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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 world stage.

Columbia Law professor Anu Bradford argues the opposite in her important new... (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 new book on negotiation, Ask for More, Alexandra Carter – Columbia law professor and... (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 influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis... (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 influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis... (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 against the top 1 percent and demand wholesale economic change. Voices on both sides... (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 the rules that govern our social, political, and economic lives. These rules are the... (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 the intervention of scholars including W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson,... (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 of international law. The Documents Supplement has been shortened from around 100 to about... (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 (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) case, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Jesner v.... (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 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)

Realms of Legal Interpretation

Kent Greenawalt
2018

Legal norms may forbid, require, or authorize a particular form of behavior. The law of contracts, for example, informs people how to enter into agreements that will bind both sides, and from this we establish legal requirements on how they should behave. In public law, legal standards provide authority to legislators and executive officials... (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)