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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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Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: New York, 1958
Emmanuel Gaillard and George A. Bermann 2017The 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... (read more)
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The Internationalization of Government Procurement Regulation
Aris C. Georgopulos, Bernard M. Hoekman, and Petros C. Mavroidis 2017As 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... (read more)
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Copyright: Cases and Materials
Robert A. Gorman, Jane C. Ginsburg, and R. Anthony Reese 2017With 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... (read more)
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When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict
Kent Greenawalt 2017The 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... (read more)
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The Administrative Threat
Philip A. Hamburger 2017Government 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... (read more)
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Bankruptcy and the U.S. Supreme Court
Ronald J. Mann 2017In 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... (read more)
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Property: Principles and Policies
Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith 2017This 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... (read more)
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About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America
Carol Sanger 2017One 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... (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 2017The 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,... (read more)
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The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges
Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, and Arvind Panagariya 2016When 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.... (read more)
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Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
Clare Huntington 20162015 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... (read more)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution
Sujit Choudry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta 2016The 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... (read more)
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The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 2: The WTO Agreements on Trade in Goods
Petros C. Mavroidis 2016The 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... (read more)
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The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding
Philip G. Alston and Sarah Knuckey 2016Fact-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... (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 2016The 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... (read more)
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