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BOOK NOTICES:
INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES, 3D ED. by William Burnham. St. Paul, MN:
West Group, 2002. 794pp. Paper $ ISBN: 0-314-25393-9.
The author provides a comprehensive introduction to American law and the formal dimensions of the legal process
in the new edition of this textbook.
The volume largely ignores judicial politics and the law and society literature on disputing and related topics.
The chapters address the structure of courts, legal methodology, the adversary system and juries, the legal profession,
court structure, administrative law, civil and criminal procedure, and constitutional, contract, tort, property,
family, criminal, business, tax, and international law.
THE ANTIQUATED RIGHT: AN ARGUMENT FOR THE REPEAL OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT byAndrew Carlson. New York: Peter
Lang Publishing Co., 2002. 160 pp. Paper $22.95. ISBN: 0-8204-56667.
This volume in the Teaching Texts in Law and Politics is primarily designed to stimulate undergraduate classroom
debate through a less-traditional approach to law and weapons control in the United States. The chapters address
general legal standards, the English, natural law,, and American origins of a right to bear arms, interpretations
of the Second Amendment, arms and militia service, and an unrestricted right to bear arms.
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PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS: A READER by Lawrence O. Gostin. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2002. 554 pp. Cloth $60.00. ISBN: 0-520-23174-0. Paper $35.00. ISBN: 0-520-23175-9.
The author offers a comprehensive collection of selections from articles and judicial opinions on matters of public
health law and ethics. Initial chapters address the definition of public health and approaches to public heath
ethics. Subsequent chapters include materials on the public health and the duties of the state, individual rights,
regulation of property, tort litigation , privacy, regulation of advertising of dangerous products, immunization
and screening, criminal punishment, and terrorist threats.
PUBLISHING LAW, 2nd ed., by Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson. New York: Routledge, 2002. 310 pp. Cloth
$100.00. ISBN: 0-415-26153-8. Paper $39.95. ISBN: 0-415-26154-6.
The new edition of this treatise discusses publishing and electronic information dissemination law in the United
Kingdom and European Union. Topics discussed include copyright, other rights of authors, publishing contracts,
delivery and production, libel, copyright infringement, and criminal publications, and sales and marketing law.
DISABILITY IN JEWISH LAW by Tzvi Marx. New York: Routledge, 2002. 260 pp. Cloth $80.00. ISBN: 0-415-27889-9.
Volume 3 in the Jewish Law in Context series, this treatise contains an introduction to the subject and chapters
on topics such as moral imperatives governing disability, sources of the law, guidelines from charity, categories
of disability, and religious observances and the disabled.
THE COLORADO STATE CONSTITUTION: A REFERENCE GUIDE by Dale A. Oesterle and Richard B. Collins. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 491 pp. Cloth $139.95. ISBN: 0-313-30849-7.
Volume 35 in the series of Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States, this book follows
a format similar to others in the series. The authors, law professors, present a brief constitutional history
of the state followed by a discussion of the objectives and judicial interpretations of each section of the Colorado
Constitution.