Legal Rights

In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary work, the importance and application of the principle of adversarial process in multicultural and transnational contexts will be explored. The historical origins and theoretical foundations of this principle will be analyzed, along with the challenges and opportunities faced in diverse societies. The book presents emblematic case studies and relevant experiences that highlight how the adversarial process can be ensured in complex litigation and disputes of collective interest.

The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world.

Discover how you can repair your credit and delete negative items from your credit report. This book will help you understand the process, the inner workings of all three credit reporting agencies, and their SOP (standard operating procedure). Learn how to recognize errors and inaccuracies and the correct technique to dispute them.

When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968, he promised to change the Supreme Court. With four appointments to the court, including Warren E. Burger as the chief justice, he did just that. In 1969 the Burger Court succeeded the famously liberal Warren Court, which had significantly expanded civil liberties and was despised by conservatives across the country.

When a naturalized American citizen turns up missing in Iraq, Brent Marks fights the Goliath US Government's Patriot Act with its own constitution. Santa Barbara accountant Ahmed Khury responds to the plea of his brother, Sabeen, a suspected money launderer in Iraq. Before Ahmed realizes what has happened to him, he is sent to Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp as a suspected terrorist and is subjected to torture to extract information he doesn't have.

Despite legal cannabis being only legal in slightly over 20 states and not being legal at a federal level, experts estimate it to be a $200 billion industry, far more than the $20 billion circulating in the cryptocurrency industry! Just imagine how big the industry will be when legal cannabis is legal at a federal level and all states legalize it coupled with legalization of legal cannabis in several countries around the world.