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Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World
Jedediah S. Purdy 2003Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things, Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America,... (read more)
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Going Alone: The Case for Relaxed Reciprocity in Freeing Trade
Jagdish N. Bhagwati 2002An analytic and empirical study of unilateral trade liberalization agreements, from the nineteenth century to the present.
Since the end of World War II, the freeing of trade has been most visible in... (read more)
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Free Trade Today
Jagdish N. Bhagwati 2002Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not banished. And free trade faces strong new challenges from a variety of groups, including... (read more)
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
Philip Chase Bobbitt 2002The Shield of Achilles is a classic inquiry into the nature of the State, its origin in war, and its drive for peace and legitimacy. Philip Bobbitt, a professor of constitutional law and... (read more)
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Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone 2002While freedom of speech has been guaranteed us for centuries, the First Amendment as we know it today is largely a creation of the past eighty years. Eternally Vigilant brings together a group... (read more)
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The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might
Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman 2002This book examines how the United States uses limited military force and other means to influence adversaries and potential adversaries. It reviews when limited force can and cannot work and examines a range... (read more)
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Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism
George P. Fletcher 2002America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice.
We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of... (read more)
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Separation of Church and State
Philip A. Hamburger 2002In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century... (read more)
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Adjuncts and Alternatives to Copyright: ALAI Congress, June 13-17, 2001, New York, U.S.A.
International Literary and Artistic Association, Jane C. Ginsburg, and June M. Besek 2002 -
European Integration and International Co-ordination: Studies in Transnational Economic Law in Honour of Claus-Dieter Ehlermann
Armin Von Bogdandy, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Yves Mény 2002Claus-Dieter Ehlermann is widely regarded as among the most knowledgeable, far-sighted, and creative shapers, practitioners, and scholars of European law. Among the prominent legal roles he has played in his influential career, his... (read more)
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Value, Respect, and Attachment
Joseph Raz 2001Joseph 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... (read more)
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Transatlantic Regulatory Co-operation: Legal Problems and Political Prospects
George A. Bermann, Matthias Herdegen, and Peter L. Lindseth 2001This 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... (read more)
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The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization
Jagdish Bhagwati 2001In 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... (read more)
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Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy
George P. Fletcher 2001Americans 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... (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 2001The 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... (read more)
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Who's Qualified?
Lani Guinier and Susan P. Sturm 2001Affirmative 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... (read more)
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Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing
Bernard E. Harcourt 2001This 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... (read more)
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The WTO Case Law of 2001-2011
Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis 2001The 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... (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 2001In 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... (read more)
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The Community Economic Development Movement: Law, Business, and the New Social Policy
William H. Simon 2001While 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... (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... (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 2000The 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... (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 2000Since 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... (read more)
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Rethinking Criminal Law
George P. Fletcher 2000This 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... (read more)
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The Jurisprudential Foundations of Corporate and Commercial Law
Jody S. Kraus and Steven D. Walt 2000This 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... (read more)
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