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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 free time, placing a strain on our schedules and our relationships, and earning neither... (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 Two of The Grammar of Criminal Law sets out to answer these questions through... (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. High-frequency traders participate in a large portion of all transactions, and a significant minority... (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 context for reparations, offering a detailed account of the circumstances that surrounded the emancipation... (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 country and the rest of humanity.

The book is based on two reports by... (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 how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and... (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 toward a new commonwealth – a community founded on the well-being of all people... (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 for every concerned citizen.
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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 expressed about whether a body of labour law that protects workers is needed at... (Read more)
Climate Engineering and the Law: Regulation and Liability for Solar Radiation Management and Carbon Dioxide Removal

Michael B. Gerrard and Tracy Hester
2018

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a global threat, and is already contributing to record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves. To prevent the worst impacts, attention is now turning to climate engineering - the intentional large-scale modification of the environment to reduce the impact of climate change. The two principal methods involve removing some carbon... (Read more)
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance

Jeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe
2018

Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance provides the global framework necessary to understand the aims and methods of... (Read more)
Federal Income Taxation: Principles and Policies

Michael J. Graetz, Deborah H. Schenk, and Anne L. Alstott
2018

This casebook on federal income taxation contains detailed text and explanatory materials, along with a new Teachers’ Manual and comprehensive problem sets. The eighth edition marks a major revision of the casebook to cover recent regulations, rulings, cases and other new developments, including the major changes made to the Internal Revenue Code by tax... (Read more)
Liberal Suppression: Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech

Philip A. Hamburger
2018

In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These speech restrictions have seemed merely technical adjustments, which prevent the political use of a tax subsidy. But the cultural... (Read more)
The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens

Bernard E. Harcourt
2018

A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States... (Read more)
Troubling Transparency: The History and Future of Freedom of Information

David Pozen and Michael Schudson
2018

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs,... (Read more)
Gellhorn and Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments

Peter L. Strauss, Todd D. Rakoff, Gillian E. Metzger, David J. Barron, and Anne Joseph O'Connell
2018

The 12th edition of this comprehensive casebook draws both from its history and current debates to create a lively and rich set of materials appropriate for introductory as well as advanced courses. In addition, the new edition of the casebook offers a leaner presentation of many topics and more cues for helping students process... (Read more)
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Tim Wu
2018

We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms – big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the “curse of bigness” can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers... (Read more)
International Arbitration and Private International Law

George A. Bermann
2017

No field of legal scholarship or practice operates in the world of private international law as continuously and pervasively as does international arbitration, commercial and investment alike. Arbitration’s dependence on private international law manifests itself throughout the life-cycle of arbitration, from the crafting of an enforceable arbitration agreement, through the entire arbitral process, to... (Read more)
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: The Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention by National Courts

George A. Bermann
2017

This book examines how the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, commonly known as The New York Convention, has been understood and applied in [insert number] jurisdictions, including virtually all that are leading international arbitration centers. It begins with a general report surveying and synthesizing national responses to a large... (Read more)
The Choice Theory of Contracts

Hanoch Dagan and Michael A. Heller
2017

This concise landmark in law and jurisprudence offers the first coherent, liberal account of contract law. The Choice Theory of Contracts answers the field's most pressing questions: what is the 'freedom' in 'freedom of contract'? What core values animate contract law and how do those values interrelate? How must the state act when it... (Read more)
Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: New York, 1958

Emmanuel Gaillard and George A. Bermann
2017

The Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards provides a detailed analysis of the judicial interpretation and application of the New York Convention by reference to case law from 45 Contracting States. The Guide, and the newyorkconvention1958.org website which supplements it, will become an essential tool that benefits... (Read more)
The Internationalization of Government Procurement Regulation

Aris C. Georgopulos, Bernard M. Hoekman, and Petros C. Mavroidis
2017

As governments are major buyers of goods and services, foreign companies are keen to be able to participate in procurement opportunities on an equal footing with national firms. This has given rise to the inclusion of procurement disciplines in trade agreements and to internationally-agreed good regulatory practices in this important policy area. The contributions... (Read more)
Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials

Jane C. Ginsburg, Jessica Litman, and Mary Kevlin
2017

The new edition of this leading casebook covers recent developments, such as the controversy over registration of disparaging marks (the “Slants” and “Redskins” litigations), expressive uses of trademarks, protection of famous foreign trademarks, and trademarks on the internet. The Dilution chapter has been substantially reorganized. Throughout the chapters, the editors have written provocative Questions... (Read more)
Copyright: Cases and Materials

Robert A. Gorman, Jane C. Ginsburg, and R. Anthony Reese
2017

With stimulating questions and discussion problems, comprehensive notes, and teachable and well-edited cases as its hallmarks, this is the authoritative law school casebook for the study of copyright law. The book presents up-to-date materials dealing both with new technologies and with the more "traditional" issues in the field. Topics that receive particular attention include:... (Read more)
The Administrative Threat

Philip A. Hamburger
2017

Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal lives. As a result, administrative power is a pervasive feature of American life. But is this power constitutional?

A similar sort of power was once used by English kings, and this book shows... (Read more)