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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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Making War & Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations
Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis 2006Making 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... (read more)
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Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms
Merritt B. Fox and Michael A. Heller 2006Corporate 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... (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 2006Three 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,... (read more)
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Intellectual Property Stories
Jane C. Ginsburg and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss 2006This 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... (read more)
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Framing Contract Law: An Economic Perspective
Victor P. Goldberg 2006The 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... (read more)
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Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu 2006Is 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... (read more)
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Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro 2006This 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... (read more)
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