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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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Religion and the Constitution, Vol. 1: Free Exercise and Fairness
Kent Greenawalt 2006Balancing 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)
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Religion and the Constitution, Vol. 2: Establishment and Fairness
Kent Greenawalt 2006Balancing 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)
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Charging Ahead: The Growth and Regulation of Payment Card Markets around the World
Ronald J. Mann 2006This 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)
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Administrative Law Stories
Peter L. Strauss 2006Essay 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)
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Legislation: Understanding and Using Statutes
Peter L. Strauss 2006This 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)
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Party Autonomy: Constitutional and International Law Limits in Comparative Perspective
George A. Bermann 2005Through 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)
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American Law in a Global Context: The Basics
George P. Fletcher and Stephen M. Sheppard 2005American 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)
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Does God Belong in Public Schools?
Kent Greenawalt 2005Controversial 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)
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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: A Commentary
Petros C. Mavroidis 2005This 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)
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The WTO and International Trade Law/Dispute Settlement
Petros C. Mavroidis and Alan O. Sykes 2005The 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)
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Gender and Rights
Deborah L. Rhode and Carol Sanger 2005Gender 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)
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