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Rakoff, Todd D. was born in 1946.
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A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life
( Who organizes our time? Who decides when we must be at ...)
Who organizes our time? Who decides when we must be at work and at school, when we set back our clocks, and when retail stores will close? Todd Rakoff traces the law's effect on our use of time and discovers that the structure of our time is gradually changing. As Rakoff demonstrates, the law's influence is subtle, and so ubiquitous that we barely notice it. But its structure establishes the terms by which society allocates its efforts, coordinates its many players, establishes the rhythms of life, and indeed gives meaning to the time in which we live. Compulsory education law, overtime law, daylight-saving law, and Blue Laws are among the many rules government uses to shape our use of time. More and more, however, society, and especially the workplace, has come to see time simply as a quantity whose value must be maximized. As lawmakers struggle to deal with accelerating market demands, the average citizen's ability to organize his or her time to accommodate all of life's activities is diminishing. Meanwhile, it is increasingly hard to differentiate weekdays from weekends, and ordinary days from holidays. The law of time, Rakoff argues, may need refashioning to meet modern circumstances, but we continue to need a stable legal structure of time if we are to attain the ancient goal of a balanced life: "A Time for Every Purpose."
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[(A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life )] [Author: Todd D. Rakoff] [Oct-2002]
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A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life by Rakoff, Todd D. (2002) Hardcover
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Todd D. Rakoff
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Bachelor in Social Studies, Harvard University, 1967. Juris Doctor, Harvard University, 1975. Bachelor of Philosophy in Political Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1969.
MSEd in Urban Education, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1971.
Career
Law clerk to Honorary Henry J. Friendly United States Court Appeals 2nd Circuit, New York, 1975—1976. Associate Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, 1976-1979. Assistant professor law Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 1979-1983, professor, since 1983, Byrne professor administrative law, since 1996, associate dean., 1993—1998, dean Juris Doctor program, 2000, vice dean academic programming, since 2003.
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A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life
( Who organizes our time? Who decides when we must be at ...)
- [(A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life )] [Author: Todd D. Rakoff] [Oct-2002]
- A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life by Rakoff, Todd D. (2002) Hardcover
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A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life
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