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The Perilous Public Square: Structural Threats to Free Expression Today

David E. Pozen
2020

Americans of all political persuasions fear that “free speech” is under attack. This may seem strange at a time when legal protections for free expression remain strong and overt government censorship minimal. Yet a range of political, economic, social, and... (read more)
Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything

Alexandra Carter
2020

Negotiation is not a zero-sum game. It’s an essential skill for your career that can also improve your closest relationships and your everyday life, but often people shy away from it, feeling defeated before they’ve even started. In this groundbreaking... (read more)
Roman Law and Economics, Vol. 1: Institutions and Organization

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Dennis P. Kehoe
2020

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous... (read more)
Roman Law and Economics, Vol. 2: Exchange, Ownership, and Disputes

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Dennis P. Kehoe
2020

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous... (read more)
Law in the Time of COVID-19

Katharina Pistor
2020

The COVID-19 crisis has ended and upended lives around the globe. In addition to killing over 160,000 people, more than 35,000 in the United States alone, its secondary effects have been as devastating. These secondary effects pose fundamental challenges to... (read more)
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

Anu Bradford
2020

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity politics; Brexit; and the rise of Asian influence, the EU is seen as a declining power on the... (read more)
The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It

Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro
2020

This is an age of crisis. That much we can agree on. But a crisis of what? And how do we get out of it? Many on the right call for tax cuts and deregulation. Others on the left rage... (read more)
India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy

Madhav Khosla
2020

Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came,... (read more)
Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions: Cases, Materials, and Problems

Ronald J. Mann
2020

Written by Ronald J. Mann, one of the country’s leading Commercial Law scholars, Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions continues to deliver clear, detailed practical explanations of how payment systems actually work. Using a systems approach, the text and problems... (read more)
The Free Speech Century

Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
2019

The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for first invoking the phrase "clear and present... (read more)
Rethinking the Law of Contract Damages

Victor P. Goldberg
2019

In this series of chapters on contract damages issues, Victor P. Goldberg provides a framework for analyzing the problems that arise when determining damages, and applies it to case law in both the USA and the UK.

In analyzing direct... (read more)
The Grammar of Criminal Law, Vol. 2: International Criminal Law

George P. Fletcher
2019

To understand the international legal order in the field of criminal law, we need to ask three elementary questions. What is international law? What is criminal law? And what happens to these two fields when they are joined together?

Volume... (read more)
A Time for Critique

Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt
2019

In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sources of information, is there a place for critique? This book calls for a systematic reappraisal of critical thinking – its... (read more)
This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth

Jedediah S. Purdy
2019

Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us... (read more)
International Law: Cases and Materials

Lori Fisler Damrosch and Sean D. Murphy
2019

This classic international law casebook is updated to cover recent case law, including the arbitral decision in the South China Sea Arbitration (Philippines v. China), the International Court of Justice’s Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area... (read more)
Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition

Katherine M. Franke
2019

Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for repair of the damage caused by the legacy of American slavery. Repair invites readers to explore the historical... (read more)
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

Katharina Pistor
2019

Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains... (read more)
Regulation in India: Design, Capacity, Performance

Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla
2019

The rise of the regulatory state has been a major feature of modern constitutional democracies. India, the world's largest democracy, is no exception to this trend. This book is the first major study of regulation in India. It considers how... (read more)
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom

Sarah Seo
2019

When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile led us... (read more)
Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States

Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach
2019

Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States provides a “legal playbook” for deep decarbonization in the United States, identifying well over 1,000 legal options for enabling the United States to address one of the greatest problems facing this... (read more)
Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
2019

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in... (read more)
The New Preemption Reader: Legislation, Cases, and Commentary on State and Local Government Law

Richard Briffault, Laurie Reynolds, and Nestor M. Davidson
2019

The hottest issue in state and local government today is preemption – the conflict between states and cities over authority in a wide range of sharply-contested areas, including gun control, minimum wages and family leave, anti-discrimination law, environmental protection, and... (read more)
Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More

Elizabeth F. Emens
2019

Reading this book should be at the top of your To Do list. Life Admin will give you many hours of your life back.

Every day an unseen form of labor creeps into our lives – stealing precious moments of... (read more)
The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy

Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence R. Glosten, and Gabriel V. Rauterberg
2019

The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light.... (read more)
Defining Federal Crimes

Daniel C. Richman, Kate Stith, and William J. Stuntz
2019

Defining Federal Crimes, Second Edition frames federal criminal law as a distinctive world created and shaped by the interplay between the three branches of the federal government. It provides an overview of basic doctrine while inviting students to explore the... (read more)