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The Grammar of Criminal Law: American, Comparative, and International, Vol. 1: Foundations
George P. Fletcher 2007
The Grammar of Criminal Law is a 3-volume work that addresses the field of international and comparative criminal law, with its primary focus on the issues of international concern, ranging from genocide, to domestic efforts to combat terrorism, to torture,... (read more)
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WTO Law and Developing Countries
George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis 2007
Examining developing countries within the WTO, it's easy to see there is a disconnect between what was expected from the WTO and what is actually being done for the developing countries. This book examines the different aspects of law within... (read more)
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Employment Law Stories
Samuel Estreicher and Gillian L. Lester 2007
Employment law is emerging as an important practice area. This title provides behind-the-scenes descriptions of the landmark cases; the litigants, the lawyers, the strategy; that helped shape this growing field. This account of emerging law is designed to help the... (read more)
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Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
Bernard E. Harcourt 2007
From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our... (read more)
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Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice
Franklin E. Zimring and Bernard E. Harcourt 2007
This book creates an advanced course in substantive criminal law organized around considering whether vice behaviors – gambling, narcotics, commercial and deviate sexual practices, pornography, drinking – are the proper subjects of criminal prohibition, and, if so, with what means... (read more)
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The Limits of Leviathan
Robert E. Scott and Paul B. Stephan 2006
Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not by independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction among the parties, with repeat dealings, reputation, and a preference for reciprocity doing most of the enforcement work. Originally published in... (read more)
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Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy
Bernard E. Harcourt 2006
Legal and public policies concerning youth gun violence tend to rely heavily on crime reports, survey data, and statistical methods. Rarely is attention given to the young voices belonging to those who carry high-powered semiautomatic handguns. In Language of the... (read more)
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Trade and Human Health and Safety
George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis 2006
Developing countries comprise the majority of the membership of the World Trade Organization. Many developing countries believe that the welfare gains that were supposed to ensue from the establishment of the WTO and the results of the Uruguay Round remain... (read more)
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Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate Governance
John C. Coffee Jr. 2006
In the wake of a series of corporate governance disasters in the US and Europe which have gained almost mythic status – Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, HealthSouth, Parmalat – one question has not yet been addressed. A number of 'gatekeeping'... (read more)
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Making War & Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations
Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis 2006
Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn’t. Michael Doyle and Nicholas... (read more)
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Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms
Merritt B. Fox and Michael A. Heller 2006
Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform. To date, most sophisticated theoretical work on corporate governance has focused on advanced market economies. In post-socialist countries, corporate finance... (read more)
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Amending CERCLA: The Post-SARA Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
Michael B. Gerrard and Joel M. Gross 2006
Three important amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) narrowed the Act's liability to address specific policy objectives. This book is a single-source compendium of this legislation, leading court decisions, and administrative implementation, including... (read more)
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Intellectual Property Stories
Jane C. Ginsburg and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss 2006
This book brings famous cases to life by telling the true, never-heard-before stories behind landmark Intellectual Property cases. It is organized into six chapters, each drawing on cases in patents, copyrights, trademarks, or unfair competition, to illustrate the problems encountered... (read more)
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Framing Contract Law: An Economic Perspective
Victor P. Goldberg 2006
The central theme of this book is that an economic framework – incorporating such concepts as information asymmetry, moral hazard, and adaptation to changed circumstances – is appropriate for contract interpretation, analyzing contract disputes, and developing contract doctrine. The value... (read more)
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Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu 2006
Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net?
In this provocative new book,... (read more)
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Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro 2006
This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent... (read more)
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Religion and the Constitution, Vol. 1: Free Exercise and Fairness
Kent Greenawalt 2006
Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote... (read more)
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Religion and the Constitution, Vol. 2: Establishment and Fairness
Kent Greenawalt 2006
Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should students in public schools be allowed to organize devotional... (read more)
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Charging Ahead: The Growth and Regulation of Payment Card Markets around the World
Ronald J. Mann 2006
This book tells the story of credit cards around the world: why people use them, the effects on the economies of the nations where they prevail, why they are used so differently around the world, and what should be done... (read more)
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Administrative Law Stories
Peter L. Strauss 2006
Essay after essay in this fascinating book explores the statutory and historical setting of the cases discussed, rather than mere doctrine, examining in detail lawyers' judgments and tactics. Many use recently revealed papers of Supreme Court Justices to discuss often... (read more)
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Legislation: Understanding and Using Statutes
Peter L. Strauss 2006
This book's focus makes statutes, and the processes that produce them, the primary consideration. Traditional teaching materials tend to make statutes and the circumstances of their creation secondary; students encounter the legislative process and legislative materials chiefly, sometimes exclusively, through... (read more)
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Party Autonomy: Constitutional and International Law Limits in Comparative Perspective
George A. Bermann 2005
Through comparative law, this volume treats the question of the restrictions on private autonomy that increasingly flow from international treaties and national constitutions. While limitations on private autonomy traditionally found their basis in various doctrines in the relevant private law... (read more)
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American Law in a Global Context: The Basics
George P. Fletcher and Stephen M. Sheppard 2005
American Law in a Global Context is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. It covers the law and lawyering tools taught in the first year of law school, explaining the underlying concepts... (read more)
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Does God Belong in Public Schools?
Kent Greenawalt 2005
Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America’s leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools.... (read more)
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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: A Commentary
Petros C. Mavroidis 2005
This commentary provides a clear explanation and analysis of the legal provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Even since the formation of the WTO, the GATT remains a central document in international trade law, and many... (read more)
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