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Federal Income Taxation: Principles and Policies

Michael J. Graetz, Deborah H. Schenk, and Anne L. Alstott
2018

This casebook on federal income taxation contains detailed text and explanatory materials, along with a new Teachers’ Manual and comprehensive problem sets. The eighth edition marks a major revision of the casebook to cover recent regulations, rulings, cases and other new developments, including the major changes made to the Internal Revenue Code by tax... (Read more)
Realms of Legal Interpretation

Kent Greenawalt
2018

Legal norms may forbid, require, or authorize a particular form of behavior. The law of contracts, for example, informs people how to enter into agreements that will bind both sides, and from this we establish legal requirements on how they should behave. In public law, legal standards provide authority to legislators and executive officials... (Read more)
Liberal Suppression: Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech

Philip A. Hamburger
2018

In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These speech restrictions have seemed merely technical adjustments, which prevent the political use of a tax subsidy. But the cultural... (Read more)
The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens

Bernard E. Harcourt
2018

A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States... (Read more)
Troubling Transparency: The History and Future of Freedom of Information

David Pozen and Michael Schudson
2018

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs,... (Read more)
Gellhorn and Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments

Peter L. Strauss, Todd D. Rakoff, Gillian E. Metzger, David J. Barron, and Anne Joseph O'Connell
2018

The 12th edition of this comprehensive casebook draws both from its history and current debates to create a lively and rich set of materials appropriate for introductory as well as advanced courses. In addition, the new edition of the casebook offers a leaner presentation of many topics and more cues for helping students process... (Read more)
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Tim Wu
2018

We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms – big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the “curse of bigness” can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers... (Read more)
International Arbitration and Private International Law

George A. Bermann
2017

No field of legal scholarship or practice operates in the world of private international law as continuously and pervasively as does international arbitration, commercial and investment alike. Arbitration’s dependence on private international law manifests itself throughout the life-cycle of arbitration, from the crafting of an enforceable arbitration agreement, through the entire arbitral process, to... (Read more)
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: The Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention by National Courts

George A. Bermann
2017

This book examines how the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, commonly known as The New York Convention, has been understood and applied in [insert number] jurisdictions, including virtually all that are leading international arbitration centers. It begins with a general report surveying and synthesizing national responses to a large... (Read more)
On Intersectionality: Essential Writings

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
2017

For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers – inside and outside of the United States – have employed the concept of intersectionality both to describe problems of inequality and to fashion concrete solutions. In particular, as the Washington Post reported recently, “the term has been used by social activists as both... (Read more)
The Choice Theory of Contracts

Hanoch Dagan and Michael A. Heller
2017

This concise landmark in law and jurisprudence offers the first coherent, liberal account of contract law. The Choice Theory of Contracts answers the field's most pressing questions: what is the 'freedom' in 'freedom of contract'? What core values animate contract law and how do those values interrelate? How must the state act when it... (Read more)
Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: New York, 1958

Emmanuel Gaillard and George A. Bermann
2017

The Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards provides a detailed analysis of the judicial interpretation and application of the New York Convention by reference to case law from 45 Contracting States. The Guide, and the newyorkconvention1958.org website which supplements it, will become an essential tool that benefits... (Read more)
The Internationalization of Government Procurement Regulation

Aris C. Georgopulos, Bernard M. Hoekman, and Petros C. Mavroidis
2017

As governments are major buyers of goods and services, foreign companies are keen to be able to participate in procurement opportunities on an equal footing with national firms. This has given rise to the inclusion of procurement disciplines in trade agreements and to internationally-agreed good regulatory practices in this important policy area. The contributions... (Read more)
Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials

Jane C. Ginsburg, Jessica Litman, and Mary Kevlin
2017

The new edition of this leading casebook covers recent developments, such as the controversy over registration of disparaging marks (the “Slants” and “Redskins” litigations), expressive uses of trademarks, protection of famous foreign trademarks, and trademarks on the internet. The Dilution chapter has been substantially reorganized. Throughout the chapters, the editors have written provocative Questions... (Read more)
Copyright: Cases and Materials

Robert A. Gorman, Jane C. Ginsburg, and R. Anthony Reese
2017

With stimulating questions and discussion problems, comprehensive notes, and teachable and well-edited cases as its hallmarks, this is the authoritative law school casebook for the study of copyright law. The book presents up-to-date materials dealing both with new technologies and with the more "traditional" issues in the field. Topics that receive particular attention include:... (Read more)
When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict

Kent Greenawalt
2017

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution begins: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Taken as a whole, this statement has the aim of separating church and state, but tensions can emerge between its two elements – the so-called Nonestablishment Clause and the... (Read more)
The Administrative Threat

Philip A. Hamburger
2017

Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal lives. As a result, administrative power is a pervasive feature of American life. But is this power constitutional?

A similar sort of power was once used by English kings, and this book shows... (Read more)
Bankruptcy and the U.S. Supreme Court

Ronald J. Mann
2017

In this illuminating work, Ronald J. Mann offers readers a comprehensive study of bankruptcy cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. He provides detailed case studies based on the Justices' private papers on the most closely divided cases, statistical analysis of variation among the Justices in their votes for and against effective... (Read more)
Commercial Finance: A Transactional Approach

Ronald J. Mann
2017

The Commercial Finance book is designed to update (and replace) the course on “Secured Credit” traditionally taught in law school. By shifting the focus to commercial finance from Article 9, and by shifting the materials to emphasize pro-active document design and analysis as opposed to re-active case analysis, the book supports a course that... (Read more)
About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America

Carol Sanger
2017

One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy is often characterized as a selfish decision by women who put their own interests above those of the fetus. This background... (Read more)
Employment Law: Cases and Materials

Steven L. Willborn, Stewart J. Schwab, John F. Burton Jr., and Gillian L. Lester
2017

The Sixth Edition of Employment Law will continue the volume’s focus on important unifying themes in employment law, such as the struggle for authority in the workplace between employers, employees, and the government, the relationship between employment law and labor markets, and the appropriate remedies for employment law violations.

The Sixth Edition carries forward... (Read more)
The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding

Philip G. Alston and Sarah Knuckey
2016

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become more sophisticated and complex, while also being subjected to stronger scrutiny from governments. Nevertheless, despite the prominence of fact-finding, it remains... (Read more)
Principles of Financial Regulation

John Armour, Dan Awrey, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Colin Mayer, and Jennifer Payne
2016

The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation of financial institutions and markets, and prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the design of financial regulation. As the financial system has become ever-more complex and interconnected, the pace of evolution continues to accelerate. It is now clear that regulation must focus on the... (Read more)
Freedom of Speech in the History of Ideas: Landmark Cases, Historic Essays, and Recent Developments

Vincent A. Blasi
2016

This accessible and engaging book, with a focus on historical developments, basic principles, landmark cases, and contemporary issues without elaborating on the doctrinal matrix in full lawyerly detail, is well-suited for a political science or journalism school course on the First Amendment.

It is organized around six historic essays about the freedom of speech... (Read more)
Cases and Materials on State and Local Government Law

Richard Briffault and Laurie Reynolds
2016

The 8th Edition continues earlier editions’ focus on the critical roles played by states and local governments and the complex structure of our state-local system. It challenges students to understand the competing models of local government that frame the field. It then takes that theoretical analysis to the hands-on questions of local government formation... (Read more)