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Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago

Joseph D. Kearney and Thomas W. Merrill
2021

How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront – its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, political, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly... (Read more)
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart

Jamal Greene
2021

You have the right to remain silent – and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own... (Read more)
Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

Michael A. Heller and James Salzman
2021

A hidden set of rules governs who owns what – explaining everything from whether you can recline your airplane seat to why HBO lets you borrow a password illegally – and in this lively and entertaining guide, two acclaimed law... (Read more)
The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ng-Loy Wee Loon, and Haochen Sun
2021

While copyright law is ordinarily thought to consist primarily of exclusive rights, the regime's various exemptions and immunities from liability for copyright infringement form an integral part of its functioning, and serve to balance copyright's grant of a private benefit... (Read more)
China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters

Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir
2021

China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was rightly hailed as a huge step forward in international cooperation. However, China’s participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth, with China alienating some of its trading partners,... (Read more)
The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 3: The General Agreement on Trade in Services

Petros C. Mavroidis
2020

The previous two volumes in The Regulation of International Trade analyzed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the first successful agreement to generate multilateral trade liberalization, and the World Trade Organization (WTO), for which the GATT laid the... (Read more)
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)
Burrow-Giles v. Sarony (US 1884): Copyright Protection for Photographs, and Concepts of Authorship in an Age of Machines

Jane C. Ginsburg
2020

Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony produced one of the Supreme Court’s first interpretations of the term “writings” of “authors” in the Constitution’s “copyright clause.” But Burrow-Giles also stands out in U.S. copyright jurisprudence for its analysis of the impact of... (Read more)
Critique and Praxis: A Radical Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action

Bernard E. Harcourt
2020

Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to... (Read more)
La Société d’exposition: Désir et désobéissance à l’ère numérique

Bernard E. Harcourt
2020

Bernard E. Harcourt propose une critique puissante de notre nouvelle transparence virtuelle. Il livre une analyse de ce que les technologies big data font à nos vies, et de la manière dont elles s’y introduisent, et révèle l’ampleur de notre... (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)