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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  Follow the Money: Essays on International Taxation

  Michael J. Graetz
  2016

  Publicity about tax avoidance techniques of multinational corporations and wealthy individuals has moved discussion of international income taxation from the backrooms of law and accounting firms to the front pages of news organizations around the world. In the words of a top Australian tax official, international tax law has now become a topic of... (Read more)

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  The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

  Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse
  2016

  When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 he promised to change the Supreme Court. With four appointments to the court, including Warren E. Burger as the chief justice, he did just that. In 1969, the Burger Court succeeded the famously liberal Warren Court, which had significantly expanded civil liberties and was despised... (Read more)

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  Exemptions: Necessary, Justified, or Misguided?

  Kent Greenawalt
  2016

  Should laws apply equally to everyone, or should some individuals and organizations be granted exemptions because of conflicting religious or moral convictions? In recent years, this question has become intensely controversial in America. The Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage, in particular, has provoked barbed debates about legal exemptions. At the core of these... (Read more)

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  From the Bottom Up: Selected Essays

  Kent Greenawalt
  2016

  Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up constitutes a collection of articles and essays written over the last five decades of his career. They cover a wide range of topics, many of which address ties between political and moral philosophy and what the law does and should provide. A broad general theme is that in... (Read more)

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  The World Trade Organization: Law, Economics, and Politics

  Bernard M. Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis
  2016

  The World Trade Organization (WTO) is one of the most important international organizations in existence today. It contains a set of disciplines that affect the ability of governments to impose trade restrictions, and has helped to support the steady expansion of international trade since the 1950s. The WTO has been the focus of vociferous... (Read more)

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  The Regulation of International Trade: Volume 1

  Petros C. Mavroidis
  2016

  The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created alongside other towering achievements of the post-World War II era, including the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. GATT, the first successful agreement to generate multilateral trade liberalization, became the principal institution to administer international trade for the next six... (Read more)

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  The Regulation of International Trade: Volume 2

  Petros C. Mavroidis
  2016

  The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has extended its institutional arsenal since the Kennedy round in the early 1960s. The current institutional design is the outcome of the Uruguay round and agreements reached in the ongoing Doha round (begun in 2001). One of the institutional outgrowths of GATT is the World Trade... (Read more)

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  Governing Access to Essential Resources

  Katharina Pistor and Olivier De Schutter
  2016

  Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity to others, many are searching... (Read more)

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  Administrative Justice in the United States

  Peter L. Strauss
  2016

  The noted Administrative Law scholar Professor Peter L. Strauss of Columbia Law School has now completed the Third Edition of his Administrative Justice in the United States, addressing the issues of administrative law in ways that should be helpful both to foreign lawyers wishing a detailed introduction to American public law and to American... (Read more)

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  Congress at Work: A Documentary Supplement for Courses in Legislation

  Peter L. Strauss
  2016

  Casebooks on Legislation typically omit legislative materials, as such, giving students little if any chance to work directly with statutes and the processes that create them. Yet lawyers may become intimately involved in the legislative process, and must often advise clients about statutory meaning in matters of great consequence – long before judicial readings... (Read more)

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  The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

  Tim Wu
  2016

  Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention.

  This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations... (Read more)