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Law and Policy in Public Purchasing: The WTO Agreement on Public Procurement
Bernard M. Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis 1997Governments everywhere procure goods and services as inputs into the production of public goods and services. Such purchases can account for a substantial share of total demand for goods and services. Governments' tendencies,... (read more)
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Jumping the Queue: An Inquiry into the Legal Treatment of Students with Learning Disabilities
Mark G. Kelman and Gillian L. Lester 1997This book weighs alternative conceptions of the equal opportunity principle through an empirical and ethical exploration of the Federal law that directs local school districts to award special educational opportunities to students who... (read more)
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World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization
Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin 1997This book presents a bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the present day in terms of the interplay between flexibility and mass production. Drawing on extensive new... (read more)
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The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Katharina Pistor 1997What impact has Russia's chosen path of reform had on the development of law after the collapse of the communist regime? This collection of essays examines how Russia's distinctive traditions of law –... (read more)
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Fair Trade and Harmonization: Prerequisites for Fair Trade?
Jagdish Bhagwati and Robert E. Hudec 1996Greatly 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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The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya 1996Although the public equates free trade areas with free trade, these areas operate under preferential trading arrangements — with free trade for members only and implicit protection against non-members. This volume probes the... (read more)
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The Criminalization of Domestic Violence: Promises and Limits
Jeffrey A. Fagan 1996During the past 30 years, the criminalization of domestic violence has developed along three parallel but generally separate tracks: criminal punishment and deterrence of batterers, batterer treatment, and restraining orders designed to protect... (read more)
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Basic Concepts of Legal Thought
George P. Fletcher 1996In this one-of-a-kind text, George P. Fletcher, a renowned legal theorist, offers a provocative yet accessible overview of the basics of legal thought. The first section of the book is designed to introduce... (read more)
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Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia
Roman Frydman, Cheryl W. Gray, and Andrzej Rapaczynski 1996In Volume 1, distinguished economists, legal scholars, political scientists and sociologists examine the emerging institutions of corporate governance in privatized firms in transition economies. They investigate the role of banks, investment funds, and... (read more)
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Small and Medium-Size Enterprises
Arnaldo Bagnasco and Charles F. Sabel 1995This text examines the activities of small and medium-sized enterprises, and asks whether they have been regulated entirely through a dependence on the freemarket - which would explain their success compared with large... (read more)
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The Dangerous Drift to Preferential Trade Agreements
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Anne O. Krueger 1995In the debates over fundamental tax reform, the "flat tax" will be a leading proposal for making federal taxation more efficient, fair and simple. This volume presents an exchange on the flat tax... (read more)
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Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas 1995In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals... (read more)
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Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post-Cold War Era
Lori Fisler Damrosch, Gennady M. Danilenko, and Rein Müllerson 1995International law suffered a drastic loss of respect during the Cold War for being neither consistently observed nor enforced by the superpowers, especially when their vital interests were at stake. In this volume,... (read more)
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With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials
George P. Fletcher 1995On November 27, 1978, councilman Dan White bypassed the San Francisco City Hall security systems by crawling through a basement window with a loaded .38. By the time he left City Hall that... (read more)
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Fighting Words: Individuals, Communities, and Liberties of Speech
Kent Greenawalt 1995Should “hate speech” be made a criminal offense, or does the First Amendment oblige Americans to permit the use of epithets directed against a person’s race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual preference?... (read more)
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Private Consciences and Public Reasons
Kent Greenawalt 1995Within democratic societies, a deep division exists over the nature of community and the grounds for political life. Should the political order be neutral between competing conceptions of the good life or should... (read more)
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Trade and Wages: Leveling Wages Down?
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Marvin H. Kosters 1994This book discusses the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers and how such a gap affects trade in the context of NAFTA. Woven into this presentation is the authors’ strong... (read more)
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Small Privatization: The Transformation of Retail Trade and Consumer Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland
John S. Earle, Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, and Joel Turkewitz 1994This third volume in the acclaimed series of CEU Privatization Reports deals with the transition to a free market in retail trade and consumer services in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The... (read more)
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Privatization in Eastern Europe: Is the State Withering Away?
Roman Frydman and Andrzej Rapaczynski 1994The creation of new economic and legal mechanisms to replace the fallen communist systems of Eastern Europe must surely count as one of the greatest organizational challenges of this century, and economists and... (read more)
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Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting
Michael B. Gerrard 1994In Whose Backyard, Whose Risk, environmental lawyer, professor, and commentator Michael B. Gerrard tackles the thorny issue of how and where to dispose of hazardous and radioactive waste. Gerrard, who has represented dozens... (read more)
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Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics
Joseph Raz 1994In the past twenty years Joseph Raz has consolidated his reputation as one of the most acute, inventive, and energetic scholars currently at work in analytic moral and political theory. This new collection... (read more)
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Of Boundless Domains
Michael I. Sovern 1994With a clear vision of the future and a lively, accessible style, Michael Sovern, former President of Columbia University, pays tribute to the great teachers who change their students forever, even as he... (read more)
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India in Transition: Freeing the Economy
Jagdish N. Bhagwati 1993From gaining its independence in 1947 until only recently, India was a centrally planned economy, complete with five year plans. With the end of the Gandhi dynasty and the move to privatization of... (read more)
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Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and The First Amendment
Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberlé W. Crenshaw 1993Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of... (read more)
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Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts
Lori Fisler Damrosch 1993Despite the seemingly uncontrollable conflicts within the boundaries of many nation-states today, the end of the Cold War has provided new opportunities to mobilize the collective will of the international community to deal... (read more)
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