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"The Supreme Court is seen today as the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution. Once the Court has spoken, it is the duty of the citizens and their elected officials to abide by its decisions. But the conception of the Supreme Court as the final interpreter of constitutional law took hold only relatively recently. Drawing on the pragmatic ideals characterized by Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, Charles Sabel, and Richard Posner. Brian E. Butler shows how this conception is inherently problematic for a healthy democracy. Butler offers an alternative democratic conception of constitutional law, "democratic experimentalism," and applies it in a thorough reconstruction of Supreme Court cases across the centuries, such as Brown v. Board of Education, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, and Lochner v. New York. In contrast to the traditional tools and conceptions of legal analysis that see the law as a formally unique and separate type of practice, democratic experimentalism combines democratic aims and experimental practice. Butler also suggests other directions jurisprudential roles could take: for example, adjudication could be performed by primary stakeholders with better information. Ultimately, Butler argues persuasively for a move away from the current absolute centrality of courts toward a system of justice that emphasizes local rule and democratic choice."--Publisher's website

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Color-Line to Borderlands -- I. Ethnic Studies as a Matrix:Moving from Color-Line to Borderlands -- Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground? -- Ethnic Studies as a Matrix for the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Common Good -- The Problematics of Ethnic Studies -- The Influence of African American History on U.S. History Survey Textbooks since the 1970s -- II. Institutional Structure and Knowledge Production -- Ethnic Studies in U.S. Higher Education: The State of the Discipline -- From Ideology to Institution: The Evolution of Africana Studies -- The Dialectics of Ethnicity in America: A View from American Indian Studies -- Whither the Asian American Subject? -- Thirty Years of Chicano and Chicana Studies -- III. Changing and Emerging Paradigms -- Asian American Studies and Asian Studies: Boundaries and Borderlands of Ethnic Studies and Area Studies -- Reimagining Borders: A Hemispheric Approach to Latin American and U.S. Latino and Latina Studies -- Bridges to the Twenty-First Century: Making Cultural Studies-and Making It Work -- Heavy Traffic at the Intersections: Ethnic, American, Women's, Queer, and Cultural Studies -- Contributors -- Index.

Two never-before-published stories from the archives of one of science fiction's all-time mastersThe novella "A Necessary Being" showcases Octavia E. Butler's ability to create alien yet fully believable "others." Tahneh's father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose leadership abilities render them so valuable that their members are captured and forced to govern. When her father dies, Tahneh steps into his place, both chief and prisoner, and for twenty years has ruled without ever meeting another of her kind. She bears her loneliness privately until the day that a Hao youth is spotted wand

This volume focuses on democratic experimentalism, gathering a collection of original and previously unpublished essays focusing upon its major outlines, as well as specific aspects - both promising and troublesome - of this theoretical approach. Together these essays offer conceptions of democracy and democratic governance that emphasize and highlight experimentalist aspects of pragmatic thought, particularly Deweyan pragmatism, and its relationship to instantiation in concrete social and political institutions. Issues of democratic governance, political organization and the relationship of law to democracy are analyzed.

Intro -- Two Paths to Equality -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Elusive Search for Equal Rights in the Twentieth Century -- 1. "To the Victor Belong the Spoils": The Merits of a Combined Suffrage and Labor Agenda, 1877-1920 -- 2. From Charity Organization to Militant Protest: Alice Paul's Rise to Prominence, 1885-1920 -- 3. "[S]ome Group of Women Must Keep on Developing the Power of Women As a Class": The National Woman's Party, 1921-1923 -- 4. "Women's Biggest Battle Is Yet to Be Fought": Ethel M. Smith and the Women's Trade Union League, 1921-1923 -- 5. The ERA v. Women's Minimum Wage: The Legal Debate Between Paul and Smith, 1921-1923 -- Conclusion: Two Paths to Equality: The Difference It Makes -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- I. Primary Sources -- II. Secondary Sources: -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Entrepreneurship and the Born Global Phenomenon: Theoretical Foundations and a Research Agenda -- Chapter 2. Managing Knightian Uncertainty in the New Economy: The RealNetworks Case -- Chapter 3. Niche Portals: Internet Oxymoron or Brave New Entrepreneurial Strategy? -- Chapter 4. Entry Strategies and the Emerging Structure of E-Commerce in Hong Kong -- Chapter 5. Action and Value: An Investigation of the Strategies of Internet New Ventures -- Chapter 6. Web-Based versus Traditional Firms at IPO: A Comparative Analysis of Differences and Valuation.

Over the years, Soviet and post-Soviet Russian legal practice has responded to foreign and international economic sanctions reactively. As a rule, Russia has not initiated economic sanctions as an assertive measure against other countries, will apply sanctions authorized by an international organization of which it is a member and for which sanctions it has voted, and retaliates almost reflexively against economic sanctions imposed by others specifically against Russia, seemingly with little regard for the self-imposed consequences of its actions. The Civil Code of the Russian Federation authorizes (Article 1194), as did its predecessor the 1964 Civil Code of the RSFSR, the introduction of retaliatory measures (retorsion) in response to similar measures against Russian citizens and juridical persons in other states.

This article is dedicated to one of the most interesting aspects of International Procedural Law – litigation with the participation of foreign persons. Authors focused on a comparative analysis of Russian and Belarus legislation concerning the regulation of international procedural relations. Article includes two parts: the first one considers international jurisdiction of Russian arbitrazh courts and Belarus economic courts on commercial matters; the second one examines the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in commercial matters on the territory of Russia and Belarus. Authors deeply scrutinized a wide range of legal documents including domestic legislation, bilateral and multilateral international treaties of regional character in order to show the convergences and divergences in Russian and Belarus procedural law concerning participation of foreign persons in international commercial litigation.