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Defining Federal Crimes
Daniel C. Richman, Kate Stith, and William J. Stuntz
2019

Defining 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)
Impeachment: A Handbook
Charles F. Black Jr. and Philip Chase Bobbitt
2018

Originally 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)
Securities Market Issues for the 21st Century
Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence R. Glosten, Edward F. Greene, and Manesh S. Patel
2018

As 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)
Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law
Hugh Collins, Gillian L. Lester, and Virginia Mantouvalou
2018

This 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)
Climate Engineering and the Law: Regulation and Liability for Solar Radiation Management and Carbon Dioxide Removal
Michael B. Gerrard and Tracy Hester
2018

Climate 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)
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance
Jeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe
2018

Corporate 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)
Federal Income Taxation: Principles and Policies
Michael J. Graetz, Deborah H. Schenk, and Anne L. Alstott
2018

This 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)
Realms of Legal Interpretation: Core Elements and Critical Variations
Kent Greenawalt
2018

Legal 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)
Liberal Suppression: Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech
Philip A. Hamburger
2018

In 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)
The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
Bernard E. Harcourt
2018

A 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)
Troubling Transparency: The History and Future of Freedom of Information
David Pozen and Michael Schudson
2018

Today, 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)
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
2018

The 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)
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Tim Wu
2018

We 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)
On Intersectionality: Essential Writings
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
2017

For 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)
International Arbitration and Private International Law
George A. Bermann
2017

No 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)
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: The Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention by National Courts
George A. Bermann
2017

This 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)
The Choice Theory of Contracts
Hanoch Dagan and Michael A. Heller
2017

This 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)
Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: New York, 1958
Emmanuel Gaillard and George A. Bermann
2017

The 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)
The Internationalization of Government Procurement Regulation
Aris C. Georgopulos, Bernard M. Hoekman, and Petros C. Mavroidis
2017

As 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)
When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict
Kent Greenawalt
2017

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