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Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets
Clarisa Long 2000The 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... (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 2000This 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... (read more)
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Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements
Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, and Arvind Panagariya 1999This 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... (read more)
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Air Power as a Coercive Instrument
Daniel L. Byman, Matthew C. Waxman, and Eric V. Larsen 1999Coercion – 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... (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 1999A 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... (read more)
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True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance
Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw 1999Social 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... (read more)
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Legislation: Statutory Interpretation: 20 Questions
Kent Greenawalt 1999This 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... (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 1999This 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... (read more)
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For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
Jedediah S. Purdy 1999Jedediah 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... (read more)
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Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action
Joseph Raz 1999Joseph 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... (read more)
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Practical Reason and Norms
Joseph Raz 1999This book focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists... (read more)
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Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century
Olara A. Otunnu and Michael W. Doyle 1998The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfilled expectations and escalating violence in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia forced retrenchment upon UN... (read more)
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A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy
Jagdish Bhagwati 1998Jagdish Bhagwati firmly believes that those who work at the frontiers of economics should also get down into the trenches of public policy in the only way they can: through advocacy. His frequent... (read more)
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The Uruguay Round and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Arthur Dunkel
Jagdish Bhagwati and Mathias Hirsch 1998Greatly admired by the world community of policymakers and scholars of international trade, Arthur Dunkel is credited with having saved the Uruguay Round from failure. This volume--whose authors include the most distinguished trade... (read more)
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State Trading in the Twenty-First Century: The World Trade Forum, Vol. 1
Thomas Cottier and Petros C. Mavroidis 1998The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the first 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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Basic Concepts of Criminal Law
George P. Fletcher 1998In the United States today criminal justice can vary from state to state, as various states alter the Modern Penal Code to suit their own local preferences and concerns. In Eastern Europe, the... (read more)
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Capitalism with a Comrade's Face
Roman Frydman, Kenneth Murphy, and Andrzej Rapaczynski 1998Are nations that are journeying away from communism succeeding in becoming free-market democracies? In what ways do decades of totalitarian rule continue to distort the institutional shape of these societies? Which of communism's... (read more)
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Brownfields Law and Practice: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Land
Michael B. Gerrard 1998The complete guide for developers, investors, lenders, property owners, and others who want to seize the opportunity of profitable investment, voluntary cleanup or redevelopment of contaminated land and for their attorneys. It is... (read more)
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Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial
Suzanne B. Goldberg and Lisa Keen 1998In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting any law or policy that protected a person with... (read more)
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Foundations of the Economic Approach to Law
Avery W. Katz 1998Including classic papers by six Nobel laureates, Foundations of the Economic Approach to Law is a comprehensive survey of essential articles on the application of economic methods and concepts in legal settings. Individual... (read more)
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The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers' Ethics
William H. Simon 1998Should a lawyer keep a client’s secrets even when disclosure would exculpate a person wrongly accused of a crime? To what extent should a lawyer exploit loopholes in ways that enable clients to... (read more)
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Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism
Michael W. Doyle 1997In the wake of the Cold War, as the international community struggles to accommodate change, the author of this study directs our attention to the classic theorists, Thucydides, Rousseau, Locke and others.
He... (read more)
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New Thinking in International Relations Theory
Michael W. Doyle and G. John Ikenberry 1997This book of ten original essays provides a showcase of currently diverse theoretical agendas in the field of international relations. Contributors address the theoretical analysis that their perspective brings to the issue of... (read more)
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Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador
Michael W. Doyle, Ian Johnstone, and Robert C. Orr 1997Keeping the Peace explores the new multidimensional role that the United Nations has played in peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding over the past few years. By examining the paradigm-setting cases of Cambodia and El... (read more)
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The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax
Michael J. Graetz 1997A Treasury official in the Bush Administration offers an insider's chronicle of the recent history of the tax system, shows how politicians have used it for their own ends, and evaluates the effects... (read more)
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