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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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  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... (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,... (read more)

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  Property: Principles and Policies

  Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith
  2017

  This revised casebook is designed for a “building block” Property course that serves as a student’s foundation for the rest of law school and beyond. Avoiding the typical hodge-podge of issues, the book presents the material in an integrated way,... (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... (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... (read more)