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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Katharina Pistor 2019Capital 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... (read more)
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Regulation in India: Design, Capacity, Performance
Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla 2019The 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... (read more)
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Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Sarah Seo 2019When 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... (read more)
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Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States
Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach 2019Legal 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... (read more)
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Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw 2019Every 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... (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 2019The 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... (read more)
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Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More
Elizabeth F. Emens 2019Reading 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... (read more)
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The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy
Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence R. Glosten, and Gabriel V. Rauterberg 2019The 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,... (read more)
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Defining Federal Crimes
Daniel C. Richman, Kate Stith, and William J. Stuntz 2019Defining 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... (read more)
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Impeachment: A Handbook
Charles F. Black Jr. and Philip Chase Bobbitt 2018Originally 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... (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 2018As part of the first stage of the New Special Study, a multi-year program conducted by Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School, this... (read more)
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Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law
Hugh Collins, Gillian L. Lester, and Virginia Mantouvalou 2018This 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... (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 2018Climate 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... (read more)
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The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance
Jeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe 2018Corporate 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... (read more)
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Federal Income Taxation: Principles and Policies
Michael J. Graetz, Deborah H. Schenk, and Anne L. Alstott 2018This 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... (read more)
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Realms of Legal Interpretation: Core Elements and Critical Variations
Kent Greenawalt 2018Legal 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... (read more)
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Liberal Suppression: Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech
Philip A. Hamburger 2018In 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... (read more)
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The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
Bernard E. Harcourt 2018A 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... (read more)
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Troubling Transparency: The History and Future of Freedom of Information
David Pozen and Michael Schudson 2018Today, 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... (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 2018The 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... (read more)
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The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Tim Wu 2018We 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... (read more)
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On Intersectionality: Essential Writings
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw 2017For 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... (read more)
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International Arbitration and Private International Law
George A. Bermann 2017No 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... (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 2017This 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... (read more)
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The Choice Theory of Contracts
Hanoch Dagan and Michael A. Heller 2017This 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... (read more)
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