The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country the Supreme Court and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.

Just in time for the 2008 presidential election—where the future of the Court will be at stake—Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority with major changes in store on such issues as abortion civil rights presidential power and church-state relations.

Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves The Nine tells the story of the Court through personalities—from Anthony Kennedy's overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas's well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter's odd nineteenth-century lifestyle. There is also for the first time the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore—and Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with George W. Bush the president she helped place in office.

The Nine is the book bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin was born to write. A CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer no one is more superbly qualified to profile the nine justices.

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Business Law: Text and Cases - Legal Ethical Global and Corporate Environment

Comprehensive authoritative and student-friendly longtime market-leader Business Law: Text and Cases - Legal Ethical Global and Corporate Environment delivers an ideal blend of classic "black letter law" and cutting-edge coverage of contemporary issues and cases. The first text to implement an undergraduate-oriented pedagogy with traditional law school-like content Business Law continues to set the standard for excellence. The text combines the benefits of a black letter law approach with a strong student orientation making the law accessible interesting and relevant for readers. The cases content and features of the 12th Edition have been thoroughly updated to represent the latest developments in business law. An excellent assortment of included cases ranges from precedent-setting landmarks to important recent decisions and ethical global and corporate themes are integrated throughout. In addition numerous critical-thinking exercises challenge students to apply what they've learned to real-world issues and the text offers an unmatched range of support materials--including innovative online teaching and learning resources. It's no wonder that Business Law is used by more colleges and universities than any other business law text. []

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I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy

Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all now be reporters alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster; we can participate in crowd-sourced scientific research; and we can become investigators helping the police solve crimes. Social networks have even helped to bring down governments. But they have also greatly accelerated the erosion of our personal privacy rights and any one of us could become the victim of shocking violations at any time. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest nation in the world; but while that nation appears to be a comforting small town in which we socialize with our selective group of friends it and the rest of the Web is actually a lawless frontier of hidden and unpredictable dangers. The same power of information that can topple governments can destroy a person’s career or marriage. As leading expert on social networks and privacy Lori Andrews shows through groundbreaking in-depth research and a host of stunning stories of abuses as we work and chat and shop and date (and even sometimes have sex) over the Web we are opening ourselves up to increasingly intrusive relentless and anonymous surveillance—by employers schools lawyers the police and aggressive data aggregator services that compile an astonishing amount of information about us and sell it to any and all takers. She reveals the myriad ever more sophisticated techniques being used to track us and discloses how routinely colleges and employers reject applicants due to personal information searches; robbers use postings about vacations to target homes for break-ins; lawyers readily find information to use against us in divorce and child custody cases; and at one school the administrators actually used the cameras on students’ school-provided laptops to spy on them in their homes. Some mobile Web devices are even being programmed to listen in on us and feed data services a steady stream of information about where we are and what we are doing. And even if we use the best services to get our personal data removed from the Web in a short time almost all that data is restored. As Andrews persuasively argues the legal system cannot be counted on to protect us—in the thousands of cases brought to trial by those whose rights have been violated judges have most often ruled against them. That is why in addition to revealing the dangers and providing the best expert advice about protecting ourselves Andrews proposes that we must all become supporters of a Constitution for the Web which she has drafted and introduces in this book. Now is the time to join her and take action—the very future of privacy is at stake.[]

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