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Value, Respect, and Attachment
Joseph Raz 2001
Joseph Raz is one of the world's leading philosophers of law, and in his Seeley Lectures he reflects critically on one of the central tenets of ethical thought, the view that values are universal. He concludes that we should try... (read more)
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Transatlantic Regulatory Co-operation: Legal Problems and Political Prospects
George A. Bermann, Matthias Herdegen, and Peter L. Lindseth 2001
This book offers a comprehensive account of the transatlantic regulatory cooperation phenomenon: its causes and political context in a globalizing economy, its theoretical understanding, its relationship to trade and competition, its implications for democracy, and its likely directions in the... (read more)
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The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization
Jagdish Bhagwati 2001
In The Wind of the Hundred Days, a new collection of public policy essays, Jagdish Bhagwati applies his characteristic wit and accessible style to the subject of globalization. Notably, he argues that the true Clinton scandal lay in the administration's... (read more)
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Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy
George P. Fletcher 2001
Americans hate and distrust their government. At the same time, Americans love and trust their government. These contradictory attitudes are resolved by Fletcher's novel interpretation of constitutional history. He argues that we have two constitutions – still living side by... (read more)
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Can We Put an End to Sweatshops?: A New Democracy Forum on Raising Global Labor Standard
Archon Fung, Dara O'Rourke, and Charles F. Sabel 2001
The MIT scholar who broke the news about Nike's sweatshops argues, with two colleagues, that consumer choices can improve workers' lives globally Seventy-five percent of Americans say they would avoid retailers whom they knew sold goods produced in sweatshops. And... (read more)
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Who's Qualified?
Lani Guinier and Susan P. Sturm 2001
Affirmative action originated as a plan to correct the historical disadvantage of women and people of color-to make the system more fair. Yet, for over twenty years, it has been repeatedly attacked for being unfair to whites, and even un-American.
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Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing
Bernard E. Harcourt 2001
This is the first book to challenge the “broken-windows” theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States... (read more)
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The WTO Case Law of 2001-2011
Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis 2001
The American Law Institute project on WTO Law undertakes yearly analysis of the case law from the adjudicating bodies of the WTO. Reporters' Studies for each year cover a wide range of WTO law cases, whose coverage ranges from classic... (read more)
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Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution
Christina Duffy Ponsa-Kraus and Burke Marshall 2001
In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship.
More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated”... (read more)
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The Community Economic Development Movement: Law, Business, and the New Social Policy
William H. Simon 2001
While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives – efforts led by locally-based organizations to... (read more)
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What's Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory
Judith Butler, John Guillory, and Kendall Thomas 2000
“For several years,” write the editors of What’s Left of Theory, “a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics?... (read more)
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Regulatory Barriers and the Principle of Non-discrimination in World Trade Law: Past, Present, and Future: The World Trade Forum, Vol. 2
Thomas Cottier and Petros C. Mavroidis 2000
The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the second volume in an annual series, the World Trade Forum. The Forum's members include scholars, lawyers, and government and business practitioners working in the area of international trade, law, and... (read more)
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The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court
Jeffrey A. Fagan and Franklin E. Zimring 2000
Since the 1960s, recurring cycles of political activism over youth crime have motivated efforts to remove adolescents from the juvenile court. Periodic surges of crime – youth violence in the 1970s, the spread of gangs in the 1980s, and more... (read more)
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Rethinking Criminal Law
George P. Fletcher 2000
This is a reprint of a book first published by Little, Brown in 1978. George Fletcher is working on a new edition, which will be published by Oxford in three volumes, the first of which is scheduled to appear in... (read more)
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The Jurisprudential Foundations of Corporate and Commercial Law
Jody S. Kraus and Steven D. Walt 2000
This collection, first published in 2000, brings together essays by some of the most prominent scholars currently writing in commercial law theory. The essays address the foundations of efficiency analysis as the dominant theoretical paradigm in contemporary corporate and commercial... (read more)
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Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets
Clarisa Long 2000
The debate over international intellectual property rights has become an important foreign policy issue for many industrialized countries, and particularly for the United States. US companies complain that they have suffered greatly from the lack of rigorous and uniform international... (read more)
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Workin' Hard for the Money: The Social and Economic Lives of Women Drug Sellers
Ira Sommers, Deborah Baskin, and Jeffrey A. Fagan 2000
This book examines women's participation in the cocaine/crack economy of New York City. All the women are or were long-term drug dealers, not those who casually dealt drugs. In order to be included in the authors' study, a person had... (read more)
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Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements
Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, and Arvind Panagariya 1999
This volume will enable graduate students, scholars of PTAs, and policymakers concerned with trade liberalization to grasp the analytical relationships among the sometimes disparate contributions of nearly a half century of theoretical research on PTAs.
The recent proliferation of free... (read more)
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Air Power as a Coercive Instrument
Daniel L. Byman, Matthew C. Waxman, and Eric V. Larsen 1999
Coercion – the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior – is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently fought in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa... (read more)
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The U.S. Income Tax: What It Is, How It Got That Way, and Where We Go From Here
Michael J. Graetz 1999
A lively history of the American income tax system and the recent revulsion it has spurred in the American public reveals how the tax evolved, how it became a political tool, what the alternatives are, and who most benefits from... (read more)
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True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance
Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw 1999
Social insurance in the United States – including the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Medicare, Medicaid, and disability insurance programs that were added later – may be the greatest triumph of American domestic policy. But true security has... (read more)
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Legislation: Statutory Interpretation: 20 Questions
Kent Greenawalt 1999
This book gives an overview of the field of statutory interpretation for the law student. It examines the subject through questions that help show how Legislation is crafted. Part of the University Casebook Series, it features expertly edited cases, text... (read more)
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The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Asian Economic Development, 1960-1995
Katharina Pistor and Philip A. Wellons 1999
This book explores the role of law and legal institutions in economic development. It investigates the period from 1960 to 1995, an era of rapid growth and socio-economic transformation. The study draws on the experience of six Asian countries: the... (read more)
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For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
Jedediah S. Purdy 1999
Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his “letter of love for the world’s possibilities.” Indeed, these pages – which garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media – constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value... (read more)
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Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action
Joseph Raz 1999
Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of... (read more)
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