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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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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,... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
The WTO and International Trade Law/Dispute Settlement
Petros C. Mavroidis and Alan O. Sykes
2005

The system of dispute resolution within the WTO and its evolution over time have attracted the attention of numerous scholars. This volume brings together a selection of papers by prominent scholars working in... (read more)
Gender and Rights
Deborah L. Rhode and Carol Sanger
2005

Gender and Rights presents twenty-five essays by leading international scholars and advocates the relationship between rights and gender inequality. The essays are organized into six categories: rights, sources of harm and well-being, work,... (read more)
International Law and Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap
Edward C. Luck and Michael W. Doyle
2004

The last decade of the twentieth century was a heyday for the development of international norms and agreements. Non-state actors and states joined together in codifying new international standards in areas as diverse... (read more)
Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union
George A. Bermann and Katharina Pistor
2004

This book's principal aim is to critically address the institutional and substantive legal issues resulting from European enlargement, chiefly those relating to the legal foundations on which the enlarged Union is being built.... (read more)
In Defense of Globalization
Jagdish Bhagwati
2004

The riot-torn meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 was only the most dramatic sign of the intensely passionate debate now raging over globalization, which critics blame for everything from... (read more)
Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning
Jane C. Ginsburg
2004

This course book serves an undergraduate course in introduction to legal reasoning. It is designed to initiate students in the legal methods of case law analysis and statutory interpretation, prompting students to take... (read more)
Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance
Jeffrey N. Gordon and Mark J. Roe
2004

Corporate governance is on the reform agenda all over the world. How will global economic integration affect the different systems of corporate ownership and governance? Is the Anglo-American model of shareholder capitalism destined... (read more)
Foundations of Intellectual Property
Robert P. Merges and Jane C. Ginsburg
2004

This book is meant to provide a ... collection of commentaries on the topic of intellectual property. [The] goal has been to bring together ... influential writings on patent, copyright, trademark and design... (read more)
Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization: Practice and Procedure
David Palmeter and Petros C. Mavroidis
2004

David Palmeter and Petros Mavroidis review all WTO dispute settlement provisions and their interpretation in WTO jurisprudence in this extensively revised new edition. Carefully written for a wide readership, the volume is essential... (read more)