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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Impeachment: A Handbook
Charles F. Black Jr. and Philip Chase Bobbitt 2018
Originally published at the height of the Watergate crisis, Charles Black’s classic Impeachment: A Handbook has long been the premier guide to the subject of presidential impeachment. Now thoroughly updated with new chapters by Philip Bobbitt, it remains essential reading... (read more)
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Securities Market Issues for the 21st Century
Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence R. Glosten, Edward F. Greene, and Manesh S. Patel 2018
As part of the first stage of the New Special Study, a multi-year program conducted by Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School, this book seeks to critically evaluate the myriad... (read more)
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Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law
Hugh Collins, Gillian L. Lester, and Virginia Mantouvalou 2018
This collection of essays presents an interdisciplinary investigation by lawyers and philosophers into the philosophical ideas, concepts, and principles that provide the foundation for the field of labour law and employment law. The book addresses the doubts that have been... (read more)
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Climate Engineering and the Law: Regulation and Liability for Solar Radiation Management and Carbon Dioxide Removal
Michael B. Gerrard and Tracy Hester 2018
Climate change is increasingly recognized as a global threat, and is already contributing to record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves. To prevent the worst impacts, attention is now turning to climate engineering - the intentional large-scale modification of the environment to... (read more)
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The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance
Jeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe 2018
Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law... (read more)
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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... (read more)
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Realms of Legal Interpretation: Core Elements and Critical Variations
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... (read more)
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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... (read more)
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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.... (read more)
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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,... (read more)
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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... (read more)
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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... (read more)
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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... (read more)
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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,... (read more)
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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.... (read more)
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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... (read more)
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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,... (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... (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... (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... (read more)
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