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  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... (Read more)

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  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... (Read more)

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  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... (Read more)

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  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... (Read more)

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  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... (Read more)

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  Bankruptcy and the U.S. Supreme Court

  Ronald J. Mann
  2017

  In this illuminating work, Ronald J. Mann offers readers a comprehensive study of bankruptcy cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. He provides detailed case studies based on the Justices' private papers on the most closely divided cases, statistical analysis of variation among the Justices in their... (Read more)

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  The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

  Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse
  2016

  When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 he promised to change the Supreme Court. With four appointments to the court, including Warren E. Burger as the chief justice, he did just that. In 1969, the Burger Court succeeded the famously liberal Warren Court, which had significantly expanded... (Read more)

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  Governing Access to Essential Resources

  Katharina Pistor and Olivier De Schutter
  2016

  Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity... (Read more)

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  Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall, and Future

  John C. Coffee Jr.
  2015

  Uniquely in the United States, lawyers litigate large cases on behalf of many claimants who could not afford to sue individually. In these class actions, attorneys act typically as risk-taking entrepreneurs, effectively hiring the client rather than acting as the client’s agent. Lawyer-financed, lawyer-controlled, and lawyer-settled, such entrepreneurial litigation... (Read more)

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  Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality

  Katherine M. Franke
  2015

  The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement’s campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, but also what kind of freedom and equality the ability to marry can... (Read more)