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The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis

Lev Menand
2022

The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking law and the rise of alternative forms of money created outside of the... (Read more)
Cases and Materials on State and Local Government Law

Richard Briffault, Laurie Reynolds, Nestor M. Davidson, Erin A. Scharff, and Rick Su
2022

Like its predecessors, the 9th Edition focuses on the critical roles played by states and local governments and the complex structure of our state-local system. It challenges students to understand the values that inform the distribution of powers between states... (Read more)
Cases and Materials on Corporations

John C. Coffee Jr., Ronald J. Gilson, and Brian J.M. Quinn
2022

With this edition, we have made a determined effort to shrink our size without reducing our coverage. New material however has been added in all chapters. A description of some of the new material follows. In Chapter I, recognizing that... (Read more)
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy

Angela B. Cornell and Mark Barenberg
2022

We are currently witnessing some of the greatest challenges to democratic regimes since the 1930s, with democratic institutions losing ground in numerous countries throughout the world. At the same time organized labor has been under assault worldwide, with steep declines... (Read more)
Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials

Jane C. Ginsburg, Jessica Litman, and Mary Kevlin
2022

In the three decades since the first edition, both the number of stand-alone trademarks courses offered in U.S. law schools and the quantity of trademark law scholarship have vastly expanded. The growth of the Internet has fundamentally challenged trademark law... (Read more)
Advanced Introduction to Landmark Criminal Cases

George P. Fletcher
2021

This engaging and accessible book focuses on high-profile criminal trials and examines the strategy of the lawyers, the reasons for conviction or acquittal, as well as the social importance of these famous cases.

Key features include:
- An in-depth examination... (Read more)
The Struggle for Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Philip Alston

Nehal Bhuta, Florian Hoffmann, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite
2021

The Struggle for Human Rights evaluates the themes of law, politics, and practice which together define international human rights practice and scholarship. Taking as it's inspiration the 40 year career of international human rights advocate Philip Alston, this book of... (Read more)
Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom

Philip A. Hamburger
2021

The federal government increasingly regulates by using money and other benefits to induce private parties and states to submit to its conditions. It thereby enjoys a formidable power, which sidesteps a wide range of constitutional and political limits.

Conditions are... (Read more)
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)
Transnational Litigation in a Nutshell

George A. Bermann, William S. Dodge, and Donald Earl Childress III
2021

This title identifies and explores recurring issues of jurisdiction, procedure, and choice of law entailed in the resolution of transnational disputes in U.S. courts. It covers the sources of transnational litigation law in the United States, personal and subject matter... (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 Future 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)