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Law and Force in the New International Order
Lori Fisler Damrosch and David J. Scheffer 1991Momentous events of recent years have shown the tremendous potential for developing and applying international law, even in the area that has always presented the greatest challenge to the rule of law –... (read more)
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Workers Compensation: Strengthening the Social Compact
Orin Kramer and Richard Briffault 1991Workers' compensation, the state-based system that compensates employees for the economic consequences of work-related injury, illness and disease without regard to the fault of the employer or employee, was and remains a truly... (read more)
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Authority
Joseph Raz 1990Authority is one of the key issues in political studies, for the question of by what right one person or several persons govern others is at the very root of political activity. In... (read more)
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Aggressive Unilateralism: Americas 301 Trade Policy and World Trading System
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Hugh T. Patrick 1990A comprehensive analysis of aggressive unilateralism in trade policy. This volume grew out of an international conference entitled S̀uper 301 and the World Trading System,' held at Columbia University on December 1-2, 1989.
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Environmental Impact Review in New York
Michael B. Gerrard, Philip Weinberg, and Daniel A. Ruzow 1990An all-encompassing guide to New York's State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and the environmental impact review process that SEQRA generated. This unique publication takes project applicants, opponents, and regulators through every stage... (read more)
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US Nuclear Strategy: A Reader
Philip Chase Bobbitt, Lawrence Freedman, and Gregory F. Treverton 1989Setting the terms for an effective public debate on nuclear issues, this provides essays and excerpts from longer works that have charted the development of American nuclear strategy. Each section ends with questions... (read more)
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Speech, Crime, and the Uses of Language
Kent Greenawalt 1989In this book Greenawalt explores the three-way relationship between the idea of freedom of speech, the law of crimes, and the many uses of language. He begins by considering free speech as a... (read more)
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Protectionism
Jagdish N. Bhagwati 1988A leading international economist looks at many of the key issues of trade policy now confronting the United States and the world in this timely book. Clear, informative, and witty, Jagdish Bhagwati provides... (read more)
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Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy
Philip Chase Bobbitt 1988This book provides an assessment of future problems, particularly the neglected connection between strategy and proliferation, and an analysis of various ways of coping with these problems.
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Knights, Raiders, and Targets: The Impact of the Hostile Takeover
John C. Coffee Jr., Louis Lowenstein, and Susan Rose-Ackerman 1988Fascinating as the corporate takeovers of recent years have been – with their "golden parachutes" and junk bonds, "greenmailers" and white knights – it is far from clear what underlying forces are at... (read more)
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A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
George P. Fletcher 1988Discusses the Bernhard Goetz case, examines the legal and ethical issues, and reviews the concept of self-defense.
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Religious Convictions and Political Choice
Kent Greenawalt 1988How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? For example, are ordinary citizens or legislators doing something wrong when they consciously allow their decisions... (read more)
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The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads
Lori Fisler Damrosch 1987This major study of the International Court of Justice was the first comprehensive analysis of the issues confronting governments in reexamining the scope of their consent to the Court’s jurisdiction. Topics include the... (read more)
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Finance and Industrial Performance in a Dynamic Economy: Theory, Practice, and Policy
Merritt B. Fox 1987Part of the Columbia Studies in Business, Government, and Society series.
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Conflicts of Law and Morality
Kent Greenawalt 1987Part of the Clarendon Law Series.
Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons.... (read more)
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Nature and Politics: Liberalism in the Philosophies of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
Andrzej Rapaczynski 1987In this study of the origins of liberalism in political thought, Andrzej Rapaczynski examines the political theory of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
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Empires
Michael W. Doyle 1986Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream of scholarly literature. This book seeks to account for... (read more)
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The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America
Lee C. Bollinger 1986Bollinger provides a masterful critique of the major theories of freedom of expression, finding these theories persuasive but inadequate. Buttressing his argument with references to the well-known Skokie case and many other examples,... (read more)
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The Morality of Freedom
Joseph Raz 1986Ranging over central issues of morals and politics and the nature of freedom and authority, this study examines the role of value-neutrality, rights, equality, and the prevention of harm in the liberal tradition,... (read more)
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Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution
Philip Chase Bobbitt 1984Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument – historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical – through the unusual method of... (read more)
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The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity
Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel 1984Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization.
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The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn't
Vincent A. Blasi 1983Essays evaluate the decisions made by the Supreme Court concerning freedom of the press, freedom of speech, court practices, discrimination, labor law, antitrust actions and the rights of the poor.
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Discrimination and Reverse Discrimination
Kent Greenawalt 1983 -
United States Law of Sovereign Immunity: Relating to International Financial Transactions
John R. Stevenson, Jeffrey F. Browne, and Lori Fisler Damrosch 1983Euromoney special law report.
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Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry
Charles F. Sabel 1982Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was... (read more)
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