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Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas
1995

In 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)
Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post-Cold War Era
Lori Fisler Damrosch, Gennady M. Danilenko, and Rein Müllerson
1995

International 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)
With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials
George P. Fletcher
1995

On 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)
Fighting Words: Individuals, Communities, and Liberties of Speech
Kent Greenawalt
1995

Should “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)
Private Consciences and Public Reasons
Kent Greenawalt
1995

Within 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)
Trade and Wages: Leveling Wages Down?
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Marvin H. Kosters
1994

This 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)
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
1994

This 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)
Privatization in Eastern Europe: Is the State Withering Away?
Roman Frydman and Andrzej Rapaczynski
1994

The 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)
Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting
Michael B. Gerrard
1994

In 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)
Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics
Joseph Raz
1994

In 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)
Of Boundless Domains
Michael I. Sovern
1994

With 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)
India in Transition: Freeing the Economy
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
1993

From 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)
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
1993

Words, 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)
Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts
Lori Fisler Damrosch
1993

Despite 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)
Privatization in the Transition to a Market Economy: Studies of Preconditions and Policies in Eastern Europe
John S. Earle, Roman Frydman, and Andrzej Rapaczynski
1993

Privatization policies are the centrepiece of the historically unique transformation of the centrally planned, into market economies. Yet the peculiarities of the privatization process in Eastern Europe are little understood in the West... (read more)
Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships
George P. Fletcher
1993

At a time when age-old political structures are crumbling, civil strife abounds, and economic uncertainty permeates the air, loyalty offers us security in our relationships with associates, friends, and family. Yet loyalty is... (read more)
The Privatization Process in Central Europe: Economic Environment, Legal and Ownership Structure, Institutions for State Regulation, Overview of Privatization Programs, Initial Transformation of Enterprises
Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, and John S. Earle
1993

In an era defined by economic and industrial competition rather than ideological warfare, the success of the privatization process in Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltics is crucial for the regions' political... (read more)
The Privatization Process in Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic States: Economic Environment, Legal and Ownership Structure, Institutions for State Regulation, Overview of Privatization Programs, Initial Transformation of Enterprises
Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, and John S. Earle
1993

Volume 2 of this unique series on privatization provides comprehensive comparative information on the privatization process in five former Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Following an introduction to the economic... (read more)
(Some of) the Essentials of Finance and Investment
Ronald J. Gilson and Bernard S. Black
1993

Gibson and Black's casebook provides detailed information on the essentials of finance and investment. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series, it includes selected... (read more)
The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism
Jody S. Kraus
1993

This 1994 book constitutes a sustained, comprehensive, and rigorous critique of contemporary Hobbesian contractarianism as expounded in the work of Jean Hampton, Gregory Kavka, and David Gauthier. Professor Kraus argues that the attempts... (read more)
Environmental Law Practice Guide: State and Federal Law
Michael B. Gerrard
1992

Comprehensive coverage of the entire spectrum of federal and state environmental law. Everything you need all in one place! Provides practical guidance that cuts across all substantive areas of environmental law. Written for... (read more)
Law and Objectivity
Kent Greenawalt
1992

In modern times the idea of the objectivity of law has been undermined by skepticism about legal institutions, disbelief in ideals of unbiased evaluation, and a conviction that language is indeterminate. Greenawalt here... (read more)
Images of a Free Press
Lee C. Bollinger
1991

Rich in historical detail, Images of a Free Press is an elegant, powerful guide to the evolution of our modern conception of freedom of the press, which finds expression in laws that protect... (read more)
Law and Liberalism in the 1980s: The Rubin Lectures at Columbia University
Vincent A. Blasi
1991
Constitutional Interpretation
Philip Chase Bobbitt
1991

Constitutional interpretation is an issue which has come under considerable scrutiny in the USA, in the light of such happenings as the nomination of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, and the Iran-Contra... (read more)