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The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law

Irene Calboli and Jane C. Ginsburg
2020

Trade in goods and services has historically resisted territorial confinement, but trademark protection remains territorial, albeit within an increasingly important framework of multilateral treaties. Trademark law therefore demands that practitioners, policy-makers and academics understand principles of international and comparative law.... (Read more)
The Restatement and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Futute of U.S. Foreign Relations Law

Paul B. Stephan and Sarah H. Cleveland
2020

Reflecting on the Fourth Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law, these essays provide a comprehensive survey of the most significant issues in contemporary U.S. foreign relations law. They review the context and assumptions on which that work relied, critique its... (Read more)
Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement

John C. Coffee Jr.
2020

In the early 2000s, federal enforcement efforts sent white collar criminals at Enron and WorldCom to prison. But since the 2008 financial collapse, this famously hasn't happened. Corporations have been permitted to enter into deferred prosecution agreements and avoid criminal... (Read more)
Baird and Jackson's Bankruptcy: Cases, Problems, and Materials

Barry E. Adler, Anthony J. Casey, and Edward R. Morrison
2020

This edition retains the structure of the casebook's earlier editions, but expands its focus to capture the ways that current bankruptcy practice has been reshaped by lawyers and judges. The book reflects a continued commitment to the casebook's original account... (Read more)
The Perilous Public Square: Structural Threats to Free Expression Today

David E. Pozen
2020

Americans of all political persuasions fear that “free speech” is under attack. This may seem strange at a time when legal protections for free expression remain strong and overt government censorship minimal. Yet a range of political, economic, social, and... (Read more)
Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything

Alexandra Carter
2020

Negotiation is not a zero-sum game. It’s an essential skill for your career that can also improve your closest relationships and your everyday life, but often people shy away from it, feeling defeated before they’ve even started. In this groundbreaking... (Read more)
Roman Law and Economics, Vol. 1: Institutions and Organization

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Dennis P. Kehoe
2020

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous... (Read more)
Roman Law and Economics, Vol. 2: Exchange, Ownership, and Disputes

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Dennis P. Kehoe
2020

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous... (Read more)
Law in the Time of COVID-19

Katharina Pistor
2020

The COVID-19 crisis has ended and upended lives around the globe. In addition to killing over 160,000 people, more than 35,000 in the United States alone, its secondary effects have been as devastating. These secondary effects pose fundamental challenges to... (Read more)
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

Anu Bradford
2020

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity politics; Brexit; and the rise of Asian influence, the EU is seen as a declining power on the... (Read more)
The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It

Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro
2020

This is an age of crisis. That much we can agree on. But a crisis of what? And how do we get out of it? Many on the right call for tax cuts and deregulation. Others on the left rage... (Read more)
The Grammar of Criminal Law, Vol. 2: International Criminal Law

George P. Fletcher
2019

To understand the international legal order in the field of criminal law, we need to ask three elementary questions. What is international law? What is criminal law? And what happens to these two fields when they are joined together?

Volume... (Read more)
A Time for Critique

Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt
2019

In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sources of information, is there a place for critique? This book calls for a systematic reappraisal of critical thinking – its... (Read more)
This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth

Jedediah S. Purdy
2019

Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us... (Read more)
Basic Documents Supplement to International Law: Cases and Materials

Lori Fisler Damrosch and Sean D. Murphy
2019

This up-to-date collection of documents is designed primarily for use in conjunction with Damrosch and Murphy 's International Law: Cases and Materials, Seventh Edition (2019). This Documents Supplement also provides a handy general reference for anyone working in the field... (Read more)
International Law: Cases and Materials

Lori Fisler Damrosch and Sean D. Murphy
2019

This classic international law casebook is updated to cover recent case law, including the arbitral decision in the South China Sea Arbitration (Philippines v. China), the International Court of Justice’s Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area... (Read more)
Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition

Katherine M. Franke
2019

Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for repair of the damage caused by the legacy of American slavery. Repair invites readers to explore the historical... (Read more)
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

Katharina Pistor
2019

Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains... (Read more)
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom

Sarah Seo
2019

When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile led us... (Read more)
Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States

Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach
2019

Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States provides a “legal playbook” for deep decarbonization in the United States, identifying well over 1,000 legal options for enabling the United States to address one of the greatest problems facing this... (Read more)
Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
2019

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in... (Read more)
Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More

Elizabeth F. Emens
2019

Reading this book should be at the top of your To Do list. Life Admin will give you many hours of your life back.

Every day an unseen form of labor creeps into our lives – stealing precious moments of... (Read more)
The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy

Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence R. Glosten, and Gabriel V. Rauterberg
2019

The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light.... (Read more)
Impeachment: A Handbook

Charles F. Black Jr. and Philip Chase Bobbitt
2018

Originally published at the height of the Watergate crisis, Charles Black’s classic Impeachment: A Handbook has long been the premier guide to the subject of presidential impeachment. Now thoroughly updated with new chapters by Philip Bobbitt, it remains essential reading... (Read more)
Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law

Hugh Collins, Gillian L. Lester, and Virginia Mantouvalou
2018

This collection of essays presents an interdisciplinary investigation by lawyers and philosophers into the philosophical ideas, concepts, and principles that provide the foundation for the field of labour law and employment law. The book addresses the doubts that have been... (Read more)