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  Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique

  Lionel A.F. Bently, Jennifer Davis, and Jane C. Ginsburg
  2010

  Copyright has been the subject of interdisciplinary inquiry, but generally from the perspective of ‘authorship'. This volume takes a different tack, examining the concept of infringement and its cousins, imitation and inspiration, from a variety of approaches. Rather than proposing a litany of discrete chapters each independently covering a different discipline, the Editors have... (Read more)

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  Legal Interpretation: Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts

  Kent Greenawalt
  2010

  In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. But what sorts of questions must one seek to answer in interpreting law and what approach should one take in each case?... (Read more)

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  Commons and Anticommons

  Michael A. Heller
  2010

  This two-volume collection brings together the most important articles on the tragedies of the commons and anticommons. The first volume presents the bedrock articles that define commons and anticommons theory, from Aristotle to the present. The second volume continues with cutting edge property theory and applications. A judicious selection of articles shows how commons... (Read more)

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  The Law of Green Buildings: Regulatory and Legal Issues in Design, Construction, Operations, and Financing

  J. Cullen Howe and Michael B. Gerrard
  2010

  Buildings and the built environment use vast amounts of energy and other resources in construction, operation, and demolition. In 2009, the residential and commercial building sector was responsible for more than 50 percent of total annual U.S. energy consumption and 74 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption. Beyond that, buildings are responsible for significant... (Read more)

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  The Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Documents, Cases, and Analysis

  Petros C. Mavroidis, George A. Bermann, and Mark Wu
  2010

  This volume discusses the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the global forum for trade liberalization. It discusses in exhaustive manner the legal framework governing international trade that evolves out of the treaty regime and elaborates upon the major case law issued by the WTO. It further includes references to academic scholarship critiquing... (Read more)

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  The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination

  Jedediah S. Purdy
  2010

  In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron saint of liberal economics, Adam Smith, in a wholly new light.

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  Experimentalist Governance in the European Union: Towards a New Architecture

  Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin
  2010

  This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the EU's regulatory successes within – and increasingly beyond – its borders rest on the emergence of a recursive process of framework rule making and revision by European and national actors across a wide range of policy domains. In this... (Read more)

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  The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

  Tim Wu
  2010

  Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T – Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.

  It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry–from the telephone to radio to film –... (Read more)

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  Multijuralism: Manifestations, Causes, and Consequences

  Albert Breton, Anne Des Ormeaux, Katharina Pistor, and Pierre Salmon
  2009

  At one level of generality, multijuralism is the coexistence of two or more legal systems or sub-systems within a broader normative legal order to which they adhere, such as the existence of civil and common law systems within the EU. However, at a finer level of analysis multijuralism is a more widespread or common... (Read more)

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  The Bond

  George P. Fletcher
  2009

  Adam Gross, philosopher-cum-lawyer, teaches at an Ivy League law school in New York. Good looking, cultivated, bohemian, he was once considered the rising star of his faculty, but that was a decade ago, and times have changed. Doing the job he always wanted, shaping eager, young, minds, showing them what it takes to be... (Read more)

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  50 Years Later: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education: Reflections and Colloquy

  Jack Greenberg and Kendall Thomas
  2009

  The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education presents historical commentary on the impact of the ruling by the attorneys from the case including Jack Greenberg, Robert Carter, Constance Baker Motley along plus former President Bill Clinton and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. An insighful original account of the case, fifty years after it was... (Read more)

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  Human Rights

  Louis Henken, Sarah H. Cleveland, Laurence R. Helfer, Gerald L. Neuman, and Diane L. Orentlicher
  2009

  This casebook provides a comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date analysis of international human rights law. It emphasizes the relationship between the international, regional, and national legal systems (with a particular focus on the United States), features an intellectual and historical development of the idea of human rights, and analyzes recent developments in areas including corporate... (Read more)

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  A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom

  Jedediah S. Purdy
  2009

  In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best – and worst – moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial... (Read more)

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  The Fetha Nagast/The Law of the Kings

  Paulos Tzadua and Peter L. Strauss
  2009

  The Fetha Nagast, or The Law of the Kings, is the foundation of Ethiopian law, and was perhaps the first written law of sub-Saharan Africa. Derived from Roman Law and church canons of the Eastern Rite, it was brought up the Nile in the fifteenth or sixteenth century, and there translated into Ge’ez, the... (Read more)

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  Experimental Law and Economics

  Jennifer H. Arlen and Eric L. Talley
  2008

  During the last two decades, researchers in the field of experimental law and economics have made significant contributions to our knowledge of human behaviour and its interaction with legal and regulatory environments. This collection of previously published papers examines the use of laboratory experiments to test and develop these theories about how people behave,... (Read more)

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  Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique

  Lionel A.F. Bently, Jennifer Davis, and Jane C. Ginsburg
  2008

  Developments in trade marks law have called into question a variety of basic features, as well as bolder extensions, of legal protection. Other disciplines can help us think about fundamental issues such as: what is a trade mark? What does it do? What should be the scope of its protection? This volume assembles essays... (Read more)

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  French Business Law in Translation

  George A. Bermann and Pierre Kirch
  2008

  By adding the relevant French text in a column directly across from the translation into English, this 2nd edition has a whole new dimension which makes it an invaluable resource in legal linguistics for international practitioners and academics.

  The selection of texts has been made by members of the Paris office of Paul, Hastings,... (Read more)

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  Introduction to French Law

  George A. Bermann and Etienne Picard
  2008

  French law displays many features that set it apart in a world class of its own. It can be said to proceed from a number of independent streams that coexist despite apparent contradiction. More than half of the 2283 articles of the famous Code Civil of 1804 remain unaltered; yet French administrative judges jealously... (Read more)

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  Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

  Philip Chase Bobbitt
  2008

  Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West’s struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the emergence of market states (like the U.S. and the E.U.), Bobbitt warns of an era where weapons of mass destruction will be... (Read more)

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  Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses

  George P. Fletcher
  2008

  Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute. Beginning with an historical analysis Fletcher shows how tort and criminal law... (Read more)

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  Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why

  George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin
  2008

  In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation is attacked, few would deny that it has the right to respond with force.... (Read more)

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  The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks

  Michael B. Gerrard and Sheila R. Foster
  2008

  Environmental justice is the concept that minority and low-income individuals, communities and populations should not be disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards, and that they should share fully in making the decisions that affect their environment. The Law of Environmental Justice comprehensively examines the sources of environmental justice law and how evolving regulations and important... (Read more)

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  100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States

  Michael J. Graetz
  2008

  To most Americans, the United States tax code has become a vast and confounding puzzle. In 1940, the instructions to the form 1040 were about four pages long. Today they have ballooned to more than a hundred pages, and the form itself contains more than ten schedules and twenty worksheets. The complete tax code... (Read more)

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  Law and Judicial Duty

  Philip A. Hamburger
  2008

  Law and Judicial Duty traces the early history of what is today called “judicial review.” Working from previously unexplored evidence, Hamburger questions the very concept of judicial review. Although decisions holding statutes unconstitutional are these days considered instances of a distinct judicial power of review, Hamburger shows that they were once understood merely as... (Read more)

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  The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

  Michael A. Heller
  2008

  Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These problems have solutions that can jump-start innovation and help save our troubled economy. So,... (Read more)