San Antonio College Library

Additions to the revised edition of this substantial reference includes entries on significant documents from the end of the 20th century, including the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, the Maastricht treaty, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Rio Declaration, and the Kyoto Protocol. Each entry includes a description of the document, detailing its origins, content, and impact (the text of the document itself is not included), as well as...

"In Law's Interior, Kevin M. Crotty draws on several important literary works to offer a new model of the relation between citizens and their laws, one that emphasizes the power of law to shape citizens and to foster - or discourage - their autonomy. Crotty maintains that citizens are "inside" the law - they are the law's interior. Literature, he finds, can be relevant to law by emphasizing the connections between law and the world around it - a stance...

"This book explains that the most common objections to cloning are false or exaggerated. The objections reflect and inspire unjustified stereotypes about human clones. Anti-cloning laws reinforce these stereotypes and stigmatize human clones as subhuman and unworthy of existence. This injures not only human clones but also the egalitarianism upon which our society is based. Applying the same reasoning used to invalidate racial segregation, this book...