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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade
Jagdish N. Bhagwati 2008Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines... (read more)
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Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
Philip Chase Bobbitt 2008Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West’s struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the emergence... (read more)
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Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict
Michael W. Doyle 2008Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified... (read more)
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Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses
George P. Fletcher 2008Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again... (read more)
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Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why
George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin 2008In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time:... (read more)
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The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks
Michael B. Gerrard and Sheila R. Foster 2008Environmental justice is the concept that minority and low-income individuals, communities and populations should not be disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards, and that they should share fully in making the decisions that affect... (read more)
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100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States
Michael J. Graetz 2008To most Americans, the United States tax code has become a vast and confounding puzzle. In 1940, the instructions to the form 1040 were about four pages long. Today they have ballooned to... (read more)
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Law and Judicial Duty
Philip A. Hamburger 2008Law and Judicial Duty traces the early history of what is today called “judicial review.” Working from previously unexplored evidence, Hamburger questions the very concept of judicial review. Although decisions holding statutes unconstitutional... (read more)
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The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
Michael A. Heller 2008Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle... (read more)
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The Genesis of the GATT
Douglas A. Irwin, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Alan O. Sykes 2008This book is part of a wider project that aims to propose a model GATT that makes good economic sense without undoing its current basic structure. It asks: What does the historical record... (read more)
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The Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in the WTO
Petros C. Mavroidis, Patrick A. Messerin, and Jasper M. Wauters 2008In this important book, three of the leading authors in the field of international economic law discuss the law and economics of the three most frequently used contingent protection instruments: anti-dumping, countervailing measures,... (read more)
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Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World
Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor 2008Recent high-profile corporate scandals – such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan – demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies.... (read more)
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Family Law Stories
Carol Sanger 2008Family Law Stories presents the back stories – historical, procedural, personal and political – of eleven significant family law cases. The essays, written by leading family law scholars, cover four main areas: marriage... (read more)
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Rethinking Juvenile Justice
Elizabeth S. Scott and Laurence Steinberg 2008What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? Are they children whose offenses are the result of immaturity and circumstances, or are they in fact criminals? “Adult time for adult crime” has... (read more)
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Administrative Law in the European Union: Rulemaking
Peter L. Strauss, Turner T. Smitth Jr., and Lucas Bergkamp 2008A practical resource on regulatory law intended for use by private practitioners, government lawyers, and academic lawyers in the United States.
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Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: International Perspectives
Anthony Braga, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Tracey L. Meares, Robert Sampson, Tom R. Tyler, and Christopher Winship 2007The police and the courts depend on the cooperation of communities to keep order. But large numbers of urban poor distrust law enforcement officials. Legitimacy and Criminal Justice explores the reasons that legal... (read more)
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The Grammar of Criminal Law: American, Comparative, and International, Vol. 1: Foundations
George P. Fletcher 2007The 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... (read more)
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WTO Law and Developing Countries
George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis 2007Examining 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... (read more)
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Employment Law Stories
Samuel Estreicher and Gillian L. Lester 2007Employment 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... (read more)
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Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
Bernard E. Harcourt 2007From 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... (read more)
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Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice
Franklin E. Zimring and Bernard E. Harcourt 2007This 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... (read more)
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The Limits of Leviathan
Robert E. Scott and Paul B. Stephan 2006Much 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... (read more)
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Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy
Bernard E. Harcourt 2006Legal 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... (read more)
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Trade and Human Health and Safety
George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis 2006Developing 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... (read more)
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Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate Governance
John C. Coffee Jr. 2006In 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... (read more)
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