Win
Bernbach's book is a useful primer on the mechanics of considering whether to file and how to file a discrimination based legal action.In that regard, it is practical and useful.It therefore fulfills one of its subtitle's promises - How To Fight. This book armed me with the ammunition to fight and win.
This quick-and-easy read provided me with the ammunition I needed to combat and overcome injustice in my workplace.This book helped me to not only learn my rights, but also to gather my courage during a difficult andtrying time.Anyone who suffers from discrimination, or thinks they aresuffering from discrimination, should read this book.

A Must Read for All Members of the Workforce
With all of the recent attention paid to employment discrimination in the media and in the courts, I thought I should read Job Discrimination II.I'm really glad I did.I now feel like an expert on the law and I am fullyarmed with the information I need if I should ever have problems at work. So far I haven't had any problems but I have some friends who have.Irecommended this book to all of them.Bernbach manages to illuminate thereader on all aspects ofemployment law without ever sounding like a legaltextbook.He also provides many examples from real life situations thatmake the book enjoyable as well as informative.This is a must read foranyone who works for a living. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Actions and defenses    2. Careers - Job Almanacs    3. Discrimination & Racism    4. Discrimination in employment    5. Labor & Employment    6. Law    7. Law / Discrimination    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Popular works    11. Practical Guides    12. United States    13. Discrimination    14. Job Hunting - Job Almanacs    15. age discrimination    16. race, disability and religious discrimination    17. sexual discrimination    18. sexual harassment   

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Courts - General    3. Discrimination    4. Law    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Reference    8. Sexual harassment    9. Sexual harassment in education    10. United States   

Subjects:  1. Discrimination    2. Labor & Employment    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

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A great primer on the subject of school prayer.
Brilliant, insightful, great writing.Can't wait for part two

An excellent entry into the debate on school prayer
I just finished the book, and I found it thoughtful and provocative.I was very impressed with the way it expressed the issues. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Discrimination    3. Discrimination & Racism    4. Freedom of religion    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal status, laws, etc    8. Legal status, laws, etc.    9. Political And Civil Rights    10. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    11. Political Science    12. Prayer in the public schools    13. Religious minorities    14. Sociology    15. Sociology Of Education    16. United States    17. Citizenship & nationality law    18. Civil rights & citizenship    19. Equal opportunities    20. Law / General    21. Organization & management of education    22. Racism & racial discrimination    23. USA   

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Inspiring and helpful
This book is fabulous and it is one of a kind. I found it helpful as a guardian often faced with ethical dilemmas about when I should decide and when "my ward" should. But the book is also written for doctors, policymakers, lawyers and judges, and parents -- in fact anyone interested in the assimilation of "the retarded" into the rest of the population. Romance & Retardation
While this closely argued and exhaustively researched book focuses on the reproductive legal rights of our retarded adults, its real core is to ask: Why should retarded people be deprived of the same rights the rest of us enjoy simply because they are retarded. Controversial and convincing
This book puts forth a compelling thesis: The mentally retarded should have full rights to manage their own sexual and reproductive lives. The idea sounds good, but most people would quail at its full implications. Should a severely retarded 15-year-old be allowed to bear a child? What about situations where parents fear a daughter might suffer from rapein an institution? Should they have the right to have their daughter sterilized? A Harvard law professor, Field does not dodge the hard questions. She addresses them and forces a re-thinking of conventional ideas about who should make decisions for others and why. Field writes with such authority and conviction that at the end you are likely to be persuaded that human rights apply to the retarded in ways you never imagined. Analytical and systematic, the book is rooted in a deep knowledge of the law and a concern for the shaping of social policy. It is a must-read for those who face decisions about the retarded, either within their families or in the public arena. Those concerned with human rightswill also find their minds, and perhaps their causes, expanded when they read this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil Rights    2. Developmentally disabled    3. Disability    4. Discrimination    5. Handicapped    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Legal status, laws, etc    9. Legal status, laws, etc.    10. Parent and child (Law)    11. Parents with disabilities    12. Social Policy    13. Sociology Of The Mentally And Physically Challenged    14. United States    15. Constitutional & administrative law    16. Disability: social aspects    17. International humanitarian law    18. Law / Mental Health    19. USA   

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A Book Review of ?Affirmative Action, Hate Speech, and Tenur
Benjamin Baez provides an interesting analysis of affirmative action, hate speech, and tenure discrimination by reviewing legal cases as narratives, and then using those narratives to measure the effectiveness of our court system, how the outcomes of that system dictates the view the academy has regarding race, and thereby ultimately how society views race.The results of his analysis however, are less than provocative and far from a revelation.He argues the well-known fact that our current judicial system is not only less than adequate, but at times works counter to progress. Read more

Subjects:  1. Affirmative action programs in    2. Affirmative action programs in education    3. Civil Rights    4. Constitutional    5. Discrimination    6. Discrimination in higher educa    7. Discrimination in higher education    8. Higher    9. Law    10. Law and legislation    11. Legal Reference / Law Profession    12. Race discrimination    13. United States    14. Education / General    15. Higher & further education    16. Organization & management of education    17. Racism & racial discrimination    18. USA   

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Finally -- Common Sense on Harassment
This is a fantastic, much-needed book.Its common sense approach will help men, women and employers handle issues around harassment in a practical, meaningful way.The perfect antidote for the "politicallycorrect" police.Especially important for professors and students inacademia.Easy to read style makes it accessible for any reader. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Discrimination    2. Labor & Employment    3. Law    4. Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement    5. Sex Discrimination In Employment    6. Sex discrimination against wom    7. Sex discrimination against women    8. Sex role in the work environme    9. Sex role in the work environment    10. Sexual harassment    11. Sexual harassment of women    12. Sociology    13. United States    14. Women's Studies - General   

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Excellent Intro to the Topic
Moreno takes a broad-minded, scholarly perspective on civil rights law.He's not wedded to liberal shibboleths, but is no raving right-winger, either.Well-researched, well-written, very informative. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Discrimination    3. Labor & Employment    4. Law    5. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Public Policy - General    9. Public Policy - Social Policy   

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Poorly written, but even more poorly litigated by Notre Dame.
Coach Moore is another in a long line of legends to coach under the Golden Dome.Unfortunately, Bob Davie is another in a shorter line of terrible head coaches hired by the Fighting Irish.As for the book, the author (and Moore's lawyer) would have you believe this is a tale of David vs. Goliath in the courtroom, and that his brilliant legal acumen brought the Notre Dame empire to his knees.Truth be told, a first-year law student could have won this case, and Notre Dame's legal department should be ashamed for ever letting this case go to trial.Bob Davie ADMITTED in public, to the Notre Dame football team and others, that Coach Moore's age had something to do with his termination.You don't need Clarence Darrow to tell you that is age discrimination, my friends, and only the arrogance (or perhaps stupidity) of the then-administration at Notre Dame let this case go to trial.If you hate Notre Dame, maybe you'll find pleasure in their bungling of this matter.In fact, had Notre Dame not been the Defendant, nobody would think twice about reading this book. There are pleny of better written and more interesting books on the legal system out there.Oh, and Joe Paterno coaches at Penn St. by the way...

A Good First Pass At A Difficult Subject
I agree with those reviewers who have praised this as a good read. But it is no more than a "war story," and would have benefited from better editing and been more widely and profitably read as a magazine article.To deserve a book, the author should have reflected on the wisdom of the law which he practices, not only on behalf of plaintiffs but defendants as well.Why should those over 40 deserve the same protection as those who suffer racial, gender, or handicap discrimination?All of us grow old, and while that may not be fair and may affect each of us in different ways, can we as a society want or afford to be swamped with litigation and all its attendant stress and cost to argue the issue in a myriad of cases?Should the next generation be put on hold in the meanwhile?Perhaps the only lesson of this book is that Head Coach Davie must not have worn a helmet in his playing days.Otherwise, he would never have made any reference to age, but fired the plaintiff without explanation, or by simply saying that he wanted to hire his own coaching assistants.

...Bob Davie ...
... Coach Moore is a simple and straightforward man who was thrown under the bus by his friend Davie after Davie maneuvered his former head coach Lou Holtz in front of that same bus.The reader learns of Davie's scandal ridden past and how the University looked the other way and even used its power to fight Coach Moore despite being totally in the wrong. ... An enlightening look at the dark side of an egomaniac...and an instiutution...that backed him. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1932?-    2. Age discrimination in employme    3. Age discrimination in employment    4. College sports    5. Discrimination    6. Discrimination In Employment    7. Football - College    8. Football - General    9. Indiana    10. Labor    11. Labor And Employment Law    12. Law    13. Law and legislation    14. Moore, Joe,    15. Moral and ethical aspects    16. South Bend    17. Sports    18. Sports & Recreation    19. Trials, litigation, etc    20. University of Notre Dame