Bøger af Victoria Sutton

The KGB, on orders from the Kremlin, must find Russia's most precious icon, taken by Napoleon in his siege of Moscow in 1812, and secreted away in Vilnius, Lithuania-with Napoleon's paramour. Lost for more than a century, now in 1991, the KGB is in a race against time to track down his paramour's descendant, a history professor at the University of Vilnius, to find and recovery the icon before Lithuania breaks away from the disintegrating Soviet Union.

The Things That Keep Us Up At Night: Biohorror, Biothriller Movies, the Law and the Science by Victoria Sutton. This book celebrates the new subgenre of biohorror and biothriller movies which has grown rapidly in the last two decades, building on a classic past beginning with Nosferatu (1922) and The Seventh Seal (1957)moving through the Biotechnology Revolution to the movies that use engineered and natural attacks from Mother Nature. All of these movies bring an amazing view of human nature in a disaster, a pandemic and sometimes a collapse of society. This book examines 48 movies representative of this biohorror subgenre with a look through the science and the law. Could this really happen? What laws do we have to protect us? What science do we have that can combat these biological threats? A book that will keep you up at night.

This book examines the emerging area of biosecurity law which includes international law, emergency public health law, laboratory biosafety and biosecurity regulations in the context of state, federal and international governance.

Halloween Law is a spirited guide through law school study starting with that first scary year. Looking at the law through the lens of Halloween proves the old rule that truth is stranger than fiction. Halloween cases that conjure up issues in constitutional law, criminal law, tort law, property law and contract law introduce you to the first year curriculum. If you survive the first year, you can move on to several upper level courses for those who dare --- employment law, oil and gas law and lots of local government law creep into the Halloween Law experience. Halloween Law will leave you ready to deal with any case from the crypt. Halloween Law --- now that's the spirit!

Federal American Indian Law introduces the reader to the cases that form the foundation of Federal American Indian law as it is practiced in the United States, beginning with the John Marshall trilogy through some later landmark cases. Decolonizing the text of the cases here means unraveling the coded language of the colonizers and exposing the methods of the judiciary, and even going behind the scenes to examine the lives of the jurist who led the way.

The rapid development of new technologies is expected to make our quality of life better, but should it be regulated or limited in the process of being adapted by society? This book explores the vast and complex areas of emerging technologies both from the perspective of legal scholarship as well as from subject matter areas of technological interest: biotechnology, nanotechnology, applied cognitive science, robotics, artificial intelligence and information and communication technologies.

The rapid development of new technologies is expected to make our quality of life better, but should it be regulated or limited in the process of being adapted by society? This book explores the vast and complex areas of emerging technologies both from the perspective of legal scholarship as well as from subject matter areas of technological interest: biotechnology, nanotechnology, applied cognitive science, robotics, artificial intelligence and information and communication technologies.

Emerging Technologies Law is a comprehensive analysis of issues confronting society and law in the rapidly developing context of emerging technologies. An area of study is developing around the unique issues facing the exponential growth in emerging technologies and our regulatory system of governance to address risks to society - when we should and should not regulate.In Volumes 1 and 2, this series examines substantive areas of law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Law, Criminal Law, Tort Law, Intellectual Property Law, Banking and Finance Law, Scientific Evidence Law, Space Law and the Law of War. Volume 3 takes these substantive areas of law and applies them to the "Five Horseman of Emerging Technologies: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Robotics, Information and Communications Technology (Cybersecurity) and Applied Cognitive Sciences.

This book provides the casefile and materials to develop the trial that would follow at the end of the science fiction novel, Prey, by Michael Crichton, which depicts the use of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology by the military to develop a weapon, with a disasterous outcome. This is useful for the classroom, continuing education or just for your reading pleasure.

The Apache Kid, a U.S. Army Apache Scout, known to the Americans as the "Kid" was legendary for his tracking skills and many of the military owed him their lives. Yet in a fateful moment living in two worlds, while carrying out justice in his own tribal tradition, he was taken through the justice systems of the Americans - the military court martial, the federal Indian agent process and the local territorial court. Exhaustion of the courts' processes and exhaustion of patience with white man's justice, the Apache Kid, made his most famous stealth escape, never to be arrested again, despite the record-high reward offered for his capture. This documentary explores the actual court martial case through the original, never-before-published trial transcript with expert commentary from military law experts and perspectives from the descendants of the Apache Kid.