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-HONORABLE MENTION, FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION- A meeting of two worlds. A tale of forbidden love. A chronicle of heresy and crime. Set in the era of the Third Crusade, The Cult follows the fates of three pupils of a wise and gentle English teacher. Pledged to each other, Elise and Edmond strive to keep their love alive despite great opposition. All three become caught in a web of deceit and threatened by an ancient Gnostic cult reincarnated in a new and monstrous form. One by one, each for a different reason, they come to Arab-Norman Sicily, a rich...

Four years ago, the author started out on a journey to learn Irish set dancing, at an age, he says "When most men and women are pulling the stool closer to the turf fire and dreaming of life when life was young." The journey took him from Nova Scotia to Milwaukee, Killarney, Ballinasloe and many lesser-known places in between, including a "wacky little burg in the Catskills where Irish dreamers had painted green shamrocks on the pavement all up and down the principal street." Along the way, Devlin says, he met the wildest assortment of Irish and Irish-American characters imaginable and...

Globally, countries are faced with a complex act of statecraft: how to design and deploy a defensible complaints and discipline regime for judges. In this collection, contributors provide critical analyses of judicial complaints and discipline systems in thirteen diverse jurisdictions, revealing that an effective and legitimate regime requires the nuanced calibration of numerous public values including independence, accountability, impartiality, fairness, reasoned justification, transparency, representation, and efficiency. The jurisdictions examined are Australia, Canada, China, Croatia,...

Regulating Judges presents a novel approach to judicial studies. It goes beyond the traditional clash of judicial independence versus judicial accountability. Drawing on regulatory theory, Richard Devlin and Adam Dodek argue that judicial regulation is multi-faceted and requires us to consider the complex interplay of values, institutional norms, procedures, resources and outcomes. Inspired by this conceptual framework, the book invites scholars from 19 jurisdictions to describe and critique the regulatory regimes for a variety of countries from around the world.