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  The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges

  Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, and Arvind Panagariya
  2016

  When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that the third pillar of the international economic superstructure was finally in place. And yet with the failure of member... (read more)

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  Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships

  Clare Huntington
  2016

  2015 Prose Award Honorable Mention for Law and Legal Studies

  Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of... (read more)

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  The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution

  Sujit Choudry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta
  2016

  The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts. Its birth, over six decades ago, signalled the arrival of the first major post-colonial constitution and the world's largest and arguably most daring democratic experiment. Apart... (read more)

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  The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 2: The WTO Agreements on Trade in Goods

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

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  The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 1: GATT

  Petros C. Mavroidis
  2015

  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... (read more)

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  Governing Access to Essential Resources

  Katharina Pistor and Olivier De Schutter
  2015

  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... (read more)

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  Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia

  Mark Tushnet and Madhav Khosla
  2015

  Although the field of constitutional law has become increasingly comparative in recent years, its geographic focus has remained limited. South Asia, despite being the site of the world's largest democracy and a vibrant if turbulent constitutionalism, is one of the... (read more)

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  Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall, and Future

  John C. Coffee Jr.
  2015

  Uniquely in the United States, lawyers litigate large cases on behalf of many claimants who could not afford to sue individually. In these class actions, attorneys act typically as risk-taking entrepreneurs, effectively hiring the client rather than acting as the... (read more)

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  The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect

  Michael W. Doyle
  2015

  The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country’s affairs is one of the most important concerns in today’s volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill’s famous 1859 essay “A Few Words on Non-Intervention” as his starting... (read more)

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  Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality

  Katherine M. Franke
  2015

  The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement’s campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, but also what kind... (read more)

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  International Copyright Law: U.S. and E.U. Perspectives: Text and Cases

  Jane C. Ginsburg and Edouard Treppoz
  2015

  International copyright law is a complex and evolving field, of manifest and increasing economic significance. Its intellectual challenges derive from the interlocking relationships of multiple international instruments and national or regional laws and judgments.

  This ground-breaking casebook provides a comprehensive... (read more)

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  Cases and Materials on European Union Law

  Roger J. Goebel, Eleanor M. Fox, George A. Bermann, Jeffery Atik, Frank Emmert, and Damien Gerard
  2015

  This classic casebook presents the governance and judicial structure of the European Union, together with its major substantive law fields of concern to students and practitioners, all as updated by the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon. Part I presents the history,... (read more)

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  Rethinking Contract Law and Contract Design

  Victor P. Goldberg
  2015

  Rethinking Contract Law and Contract Design presents a rich array of ideas that reassess the law and economics of contractual relations. Victor P. Goldberg uses a transactional framework to critically analyse and re-evaluate contract doctrine and specific legal cases. This... (read more)

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  Interpreting the Constitution

  Kent Greenawalt
  2015

  This third volume about legal interpretation focuses on the interpretation of a constitution, most specifically that of the United States of America. In what may be unique, it combines a generalized account of various claims and possibilities with an examination... (read more)