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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)
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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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